Comments on: Lucky 7 Conference Tips

By: Vanessa Fox & Me

Vanessa Fox & Me — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:46:16 +0000

I visited a small SES conference in Miami once and had the most productive two hours that I’ve ever spent at a conference. The Google booth had a dozen people at work and very few visitors. I grabbed one and asked who, in the booth, was their “SEO guru”. They pointed me towards a woman who turned out to be a goldmine. She was Vanessa Fox (real name) and at that time, was running the Webmaster tools. It was my initiation into some of the subtleties of SEO implementation. Tiny underpopulated conference equals incredible access to people.

By: Blogging Teacher - John

Blogging Teacher - John — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:39:31 +0000

This reminds me of a trade show conference that I worked a few decades ago for SGI. It was the supercomputer show. The Trade show floor was only open between 11-12 and 4-5. There were about 200 attendees to the show. Despite that, us vendors set up with a full trade show entourage, our best people, and treated those visitors like royalty. In fact, we had more people working our booth than we did visitors during the show.

Needless to say, it was easily a very smart investment by SGI. Good point.

By: Lauren Vaccarello

Lauren Vaccarello — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:43:14 +0000

Julie’s absolutely right. Get a couple of drinks in an SEO and they are more likely to give you some really good info. I’m a kettle one on the rocks (with a slice of lemon) kind of girl myself.
In regards to the wedding, it was all the dress

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:35:26 +0000

Excellent advice Lauren…and you know you’re on my bad side due to how insanely good you looked at Rand’s wedding.

The networking is, to me, the ABSOLUTE most important part of any conference. Also remember that no one gives you better tips on SEO than an SEO who’s had a couple of vodka tonics.