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The April 2005 DFWSEM meeting is sponsored by SuperPages.com.

SuperPages.com is the Internet's #1 online yellow pages directory and a leading shopping resource. With up to 17 million unique visitors per month, the site also promotes advertiser goods and services through listings, Web sites and shopping services according to their specific local, regional and national needs.

Agenda for April 2005 Meeting

Seating limited - to reserve your place, please RSVP to 972.831.2124

Date:
Monday, April 18, 2005, 6:30 PM

Cost:
DFWSEM Members: Free
Non-members: $10 at the door

Meeting Place:
Romano's Macaroni Grill in Addison / North Dallas, on
Beltline Road between Midway and the Tollway.
4535 Beltline Rd., Dallas, TX 75001
Phone: 972-386-3831
http://www.macaronigrill.com/menu/default.asp?Unit_ID=001.009.0002

Topic
Language and Domain Name Issues in Paid and Organic Search

FEATURED PANELISTS:
Bill Hartzer, Intec Telecom Systems
Rob Garner, Agency.com

Question and Answer session to follow panel.

 

6:30 - 7:00
(30 min.) 

Networking 
Your chance to meet or consult with other DFWSEM members and SEM (Search Engine Marketing) professionals from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

7:00 - 7:10
(10 min.) 

DFWSEM Business 
We plan to grow and want our valued members to know our plans for all upcoming events.

7:10 - 8:10
(60 min.) 

Presentations

Language and Domain Name Issues in Paid and Organic Search
Bill Hartzer from Intec Telecom Systems will talk about Language and Domain Names issues in Organic Search Engine Marketing.

Intec is a leading Business and Operations Support Systems (BSS/OSS) product vendor for fixed, mobile, MVNO and next-generation networks (e.g. WLAN, 3G and IP), with more than 680 installations of its products worldwide in 470 customers. Intec is a market leader in billing, mediation, mobile service charging and activation systems. For the year ended 30 September 2004, Intec reported revenues of £68.8 million, with adjusted net earnings after tax of £8.7 million.

Intec’s customer base includes, among others, BellSouth, BellSouth Peru, Cable & Wireless, Cesky Telecom (Czech Republic), China Unicom, COLT Telecommunications, Deutsche Telekom, EBT (Taiwan), Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, Maxis (Malaysia), MTN (Africa), Nitel (Nigeria), Reliance (India), SingTel Optus (Australia), O2 Ireland, Orange, Telecom Argentina, Telecom Egypt, Telecom Italia, Tiscali, TPSA (Poland), Swisscom, T-Mobile International, Telefonica, Telia (Sweden), Telkom South Africa, Telstra, US Cellular, Westel (Hungary), Vodafone, VimpelCom (Russia), Virgin Mobile, Vivo (Brasil), XO Communications and Verizon.

Domain Issues in Paid and Organic Search
Rob Garner will discuss domain issues in PPC and organic search, including contextual domain advertising, domain aging in Google, measuring ROI, the evolution of domain landing pages as “mini search engines”, and a comparison of domain search with organic and paid search. Find out how your search ad dollars are buying domain traffic, and how you can make the most of a domain-based marketing campaign.

Rob is based out of the Dallas office of Agency.com, and as Search Marketing Strategist he guides both paid and organic search marketing projects throughout their North American offices. He is also a founding member and officer of the DFW Search Engine Marketing Association, and is active with the DFW Interactive Marketing Association.

Agency.com is a full-service interactive agency. Since 1995, the company has created effective interactive marketing campaigns and world-class websites to help global clients – including 3M, British Airways, BrownCo, Discovery Channel, T-Mobile UK and Visa – get and keep customers online. Agency.com is headquartered in New York and has offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Dallas, London and San Francisco. Agency.com is a subsidiary of the Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE:OMC), a Fortune 500 global advertising, marketing and communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

8:10 - 8:15
(5 min.) 

DFWSEM Closing Business 
Our thanks to our speaker.

 

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