Is it Internet Marketing Seminar Season?

I don’t know if it is just me but is it internet marketing seminar season?

In the past week I have seen advertising for Armand Morin’s “Armand Morin Live” event which will be held in Los Angeles on March 12th – 14th, Perry Marshall’s Adwords Master Event Summit seminar will be held in Maui March 1st to 3rd and of course the big one being StomperNet LIVE 9 in Atlanta March 25th – 28th.

I guess the reason must be that it is spring but would love these to be more spread out a bit so more of us can attend more than one internet marketing training event due to costs.

So what are they all about well let me explain in my internet marketing seminar review or should I say preview:

Armand Morin Live

This is an intensive 3 day event being run solely by Armand.  What i have heard so far is that he will cover some pretty interesting topics not least the Visa/Mastercard crackdown with continuity programs which should be very interesting to see. And as good but probably boring! is the coverage on the stricter FTC regulations.

Aside from these areas which every internet marketer needs to know now, there are the following topics:

1. How to dominate the “local search” business.
   This is to me key now for small businesses – make use of Google local it is excellent
2. Why your “marketing sequence” is likely killing your conversions – and an easy method for quickly fixing it.
   I am not too sure what is likely to be covered here, doesn’t sound overly interesting to me
3. How to REALLY leverage social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz.
   Blah Blah – more social media stuff – the Google Buzz reference is interesting though as I wonder exactly where this will head – will it compete with Facebook – I doubt it
4. THE most effective (and highest converting) salesletter you should use
   Interested to hear what is going to be said here, especially after seeing the power of video sales letters which every Internet marketer uses nowadays. This must be the way of the future and what will be covered here
5. Why Microsoft Bing is quickly becoming the “go-to” place for pay per click marketing and how you can easily stay ahead of your competition
   Really? I doubt it in most countries – maybe in USA this could be the case but I know in other countries such as Australia that Google takes about 90% of ALL serach engine traffic. Maybe this has the better ROI but that’s it. If you don’t get any traffic who cares about ROI!

Perry Marshall – Google Adwords Master Summit

Now before I start to explain what this is – there is a BIG caveat. You must have documented evidence that you spend over $5000 on PPC every month as this is a serious training on Google Adwords

Learn about some very serious Adwords features and knowledge from Perry and his team of experts. I had a look through the speaker list and I am seriously impressed – none other than Amit Mehta from PPC Classroom, Glenn Livingston of Rocket Clicks who a friend of mine said he is one guy you must follow, Jonathan Mizel who has been around for years and will be discussing media buys and one very interesting guy who I would love to see being Richard Stokes, president of AdGooRoo.com.

Richard is purportedly going to show some really key things like:

• What’s the difference between the ACTUAL number of searches Google gets, and the number they tell you in their keyword tool
• What were the top 10 affiliate ads in Google in 2009
• What image ads are getting the most impressions on Google’s content network this month

and to quote Perry

You cannot be in the same room with Richard Stokes and not go away with 5X more insight on how the Google machine works

All in all an experts conference so head to Maui for at least a great holiday as well!

StomperNet LIVE 9

Tis is put on mainly for all the StomperNet members but there are limited tickets made available for the public for $197 but this is pretty good value considering you get 4 days of Internet marketing training for that price – bargain if you ask me.

Whereas most events are pretty standard stuff being speaker 1 speaker 2 and so on – I am very impressed with their strategy and is not so much a seminar but a full on conference with six separate tracks for breakout sessions plus the usual speakers – interestingly but there are no big headliners on this one.

1. Beginner Track: Learn the basics in core disciplines like SEO and Social Media
2. Advanced Track: Go deep with the StomperNet faculty members
3. Tools Track: The StomperTools partners will be there to show you how to get the most out of the Tools
4. Business Models Track: Learn about eCommerce, affiliate marketing, and other profitable online models from the best in the world.
5. Boutique Track: Learn more about StomperNet’s boutique products like StomperSEOPro and StomperMobile
6. Faculty Roundtable/Site Review Track – get your website reviewed by the experts or sit with them and ask your burning questions.

Definitely not the normal event  is it!

Well that’s it – any more internet marketing seminars or events comig up? Let me know and I’ll do a write up