Boston

All sessions and content are NEW. There will be absolutely NO repeat sessions from past OMS events even if a few speakers are the same.

Agenda

8:00 - 8:30 Registration & Coffee
8:30 - 9:25

Morning Keynote: The State of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World

How Social Media, Search, Email, Analytics and Your Website are effecting the ROI of all marketing efforts and the insight into strategies that will lead to success in 2009.


Aaron Kahlow, Founder, Online Marketing Summit

9:25 - 9:45 Break
  Track 1 Track 2
9:45 - 10:55

Complete Website Strategy

 

How to Plan and Execute Web Site Strategy in a ever-changing marketing environment.  Understand how the Fortune 500 are tackling the monumental change of a web centric marketing organization and learn what worked and what did not.

 

Michael Weisfeld, Senior Web Strategist, BusinessOnline

 

Multi-Channel and Metrics

 

What Measurable Contribution Is Marketing Making to the Company?

Research and practical guidance from a the world's leading marketers and how they measure results successfully to drive change and ROI.

 

Jeff Pedowitz, President and CEO & Debbie Qaqish, Principal, The Pedowitz Group

10:55 - 12:00

Demand Generation 2.0: Social Media Marketing

Learn how to track and measure success with your social media campaigns and how to identify influencers you didn't know existed. From Facebook to Twitter, YouTube to MySpace, this session will (1) teach you how to leverage new social media vehicles and tactics to increase your ROI and (2) make you rethink how you market your products and services in the new social economy.

 

Michael Lewis, President, Business Marketing Association - Boston and Co-Founder, Stimulate Solutions, Inc.
Neil Costa, Co-Founder, Stimulate Solutions, Inc.

 

Search Engine Marketing

 

How to Build a Complete Search Engine Marketing Strategy


Balancing Paid, Organic, Online PR and Vertical Search Practices to have a complete Search Strategy to go to market (and, uh, management) with!

 

Dawn Briggs Director, East Coast Sales, Business.com

12:00 - 1:15 Lunch Keynote
1:15 - 2:20

Analytics & User Experience

 

Creating Metrics, Dashboards and Segmentation Plans that Offer Real Value to the Organization

 

Learn what industry leaders are doing to take their analytics strategy to the next level.

 

Josh Manion, CEO, Stratigent

Email Marketing

 

Tactics for Effective Lifecycle Email Marketing

 

Learn how the best email practioners take an email campaign through it's entire lifecycle for long and short term ROI.

 

Jeremey Swift, Director, Client Relations, BlueHornet

2:25 - 3:30

Social Media Strategies

 

The Marketer's Guide to Social Media.    How are the most successful marketers using on-site and off-site social media to build traffic and brand awareness. 

 

Bill Baird, CEO, Baird Direct

Behavioral Targeting & Technology

 

Targeting Your Customers Online: How to Test for Success and Drive Exponential Conversion Rate Increases

 

Putting A/B, Multi-variant and Behavioral Targeting technology to work.

 

Olivier Chaine, CEO, Magnify360

3:30 - 4:35

Big Brands, Big Plans Keynote Panel: 

Get the inside scoop on how leading brands are driving success through social media, SEO, Websites, and Testing, and apply the principals to your own initiatives.  Panelist include:

 

Blake Coyle, Google;

Dave Wienke, Thomson Reuters, Interactive Marketing Manager;

Paul Hyland, Executive Producer, edweek.org;  

Theresa Regli, Principal, CMS Watch

4:45

Happy Hour: Networking & Book Give Away

Have a drink on OMS, avoid the traffic and get to know your fellow local marketing colleagues over a margarita, martini or cold beer.  This is always the highlight of the event... Also, stick around for the "Groundswell" book  and Free Future OMS Passes GIVE AWAY.

 

6:30

OMS Community Dinner

Special OMS Community dinner  party for those wanting to be a part of new Online Marketing Community and learn how to give back to your fellow marketer (no cost).

Email: AaronK@BusinessOL.com for an invitation and details.

Registration & Coffee
 

Tour Schedule


July 15 Milwaukee   July 29 Houston   August 12 Atlanta
July 16 New Jersey July 31 San Jose August 14 Denver
July 17 Chicago August 5 Portland Sept 25 San Diego
July 23 Boston August 7 Seattle