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The third annual SEMpdx SearchFest will be held March 10th at the Oregon Zoo.  Danny Sullivan, the godfather of search engine marketing (as well as SearchEngineWatch, Search Engine Strategies, SearchEngineLand and SMX) will keynote the daylong SEM conference. Having co-created the original SearchFest in 2005, the SEMpdx board has taken the industry event to a [...]

I recently had the pleasure of listening to Lou Tice from The Pacific Institute speak about achieving one’s full potential. The Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) event, held in Seattle, included members from the Vancouver BC, Seattle and Portland chapters. While I’m always impressed with EO presenters at educational events, I was particularly struck by the serendipitous [...]

Having just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers: The Story of Success, my head is spinning once again. As Gladwell has done in the past with The Tipping Point and Blink, he managed to get me thinking about whole new ways of living and doing business. In that vein, The Outliers successfully argued that we [...]

I recently posted Anvil Media’s annual news release on the Portland Advertising Federation blog, as I didn’t want to bore you with the details on my own blog.  It’s a fairly positive big of reportage with plenty of good news, as we had a good year despite the economy. In a nutshell, Anvil expects 20 [...]

If you’re looking for a new career due to the economy, or are interested in honing your marketing skills, Portland State University (PSU) has a course for you. The Professional Development Center (PDC) is hosting a Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Workshop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on December 5th & 12th. In that workshop, [...]

For those of you looking to build your knowledge of search engine marketing (SEM), I suggest taking my Search Engine Marketing Fundamentals Workshop next month at Portland State University.  You’ll get an overview of foundational search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) and link development strategies, as well as touch on evolving techniques like Web analytics, [...]

I’m very excited about the lineup at the eMarketing Summit @ InnoTech this week. I’ll be hosting day one of the two day event, making sure the presentations are on time and on target. After the event, pdxMindShare will be held at a special location: The Gerding Theater at the old Armory. [...]

Being a Class A Moron just got harder. NBC’s 30 Rock integrated Google into Thursday night’s episode with a New York Post Page Six storyline plot involving Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin). A controversial comment in the infamous newspaper created an association between a search for Class A Moron and Jack Donaghy in a Google search. [...]

I’ve been an adjunct professor at Portland State University since 2000. The last two years, I’ve taught a two-day eMarketing Introductory Workshop as part of the new Internet Strategies Workshop Series. My next workshop is March 7th & 14th, and seats are still available. My eMarketing Workshop is not the first in [...]

I’m proud to announce that my Portland-based search engine marketing (SEM) agency, Anvil Meda, Inc., continued with strong growth in 2007.  Anvil Media managed to increase revenues from search engine marketing (SEM) consulting services by 5o percent, with only one additional employee over last year.  A majority of the growth can be attributed to increased [...]