PR News Webinar:
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Strategies for Communicators

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
1:30-3:00 p.m. (ET)

One fee for unlimited attendance at each site.  **$297 per location.

Each registration comes with access to the archived version of the program and the materials for 1-year.

• Speakers
• Who Should Attend?
• PRSA Accreditation "NEW"
• How Does It Work?
• What Equipment Do I Need?
• Questions?

As a communicator, you have a lot more control over your brand online than you might think. But it takes a savvy understanding of how Search marketing and optimization works -- and a realization that as a PR practitioner, you can harness SEM and SEO to your advantage – whether it’s for everyday media relations, to stave a crisis, to announce a new product, or to engage with new audiences.

Corporate reputations can be made or broken by the results returned by online searches. It is in communications executive’s purview to ensure that all results pertaining to your company's reputation are positive, neutral or at least accurate.

Join us on Tuesday, July 31 for a 90-minute workshop on Search Engine Marketing Strategies for Communicators. We know you’re busy and are overloaded with information, so we’ve designed a workshop for you and your communications team that will give you the smartest, proven strategies for understanding Search, executing successful SEM, writing effective social media press releases, improving your Search rankings, and much more. Just 90 minutes of your time, and you will become the resident Search expert in your organization.

Our experts will cover the following:

• Increasing Web traffic through SEO
• Writing social media press releases that work
• Conducting keyword research and finding the keyword sweet spot
• Optimizing PR content online, posting it and building reciprocal links
• Linking techniques: from blogs to social networking pages
• Creating a cross-discipline team to improve SEM in your company
• Understanding how your company and brands are being searched and identifying the most popular search terms for your campaigns
• Fully optimizing the content across domains and linking content utilizing "best practices"
• Leveraging highly optimizable, third-party, social media environments.
• Identifying and courting the most influential voices within the top search engine results
• Demonstrating the “viralness” of your SEM efforts
• How to optimize your video and images for Search
• Tracking optimization's effects and measuring promotion's results
• SEM tools, resources and SEM for-hire checklists

Hear from these industry experts:

	Todd Defren Principal, Shift Communications
	Brian Kaminski Managing Director, iProspect San Francisco
	Kathy O'Reilly Director, Public Relations, Lycos
	Tara Hall Account Supervisor, Weber Shandwick
	Moderator: Courtney Barnes, Editor, PR News

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Who should attend?

PR and marketing professionals in the following areas:

• Community Relations
• Corporate Communications
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Employee Communications
• Financial/Investor Relations
• Human Resources
• Interactive PR
• Investor Relations
• Marketing Communications
• Marketing
• Media Relations
• New media
• Philanthropy
• PR Firms
• Public Relations
• Public Affairs
• Research

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PRSA Accreditation "NEW"

PRSA APR Accreditation Maintenance Credits Approved: 1.0
Registrants that are Accredited by PRSA need to keep track of their points and submit their activities every three years. Please keep a copy of the event description with the date/time listed and submit when you are required to.

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How does the Webinar work?

The live audio is delivered to your location over the telephone or your computer speakers. The Power-Point presentations are presented over the Internet and are available to print out before the program. This is like a talk-radio program with visuals on the Web. You and your team will be able to have a live Q&A with all the speakers.
You need Real Player or Windows Media Player installed on your computer. If you do not have either, please follow the instructions below to download and install them. Or if you prefer, a phone for the audio and an Internet connection to let you watch the slides and other information on the Web will suffice. No other downloads or special hardware - a dial-up connection will work fine.

• One (1) set of materials (you may make copies for all of the persons you invited to listen to the program);
• One (1) toll-free connection to the seminar (if you select the audio connection.), and
• One (1) Internet connection to the seminar.

Use speakers on your computer or speakerphone on your telephone and invite your entire staff to attend for one low price of $297.00 USD per site.

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What equipment do I need?

For the audio connection:

• A computer with Real Player or Windows Media Player installed. When you log into the Virtual Seminar, your computer will be taken through a brief configuration check and will let you know if you're missing any software.
• If you do not have Real or Windows, a touch-tone telephone will work also. It works best to use a speakerphone so that others can listen too.

For the Internet connection:

• PC: 166Mhz Pentium-based PC or better
• Operating system: Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP
• Browser: For optimal viewing experience, we recommend using Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. However, any version of IE 4.0 or higher will work. For Netscape, only versions 4.x are supported at this time.
• Internet connection: 28.8 or faster connection
• Display set at 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600

Player Downloads

If using Microsoft Windows Media Player, Version 6.4 or later is required.
Download a supported Microsoft Windows Media Player

If using RealPlayer, Version 7.0 or later is required.
Download a supported RealPlayer

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Questions?

If you are having any technical difficulties or need assistance meeting these requirements, please contact our Technical Support Center at 1-866-709-8255 or click here. For content questions regarding this Webinar, contact Saun Sayamongkhun 301-354-1610 or email ssayamongkhun@accessintel.com

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