Raven Tools
Yesterday, Raven Tools launched the second edition of their online scavenger hunt, RavenHunt. Once again they have some awesome prizes up for grabs: an Apple iPad, 1 year Pro subscription to Raven, books by Tamar Weinberg and Avinash Kaushik, a Search Engine Land premium membership AND RavenHunt t-shirts!
Participation is easy. Each day you are given riddles that you’ll need to solve in order to find clues that contain secret letters. Keep track of all of the secret letters you find, because at the end of the week you’ll need to unscramble them to form a secret word/phrase. The contest started yesterday, but you can join in at any time. The riddles and clues stay up throughout the contest, and are posted on the Raven Facebook and Twitter accounts.
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raven, raven tools
If you are attending Pubcon this year in Las Vegas, you should know that we will be there representing as well and I do have to say that we are getting a little bit excited, could even say giddy, about our soon approaching travels to Vegas for Pubcon. Pubcon means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but for DSM it comes down to good eats, good drinks, good friends, good business, and good times.
Along with everything else that comes with the territory, both Mat and Dave will be speaking this year. Here are the details and I suggest you don’t miss these sessions as they could change your life forever!
Wednesday Nov. 11 @ 2:55 pm
Interactive Site Reviews: Focus on Brand and Social Reputation Management
Location: Salon F
David Mink, Industry News, Matt Siltala, speaking
Las Vegas, Pubcon, speaking
Thumbs Down to bad business!
You know, I am no longer amazed at the number of off line businesses going under these days, IMO, I think some probably deserve to be going under and here’s my rant why. They would like to blame it on the bad economy, but in some cases I think they need to take a look internally at their bad business practices involving customer service!
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Business, customer service, offline business, online business
SMX West 2009
If you are thinking about attending SMX West, you need to decide soon or pay 200 bucks more tomorrow after midnight. I have the honor of speaking this year at SMX West on the “tapping into image search” panel with Eric Enge of Stone Temple. There will also be two other speakers – one from Google and one from Yahoo. The moderator of our session is Matt McGee (Assignment Editor, Search Engine Land)
Here is the official announcement I got in the email today:
The Early Bird Rate for Search Marketing Expo – SMX West ends at midnight tomorrow (Friday, January 9). You save $200 on your All Access ticket by registering now!
Hurry and register and save money!
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I was talking to a friend the other day that was all excited about his ranking results in MSN and how he was “totally dominating Live”…I had to laugh for a minute because I became quickly aware at how clueless he really was and to be honest for him, ranking in MSN/Live is a pretty big accomplishment since he hasn’t been at the website/SEO game for very long. I congratulated him and gave him a few pointers to help him in Google a bit and he was grateful.
This event I just described came on the coat-tails of me reading a story about total search volume in October breaking the 10 billion query mark, quite impressive and a new record…just look at that number with all the zero’s: 10,000,000,000, that has to make you say WOW, unless you are an oil exec, or the the U.S. Government whom so considerately decided to toss 700,000,000,000 into a worthless aid plan (I’ll stop my ranting now).
Industry News, MSN/Live
MSN/Live
