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Newport Interactive Marketing

Trade Tips & Network at Newport Interactive Marketer’s Open Mic Night!

Network, Learning, Sharing & More at #NIMRI’s Open Mic Tip Night!

After the incredible success of NIM’s Open Mic Tip Nights in the past, we are very excited to once again host an insightful evening of networking, learning & sharing. We’ll be covering topics such as the latest in SEO, social media, project management & more. Join us & experience the collective wisdom the #NIMRI community has to offer, share your own bit of expertise & network with other RI professionals!

What’s involved?

Just 1 quick 2-minute tip that would help other businesses/nonprofits, whether it’s SEO, design, Facebook, time-savings. No powerpoint or anything fancy. Just an opportunity to showcase your brand and your know-how.

This event is not to be missed!

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Sales Consultant Adam Lamagna gives out best practices for keeping your website secure in an easy to understand manner.

Overcome Your Website Securities Worries

Make no mistake, if you own a website, however small or low-trafficked it is, you are a crucial piece to the overall internet ecosystem. How would it make you feel if your friend’s bank account was wiped out after they visited your site? Or if a self-replicating virus destroyed your visitor’s hard-drive after submitting a form to your marketing site? Again, that’s how critical you are to this environment and that’s how dangerous things could get if you’re not educated.

This talk will break down website security at its most fundamental level. However, it’s important to understand that there is no 100% solution out there, there never will be. Security is about technology, processes, and people, and we need to know how to mitigate risk in these areas.

Meet Adam Lamagna, Sales Consultant at Sucuri – top global website security firm.

Sales Consultant Adam Lamagna gives out best practices for keeping your website secure in an easy to understand manner.
Adam will discuss best practices for website security, let you know of your responsibility as a website owner, and hopefully make it less frustrating. We all know it can be difficult to understand the vast landscape that is website security, so this talk will cover:

  • Dispelling the myth of “why would anyone hack me?”
  • Understanding what a Firewall actually protects
  • Hosting and how it plays a role in website security
  • Different types of online threats (what is malware, DDoS, Brute Force?)
  • Essentials of website security (Passwords, updates, user roles, backups, etc.)
  • DIY tools to help mitigate risk and improve your online security posture
  • Resources for staying informed and being responsible

If you own or manage a website, whether it’s an e-commerce store, a blog, or just a simple marketing site, you need to know how to keep it protected and become a responsible steward of the world wide web!

Missed this great talk? Learn more about video & visuals and more via the NIM media library!

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danshure

Transcending SEO in 2016 and Beyond (in Plain English)

SEO moves fast. The 2014-era “rules” for showing up on Google likely are doing more harm than good. Whether you are a writer, business owner, social media marketer, or marketing VP — knowing the current rules is critical to your success and to ensuring whoever’s helping you know the current methodologies. Whether your search marketing budget is large or small, come to learn the newest ranking factors, plus tactics and strategies to improve your SEO results in 2016 and beyond!

This session will also cover the best free and affordable tools you can use right away to improve your search engine optimization. If you’re launching new sites, optimizing an existing site, or looking for advanced tips, don’t miss this free talk!

Get your answers, including:

  • How links still matter (but which ones does Google hate & love?)
  • The right way to use content for SEO
  • What are “user metrics” & why do they matter?
  • Why it’s still important to track rankings (but only if you do it the right way)

Newport Interactive Marketers welcomes Dan Shure to speak AGAIN

danshure
Former full-time musician and teacher, Dan Shure’s SEO career began in 2007, helping a few businesses with their websites and presence online. Upon discovering this new passion and career, he started Evolving SEO — now a 3-person boutique SEO agency. Clients include well-known consumer brands, technology companies, B2B companies and, yes, affiliate-based websites.

Missed this great talk? Learn more about video & visuals and more via the NIM media library!

Become a NIM $upporting member, if you aren’t already, for access to the vast video library of past presentations and watch from your device at your convenience.

Newport Interactive Marketing

Trade Tips at Newport Interactive Marketer’s Second Open Mic Night!

After the incredible success of NIM’s first-ever Open Mic Tips Night, we are very excited to once again host an insightful evening of networking, learning & sharing. We’ll be covering topics such as the latest in SEO, social media, project management & more. Come join us and experience the collective wisdom the NIM community has to offer & share your own bit of expertise!

What’s involved?

Just 1 quick 2-minute tips that would help other businesses/nonprofits, whether it’s SEO, design, Facebook, time-savings. No powerpoint or anything fancy. Just an opportunity to showcase your brand and your know-how.

This event is not to be missed!

Missed this great talk? Learn more about video & visuals and more via the NIM media library!

Become a NIM $upporting member, if you aren’t already, for access to the vast video library of past presentations and watch from your device at your convenience.

ScottIndermaur

DIY Video: Tips From the Experts

Video is becoming increasingly important, especially with Facebook favoring it heavily. Some even speculate that Facebook is trying to take down YouTube.

But it’s is expensive, right?  How can you do-it-yourself? And be successful?

Each panelist at this NIM event not only has decades of experience but has also kept up with technology and is willing to offer tips and pro secrets… because that’s how we roll here at NIM.

The four speakers will cover a wide variety of topics including:

  • How to tell a heartfelt, connected story
  • Corporate and personal strategies
  • How to DIY using smartphones
  • A photojournalistic approach
  • How to keep things short and sweet

By 2017, video will account for 69% of all consumer Internet traffic, according to Cisco. So get ahead with social’s new trending strategy!

Meet Our  Pro Panelists

Hal Landen has been working as a freelance cameraman and producer since 1977. Since that time, he has produced award-winning work as well as wrote his first book, Marketing With Digital Video: How to Create a Winning Video for Your Small Business or Non-Profit.

Jim Egan, for 30 years, was a commercial photographer in Providence’s Jewelry District. Additionally, Jim shoots photos and video web content for corporations, ad agencies, and design studios throughout Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts.

Marc Creedon is the owner and creative director at Marc Creedon Multimedia. Marc is a photographer, videographer as well as contributes to a variety of other projects.

Scott Indermaur has been sharing stories for two decades through the visual language of photography. He travels nationally and internationally to create multimedia stories, annual reports, advertisements and editorial and corporate photography.

“You can talk all day about SEM and SEO, what you need is great VIDEO.” – Marc Creedon

Missed this great talk? Learn more about video & visuals and more via the NIM media library!

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Newport Interactive Marketing

Flash Talks: Tips & News You Can Actually Use

Newport Interactive Marketing hosted it’s inaugural Flash Talks event at the International Yacht Restoration School on Tuesday, August 19 from 6-9 p.m. Presenters shared 5-10 minutes tips and news to help improve businesses/and or the community.

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JayMurphy

What’s New with Google Analytics

Third-time presenter and BU’s Google Analytics Instructor Jay Murphy shared his tips on how to use  Google’s recently overhauled Google Analytics. Newport Interactive Marketers learned about why businesses should be using Google Analytics and how to use the site’s new features.

Meet Jay Murphy

JayMurphy
Jay Murphy works with large and mid-sized organizations to successfully convert business imperatives to effective marketing results by delivering analytics, website development, social media strategy, search engine marketing, search engine optimization and display advertising all optimized with measurable results. He has worked with organizations including GE, Harvard University and Janus Mutual Funds.

Jay previously worked at Sapient Corporation as a director of program management and led projects in a variety of industries including higher education, financial services and energy. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University and a M.S. in Electric Engineering from Tufts University. He was awarded a Draper Fellowship to attend Tufts University and took doctoral level coursework at MIT in Aerospace Engineering.

As a project leader on any web-based initiative, Jay brings an understanding of every technical nuance with an understanding of web-based marketing you just don’t find every day.

When he is not tweaking a website – Jay can be found cheering on his sons at baseball games or racing his sailboat.

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Katherine-Flynn

Grow Your Brand With URI’s Business Engagement Center

Katharine Hazard Flynn, leader of URI’s Business Engagement Center, explained the valuable resources available for businesses at URI to grow their brand. With Katharine’s tips the audience learned how to:

  • Access URI equipment
  • Host events utilizing campus facilities
  • Maximize Intellectual property and licensing opportunities
  • Find student interns, grad students, and graduated job-seekers
  • Collaborate on research and projects that benefit your business
  • Customize training and skill development for your employees

Meet Katharine Hazard Flynn

Katherine-Flynn

Leading the new Business Engagement Center, Katharine Hazard Flynn serves as the University of Rhode Island’s connector to the private/nonprofit sectors. They work to help brands leverage URI’s resources for the betterment of the state. Flynn also will share her insights into statewide business resources, having served at the Economic Development Corporation. A Brown alum, she also has significant finance experience in senior positions. These include positions at Prudential Bache, Alex Brown & Sons, Toronto Dominion Securities, and Societe General.

Missed this great talk? Learn more about video & visuals and more via the NIM media library!

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Perry Fagan

Capture the Creative Power of Strategy

Newport Interactive Marketers took a broader approach to its usually new media focus to welcome Harvard Business School’s approach to developing a strategy for your brand. New Strategy Group Founder, Perry Fagan, gave his top tips on how to develop an effective company strategy including how to:

  • Articulate and clarify your own organization’s strategy
  • Identify your unique selling proposition (USP) for target customers
  • Get what strategy is — and what it is not — and how good strategy is created

Meet Perry Lawrence Fagan

Perry Fagan
NEW STRATEGY GROUP Founder P. Lawrence Fagan earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. There he spent 11 years researching corporate and organization strategy, six years as a member of the HBS research faculty.

While at HBS, Mr. Fagan contributed to the development of a general theory of organizations. Also, he authored numerous business case studies, several of them bestsellers. Subsequently, he worked for nine years as a strategy leader causing breakthroughs for clients in diverse industries and geographies. These include Monitor Company, HBS Executive Education, the Corporate Learning division of Harvard Business Publishing, and independently.

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danshure

Boost Your SEO: How to Create & Organize Content

Dan Shure, the owner of EvolvingSEO, gave insightful tips on how to brainstorm, create, and organize web content at Salvation Cafe. Dan offered his top tactics for gaining search engine visibility for his clients, including:

  • Keyword research
  • SEO tools
  • Content creation
  • Content marketing
  • Analytics

Meet Dan Shure

danshure
Dan Shure owns Evolving SEO, a boutique web marketing company in Worcester, MA. Dan is also an Associate at Moz (formally SEOmoz), the foremost SEO educator for businesses.

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