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FREE Internet Marketing 101:
How to get the most bang for your buck using the Internet!

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
3:00pm – 5:00pm
The Chamber of Commerce of Southwest Indiana/Southwestern Indiana SBDC 318 Main Street, Suite 401 – Training Room (Innovation Pointe) Downtown Evansville
Cost: FREE

WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?

As a local business, how can you use the internet to grow your business, attract new prospective buyers that are in the market for your products & services, build strong relationships with those in your customer base, spread your company message to build brand awareness and improve your company image. It’s a deep and complex digital age we live and work in.

Businesses are utilizing the Internet to connect with new prospects, convert those prospects into customers and build long term relationships by continuing to communicate with prospects and customers.

This seminar will provide insight to the following areas:

Connect: Utilizing search marketing and online display to reach your best prospects

Convert: Creating landing pages and websites to increase the number of visitors that convert into customers

Continue: Using social media and email marketing to improve customer loyalty and retention

About the Presenter

Michael Teitelbaum is the Chief Digital Officer of South Central Media and has been in the marketing/ advertising industry for over 30 years. After 15 years in traditional media, he started his first Internet marketing company in 1995 and sinced that time has worked with businesses large and small including well known brands like U.S. Airways, AMF, Johns Hopkins, Medifast, Washington DC Tourism and the Maryland State Lottery.

Chris Lubenow is an Internet Marketing Consultant and works directly with businesses in Evansville in implementing online marketing strategies and managing their advertising campaigns. After graduating from Indiana University in 2005 with a BS in marketing he has been consulting with local businesses helping to achieve their goals and growth through internet marketing.

For more information about this event or to reserve a seat, please contact:
Debbie Albin, Administrative Assistant/Training Coordinator
Southwestern Indiana SBDC

318 Main St., Suite 401

Evansville, IN 47708
Phone: 812.425.7232

E-mail: dalbin@ccswin.com

A Partnership Program with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
The Chamber of Commerce of Southwest Indiana is the proud host of the Southwestern Indiana SBDC.

New Economy New Rules

October 1, 2010 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. (EDT)
Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Leveraging University Tech Transfer

8:00 a.m. (EDT) / 7:00 a.m. (CDT) Registration and continental breakfast
8:30-9:30 a.m. (EDT) / 7:30-8:30 a.m. (CDT) Presentation – Adjournment will be on time

University research in many cases is a state’s most powerful engines of innovation – the Indianapolis Business Journal recently reported that Indiana’s major universities more than doubled their research budgets over the last decade.

But how do we ‘graduate’ the scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs that happen on campus into the marketplace as new business opportunities? Is Indiana doing enough to leverage our academic research?

At the October 1st New Economy New Rules, meet officials responsible for technology transfer at IU, Purdue, Notre Dame and Georgia State. Their efforts are moving their respective states towards a more entrepreneurial, high-tech economy.

Speakers:
Richard Cox, Director, Office of Technology Transfer, University of Notre Dame
Marie C. Kerbeshian Ph.D., Vice President, Technology Commercialization, Indiana University
Research & Technology Corporation
Elizabeth A. Hart-Wells Ph.D., Assistant Vice-President and Director of OTC, Purdue Research
Foundation
Gwendolyn Spratt, Assistant Legal Advent, Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.

There is no charge to attend, but please register!!!!!

If you have any questions, contact Jodie Daugherty at jodie.daugherty@btlaw.com or 317-261-7922.

Where:

Barnes & Thornburg LLP offices in Indianapolis, Elkhart and South Bend, also in cooperating facilities in Anderson, Bloomington, Evansville, Hammond, Kokomo, Merrillville, Muncie, New Albany, Shelbyville, Switz City (Greene County), Terre Haute, Vincennes and West Lafayette and sometimes available at Barnes & Thornburg LLP offices in Atlanta (GA), Chicago, Columbus (OH), Grand Rapids, Minneapolis and Washington DC.

When:

The First Friday of Every Month

8:00 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast (EDT)
8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Presentation – Adjournment will be on time

Next Meeting: November 5, 2010, 8:00 am – 9:30 am (EDT)

Topic: To be announced
Speakers: To be announced