That’s right! In addition to their monthly speaker programs, AAF-Black Hills will be offering four educational workshops, giving the community the opportunity to learn more through a hands-on approach. Below is a detail of each seminar.

Each 2-hour seminar is $15.00 for AAF-Black Hills members and $30 for non-members.

Here were our previous seminars

Google Advertising for Grasshoppers

Date: 11/12/2009 Time: 6:00pm Location: The Hampton Inn

If you’re brand new or have less than 2-3 years managing Google Adwords campaigns, then this seminar is for you. Learn how to build effective, profitable Google advertising campaigns from the ground up, and avoid the dozens of mistakes that keep advertisers large and small struggling to figure out what they’re doing wrong.

Topics covered include:

campaign structure, audience selection, editorial guidelines, ad copy, keyword selection, split testing, match types, keyword bids, budgeting, metrics, and more.

This seminar is $15.00 for AAF-Black Hills members and $30 for non-members.

Google Advertising For Ninjas

Date: 01/14/2010 Time: 6:00pm Location: The Hampton Inn

If you’ve completed the first seminar in the series and want to take more steps to becoming a true Adwords Ninja, this is your seminar.

Topics covered include:

advanced geotargeting, analytics, international and foreign-language advertising, landing page optimization, Quality Score components, the Adwords API, content-network advertising, YouTube and mobile advertising, and more.

This seminar is $15.00 for AAF-Black Hills members and $30 for non-members.

How I’ve Made $572,251 & counting
with Google Adsense

Date: 03/18/2010 Time: 6:00pm Location: The Hampton Inn
[NOTE: Rescheduled due to conflict in scheduling]

That sounds like the subject line to some spammy, scammy email that belongs in your junk folder, doesn’t it? Sure does, but in truth, there are hundreds of real-life stories out there about regular people making life-changing money with Google Adsense. Of course, general topics will be covered like how to sign up for Adsense, how to place ads on your site, etc. But this is very much a “how I did it” seminar, so most of the seminar will be devoted to showing you exactly what Josh Barsch did to make the $572,000 from Adsense.

Topics covered include:

how and where he placed ads, how he found his profitable niches, how he drove the traffic to my ad-supported websites and what he’s done to extract the most money he can out of the program.

This seminar is $15.00 for AAF-Black Hills members and $30 for non-members.

Graphic Design 101—the Basics

Date: 05/06/2010 Time: 6:00pm Location: The Hampton Inn

This seminar will provide learners with the building blocks of graphic design to help them with design issues such as planning, hardware, software, execution and final output. Basic questions like what file type should be used, how do I get started, and when do I need to hire a professional designer will be answered.

Topics covered include:

image resolutions, color models, file types and purposes, what’s a vector, simple font basics, resizing images, basic output, printer marks, basic design elements, creative process, hardware & software discussion, and more.

This seminar is $15.00 for AAF-Black Hills members and $30 for non-members.