A friend and business acquaintance of mine, Mr. Brett Tabke, will be holding his webmaster conference next week in Las Vegas. The official title is, WebmasterWorld’s Search and Internet Marketing Conference, however, it is know by most attendees as PubCon. (This refers back to the earlier days of the conference when it actually took place in a pub.) The dates of this great event are November 11-14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
PubCon is a conference that centers on what it takes to succeed as a webmaster. That drives the focus towards search engine optimization (pretty much every search engine and all the major search experts show up), search marketing, social media marketing, affiliate marketing, and how to gain traffic at a website and then monetize it.
The list of speakers is truly impressive. Brett has invited experts from web hosting to take part in the past several shows, and the audiences have been very accepting of our message. This year a web hosting panel will be part of PubCon and feature, Ben Fisher, Vice President with TechPad Agency, Amy Armitage, Director of Business Development with Lunarpages Web Hosting, and Curtis R. Curtis, Senior Vice President with Superb Internet.
Lunarpages and TechPad Agency will both have booths at the show. There are other hosting and hosting related companies that will participate as well, including: SmarterTools, an information technology (IT) management software company that builds applications to simplify and automate the day-to-day operations of hosting businesses. iNetU, a managed dedicated server company will have a display booth at PubCon, as will domain registrar and hosting provider, Register.com. Additionally, Affinity.com will participate in the show, featuring its customized monetization solutions for different types of publishers including search portals, toolbars, online directories, domain parking, blogs, URL errors, desktop applications and content websites. The Affinity.com brand is owned by hosting giant, Hostway.com.
The founder of PubCon, Brett Tabke, commented on this year’s keynote and charity events as well, ”I am really looking forward to this year’s kickoff keynote by Shawn Rorick. He is doing things with Cirque du Solieil marketing, that most of us haven’t even heard about yet. Remember when all the stories about the in video game advertising that presidential candidates were doing hit awhile ago? They talked about how progressive and leading edge it was? Rorick was doing that stuff two years ago already at Cirque. So the question we have to ask, ”is what is he doing THIS year” that we won’t know about until two years from now? We also have a charity casino this year in the middle of the networking lounge in the expo hall. After that, there is a party or cocktail reception every night of the conference. My advice would be to start working and get in shape now!”
Daniel Foster, a founder with website hosting company 34sp.com, commented on the importance of attending industry conferences such as PubCon, ”In the hosting industry – being that it is truly competitive, one needs to keep apprised of all the information and expertise available to succeed. PubCon offers a great opportunity to learn from search experts and the search engines themselves. The networking events at these types of conference also offer the opportunity to have a deeper discussion in an informal atmosphere.”
To learn more about PubCon or to sign up visit: www.PubCon.com. Be sure to look for PubCon London in July of 2009 as well. If you are involved in web hosting, websites or webmastery in Europe – it will be a must-attend event in 2009.
This content was written by Derek Vaughan exclusively for Host Discussion Blog.
