Social Email Marketing

Integrating email marketing and social media

Join Brian Solis and other leading marketing experts, email companies and brands in a one-day conference to discuss innovations in integrated email and social media marketing. The fully interactive session include discussion panels, Q&A, presentations and case studies. Price includes refreshments, handbook with notes, networking drinks and access to the exhibition area.

When and Where

• Friday, September 17, 2010
• 9:00am – 5:30pm
• Hotel Nikko
• San Francisco, CA

Who Is Presenting?

• Brian Solis, FutureWorks (live via video)
• Kristin Hersant, Strongmail
• Dan Martell, Flowtown
• Chase McMichael, InfiniGraph
• Jennifer Neeley Lindsay, A-List Host, BlogTalkRadio
• Murray Newlands, Influence People
• Luke Brynley-Jones, Influence People
• Marissa Louie, HeroEx

What’s Covered

• Social Email Campaigns: What Works & What Doesn’t
• Using Social Media to Grow your Customer Base
• Rewards, Loyalty and Incentives
• Integrated Email & Social Media tools
• How Email Intelligence Enhance Social Media Engagement
• Innovations in Social CRM
• Tracking & Monitoring Social Email Campaigns
• How to use social media data to improve targeting and ROI

Things To Know

• Very limited number of early bird tickets left
• Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable
• Tickets cannot be bought on the day
• Group discounts possible
• Tickets can only be booked online with a credit or debit card. You do not need a Paypal or Google Checkout account to buy a ticket.

The Discount Code Is iem3

I won’t be able to attend, but if you do, I hope you fill me in on the experience. Enjoy and learn!

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1. I had epilepsy when I was a kid. From the ages of 4-17, I took phenobarbital 3 times a day and went in for the occasional EEG (electroencephalagraph). As a kid, I thought it was cool to have a bunch of wires glued to my head. One day, at the age of 17, I was told I didn’t have epilepsy any longer. That was even cooler.

2. From 2nd grade through 8th grade, I was a cheerleader. Actually, I think I was considered a “mascot” in 2nd-4th grades, which meant that I dressed like a cheerleader and acted like a cheerleader, but the difference is that I would occasionally get thrown up into the air by the “real” cheerleaders. Or at least that’s the way I remember it!

3. I had a funky appendix once. When I was 14, I woke in the middle of the night screaming in pain. Although my parents rushed me to the hospital, the doctors in the emergency room didn’t know what was wrong with me. They didn’t suspect appendicitis because I didn’t hurt in the normal place for that. Many hours of pain later, they finally decided to go in and do exploratory surgery. Turns out, it was appendicitis, but my appendix was in the wrong place! It was attached to my backbone apparently. Luckily, they found it in time before it burst.

4. The “biggest” natural disasters tend to occur wherever I happen to live. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but at least two of the “biggies” occured where I lived. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake happened while I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Hurricane Katrina happened while I was living here, just north of New Orleans. If I ever move to your neck of the woods, you might want to stock up on emergency supplies.

5. I was severely attacked by a trained guard dog when I was 17, but now I love dogs more than just about anything. The attack happened in my neighborhood. Here’s the story on that. A new family had just moved into our neighborhood, so I invited one of the kids who was about my age to ride bikes around the neighborhood so I could show her around. We hopped on our bicycles and had ridden about 1/4 mile when I pointed out one of the nicer homes in the neighborhood. “That”, I said, “is the [name intentionally left out] house. And those are [blank's] dogs, Kaiser, and …” I never made it past that, because Kaiser, one of the two trained guard dogs (Great Danes), broke his metal chain, jumped over the six foot electrified fence, ran in front of our bikes, came around the back of my bike to my right side, grabbed my arm, and pulled me off my bike and to the ground. He then dragged me about half a mile down the road, threw me into a ditch, and proceeded to eat his way through my arm and back. The poor girl who was riding with me (in this brand new neighborhood of hers) was standing in shock next to her bike, not knowing what to do. Luckily, a few minutes later, an older gentleman who lived nearby happened to drive down and saw what was happening. I really don’t know how he separated me from the dog, but somehow I ended up in his car, and he took my mangled body home. From there, my brave mom rushed me to the hospital. I’m not quite sure how she managed to calmly get me there when my arm and back looked so terrible, but she held up nicely. Although I spent a few years being terrified of dogs afterwards (even teeny tiny ones), I eventually got over it, and I’m a huge, huge fan of dogs now. Go figure. A few scars can’t stop me!

6. I’m an absolute NUTCASE about the color purple. But you probably already knew that. What can I say? I like it – a lot. That’s all there is to say about that.

7. Speaking of nutcases, I’m a wee bit on the paranoid side. Maybe that’s because of the disasters I’ve been through (see #4 above), or maybe it’s just that I like tinfoil hats, but if I could (in other words, if my family wouldn’t completely disown me), I’d build myself a nice underground bunker and stock it with a few years’ worth of food, emergency supplies, weapons, and ammunition to get me through any disaster that might arise. As it is, I have a meager supply of “stuff” that should get us through at least a couple of months, should another disaster strike.

So that’s that. Now you know more about me than you’d care to, I’m sure. And now it’s time to pass the torch, and tag 7 others. Hopefully, they won’t hate me too much.

David Harry
John Mueller
Judith Lewis
Melanie Phung
Julie Joyce
Lisa Roberson
Dianne Aull

Just a few days left before the first recipient of Project Jump Start ’09 is chosen! If you haven’t yet let me know you’re interested, there’s still time!

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Since when is a recipe with 18 ingredients considered easy? I was browsing a recipe site just a few minutes ago, and the list of recipes is categorized by the amount of effort involved in creating the dish. One caught my eye. It was a recipe for Beef Empanadas. Yum, I haven’t had empanadas since I lived in San Francisco years ago. The recipe is categorized as EASY. My first thought was that it seemed like empanadas would be a little difficult to make, but hey, it said EASY, right? Ok, so I clicked through to read the recipe.

ACK! Wait a minute. First, there’s a pastry section with 6 ingredients listed. Then, there’s a filling section with 12 ingredients listed. And finally, there’s a section for Chilean Salsa, in which it says to use the recipe for that, but there’s no recipe for it. So, this EASY dish contains at least 18 ingredients, and however many more is needed for the Chilean Salsa.

In addition, this recipe involves creating pastry from scratch, with ingredients like baking powder, flour, unsalted butter, etc. What? Are you crazy? People who cannot cook and who are looking for EASY recipes do not…I repeat…DO NOT have things like baking powder and unsalted butter in their households.

If I could cook, I would put together a website for people like me, in which the recipes would all be EASY, and none of them would contain more than 3 or 4 ingredients. Very few would involve slicing and dicing, and if a recipe said it would take 30 minutes or less, it would mean 30 minutes or less for the cooking-challenged. 30 minute meals for chefs don’t count. It takes me 10 minutes just to slice and dice one vegetable. Make me do that with 3 vegetables and you’ve just used up the entire allotment of 30 minutes, before the cooking process ever begins.

I’m sure there are probably websites out there that really are for people like me, but unfortunately, there are millions of recipe sites on the Internet. If you know of a good one that would never classify an eighteen-ingredient recipe as EASY, let me know. I need all the help I can get.

Oh, and just for fun, here’s the link to the Beef Empanada recipe for those of you who think creating your own pastry is a load of fun.

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