What: The first New Media Seminar for the Hampton Roads area is coming to Virginia Beach to teach business owners and communications professionals the art of online marketing through new media and social media, the fastest growing communities on the internet. Seminar attendees will learn how to use new media tools like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to advance online marketing efforts.
Who: The Virginia Beach seminar will be headlined by nationally recognized new media and social media expert Dave Saunders, President and Chief Idea Officer of Richmond, Virginia-based Madison+Main, Advertising & New Media. Saunders has recently been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and appeared on the Virginia News Network to discuss the impact of social media. Saunders has over 13,000 followers on the popular microblog Twitter, more than any other person in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Saunders appears on WTVR-6 CBS Richmond regularly to talk about Facebook and Twitter.
When: June 16, 2009, 10am-2pm (Pre-Seminar Interview date May 27, 2009)
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Why: Over 200 million Americans are online and more than 200 million people have Facebook accounts worldwide. On average, Fortune 2500 companies spent 28% of their total marketing budgets on new media in 2008, whereas the average small business spent only 6%. The global online audience is expected to double in the next three years reaching more than 2.8 billion people.
How: To learn more about the New Media Seminars or to register, visit www.NewMediaSeminars.com
Pre-Seminar Interview Opportunity:
About Dave Saunders
Dave Saunders is President & Chief Idea Officer of Madison+Main, Advertising & New Media, an award-winning, advertising and new media firm that provides creative marketing solutions for emerging companies, usually small and mid-sized organizations with 15 to 1,500 employees. Based in Richmond, Virginia, Dave is a nationally-recognized expert in new media marketing and speaks frequently to businesses and civic organizations about the potential power of the World Wide Web. Dave is often quoted as a new media and social media marketing expert in print, radio and television news outlets.
Dave is a former Advertising Manager with Richmond Times-Dispatch (Media General), coming back to Virginia after 11 years working in Los Angeles. He is the founder of Great American Concepts, an L.A. advertising design firm, former Director of the Los Angeles office of Hal Riney & Associates and served as Marketing Programs Director for the Tribune Media, parent company of the Los Angeles Times and its internet properties: CareerBuilder, Cars.com and LAtimes.com.
In the media: Dave is frequently quoted as a new media expert in print publications (such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Village Voice, The Guardian, Wired Magazine, Richmond-Times Dispatch, Style Weekly, Virginia Business, Richmond Magazine and Work Magazine). He has also been interviewed on more than a dozen radio and television programs to talk about new media marketing. He has spoken widely on marketing topics, including more than a dozen times at the American Press Institute, where he was a Discussion Leader in 2003 and 2004. He has spoken to other national associations including Society for Human Resource Management Convention, National School Public Relations Association and the International Newspaper Marketing Association. He has also spoken on the subject of branding, marketing, and new media at various civic clubs, non-profit organizations, Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Mass Communications, University of Richmond and Pepperdine University (Graziadio School of Business and Management).
Awards and honors: 2009 Nominee U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Business Person of the Year, 2008 Ad Person of the Year – The Richmond Ad Club, 2008 Finalist for the 21st Annual IMPACT Award – GRCC, 2008 Finalist for Advertising Category – Twitter – Knight Foundation, 2008 – Greater Richmond Companies to Watch, 2008 The Richmond Ad Show Winner (Cannonball for Direct Mail), 2007 The Richmond Ad Show Winner (Cannonball for Promotional Design Category), Rotary International Public Relations Award 2007, 2007 NSPRA Award of Merit and Honorable Mention - TED Campaign, Orson Welles Award from NAB for Radio Production, 1994 Golden MIC - California AB.
Madison+Main
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Madison+Main is an award-winning, advertising and new media firm that provides creative marketing solutions for emerging companies, usually small and mid-sized organizations with 15 to 1,500 employees. Clients include A Moment in Time, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Children Incorporated, The Coleman Institute, Getloaded.com, The Greater Richmond Chamber, Richmond.com, Shore Bank, Uppy’s, Wythe Will Distributing, IssueTrak, and many others. The firm is based in Richmond, Virginia, with an additional office in San Diego, California. For more information, please visit www.madisonmain.com or www.madisonmain.mobi from your mobile device.
