Portland Community College, CLIMB Center

Do you need to be more effective at doing sales?

Whether your revenue is shy of goals or doing sales creates unease for you, for many entrepreneurs, "sales" is a 4 letter word.

In my upcoming class, "Ninja Sales Techniques", I help entrepreneurs become more effective at doing sales by demystifying it, breaking it down into manageable steps, and offering techniques and tips on how non-salespeople can be successful at doing sales. At the end of the course, you'll leave with a much better understanding of sales, be able to create an effective sales plan, and increase your confidence in doing sales.

This 4-week class begins on 2/3, meets at the PCC Climb Center (by OMSI) for 2 hours each week and is part of the SBDC's Entrepreneur's Skill Series. For more information and to register please visit:

• http://www.bizcenter.org/small-business-development-centers/portland

• Click onto the "EVENTS" tab

• Look for "Ninja Sales Techniques" under the "Business Basics" section.

If you have little or no experience in doing sales but are responsible for bringing in the revenue, then this class is for you!

PDX Entrepreneurs is about one simple idea: bringing together successful entrepreneurs in the Portland area. We are going to have five speakers and free beer. Here’s all you need to know about this event.

Register here: http://www.theoutsourcingcompany.com/pdx-entrepreneurs

Rick Turoczy: “The Tech Startup Scene in Portland”

Rick is one of the founders of PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) and the founder of Silicon Florist, the most popular blog about startups in Portland. Rick has been involved in dozens of startups and will share his story with us. He’ll talk about some of the most successful startups he’s been involved in and why they were successful, but he’ll also talk about some of the most critical mistakes startups make and how to avoid them.

Kevin Long: “How I Started Innovation in Motion”

Kevin moved to Portland in 2011 and started a movement called “Innovation in Motion”. This allowed him to land his dream job at CrowdCompass (which just got acquired by Cvent) and develop a very strong network in record time. Kevin will share his advice on developing your personal brand and helping others as a way to generate business and contacts.

Ronnie Duke: “What I Learned in My First Five Six in Business”

Ronnie Duke is the founder of ModMedia, a successful design and web development agency in Portland. Ronnie will talk about the lessons he has learned running a service business for six years. If you’re in the business services industry, you can’t miss Ronnie’s presentation.

Zeke Camusio: “10 Critical Mistakes I Made Building My Company to Its First Million Dollars”

Zeke is the founder of The Outsourcing Company, a digital marketing agency located in downtown Portland. Zeke is the author of The Internet Marketing Bible and he’s a columnist for Entrepreneur.com, Branding Magazine and Search Engine Journal. Zeke will be speaking openly about some of the biggest mistakes he has made as an entrepreneur and the lessons he has learned from them.

Register here: http://www.theoutsourcingcompany.com/pdx-entrepreneurs

Event Information

It’s a free event. We’ll be serving free beer, non-alcoholic beverages and snacks.

The event will take place on Friday, September 28th, between 6pm and 9pm.

We’ll have a whole hour for networking, so don’t forget your business cards.

The address is 1626 SE Water Ave. It’s Portland Community College’s CLIMB Center. Look for us in the auditorium.

Important: the auditorium can only accomodate 100 people and this event will fill up very fast, so if you’re interested, register now to secure your spot. If you sign up and later you find out you can’t make it, please let us know so we can give the spot to someone else. We’ll be recording the session, so if you don’t make the cut, we’ll email you the videos.

Register here: http://www.theoutsourcingcompany.com/pdx-entrepreneurs

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This year's SQLSaturday Oregon is hosted by Oregon SQL, and will be held Oct 8, 2011 at Portland, OR, USA. Admittance to this event is free, all costs are covered by donations and sponsorships. Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleages know about the event. Visit Oregon SQL at http://osql-d.org

Do you want to learn how to rank your website #1 on Google? In the last 10 years I've taken 200+ websites to the top of Google and at this seminar I'll be sharing everything I know about SEO.

This will also be a great opportunity for networking, so bring plenty of business cards!

Seats Fill Up FAST. Don't Miss Out!

Register NOW!

http://www.theoutsourcingcompany.com/blog/internet-marketing-events/free-seo-seminar-in-portland-or/

What You'll Learn

• Keyword Research How to find the keywords your potential customers are ACTUALLY searching for.  How to find out what keywords your competitors are using. What are the best keyword research TOOLS in the market. What are the FACTORS you need to analyze to choose the right keywords. My FAVORITE keyword research tactic (it's very sneaky and it works wonders!)
• Competitive Analysis How to analyze the most important SEO metrics to understand WHY your competitors are ranking above you and WHAT you need to do to rank above them.  How to perform a backlinking analysis of your site and your competition. How to analyze your website to understand EXACTLY what areas of SEO you need to work on to be #1.
• On-Page Optimization How to optimize your page titles, meta descriptions, H tags, copy, URLs and ALT tags.  How to avoid duplicate content and canonical URL issues.How to build a strong internal link structure. How to see your website THE SAME WAY Google sees it so you can fix the content Google can't spider. Website architecture best practices: How to turn your website into one that Google loves.
• Blog Optimization What blogging platforms you should use and which ones you should AVOID.  The best WordPress plugins for SEO.
• Content Creation Why it's important to create fresh, quality content and WHAT GOOGLE CONSIDERS fresh, quality content.  How to create content that is great for your readers AND great for Google (this is one of the biggest challenges most SEOs have).
• Link Building Why links are so important.  The 10 immutable laws of link building (EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!) The 37 most effective LINK BUILDING TACTICS I've ever used and why they work so well.
• Analytics How to MEASURE the success of your campaigns.  All the TOOLS I use to track rankings, traffic and conversions. The 8 metrics you need to measure if you want to understand what makes you money and what doesn't.
• Q&A and Networking I'll be answering all your questions and ANALYZING YOUR WEBSITES to tell you what you need to work on to get to the top of Google (Due to time constraints, I can only analyze 2-3 websites, so if you're interested, please email me at [email protected] a few days before the event.)  We'll also have some time for networking and building VALUABLE CONNECTIONS.

When Is It? Thursday April 28 at 6:30pm

Where Is It? Portland Community College (PCC) 1626 SE Water Ave. (A block away from OMSI) - Look for Us in the Auditorium Portland, OR 97214

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There's parking available right next to the building. If you have questions, please feel free to email me at [email protected]

How Much Does It Cost?

It's completely FREE. There's no catch and I won't try to sell you anything. In fact, I have nothing to sell! I'm already way too busy! I started a non-profit to help business owners with their Internet marketing. I love sharing what I know and I feel good when I do it. That's it. There's no catch.

We'll also provide snacks and beverages.

Register NOW!

http://www.theoutsourcingcompany.com/blog/internet-marketing-events/free-seo-seminar-in-portland-or/