On the last Saturday of 2007 we held yet another meeting of the Virginia Search Marketing Meetup group at the Bertucci’s in Tyson’s corner. The day didn’t start off too great, with Bill Slawski calling in to let me know that due to car trouble he’d had to turn back to Delaware, but on the plu side he did make it back safely. Not that Bill would have won the award for furthest distance traveled to the meetup, that went to Tim McGuinness of Hakia, who came all the way down from NYC just for the meeting (well ok, he did mention something in passing about coming down to sell his house from when he used to live in the area, but I’m sure that was just something that he figured he could do while he was down for the meetup).

We had 7 people at the event, with backgrounds in agency SEM, in-house SEM, toolset development, link building specialists, and the aforementioned search engine rep. So you can imagine that we had some really good, interesting discussions over the 2 hours that we were there. One of those discussions was about certain work that one of the group had performed for one of the top 3 search engines in the recent past, he’s the one that’s not in the picture.

So thanks to Debra Mastaler, Dirk Johnson, Rachan Malhotra, Steve, Tim, and Jim for attending, and I hope that you all enjoyed the meetup.  For anyone that’s interested, we’ll be having another one probably some time in March, more details will follow on this blog as we firm things up.