September Luncheon

Date: 09/22/2009 Time: 11:30am Location: The Hampton Inn
Speaker: Josh Barsch with Straight Forward Media

Josh Barsch

More than a year into the bleakest economic period in recent history and amid catastrophic change in the media industry at large, Google is still recording large profits. How? Why? And how will the world’s most powerful media company help or harm your South Dakota business in the coming years?

Josh Barsch is the founder of StraightForward Media, one of the oldest pure search engine marketing agencies in the United States. Since its inception in 2001, StraightForward has created effective and profitable search campaigns for companies such as Wal-Mart, eBay, and University of Phoenix, and hundreds more. He’s a frequent speaker and blogger about the Google Adwords and Adsense programs, and he founded the StraightForward Media Scholarships program, which has awarded over $100,000 in tuition money to students worldwide since 2003. He’s the author of “Confessions of a Scholarship Judge,” a guide for scholarship applicants.

This program is free for AAF-Black Hills members, $30 for non-members, $20 for each additional AAF-Black Hills corporate member, and $20 for students.

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