SMX Toronto – Sponsors and Partners

Sponsors:

DAC Group – Technology Lab and SMX After Dark Party Sponsor

Founded in 1972, DAC Group is Canada’s largest, and one of North America’s leading, digital and directory agencies with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Rochester, Louisville, New York and Cleveland. DAC Group combines consumer insight, proprietary technology and media expertise to create innovative marketing and lead generation solutions. A leader in developing ROI based strategies, DAC Group drives business and revenue via local, regional and national programs integrating a broad range of online and offline channels including search engines (SEM/SEO), directories, social and mobile media. The agency is owned by its management.


Search Engine People – SMX After Dark Party Sponsor

Search Engine PeopleSearch Engine People Inc. (SEP) is one of Canada’s largest and most experienced search and social media marketing firms. From humble beginnings in 2001, SEP today boasts over 50+ employees and has been acknowledged as one of the hundred Fastest Growing Companies in Canada by Profit magazine in both 2009 and 2010. SEP CEO Jeff Quipp attributes the growth to its commitment to client satisfaction, and to practicing what it preaches. SEP specializes in SEO, paid search, social media marketing, conversion optimization, analytics and call tracking, and local and mobile optimization. Its client base reads as the who’s who of Canadian internet, although SEP does work with small and medium sized businesses also.


Outrider Canada – Wifi Sponsor

Outrider, a leading global search marketing consultancy, helps clients experience relevance with their marketing through strategic planning and management of search campaigns that deliver insight, immediacy and impact. Understanding the dynamic effect search and consumer driven media can have on a business, we enable clients to engage in dialogue with consumers, offering them meaningful content and delivering relevant experiences that build valuable relationships.

Outrider is a WPP group company and the designated search marketing agency of GroupM, WPP’s media buying and planning arm. We are at the forefront of providing search as a piece of a medium agnostic solutions process whereby client objectives and goals drive the media solutions. We work with the world’s most innovative companies, support the fastest-growing brands and manage the most successful marketing campaigns for premiere clients including Sears, AstraZeneca and Xerox, as well as others from the entertainment, travel, retail and pharmaceutical industries.

Outrider is pleased to be the Official Wifi Sponsor for SMX Toronto.


9th sphere – SEO Must-Know Fundamentals Track Sponsor

9th sphere9th sphere is a full-service website solutions provider focused on delivering a strong ROI for our clients. Since 1997, we’ve been putting our award-winning expertise to work, earning recognition for effectiveness in design, development and marketing results-driven websites. 9th sphere is proud to offer top industry experts, state-of-the-art technology and exceptional customer care that result in a solid service value that our clients’ prosper from.

We produce smart and powerful website solutions that get real results for a wide variety of businesses. We continue to invest in our all in-house people, technologies and systems, allowing us to create quality projects under tight timelines while providing reliable customer service.

Association Partner:

SEMPO Canada

SEMPO Canada is a SEMPO Working Group which focuses on improving the growth, awareness and understanding of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) in Canada. Because you operate your business in Canada, by joining SEMPO.org you automatically become a member of SEMPO Canada. As a member, you will be involved with and benefit from advocating Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Link Building, Pay Per Click Management and the creation of best practices in this new field of marketing. We are also dedicated to communicating how SEM uniquely pertains and is of relevance to Canadians worldwide across any sector, vertical or industry.

Why join SEMPO Canada?

  • To further SEMPO’s mission of promoting the value and drive the usage of Search Engine Marketing in Canada
  • To encourage inclusion of SEM in the marketing mix of online businesses and traditional companies
  • To unite with hundreds of SEMPO members worldwide to address key issues
  • To fund primary and secondary research about SEM
  • To gain access to resources and sales materials
  • For discounted tools, conference passes, and members-only services

Society of Internet Professionals

Society of Internet ProfessionalsThe Society of Internet Professionals (SIP) is a not-for-profit, membership based organization representing the interest of Internet professionals. Our mission is to uphold professional standards of internet professionals. Since 1977, SIP has spearheaded many initiatives and programs, such as workshops, networking events, Internet job board, newsletters, members’ directory and a resource-intensive website.

Media Partners:

Strategy

Strategystrategy filters through all the marketing action to present the most useful, brilliant – and versatile – ideas, insight and intel. strategy uncovers and shares the insights that help marketers achieve brand goals, deal with the common issues and challenges faced by their industry, and to successfully navigate their careers. We supply ideas, help forge connections and inspire marketers in an engaging way – from identifying the innovative strategies behind successful campaigns to deconstructing organizational innovation. Over 13,500 top-tier marketers, advertising and media agency personnel and related marketing services receive their individually-addressed copy of strategy every month.


Direct Marketing News Canada

Direct Marketing is Canada’s Leading Publication About Interactive Marketing and Sales. According to research, our readers include a core audience of marketers who spend more than $18 billion a year to create, send and fulfill marketing campaigns that generate of more than $143 billion in sales and orders through traditional, online, digital and broadcast media channels. These 7,200+ executives read Direct Marketing to be better informed of how they can improve their multi-channel marketing success rates. We deliver a unique, highly-involved audience with specialized buying power. Regardless of our reader’s size, resources or strategies, each and every organization we reach is powered by orders, driven by data, and striving for loyal customers. Learn more about how you can target these online markers at www.dmn.ca.


techvibes

techvibesTechvibes.com is a hyper local technology blog, events calendar, job board, and company directory. With more than 200,000 visitors and over 375,000 page views every month, Techvibes attracts a broad audience with the power of hyper-local focus. Spanning across ten major cities in Canada, Techvibes engages its vast community of readers through breaking news, local events and jobs, and proactive social media integration.

Our growing site is an invaluable tool for venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and trendsetters in the tech industry. Also popular with bloggers, journalists, authors, and social networkers, Techvibes is a truly influential resource.


topseos.com

The independent authority on search vendors, topseos.com, evaluates and ranks the top internet marketing companies. Categories ranked by topseos include: search engine optimization, pay per click management, affiliate marketing, social media optimization, and many more.


Visibility Magazine

Visibility MagazineVisibility, the print magazine, heralds a beginning in the world of Internet marketing. This is the first time an established digital presence, topseos.com, is venturing into the traditional print media domain. With Visibility, the print world is all set to benefit from the success formula of the Internet, and vice versa. The print medium holds great promise for Internet marketing vendors who are constantly looking for more channels to promote their services. Additionally, Visibility will reach to many fringe businesses that may have been contemplating entering or expanding their Internet marketing campaigns. Visibility is published quarterly and covers a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, organic optimization, pay-per-click marketing, website analytics, affiliate marketing, and press release distribution. Our association with topseos.com has meant that the hard work of proving our credibility is more than half done. Thanks to this backing, we are considered a force to reckon with, and a reliable source of information on all aspects of Internet marketing.


Backbone Magazine

Backbone Magazine is a broad-based business magazine that focuses on technology for business executives who need to stay up to date. It provides a tangible tool to enhance productivity and agility in the changing economy of Canada. It is the only magazine in Canada with this focus that reaches a large senior business executive audience.

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SMX Toronto is co-located with eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit and Predictive Analytics World
April 23-26, 2012
Predictive Analytics World

Dates & Times

Conference Sessions:
April 25 & 26

Post-Conference Workshop:
April 27

Social Networking Pass
Can't get away for the full conference? Get a single day
Social Networking Pass:

  • Attend a morning Keynote
  • Enjoy a continental breakfast
  • Network with peers
  • Meet up with vendors in Exhibit Hall

Exhibition Hall:
April 25: 7:30am – 7:30pm
April 26: 7:30am – 4:30pm

Our 2012 Sponsors

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