All it took was three search fanatics and a few ideas over beers to form the Minnesota Search Engine Marketing Association.  That trio of search marketers was Clint Danks, James Svoboda, Lisa Raehsler who formed MNsem, hit the social channels and put together the groups first event that took place last night at FRWD. The [...] Read More

I enjoyed the opportunity to speak at the Buffalo Chamber Quarterly Luncheon this week on Facebook.  My presentation focused on small business using Facebook for marketing. Marketing Options & Best Practices Chamber members learned about the various ways to use Facebook to both market socially with deals and interaction as well as using direct advertising [...] Read More

If you’ve been to a conference, workshop or presentation lately you’ve noticed.  If you haven’t been able to make it to an event you wanted to … you’ve noticed.  Twitter is buzzing with links, takeaways, highlights, photos and more everyday, from people at great events.  Twitter is making events better. Heads Down Is A Good [...] Read More

The Local University series continues to pull off great Internet marketing events, with Denver being the latest. At each of the Local U stops I’ve been a part of, the information, attendees interaction and speakers seem to get better.  A cool aspect of Denver was having attendee’s coming from afar to get their local search [...] Read More

I had the great opportunity to attend and speak at the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association Summit over the past 2 days in Minneapolis.    The event featured Gary Vaynerchuk and Baratunde Thurston as keynotes and a couple dozen other great marketing and Internet minds from the Twin Cities and beyond. The event was rock solid and [...] Read More