The Effective Marketer

It’s February already and you keep thinking “what the heck happened to January”? You’re note alone. A few good events have come and gone, like the Digital Marketing Forum, MarketingSherpa’s Email Marketing Summit, and the Email Evolution Conference and I completely missed them.

Sure, budget is short and you can’t attend every single event, but is good to know what’s coming up so that you can prepare yourself and pick the ones you should go. Also, the earlier you register usually the better deal you can get. So here you go, this is the list of marketing events and marketing conferences coming up (US only) for the first half of 2011. Check them out, pick a couple and start planning!

Upcoming marketing conferences

==February==

Online Marketing Summit
February 7-11
San Diego, CA
Link: http://www.onlinemarketingsummit.com/

Social Media Strategies Summit
February 8-10San Francisco, CA
Link: http://socialmediastrategiessummit.com/

Frost & Sullivan Marketing World
February 8-11
New Orleans, LA
Link: http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/summits-details.pag?eventid=200426011

Social Media Camp
February 9New York, NY
Link: http://socialmediacampny.com/

Social Media Masters
February 11San Diego, CA
Link: http://socialmediamasters.com/

Content Marketing Strategies Conference
February 16-17
Berkeley, CA
Link: http://contentmarketingstrategies-mashable.eventbrite.com/

Social Fresh Tampa
February 21-22
Tampa, FL
Link: http://socialfresh.com/tampa/

DMA Mobile Marketing Day
February 22
New York, NY
Link: http://www.the-dma.org/councilevents/mobileday/

==March==

Marketing Research Executive Forum
March 6-8
Atlanta, GA
Link: http://www.marketingpower.com/Calendar/Pages/default.aspx

Search Marketing Expo
March 8-10
San Jose, CA
Link: http://searchmarketingexpo.com/

Conversion Conference
March 14-15
San Francisco, CA
Link: http://conversionconference.com/west/home.html

Search Engine Strategies
March 21-15
New York, NY
Link: http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/newyork/

==April==

Forrester Marketing Forum
April 5-6
San Francisco, CA
Link: http://www.forrester.com/events/eventdetail/0,9179,2511,00.html

AdTech
April 11-13
San Francisco, CA
Link: http://www.ad-tech.com/sf/adtech_san_francisco.aspx

The Power of eMarketing Conference
April 19-20
San Francisco, CA
Link: http://www.emarketingassociation.com/2011/SF/index.html

Mobile Marketing Strategies Summit
April 26-28San Francisco, CA
Link: http://mobilemarketingstrategiessummit.com/

==May==

Marketing Innovation Summit
May 2-5
Boston, MA
Link: http://www.mis2011.com/Boston/Home

Sirius Decisions Summit
May 4-6
Scottsdale, AZ
Link: http://www.siriusdecisions.com/live/home/document.php?dA=ConfAnnSummit2011

Event Marketing Summit
May 16-18
Chicago, IL
Link: http://emsummit.eventmarketer.com/

==June==

International BMA Conference
June 1-3
Chicago, IL
Link: http://www.marketing.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=5288

MarketingProfs B2B Forum
June 13-15
Boston, MA
Link: TBD

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And the following are some of the marketing conferences I’ll keep watch and decide as we get closer.

MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit Boston
09/26-27
Boston, MA

MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit SF
10/24-25
San Francisco, CA

Dreamforce 2011
August 30-Sept 2
San Francisco, CA

BlogWorld Expo
October 14-16
Las Vegas, NV

Conferences abound, but they are a great way to learn new things, network, and more importantly get out of the office and focus for a couple days.

P.S.: I’ll be presenting at the upcoming The Power of eMarketing Conference, so if you plan on going to that one let me know so we can meetup.

Did I forget a conference? Let me know and I’ll update the list.