Charles Armstrong

Brulant’s eMergent Marketing team takes on the 2007 Chicago Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo

A great time was thoroughly had by all! My intentions of live blogging many of the presentations quickly faded, as I wanted to listen more than write. Not all is lost…I took plenty of notes and will continue to post key take-aways as I have time to review the presentations. In the meantime… Angela did a great job covering many of the link building & social media focused presentations on her link princess blog, its well worth a read. Paul Elliott was on-hand and spoke on the “In House: In, Out or In Between?” panel. Chris Boggs was also in attendance to moderate many of the panel presentations, blogging for Search Engine Roundtable and represent the SEMPO board. Both of these eMergent Marketing / Brulant Inc. team members did a great job, sharing much of their insight with the SES attendees.

Photo… We all realized Chicago pizza requires no optimization! (Paul has an eerie 6th sense for photo ops)

Taking a break from packing my bags… Tomorrow I am off to Chicago for the Search Engine Strategies conference.
I will be attending and likely blogging many of the following presentations:

Dec 3rd

• SEMPO Meet the Engines

Dec 4th

• Keynote (Seth Godin)
• Organic Listing Forum
• Big Site, Big Search
• Max Conversion, Retail
• Online Maps, Local Search
• Networking Reception

Dec 5th

• Keynote (David Isenberg)
• Case Study, Maximizing Conversions
• CSS, AJAX, 2.0 & Search
• Images & Search Engines

Dec 6th

• TBD

Please leave a keg on the back porch Santa -

The following courtesy of “the register“

Guinness’s St James’s Gate brewery in Dublin has been hit by an audacious raid in which an evidently thirsty man dubbed “the Beer Hunter” made off with 40,000 pints of the famous stout.

According to the Times, the perp simply drove into the brewery yard in his own HGV, hitched it to a “well-provisioned” trailer and drove out again. The total pintage nicked was 360 kegs of Guinness and Budweiser and 90 kegs of Carlsberg, worth a total of £46,000.

A spokeswoman for Diageo Ireland, owner of Guinness, said: “We’ve never had such a breach of security prior to this and we’re taking it extremely seriously. All CCTV footage on site is being viewed and the Gardai are also looking at CCTV footage along the quays. The haul has a significant value. We have more trailers coming in and out as we are coming up to Christmas.”

The spokeswoman rather brilliantly added: “What could they possibly want with all that beer?”

Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) Releases First Annual Survey of Top Marketing Trends for 2008

The Marketing Executives Networking Group, an almost 1700 member organization of leading marketers who are at a VP-level or above in their organizations, today issued the results of its first annual survey of Top Marketing Trends for 2008. The survey of MENG members, conducted by Anderson Analytics, focused on top marketing concepts, buzz words, global areas of opportunity, targeted customer demographics, as well as the books that marketers look to for inspiration and growth opportunity.

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Welcome to my blog…

Here we will cover many topics relating to Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing. If I do my job well, we will all learn much about SEO and… maybe you will get to learn a little about me in the process!

Many of my posts will center on the following topics:

- Organic Search Engine Optimization Best Practices

- Hot Topics in the Search Industry

- My Experiences as a Search Professional

- Retail Internet Marketing Trends

- Search News

- Search Tools

- *anything else I think is worthy of sharing

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