We expect about 400 people. Food and drink from about 1 to 4pm.

• What: HostingCon 2008
• Where: Navy PIer, Chicago
• When: July 28-30, 2008
• Who: Hosting executives, technical managers, sales managers, marketing managers, systems administrators, investors, press representatives

HostingCon 208 has a broad selection of conference sessions and keynote addresses that will guide you in the steps that you need to take your business to the next level. This includes You will be joining other professionals and vendor representatives in fun and exciting events where you could learn much while networking with others. You would also have the chance to get great exhibitor giveaways like an Apple iPod Nano, Apple iPhone 8GB and iPod touch.

The topics are categorized into four major components: Marketing, Growing, Technology and Leaders. There would be key note addresses, mini workshops and luncheons in between. The registration starts at 7:30 in the morning and by the conclusion of the convention, there would be a Navy Pier Rooftop barbecue and fireworks.

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• What: SES Search Engine Marketing (SEM/SEO) Training
• Where: Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA
• When: July 17, 2008
• Who: Search engine marketers, consultants, site designers, website owners and in-house marketing professionals.

The training basically has two parts: Optimizing for Universal Research and Just The Basics, SEO 101. The first part will teach the participants the basics of Google’s Universal Search, making them gurus of one of the top internet search engines of today. Google employs a lot of marketing listings such as news, maps, video and image search and so, being “found” (or perhaps, searched) in the right category is vital for these companies’ marketing needs. Those who will attend can also learn the different techniques utilized by Yahoo!, Technorati, Flickr, YouTube and other media to promote your company/web content.

One of the speakers for the first part of the training is Greg Jarboe, the president and co-founder of SEO-PR, a search engine optimization and public relations agency based in San Francisco and Boston. Mr. Jarboe is also Newsforce’s partner, a press release SEO tool developer. The second speaker is Amanda Watlington, Ph.D., owner of Searching for Profit, a marketing consultancy. Prior to setting up her own company, she was the director of an SEO firm. Her company concentrates on how companies can take advantage of the “new” media such as blogging, RSS feeds and other sorts to gain that marketing over others.

The second part of the training includes topics such as 10 Steps to Search Success, Persuading the visitor—5 ways to keep their attention and Measuring Success—8 Reports for Website Success. This part of the training is very vital for those who manage or own websites and would want to increase their profits from it. The speaker will include Matt Bailey, SiteLogic Marketing’s president and founder, and has a long list of past and current clients such as Goodyear, Hilton International, Samsonite and so on and so forth.

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• Just The Basics, SEO 101: second part of the training