According to Safa Rashtchy, Senior Analyst and Managing Director of Piper Jaffray, global search revenues are expected to grow from $1.3 billion in 2002 to $10.8 billion in 2008. This estimate excludes local search. However, Geoff Ramsey, the CEO of eMarketer, has reported that local search represents 25.1% of commercial searches, making it a major growth opportunity.

The first panel discussion that Stacy Williams will moderate will include Jeff Coyle, Search Marketing Analyst for KnowledgeStorm, and Ernie White, Assistant Vice President, Business Development, for KnowX, LLC. The second panel that she will moderate will include Dan Boberg, Director of Strategic Alliances for Overture, Caroline Ernst, VP Client Services for 360i, John Waddy, President of TwentySix2 Marketing, and a representative of MSN. Attendees of the event, which is part of the AiMA Education Series, will hear these experts explain how to capitalize on all the options available and keep up-to-date on the constant changes in this industry.

Stacy Williams, a search engine marketing specialist, is founder and President of Prominent Placement, Inc. With an extensive background in Internet marketing, she offers her clients cutting edge solutions that are always rooted in sound marketing strategy.

Stacy Williams has a combined 16 years of experience and education in marketing. Prior to founding Prominent Placement in January 2001, she spent nine years at the progressive advertising agency Kilgannon McReynolds, Inc. Most recently Director of Marketing for the agency, she served as the company’s internal Internet marketing consultant. She has overseen web site development projects and traffic generation campaigns since 1995, and has been doing search engine marketing since 1998.

Before joining Kilgannon McReynolds, Stacy Williams served in account management at several other small ad agencies in Atlanta and Los Angeles. She received her M.A. in Communications Management from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School in 1990, and her B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing from the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School in 1988.

A member of the Technology Alliance of Georgia and the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association, Stacy Williams is a frequent lecturer on search engine marketing. She has written articles for Digitrends, SEO Today, Competitive Edge and iMarketing News. She also presented at the recent Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose, California, as well as to the High Tech Marketing Alliance in San Diego, California.

Founded in 2001, Prominent Placement, Inc.™ offers a variety of search engine marketing services aimed at helping clients increase Web site traffic and achieve greater sales. The search engine marketing firm has a number of clients in Atlanta, Georgia, including: SunTrust Banks, TBS, Cartoon Network, CompuTaught, Banker’s Exchange, ProfiTel Group, Flamenco Networks, James Hardie Industries, Southern LINC, Ross Systems, ReCellular, Wilpak, East West Manufacturing, Prevent Child Abuse Georgia and Atlanta Children’s Shelter.

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Prominent Placement
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