#OMS12

Online Marketing Summit 2008

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The Schedule

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.


February 21: Day 1

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Time Traffic: Search, Email & Lead Generation User Experience: Testing & Tracking Thought Leadership Strategies: Website Planning & Social Media
7:30AM

Registration and Breakfast

8:15AM

Opening Remarks: How to Maximize Your Time at OMS

Aaron Kahlow, OMS Executive Director

8:45AM

Keynote Panel: The Business behind Social Media and How it Should be Leveraged by Marketers in '08

  • Mario Sundar, LinkedIn
  • Community Evangelist Anand Iyer, Microsoft
  • Enrique Gonzales, NPR
  • Paul Martson, Cisco
  • Rohit Bhargava, Vice President, Interactive Marketing, Ogilvy
10:00AM

Break

10:30AM

SEO: Unveiling the Black Box - Everything You Want to Know that an SEO Won't Tell You

Ray Comstock, Senior SEO Analyst, BusinessOnLine

KPIs in a Web 2.0 World

Eric T. Peterson, Author Web Analytics De-Mystified

How to Build a Strategy and Plan when building a Social Network

Mike Angiletta, CEO & Founder, Illumina

11:30AM

Optimizing the Email Message: Subject Line to Landing Page Conversion Tactics

Stephanie Miller, VP, Return Path

5 Steps to Improving your Media Campaign with Data and Analytics

Jason Shulman, Chief Revenue Officer, [x+1]

The 5 Steps to successful Website Strategy & Planning

  • Thad Kahlow, Managing Partner
  • Michael Weisfeld, Senior Web Marketing Strategist, BusinessOnLine
12:30PM

Lunch

1:30PM

Subject-Based Roundtables

Attendees will choose subject of interest and particpate in a facilitated roundtable discussion to illuminate their biggest challenges and discuss some of the tactics they are taking to tackle such challenges.

2:15PM

Break

2:45PM

Advanced Tactics in Paid Search

  • Craig Macdonald, VP of Product Management & Marketing, Cavario, Inc.
  • Jamie Crosson, Director of SEM, BusinessOnLine

The Marriage of Usability and Design: Form and Function

  • Thanh Nguyen, Senior Usablity Analyst, BusinessOnLine
  • Ronnie Garcia, Creative Director, BusinessOnLine

Social Networking Success, How Human Behavior has Changed the Way We Communicate to our Customers

Myra Norton, CEO Community Analytics

3:45PM

What the Winners Do: Pose your toughest questions to the online gurus

  • Christopher French, Senior Director, Winterberry
  • Dana Todd, President Emeitus, SEMPO, Director of Online Advertising
  • Rebecca Weeks, Real Girls Media
  • Joe Pulizzi, Chief Content Officer, Junta42
  • Kodak's Jeff Hayzlett, CBDO
4:45PM

Town Hall Meeting: Open Forum to Discuss Challenges Highlighted in Roundtable Discussions

As a group we will discuss our biggest challenges and how we all can all help solve these problems together

6:30PM

Pre-Dinner Cocktail Hour (all attendees invited)

Location: White Tent on the Bay

7:30PM

OMS Sponsored Dinner on the Harbor (all attendees invited)

Location: White Tent on the Bay

February 22: Day 2

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Time Traffic: Search, Email & Lead Generation User Experience: Testing & Tracking Thought Leadership Strategies: Website Planning & Social Media
8:00AM

Breakfast

8:30AM

Keynote: Social Networking Success

An Interview with Dan Morrison, CEO of ItToolbox, arguably the Most Successful BtoB Social Network

9:15AM

Search Engine Marketing Case Study

How leading technology company, Sybase, successfully balanced and executed Paid & Organic

  • Aaron Toledo, Sr. Search Strategist, BusinessOnLine
  • Camille Sobalvarro, Sybase

Analytics Case Study

Stratigent unveils how top brands empower their web analytics

  • Bill Bruno, Principal, Stratigent

Planning Case Study: Caterpillar's Blueprint to Success

How CAT got it's website act together

  • Rolando Garcia, Sr Web Strategist, BusinessOnLine
  • Mark Freeman, Caterpillar
10:00AM
Break
10:30AM

Email Case Study

Learn how top brands generate incremental revenue with email campaigns that evolve through the customer lifecycle.

Jeremy Swift, Director Client Relations, BlueHornet

Usability Case Study

Learn how the American Council on Exercise was able to increase their search engine traffic conversions by 482%. Here's a hint: it has something to do with usability. Hear the full story directly from marketer to marketer!

Thanh Nguyen, Usability Manager, BusinessOnLine

Web 2.0 / Social Media Case Study: Now What?

Neighoborhood America shows how top media companies answer the call of Social Media.

Jason Breed, Neighborhood America

11:30AM

Paid Search Case Study

Touchdowns, Fumbles and Interceptions: How Search and Social Media Affected Marketers During the Big Game.

  • Peter Hershberg, Managing Partner, RepriseMedia

Optimizing Conversions

A Case study on how Continental Warranty drove over 65% lift in the conversions from their search marketing campaigns using Behavioral Targeting.

  • Olivier Chaine of magnify360
  • Shawn Vicklund, Director of Marketing, Continental Warranty

Website Case Study

Britannica Online Case Study - An Old School Extreme Makeover.

  • Joe Miller, Executive Director of Consumer Marketing
12:30PM

Lunch

1:30PM

B2B Search Marketing Best Practices for Driving Targeted Traffic

  • Ben Hanna, VP of Marketing, Business.com

Real Time Testing, Real time Results

Learn how TrustedID, a fast-growing consumer identity theft protection company, executes its real-time testing based on behavorial data to create a compelling, engaging, and relevant online experience that delivers measurable business results.

  • Andrew Eisner, VP of Client Services, Interwoven
  • Lomit Patel, Senior Director of Marketing,TrustedID

Delivering Information Online

Learn how to build an engaging and compelling online experience that will increase revenue and loyalty

  • Anthony Lavasseur, Retail & Media Community of Practice SME, Endica
2:30PM

What's Next: 21st Century Lead Cultivation

  • Steve Gershik, Eloqua

Best Practice of Developing Microsites

Understand the advertising effectiveness of three different microsites sites that focus on brand vs. product and learn how to develop an effective microsite.

  • Carol Farnsworth, Director of Customer Experience, Keynote

Marketing Strategies for Your Brand in Facebook

  • Rodney Romford, CEO, Gravitational Media & FaceBook Reviews
3:30PM

Break

4:00PM

What the Big Boys are Doing in 08': Learn What the Leading Brands are Doing for Online Marketing in 2008

  • Sandra Zoratti, IBM
  • Erica Shultz, Home Depot
  • Rand Ragusa, Active.com
  • Seth Greenberg, Intuit
  • Joshua Kuvin, CTO, ABM
9:30PM

Night on Your Own to Explore the night life of Downtown San Diego

OMS Unofficial Nightlife Rendezvous

February 23: Day 3

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Time Web 2.0 Online Advertising
9:00AM

Breakfast

9:30AM

Future of Digital Advertising

Andreas Roell, President, Ad-Club San Diego

Developing Website Strategy Through Biz Intel

Doug Lenos, BRC Marketing

10:30AM

The Evolution of Paid Placement to Keyword Targeting

Kevin Lee, CEO, Didit

Top 10 SEM Items to Execute in '08

Mary O'Brien, Founder, PPC Summit

11:30AM

OMS Ends

Golf, sailing, city tours and beach excursions



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