Venture Marketing Events and Speaking Engagements

John Fox will be holding a workshop or speaking at:

More Road Kill for the Google Search Engine Juggernaut. Featured in Forbes.com, here's a true story of a small business owner I wrote about this week… From all outside appearances, Jim Montrose's small business was thriving. As one of only three importers of hot, new tech gadgets to the multi-billion dollar market of logoed premiums, Jim's business was on autopilot. That was, until Google systematically dismantled his business. Not the Google company. Google, the search engine.
Read rest of the story. Learn about the Webinar: Lead-Gen in the Google Economy.

Revenue Forecasting Through Indirect Sales Channels. Do you sell through indirect sales channels? Are your channel partners zapping your support staff, or are they leading the charge with ever increasing revenue? Are you able to forecast your channel partner revenue? If any of these are hot button items for you and your sales and marketing team, then sign up for the teleseminar, Revenue Forecasting through Indirect Sales Channels this week. At the conclusion of the call you'll get an opportunity to download a 1-page Sales Channel Scoring system, which will give you insight into your channel you probably don't have today.

Do your own SEO: Google SEO Guru Cracks the Code, April 22, 2008. John interviews Stephan Mahaney of Planet Ocean and Search Engine News. Steph will explain: Why it's important to keep SEO in-house; The 4-step SEO process you can do yourself (based on content in the Google Optimized e-book); What tools you need in your SEO toolbox; and What are the 2-3 attributes to look for when hiring someone to do your SEO (full or part-time).

Attention: this interview is now part of Google Optimized.

xChange Magazine webinar: Driving New Revenue through SaaS for SMBs, February 20, 2008. If you are unable to attend this webinar, it will be archived and available for viewing after February 27, 2008. There will be 10-15 minutes of Q&A at the conclusion of the webinar.

ISBM.org Webinar: How To Own The SMB Market, November, 2007. Presentation, audio mp3, and transcript are available by clicking here.

ISPCON 2007: Five Things You Did Not Know About SMBs , October 16-18, 2007, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, Calif.

Warrillow Summit 2007: Disrupting Inertia—Accelerating Adoption in the Small and Midsize Business Market, May 7-9, 2007, InterContinental Hotel, Chicago

Chicago AMA/B2B + Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce: Marketing Bootcamp-Blocking & Tackling for B2B Marketers, Gibsons Steakhouse Chicago, April 26, 2007 (Download PDF flyer here)

Invention to Venture:  Workshops in Technology Entrepreneurship, Co-produced by the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance and the Technology Entrepreneur Center, February 24, 2007

Young Professionals Network: Five Most Costly Marketing Mistakes, February 7, 2007

Executive Workshop: DoubleTree Conference Center, January 26, 2007

Executive Workshop: DoubleTree Hotel, December 14, 2006 (note: there are two sessions on this date)

Incentive Marketing Association: Webinar Series: How to build an effective marketing budget your CFO will support, October 25, 2006

ReadyTalk: Webinar Seminar Series: 5 Essential Actions to Advance Your Game How to See more. Sell more. Keep more, October 18, 2006

Chicago Small Business Expo: Five Essential Actions to Advance Your Game--How to See More, Sell More, Keep More!, August 11, 2006

Incentive Marketing Association: Webinar Series: Blogging for New Business: How to get your Blog going, Step-by-Step, July 19, 2006

Incentive Marketing Association: Webinar Series: Increasing web site leads without paying for Google AdWords, April 26, 2006

University of Illinois-TEC Forum of Chicago: 2006 B-B Marketing: What's Working and What's Not, April 5, 2006

Incentive Marketing Association: Webinar Series: Tradeshow Marketing: How to more effectively leverage tradeshows and events to build your customer base, January 25, 2006

Guerrilla Marketing Association (John is host), Discussing Postcard University, December 21, 2005

American Marketing Association of Chicago: Bag the Elephant and Land the Big Ones -- Achieving Explosive Sales Growth, September 27, 2005

Incentive Marketing Association: Chicago region, September 8, 2005

Guerrilla Marketing Association (John is featured guest), Discussing the Ten Rules of Business Development, July 27, 2005

The Advertising Show: (Podcast available here) Internet Radio Show sponsored by Advertising Age & AdAge.com: July 3, 2005

Camp WorldWIT: Women in the Lead, Conference Point Center, Lake Geneva, May 21, 2005

TEC Chicago, April 26, 2005 (invitation-only)

SMEI Chicago, March 10, 2005