Michelle Schmidt (co-organizer) and Marc Trimble will be showing us how to leverage different content management systems to help drive business and solve common challenges facing small to medium-sized business owners.

Topics (including, but not limited to):

• Pros & Cons
  
• Usability
  
• Key Features
  
• Search & Conversion Optimization
  
• Using with Social Media & Paid Advertising
  

About Michelle & Marc

Michelle Schmidt is owner of Ice Link Designs
Icelink Design is a full service firm devoted to helping clients not only create the right website to gain maximum conversion of visitors into buyers or sales leads, but to optimize that website to get maximum targeted traffic.

Marc Trimble is CEO of West7th Design and Development Marc has over 18 years of internet experience, web design, internet marketing and online advocacy. West7th helps Non Profits and businesses of all sizes succeed online. West7th uses the Joomla Content Management System for all client sites and has done so since the inception of the Joomla project. The West7th Team is comprised of 16 members spanning the globe in every time zone allowing for 24 hour production on sites, internet marketing and social media initiatives.

Agenda:

6:00pm to 6:15pm: Get Your Food/Drinks and Network

6:15pm: Business Card Buffet: drop you card on the networking buffet

6:20pm to 6:40: 2 Min Elevator Pitch:

* Tell us about you and your business or website interest
* Any networking goal your trying to achieve out of this meeting?
* Share something interesting about yourself.

6:40 to 7:30pm: Open Roundtable Topic Discussion.

Best Websites & Tools: Share your urls & Whats Working? Group Discussion to share success stories of what else is working?

Share Your SEO Tips: Please post within your rsvp your url and then please take the time to review other sites listed prior to the meeting and write out your seo tips to exchange with fellow members.

Open Roundtable Challenge Discussion: Please be specific about your challenges in your business or website. 3 to 5 min max spent on any one business model.

We look forward to seeing you all at this informal Minneapolis search marketing round table discussion!