I spent the better part of this week in Seattle for SMX Advanced 2010 and got to see a lot of my old friends, and meet new awesome ones. Conferences are always awesome, but SMX Advanced is even more special to me because of relationships made at a past one I attended (hat tip Cameron). I feel it brings huge opportunity for those who attend & speak – if, and I say IF …. they are smart and think outside of the box. There was one such individual that did think outside the box this year and impressed me. His name is Thomas Ballantyne he owns Blog Pest Control & he made me a shirt! Its been done before you say? Maybe, but never like this before – HIS TWIST? He really enjoyed something I had said on Twitter, and ended up making me a shirt with that specific “tweet” (see below)
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To all those who were wanting our Foursquare survey slides at SMX Advanced – here they are! Do what you will with them, but give Will Scott and I a little credit in the process 
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I am really looking forward to SMX Advanced this year for many reasons, but the biggest this year is being able to hang out with some of the most awesome friends on the planet. Another reason is because I am on a pretty kick butt panel with some amazing fellas called “Location Services: The new local search?”
Moderator: Greg Sterling, Founding Principal, Sterling Market Intelligence
Speakers:
Vince Blackham, Founder & CEO, Primary Affect
Michael Martin, Owner, Mobile Martin
Will Scott, President, Search Influence
Dylan Swift, Director of Local Business Marketing, Yelp
I look forward to seeing you all there, please make sure and come up and say hi! Some of the best friends I have in this industry came about by going up and saying hi! Some of the best info I have gotten out of other speakers was when we were hanging out, chilling in a bar or eating dinner!
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How about this for a headline: Matt McGee, an Arizona Cardinals fan?
Matt McGee, a great friend of mine was such an awesome sport about this. Ok, maybe he was a little upset at himself for making this bet (The Arizona Cardinals would get further in the 2009 season than the Seahawks), but we had fun with it. To show my appreciation to Matt I wanted to make sure and post the pics for ALL to see. Here ya go Matt:
Matt McGee hesitant to put on the jersey!
This looks hard for this Seahawks fan
Matt still not looking "happy" with this fake smile here.
What a good sport wearing the jersey during his Twitter clinc
Love this, Thanks Matt for being such a good sport!
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A couple of us from Dream Systems Media will be speaking at SMX West, and we are pretty excited about it. Myself and David Mink are going to be speaking on a combined total of 4 panels. They are some awesome subjects with some even cooler speakers! Here is a run down of our speaking schedule. We are very excited to be speaking with some of these other awesome speakers! We are also very thankful that our 3rd team member Andy Melchior will be holding down the DSM fort for us while we are gone!
Matt Siltala speaking schedule:
Local & Mobile Search Track
Mobile Search Apps & Opportunities – Away from your computer, but need to search for something? There’s a smart phone app for that! More than 100,000 for the iPhone, 20,000 and growing for Google’s Android. This session looks at popular search apps on different devices, how they gather data and opportunities they offer to search marketers.
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It is hard to believe how time flies and that its almost the end of the year. It seems like just yesterday we were all out at SMX West enjoying each others company. We wanted to let you know where Dream Systems Media will be, who is speaking and make sure to remind you to come up and say hi to us! We want to meet as many people as we possible can in real life!
SMX East 2009 New York City: Oct. 4th – 7th
I will be speaking on a panel the first day Monday (bright and early folks, so not to much partying Sunday night) Oct. 5 @ 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM Mobile Search Apps & Opportunity, where I will be focusing on the iPhone Yelp App, and some opportunities that surround Yelp in general. It is going to be an informative session, even if you don’t own an iPhone – you will want to see what other customers are seeing, and how they are searching your business on Yelp.
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People You Need To Follow On Twitter
I love getting feedback from my readers. I especially love getting questions; and do my best to help at any opportunity. The other day I received a question from “Lise” about using Twitter. She had some valid questions and points of concern regarding Twitter that I wanted to address in a blog post. To do that, I thought I would bring in some Twitter “gurus” to help me answer this question.
I really appreciate these amazing Internet marketers taking the time out of their very busy days to answer these questions. I really think this can benefit a lot of people and hope you will feel its worth the read!
Here is the comment & question that “Lise” asked me:
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