Location and Navigation Startups to Show-Case Their Innovations at The Get Funded Show, October 18-19, San Jose

(PRWEB) August 02, 2011

The Get Funded Show has been specifically designed to help innovators successfully enter the location industry. Alongside real investment opportunity, TheWhereBusiness have announced a call for entries for the show.

Applicants are now able to submit their proposal to a panel of judges and industry advisors who will shortlist the selection to the top ten innovative ideas or products focused in the geo-location space.

Held during North Americas leading Location and Navigation event, LocNav USA 2011, the Get Funded Show will take prime position on the afternoon of day one. Comprised of not only two industry leading conferences, 8 interactive workshops and the Get Funded Show, LocNav USA is set to attract over 300 senior-level executives and industry trailblazers as well as VCs, angel investors and industry giants.

VP of North America for TheWhereBusiness, Naomi Hands commented "Im really excited to introduce this opportunity for young companies looking to break into the location space. It will bring a completely new and fresh dynamic to the conference."

Not only will successful applicants have exposure as a leading location innovator, but through pre and post show publicity from TheWhereBusiness and supporting partners, the finalists of the show will get a ten minute pitch in front of the judging panel.

Judges this year include trailblazers and investors from Intel Capital, Nokia, Venrock, Khosla Ventutres, Nokia, BlueRun Ventures and Verizon Wireless.

Naomi also commented, "It's great to be working with such a strong panel of judges on this, and already weve had some really creative applications for the show. The more innovative the application, the better!"

To apply for the Get Funded Show, or find out more information, click here: http://www.thewherebusiness.com/location-and-navigation-usa/get-funded-and-workshops.shtml

Contact

Naomi Hands

VP North America

TheWhereBusiness

Tel: +44 (0) 207 375 7513

Toll Free: +1 800 814 3456 ext. 7513

naomi(at)thewherebusiness(dot)com

About TheWhereBusiness:

TheWhereBusiness publishes news and events for those involved in the navigation and location ecosystem. Through high-end B2B conferences, we connect people across the industry, provide market leading intelligence and enable companies to capitalise on emerging business opportunities in location-based services, navigation, geo-web, tracking and mobile advertising; basically, anything that involves location, context or maps! Through continuous independent research with hundreds of companies and dedicated journalists, our news portal keeps you one step ahead of an industry in flux, and our events provide key networking forums for the industry.

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SEO for Seasonal Marketing Success to be Discussed on Live Search Marketing Now Webcast - October 27

Redding, CT (PRWEB) October 18, 2011

On Thursday, October 27 at 1 PM EDT, Search Marketing Now presents "Seasonal SEO: Recipes for Success," a free webcast featuring Anthony Joseph, VP of Marketing for Optify.

Registration is open at Search Marketing Now.

With the holiday season just around the corner, digital competition for seasonal customers will be fierce. Marketers need to pay special attention to strategy, to make sure they aren't overlooked during this busy season.

This means building out editorial and social media strategies that support seasonal SEO. It also means marketers and advertisers must know the seasonal data and factor in any season trends when planning and implementing marketing strategy.

Whether the peak selling season is the holidays or the dog days of summer, if a business is seasonal, its marketing team needs to how that translates to SEO strategy.

This webcast will cover how businesses can leverage seasonal trends from analytics data, how to build out a supporting social media strategy, and how to develop appropriate seasonal content.

Speaker Anthony Joseph is VP of Marketing at Optify; prior to Optify he spent more than a decade at amazon.com

Optify is the leading provider of marketing software and services for the Real Time Web. Optifys hosted, easy-to-use platform enables businesses and online publishers to drive more traffic and leads through organic search and social media, convert website visitors to customers, and measure and share results in real time with simple but powerful enterprise scale reporting.

About Search Marketing Now and Third Door Media:

Search Marketing Now webcasts are produced by Third Door Media, Inc. Third Door Media's mission is to empower interactive and search marketing professionals by providing trusted content and community services they need to be successful.

Third Door Media produces the conference series Search Marketing Expo - SMX, which includes SMX Social Media Marketing (Scottsdale, AZ, Dec. 5-6), SMX West, SMX Advanced, SMX East and other SMX conferences. Third Door Media also publishes the search marketing news and analysis site Search Engine Land and Sphinn.com, the place for web, online, search, interactive and internet marketers to share news stories, talk within subject-specific discussion forums, build a network and stay connected to hot topics in internet marketing.

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