Newly Improved :: WebmasterRadio.FM
February 27, 2009 by Jim Hedger
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2009 has been an interesting and expansive year for WebmasterRadio.FM/. As regular visitors and listeners have noticed, the website looks and acts differently today than it did last week. We’ve made a number of changes in the past eight weeks. As one can imagine, making changes in a network as large as WebmasterRadio.FM is a complex and difficult undertaking.
We are proud of WebmasterRadio.FM’s accomplishments and each of the shows running on the network. WebmasterRadio.FM is among the largest online radio and podcast networks in the world. With over 15,000 historic files in our archives and nearly 25 hours of fresh content added each week, WebmasterRadio.FM is the voice of the online advertising and B2B industries. This year we want to push further.
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An Experiential SMX West Review
February 13, 2009 by Jim Hedger
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Ever been in a busy room full of people and felt as if you and they were not really there? The sensation falls between an out of body experience and an unfortunate brain-full of high dosage pain relievers.
Standing with a small group of old-time search marketers on the trade-show floor at Search Marketing Expo (SMXWest) in Santa Clara at the beginning of this week, we all noted how the vibe of the show was sort of like that. Long used to feeling like ghosts in the machine, this month’s pilgrimage to the Valley made many of us feel like spiritless specters. It took a couple of days for the conference spirit to catch its first wind. Unfortunately, the conference was only three days long.
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An affiliate convention in Denver, June 21st – 23rd
February 3, 2009 by Daron Babin
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WebmasterRadio.FM is pleased to announce that we have launched a new Affiliate Convention to service the needs of those in the Affiliate Marketplace. We feel the performance marketing industry is rife with business that needs to be fostered along with the educational growth of its participants.
For anyone who knows us, knows that we have long had a hand in the affiliate marketing space. Most do not realize that we have been as involved as we were. To those ends, I had an idea to create a new trade show series after having spent a year working to those ends and just not quite so happy as I would be…if the project were solely in the hands of WMR.
The genesis of this plan was one that formed rapidly, as we knew there was a demand for our event. If you’ve never been to an affiliate convention programmed by WebmasterRadio.FM, than you’ll quickly discover how we differentiate ourselves from other conferences in the affiliate marketing space by focusing on the people who make the industry run, the actual affiliate marketers. Recognizing the cold realities of our current economic conditions, we wanted to present a low-cost, high-value show. In order to make an affiliate convention in Denver economically feasible for attendees, we decided to make admittance to the convention free for anyone who can prove they are a working affiliate marketer, which we take care of with a quick and painless phone call.
The offer of free admittance should remove a big barrier to entry for many affiliate marketers. Conventions give attendees a leg-up in an economy that is making many marketers feel unsure. The contacts, education and networking give us a chance to shore up our business ideas and relationships.
At AffCon2010 you will find value, benefit, education, and enormous networking opportunities in a beautiful setting. Focused entirely on affiliate marketing, the Affiliate Convention will feature keynote speakers Joel Comm, Jeremy “Shoemoney” Shoemaker followed by a line-up Heather Paulson, Jeannine Crooks, Tim Ash, Anita Edge and many more. Our goal is to provide a convention built around the needs and interests of the grassroots of this expansive industry, the actual affiliate marketers.
Over the coming weeks, the convention website, www.AffCon2010.com will continue fill out. We will be introducing a number of social media tools for delegates, speakers, attendees and organizers to use to communicate and help build a better affiliate convention.
WebmasterRadio.FM has consistently stood for the strength of the online marketing community. Together with our partners, WebmasterRadio.FM is proud to take a leading role in bringing the affiliate marketing community closer together by presenting the most inclusive experience possible. If you work in or around the affiliate marketing industry, AffCon2010 is for you.
Back from SES Chicago 08
December 15, 2008 by Jim Hedger
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“It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me,
You’re quoting the wrong song…” (all apologies to Sean MacGowan, Jem Finer and Pogues fans everywhere)
It wasn’t Christmas Eve though the streets of Chicago were cold enough to pass for late December. We were not in the drunk tank though listeners might have thought so had they tuned in to the Drunken Webmasters’ RoundTable broadcast live last Tuesday night. There was an old man speaking to me but that might have been any number of characters ranging from Daron Babin to Todd Friesen to Dave Naylor to Doug Heil. At some points in the evening it was hard to tell.
WebmasterRadio.FM rocked its way through the final major digital marketing conference of the year last week in our virtually complete coverage of all major events at Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008. As the official radio and podcast network of the Search Engine Strategies Conference series, there’s a lot expected of us. We carried every keynote speech, all the Orion panel sessions, a number of individual sessions and recorded over twenty interviews with industry thought-leaders throughout three days of intensely hard work. Our goal at conferences is to act as ears for the tens of thousands of people in our industry who can’t attend themselves.
Here are some of the highlights from Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008:
- Professor Lawrence Lessig Keynote: Remix, Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
- Orion Panel: The State of Integration of Search
- Author Bill Tancer Keynote: We Are What We Click
- Orion Panel: The Battle of the Browsers
- Chris Winfield Interview – Igniting Viral Campaigns
- Cody Hunter Interview – Paid Search Marketing for Small Business
- The Drunken Webmasters’ RoundTable (3hours of fun and enlightenment, WebmasterRadio.FM style)
- Josh James Keynote: Avoiding Anticipointment
- John Mellor Interview – Investing in Analytics
- Tessa Fraser Interview – Rethinking Optimization
As I said, we worked hard last week. We compiled some great conversations, attended every social event and created a lot of fun of our own. There are more files where those came from waiting to be edited and archived in the Search Engine Strategies Conference channel at WebmasterRadio.FM.
Now we get to take some much needed rest time. We’re still broadcasting, podcasting and gathering great information but for the next few weeks we get to do it from our homebase in Fort Lauderdale. The crew doesn’t have to travel until the New Year and our first conference of next year is the Social Networking Conference just down the street in Miami in late January.
Steve Wozniak on WebmasterRadio.FM at 4pm!
July 3, 2008 by Daron Babin
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Well, I am stoked!
Why you ask?
Because today we will be having the father of our industry, the creator of the pc, Mr. Steve Wozniak, the WOZ, himself, on WebmasterRadio.FM!
We will be running an exclusive 1-on -1 interview on the SNC 2008 SF Preview Show today @ 4pm ET/ 1pm PT.
Steve Wozniak talks about the Segway polo team, the WOZ challenge cup, and the Social Networking conference. He gives props to Digg, Reddit, and Facebook, and says the future of the social sites must…Â
To find out, Tune in at 4pm!
