
Localmn Interactive Marketing Didn't realize the print spam arrived. It's time for a Yellow Pages "Creative Use" contest. Any thoughts on whether we should keep it local to MN or go beyond? Anyone want to co-sponsor or brainstorm?

Localmn Interactive Marketing
The Internet has always been known as the “information age”, and is now also considered the “recommendation age”. Embracing all of this can literally bring local, potential clients away from the Internet and to your studio. However, embracing it may also seem like a daunting task.
Your web site is live, you're bloggi...ng like a madman and clients want to see your images on Facebook. You've heard a lot about Internet marketing, now learn how to utilize and understand the tools that make a successful campaign tick.
Join us as we demystify:
* How the Internet marketing can compliment traditional marketing
*Becoming visible on the web with search engines such as Google and Yahoo
*Using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to convert “word-of-Web” traffic *Being found and recommended by clients online
* How to embrace online ratings and user-reviews *Utilize and interpret web statistics
*And most importantly... How to link it all together to promote traffic
Heather Jahn and Paul Jahn have teamed up to bring over 25 years of collaborative Internet Marketing, Photography and Small Business Management experience to creative professionals. This brother/sister duo will share their insight on how to use real-world Internet strategies, combined with traditional tools to create an all-encompassing, potentially viral, marketing plan and how to interpret your results.
Speaker Bios
Paul has over ten years of overall Internet marketing experience from working with both small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. This includes search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and social media. Paul is also a pioneer of “local search” founding localmn.com in 2003, well before it was a recognized force in search marketing. Paul has also been a Search Engine Guide columnist since 2005.
Heather’s photography career began at the age of 17. Over the years (we won’t mention how many), her interest in creating photographs has been overtaken by that of marketing and studio management. She quickly recognized that, without a good understanding of the business, an artist’s creative talent may be a moot point. After years of managing retail and creative businesses, Heather started her own consulting business for creative professionals in 2006 and has since created two portrait businesses of her own.
Understanding the Marketing Potential of the Internet
Time:1:00PM Monday, May 18th
Location:Madison Holiday Inn & Suites

This is coming up quick! Both Heather and I are spending a lot of hours on the PowerPoint presentation, and thanks to all of you that have been following the Bro-Sis Photography Marketing project. It’s finally on! ...

Localmn Interactive Marketing
The Internet has always been known as the “information age”, and is now also considered the “recommendation age”. Embracing all of this can literally bring local, potential clients away from the Internet and to your studio. However, embracing it may also seem like a daunting task.
Your web site is live, you're bloggi...ng like a madman and clients want to see your images on Facebook. You've heard a lot about Internet marketing, now learn how to utilize and understand the tools that make a successful campaign tick.
Join us as we demystify:
* How the Internet marketing can compliment traditional marketing
*Becoming visible on the web with search engines such as Google and Yahoo
*Using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to convert “word-of-Web” traffic *Being found and recommended by clients online
* How to embrace online ratings and user-reviews *Utilize and interpret web statistics
*And most importantly... How to link it all together to promote traffic
Heather Jahn and Paul Jahn have teamed up to bring over 25 years of collaborative Internet Marketing, Photography and Small Business Management experience to creative professionals. This brother/sister duo will share their insight on how to use real-world Internet strategies, combined with traditional tools to create an all-encompassing, potentially viral, marketing plan and how to interpret your results.
Speaker Bios
Paul has over ten years of overall Internet marketing experience from working with both small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. This includes search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and social media. Paul is also a pioneer of “local search” founding localmn.com in 2003, well before it was a recognized force in search marketing. Paul has also been a Search Engine Guide columnist since 2005.
Heather’s photography career began at the age of 17. Over the years (we won’t mention how many), her interest in creating photographs has been overtaken by that of marketing and studio management. She quickly recognized that, without a good understanding of the business, an artist’s creative talent may be a moot point. After years of managing retail and creative businesses, Heather started her own consulting business for creative professionals in 2006 and has since created two portrait businesses of her own.
Understanding the Marketing Potential of the Internet
Time:2:00PM Saturday, May 9th
Location:Rochester Public Library

An hour ago, I had a quick meet-up with my friend Barb at downtown Grumpys to discuss things like branding yourself, social media and just keeping up with each other. Some big-brands have done a great job with social media including 3M, Doritos, Kraft (DiGiorno pizzas) and others...

There’s been a lot of Google local search hype in the last 24 hours. In a nutshell, they’re providing local listings based on your local IP address. It may stay, it might go away. Only Google will know. Example: I’m in Minneapolis and this is a screenshot of what shows up for the term lawyer. Lawy...

The favorites are a bit diverse this time, and that’s okay. They’re still Minnesota (or close to) based. Scott Hale writes on why kids are not using Twitter. Scott shows great examples as he sees it from a college student point of view. Mo...

This is pretty slick and thanks again to Clint Danks from ThinkSEM for bringing this up. Yahoo Search Marketing has some cool, new advertising features for your PPC campaigns. Here you go, fellow PPC geeks. If you’re a Yahoo advertiser, just sign in. ...

Time has been flying by. For those of you who have been following our project, thank you! For those who haven’t, my sis and I will soon be giving presentations to professional photographers on how to use search marketing and social media to help their photography studios. ...

Paul Saarinen (taulpaul) has a great idea. I've always wanted to go to SXSW but never have. Any interest in having one Minnesota style? Paul blogs about it at http://tweetandmeet.com/mxmw-2009

Time to put out some favorites for the week. All are written from Minneapolis/St. Paul folks with lots of good nuggets of local search, social media, and Yellow Pages print spam info. First, @AaronWeiche writes about Best Buy meshing online reviews with offline behavior...

Went to Midway Stadium today where they had a fun "Iceball" game which included a lot of local celebrities. It was a benefit for the Second Harvest Midwest. Basically, I won two admissions to the Omnitheater from donating and playing ladder golf. First person who replies or leaves a note gets 'em...

It’s been shown on David Mihm’s blog, as well as other blogs that Google is now showing a new layer of local search results, all at once. Si...















