Scheduling Tools, Networking Lunches Added for SMX West
Less than a week to go until Search Marketing Expo - SMX West in Santa Clara. Not registered? There’s still time. Register today.
If you are registered as an All Access or Networking Pass attendee (see what these are here), we’ve just spun up some tools to help you organize your time and meet people interested in the same things as you are.
Session Scheduling Tool
The session scheduling tool is available through our SMX Connect system that we messaged you about earlier. To use it:
1) Be sure you’ve first accessed SMX Connect and created a profile.
2) Use the My Schedule tab at the top of the page, after you’ve logged into SMX Connect.
3) The tab will take you to a slightly different site. You’ll see a list of all sessions that are happening during the conference, including SMX Meet & Eat.
4) To build your own schedule, just click on the plus symbol next to a session, and that will add it to your My Schedule list. Change your mind? Click the red minus symbol when shown to remove a session. Want to learn more about a session? Click on the session name for a description.
SMX Meet & Eat
As part of our networking activities, we have a vareity of special tables that have been reserved so you can easily meet others interested in the same topics. We call these our SMX Meet & Eat tables.
There are no presentations and no moderators for SMX Meet & Eat. You simply turn up and connect naturally with others.
A list of the topics by day are below:
Tuesday, Feb. 26
SMX Meet & Eat: Finding An SEM Firm
SMX Meet & Eat: In House SEMers
SMX Meet & Eat: International SEM
SMX Meet & Eat: Mobile SEM
SMX Meet & Eat: Non-Profit SEMers
SMX Meet & Eat: PPC Tools I Use
SMX Meet & Eat: Small Business SEM
SMX Meet & Eat: Video SEM
SMX Meet & Eat: Lunch With A Google Search Engineer (1)
SMX Meet & Eat: Lunch With A Google Search Engineer (2)
Wednesday, Feb. 27
SMX Meet & Eat: Affiliate Marketing
SMX Meet & Eat: B2B SEMers
SMX Meet & Eat: Branding Issues
SMX Meet & Eat: Local SEM
SMX Meet & Eat: Offline Influence On Search
SMX Meet & Eat: Reputation Management
SMX Meet & Eat: SEO Tools I Use
SMX Meet & Eat: Social Media Marketing
SMX Meet & Eat: Lunch With A Google Search Engineer (1)
SMX Meet & Eat: Lunch With A Google Search Engineer (2)
Thursday, Feb. 27
SMX Meet & Eat: Behavioral Targeting
SMX Meet & Eat: Big, In-House SEO
SMX Meet & Eat: Flash, AJAX & Other SEO Challenges
SMX Meet & Eat: Growing Your Small SEM Firm
SMX Meet & Eat: Non-Paid Linking Strategies
SMX Meet & Eat: Retailers & SEM
SMX Meet & Eat: PPC, Paid Search & Search Advertising
SMX Meet & Eat: Web Analytics
SMX Meet & Eat: Lunch With A Google Search Engineer
SMX Meet & Eat: Lunch With A Google Search Engineer
There are seats for 10 people at each table, except for the special “Lunch With A Google Search Engineer” tables, where there are only 9 spaces (the 10th is for the actual Google engineer).
Seats are first come, first served — and you can reserve them ahead of time. You need to do that using the Session Scheduling tool. Simply pick the lunchtable you want, then choose “Add To My Schedule.”
Please be aware that it is possible for more than the maximum number of people to sign-up for a particular table. Seats will only be guaranteed for those who sign-up first. If there are seats free in case someone does not show up with the lunchtime gathering officially starts (15 minutes after lunch itself begins), then the seats will be given away first come, first serve to people actually waiting at the table. IE, there is no “stand by” list we’ll be working from. So please don’t be disappointed. Book your table.
The tables can be found by looking for the blue tablecloths, then look for the sign that matches the topic of your table. There will be a list of all those who have reserved a seat at the table. If possible, we’ll also have individual name cards.
We hope you like the tools. Looking forward to seeing you at SMX West!