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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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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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I have a lot of respect for Andy Beal, (Marketing Pilgrim and Trackur) and we have become good friends over the years of knowing each other and speaking at/attending conferences.  Lately I have been playing around (ok, its my new obsession) with DailyBooth, sort of like a Twitter updates, but with picture updates and snapshots of your daily life. Andy has been following me on DailyBooth because I tend to make some funny faces and fun with it, and put a smile on his face. Soooo, Andy decided it would be fun to do a contest with one of my funny faces – that day has arrived. Whoever gives this the best caption to this photo -

is going to win a 25$ gift card to iTunes …….

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My daughter drew this picture today, and when I asked her what it was; she told me: “It’s what you do all day, don’t you know that?”  Point taken!  I just think its funny how she has my companies (Dream Systems Media) Logo included, and my picture (like on profile sites)  Its funny, cause its pretty good drawing of what I am doing most everyday.  Love how she included the GOATIE too!!!  When I asked her what it all was, and to explain it, she said its you on those sites you are always on that have your picture and friends. …. OH, and Google she says.  Again, love it!  BTW – is that a Mac?

What Daddy Does All Day!

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For the first time ever – The Arizona Cardinals are going to the Superbowl!  I am so proud of this team for not giving up, and for the fans NEVER losing faith that they would make it!  I just had a feeling that they would do it after the Seattle game.  It was like they became a new team.

I was reading a great post from Nate Moller talking about Kurt Warner and the power of never taking no for an answer.  People said the Cardinals could never get past Atlanta, they did.  No way they could get past Carolina, they did.  OK, now there was NO WAY they could get past the Eagles and guess what they did.  All with a QB everyone said was to old.  Kurt Warner is going to be the 3rd oldest QB to ever play in a superbowl and IMO, he’s gonna win.  He does not take no for an answer!

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Our own Matt Siltala was presented with two fairly prestigious awards this week:

1) Matt’s article entitled “Free Local Marketing Options that Bring Real Traffic” was recognized by Techipedia as one of the Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008

2) Matt has been asked to speak on social media at SMX West 2009 (Feb. 10-12 in Santa Clara, CA)

I had to write this post because I knew Matt never would – believe it or not the man can be too humble. Matt is hands down one of the best Internet marketing minds on the globe and continues to be at the forefront of search and social media development. Congrats brother on two awards well deserved! So please follow suit and give Matt some props in the comments.

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Many Uses of Twitter

As I was driving home yesterday from the Cardinals game (which I will be posting about) I heard a local radio station telling people to follow them on Twitter, and to check their Twitter page out for the latest updates and contests etc.

I was super impressed to hear this. I have been wondering why more radio stations don’t tap into the power of Twitter and using it for these exact reasons! I am also glad that more of these places are getting away from referring people to their MySpace pages. MySpace had their time and chance to get better, but didn’t – and their service IMO has just gotten worse. Twitter is simple and easy to use and understand and is an amazing platform for promotions and contests.

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The Social Fear:

When I am teaching clients (or consulting new to Internet business owners) about social media, and starting to dive deeper into social media marketing with them, the very first thing I try to help them understand is the “social” side of it.  If you are not able to be social with individuals, or are worried about what people will say or think of you, then you will not do very well with social media.  Being social is the most important key element to any successful social media marketing campaign.

I know this sounds kind of no duh, but you would be surprised how often these concerns come up with clients, especially the new ones that have never done any kind of online marketing – including social media marketing.

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Connect With Matt Siltala On LinkedIn

If you have not been back to LinkedIn lately to check out your account, or add the people who have connected with you, its time.  I am giving you this friendly reminder because LinkedIn has recently added some pretty cool new applications to their service that make it even better for you to get the word out about who you are, as well as connect with even more.

Newly Added LinkedIn Applications added:

• Huddle Workspaces -  I have not really used this application much, but I can see the benefit.
• Reading List by Amazon – Share the books you are reading and like, and see what other people in your industry (and who are just like you) are reading and get some pretty good ideas what your next read should be.  I have already got some pretty good suggestions from people I am connected with.

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