Moderator:
Chris Sherman, Co-Chair, SES San Jose
Search Engine Marketing Speakers:
Rob Key, CEO, Converseon
Andy Beal, Consultant, Editor, Author, MarketingPilgrim.com
Jonathan Ashton, Director of SEO, Agency.com
Rob Key
Consumers trust each other the most
Social media rapidly gaining SERP Predominance and are now intertwined.
You no longer own your brand. Your brand is a conversation.
What is below the waterline of this iceberg?
You are losing control.
Conversation Mining (Buzz Monitoring)
This conversation is replacing traditional market research.
Are you listening to consumer generated media? You should be….
How do we engage this into a social media strategy.
Go across all and many forms.
It’s amazing how the conversation leads will occur.
Conversation mining provides many, many benefits.
Is this person a reasonable or determined detractor – how you treat them differently.
Andy Beal
Editor – Marketingpilgrim.com
Writing a book on this subject
Company name, executives, customers, press releases, partners, reviews, etc.
Potential Tools to Use:
Moreover.com – industry
news.google.com
Digg.com
Technorati.com
Co.mments.com
Blogpulse.com/conversation
Blogpulse.com/trend
Flickr (other photo sharing sites)
video.google.com – now a true search engine
keotag.com
wikipedia.org
oodle.com
google.brand.edgar-online.com
upcoming.yahoo.com
amazon.com/tag/iphone
google.com/trends/
searchanalytics.compete.com
copernic.com
pipes.yahoo.com
Jonathan Ashton, Director, Agency.com
Search engines magnify smaller voices.
Buzz Management now equals Brand Management
Remove top down approach to brand management
Powerful impact of consumer comment sites
Blog as a soapbox – existing entry, comment added.
Co-opetition is a key to mitigation
Maximize Your Own Site to Run Interface
Orkin has a Wikipedia page and Terminix does not.
Again, creative thinking and co-opetition.