Speaking Schedule

Upcoming speaking engagements:

April 20, 2015
PubCon Austin, Austin, Texas
10:10am-11:15am: “Local Search and Mobile Search Optimization”


Previous speaking engagements (at least some of them):

January 7, 2015
AUSOME, Austin, Texas
“What to do about Online Reviews”

March 18-20, 2014

January 28, 2014

November 18, 2013

  • DFWSEM Conference

October 21-24, 2013

October 18, 2013

  • Innotech eMarketing Summit

April 22-25, 2013

February 21, 2013

October 16-18, 2012

November 8-10, 2011

October 20, 2011

March 8-9, 2011

February 22, 2011

October 6 – 9, 2014
PubCon Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
October 7, 3:55pm-5:00pm: “Interactive Site Reviews: Focus on Local Search”
October 8, 3:55pm-5:00pm: “Twittersphere Customer Service Strategies” (moderating)
October 9, 12:40pm-1:35pm: “Local Search : Reviews and Rankings”

October 28, 2010
Innotech eMark@ting Summit, The Future of Search

November 8 – 11, 2010
PubCon Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
November 9, 10:00am-11:15am: Interactive Site Reviews: Open Call
November 9, 1:30pm-2:45pm: How Do You Optimize for Universal and Personal Search?
November 11, 3:15pm-4:20pm: Local Search and Advertising

November 17, 2010
Houston IMA Workshop, Supercharging Your Business Through Local Search

February 2, 2010
Workshop, Dave & Busters, Austin, Texas, “Supercharging Your Business through Local Search”

March 9, 2010
ACC eMarketing Principles, “Raising Awareness through Search Marketing: SEO vs. PPC”

April 13-15, 2010
PubCon South, Dallas, Texas, Topics to be determined

November 10, 2009
PubCon, Las Vegas, Nevada, “Interactive Site Reviews: Focus on Organic”
PubCon, Las Vegas, Nevada, “How Do You Optimize For Universal and Personal Search?”

September 9, 2009
Interactive Strategies, Houston, Texas, “SEO vs. PPC: Their Strengths and Weaknesses, and Why You Should do Both”

March 11, 2009
PubCon South, Austin, Texas, “Universal and Personal Search – This Changes Everything”

January 29, 2009
ACC eMarketing Conference, Austin, Texas, “SEO versus PPC: Their strengths and weaknesses, and why you probably should do both”

November 11, 2008
PubCon, Las Vegas, Nevada, “Universal and Personal Search – This Changes Everything”

November 12, 2008
PubCon, Las Vegas, Nevada, “Interactive Site Reviews: Focus on Brand and Social Reputation MGT”
PubCon, Las Vegas, Nevada, “Brand Management”

November 6, 2008
Innotech Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, “Video, Local and Other Vertical Searches: They’re here, they’re hot, and they work”

October 22, 2008
Interactive Strategies 08, Houston, Texas, “Vertical Search – And How It’s Going to Rock Your World”

October 8, 2008
Puget Sound AMA, Seattle, Washington, “Organic vs. Paid Search: Their strengths, weaknesses and why you should use both”

September 17, 2008
Silicon Valley AMA, San Jose, California, “Event Driven Paid Search”

September 10, 2008
Austin Ad Fed, Austin, Texas, “Getting Out of the Ghetto: Why so many agencies struggle with search marketing”

August 20, 2008
Triangle IMA, Raleigh, North Carolina, “Close the Loop with Offline Tracking”

May 20, 2008
San Diego DMA, San Diego, California, “Event Driven Paid Search”

February 27, 2008
SMX West, Santa Clara, California, “Unraveling URLs & Demystifying Domains”

February 26, 2008
SMX West, Santa Clara, California, “Is It Time For Search Marketing Standards?”
SMX West, Santa Clara, California, “Defending Your Paid Search Budget Against New Ad Fads”

November 10, 2007
PostieCon, Las Vegas, Nevada, “What Advertisers Want”

October 10, 2007
Austin Open 4 Business, Austin, Texas, “The Four Legs of the SEO Table”

August 17, 2009
Central Texas Ad League’s 6th Annual Summer Seminar, Killeen, Texas, “Avoid Search Engine Marketing Malpractice”

Michael Stearns MD