With three tracks designed to meet the needs of beginner, intermediate, and expert-level practitioners, OMS educates attendees on topics unfamiliar to them, and deep-dives into topics they want to learn more about.
View detailed schedule for February 22
| Time | Level 1: Essentials of Online Marketing |
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8:30AM |
Welcome and Introductions
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8:55AM |
Essentials of Website Usability
Learn the essentials of website usability and how it can affect your bottom line. This session will teach you the Top 10 Usability mistakes not to make as well as how to ensure that your prospects and customers can navigate your website with ease.
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10:15AM |
Essentials of Demand Generation
Where marketing meets sales. You'll learn all about the emerging discipline of Demand Generation; from lead scoring to automated marketing response, this session will cover the essentials of what you need to know about Demand Generation. The topic will cover the revenue-focused set of sales and marketing activities that gets quality leads to the top of the sales funnel, then helps sales pull opportunites through the funnel quickly.
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11:30AM |
Lunch |
12:30PM |
Essentials of Email MarketingOf course you're using email, but are you using it as effectively as you can? Do you know that 1 of 5 emails never reaches the inbox of the intended recipient? Do you know how your email renders in various browsers? Are you segmenting your audience to deliver the right message to the right person at the right time? Learn about email tactics that produce results and free tools that can help you in this session.
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1:50PM |
Analytics: Inside the Mind of the AnalystThe beauty of online marketing is its ability to generate numbers. Clicks, hits, visits, comments - there's no shortage of numbers to look at. But what are the most important measurements? It's one thing to read the numbers, but it's another thing entirely to analyze those numbers to the point where they can drive strategic business decisions. Learn what's possible, what's important, and what's actionable in this session about how to use web analytics with purpose.
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3:10PM |
Essentials of Social Media Marketing
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn; You've heard the buzz. Social Media is growing every day and marketers are connecting with their customers in varied ways and profiting enormously. Learn about the various social media and how you should use them as an essential component of your online marketing strategy.
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4:30PM |
Closing RemarksYour host, Aaron Kahlow, sums up the day with a quick discussion of prioritization and “a-ha” moments. |
4:45PM |
OMS Sponsored Happy HourRelax with complimentary beverages, mingle with today’s professors, and build your network. |
| Time | Level 2: Social Media Integration and Execution |
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9:00AM |
Welcome and Introductions
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9:25AM |
Developing Your Social Media StrategyShould I tweet? Should my company have a Facebook page? Even the most powerful of online marketing tactics requires a particular strategy, customized to your company's needs and capabilities. Learn what questions you need to answer before diving head first into Social Media in this session.
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11:30AM |
Lunch |
12:30PM |
Executing Your Social Media StrategyNow that you know what you want to do in Social Media, how exactly do you do it? Even though Social Media is relatively new in the marketing mix, there are best practices that can help your social media efforts succeed. Learn what works and what doesn't in this session.
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2:30PM
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Break |
2:45PM |
Measuring the Success of your Social Media StrategyROI (Return on investment). It's not just for email or search results. Your Social Media efforts can and should be measured. How else can you convince the C-suite that tweeting has real value? Learn various ways to measure success with real-world examples in this session.
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4:45PM
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Closing remarksYour host, Aaron Kahlow, will review the day's learnings. From strategizing to executing to measuring success, you've learned a lot of valuable information today. Aaron sums it up as we prepare to go social with a purpose. |
5:00PM |
OMS Sponsored Happy HourThe original Social Medium. Relax with complimentary beverages, mingle with today's professors, and build your network in typical OMS style. |
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| Time | Fundamentals | Beyond Fundamentals |
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8:00AM |
Registration |
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8:30AM |
Morning Roundtable: SEM Then & Now: What's the Same? What's New?If you entered a time capsule in 1999 and stumbled into a search engine optimization assignment in 2009, you'd be startled by an array of unfamiliar challenges. News flash: it's not all about title tags and meta keywords anymore. Reciprocal linking? Yawn. Search engines too stupid to index dynamic URL's? Not anymore. Join us for an industry insiders' peek at the future of paid and organic search as our panel of veterans update you on the latest trends you cannot afford to miss. P.S. Yes, title tags are still important.
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10:00AM |
The Findability Formula: The Easy, Non-Technical Approach to SEMTo succeed in any business, you have to attract the right customers and persuade them to buy. But on the Internet, people only see what the search engines point to, and competition for top spots is fierce. So how do you ensure that your business gets found when prospects are searching for solutions? After this high-energy and informative presentation your head will be buzzing with new ideas and a greater understanding of how search engines find you, including what tangible steps you can take to direct a successful online marketing campaign.
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PPC vs. SEO: The Ultimate Search Marketing BattleFinally see which search marketing tactic is the most cost effective, PPC or SEO. Watch these two heavyweights battle it out trying to prove who has the bragging rights to the best marketing tactic. Join us for this no-holds barred session where the SEO proponents square off against the PPC evangelists. Look for tons of action in this bout.
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11:15AM |
Keywords & Content: Search Marketing FoundationsHow many keywords do you need in your paid search account? What keywords are your customers searching for? How do customers find products after they reach your site? Learn how to target the right terms in your paid and organic search marketing, and where these keywords should be used.
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Analytics for Search: ROI, Engagement & AttributionCut to the chase! Use analytics tools to get the specific answers you need about your search marketing campaign's economic performance, your users' on-site behaviors, and how to look for major red flags in traffic patterns. This slate of experts will keep you focused rather than poring through hundreds of pages of meaningless statistics.
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12:30PM |
Lunch |
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1:30PM |
Local Search Marketing TacticsThis session looks at ways search marketers are tapping into an audience using local search engines, online yellow pages and other local search methods.
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Seven Deadly Sins of Landing Page Design
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2:45PM |
Break |
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3:15PM |
PR, Social Media and SearchThis session will cover how to integrate social media and search into your PR strategy. The panel will look at case studies like Dell’s Take Your Own Path campaign. They’ll examine the effect of Twitter and Facebook and how the statusphere is gaining ground. Learn why search is important to PR, where people are searching in social media and how all this affects your PR strategy.
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YouTube & Video OptimizationOnline video marketing is crucial in today's marketplace. More than 158 million Americans watched an average of 8.3 hours of online video during July 2009. That's more viewers than the 151.6 million Americans who watched Super Bowl XLIII, which reached the largest television audience in U.S. history. This solo presentation by the author of "YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day" will provide you with proven, practical guidelines for developing and implementing video marketing for your organization.
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