ASD Trade Show was established in 1961. They are one of the nation’s largest merchandise trade events in the industry, with over 3000 exhibitors and 45,000 retailers from all over the world, held in March & August. ASD Las Vegas showcases 4 major verticals—Gift & Toy, Jewelry, Style/Beauty, and Value & Variety. The Show runs February 27-March 2, 2010 at the Sands Expo Center. Sage Island’s CEO Mike Duncan will be giving two one hour seminars on Monday, Feb. 28th and Tuesday, March 1st. For more info on ASD Trade show visit their website at www.asdonline.com.

Mike is scheduled to speak on Feb. 28 and March 1st. His seminar “Strengthening Your Web Site’s Presence through an Integrated Marketing Plan” will teach business owners the tactics behind growing an online brand.

Strengthening Your Website through an Integrated Marketing Plan
Your website is a critical component of your business. At a time when online competition has never been so fierce, it’s crucial to ensure that qualified traffic is coming to your site. This seminar, presented my Mike Duncan, CEO of Sage Island addresses the necessity of a well designed, innovative website, and how to properly market it through a hands on approach of planning, analysis, and optimization. Mike speaks to the art of SEO and PPC tactics, successful eCommerce strategies, and how to properly utilize social media platforms to drive results and maximize your bottom line.

The BIZTECH CONFERENCE & EXPO is a two-day event featuring the region’s most successful people in business and technology. http://www.wilmingtonbiz.com/biztech/

Keynote speakers, seminars and the expo will help companies and their employees develop professionally, make new connections and reach new customers. Topics include:

Strategies to finance your business, social media marketing, search engine optimization, internet marketing and more!

Perspective Internet Marketing & Sage Island will be just a couple of the Seminar Sponsors. BIZTECH SEMINARS

• The Rise of Health Information Exchanges
• Microsoft’s View of the Cloud
• Facebook Marketing Campaigns — Strategy to Metrics
• Strengthening Your Website’s Presence through an Integrated Marketing Plan
• The Future of IT
• Lessons in Leadership
• Cyber Security
• How to value your business

We are excited to be a part of this special event featuring the area’s most successful people in business and technology,  including our very own Mike Duncan. The expo, held at the new Wilmington Convention Center will include keynote speakers, seminars, and over 100 exhibitors.  The event will help connect employees with new customers and will include an all start line up of educational internet marketing seminars.

Mike is scheduled to speak on the 14th from 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. His seminar “Strengthening Your Web Site’s Presence through an Integrated Marketing Plan” will teach business owners the tactics behind growing an online brand.

Don’t miss the areas largest business event! For full Biz Tech Schedule and to get your tickets click here!

Mike Duncan, Sage Island’s CEO, will be presenting a seminar on using Google Analytics to help drive your marketing dollars during the upcoming Surf Expo trade show. For more info please visit Surf Expo.

Surf Expo, Orlando, FL
January 6, 2011 – 11:30 a.m.

Let Analytics Spend your Marketing Dollars
Presented by Mike Duncan CEO Sage Island
Is your e-commerce website reaching its full potential? An effective and profitable site must contain the meta data and Search Engine Optimization tactics that drive qualified traffic. And once there, visitors must be greeted by an efficient site with optimal customer service. However what happens after that? Understanding your traffic analytics can allow you to fine tune your marketing techniques for a greater return on your investment. This seminar, presented my Mike Duncan, CEO of Sage Island teaches you key factors of your website’s data so that you can increase traffic and sales. Learn how to problem solve your marketing through analytics, and put your website to work for you.

Mike Duncan will be speaking at Board Retailers Certification Program, Survival of the Fittest, in Orlando, Florida on January 5th from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm for the Retail Finance and Retail Technology Courses. In its second year, Survival of the Fittest is designed to provide retail attendees an in-depth look at Retail Finance and Retail Technology, two areas of significance in today’s retail environment. For more info on this series please visit Board Retailers Association.

Click here for the complete agenda.

E-Commerce Strategies that Produce Results
Mike Duncan, CEO Sage Island
Your website is a vital extension of your business, so it’s crucial to have a marketing plan behind it that maximizes your investment. In this seminar Mike Duncan, CEO of Sage Island teaches effective strategies that help fine tune an ecommerce site into a profitable sales generating machine. As featured on CNNMoney.com, Mike speaks to the digital age of customer service in specialty retail and the necessity of a well designed website. By skillfully integrating Internet Marketing, social media, product recommendations, Live Chat, and more, Mike knows the successful e-Commerce strategies that make conversions and increase your bottom line.

Retail Technology
 Includes seminars, presentations and roundtables focused on eCommerce Integration, Marketing, Supply Chain Management and Inventory Controls, QR/Mobile Codes, PCI Compliance, POS Software and Multi-Channel Retailing. If you have an online and brick-and-mortar shop, this is the course for you. Confirmed speakers include leading retail technology experts RMSA, e-commerce and marketing guru Mike Duncan of Sage Island Marketing who boasts a number of industry retail clients including Ambush, ZJ Boarding House, Christy Sports, Modern Skate & Surf and Forerunner Ski. Also confirmed to present are Clarinova who recently announced deals with LSpace and Sanuk, Leisure Trends Group (LTG), the industry’s premier research market intelligence firm and Nationwide Payment Solutions.

Can you believe the holidays are almost here? Summer came and went and now there are only 50 days until Christmas…50! That means holiday shopping season is officially upon us. Consumers are researching their soon to be purchases, while an overwhelming 89% have already started shopping online. For online retailers, that means you better be prepared for both your online store and physical storefront to be hit with crazed shoppers. Google wants to help you do just that, with their incredibly helpful and insightful, think holiday site. Check out this site to see key online sales days for the season and helpful data for retailers to better understand their customer’s shopping, browsing, and buying habits. This information is invaluable—now put it to good use!

Everyone’s been talking a lot lately about the impact of Twitter in search results, and of course, the ubiquitous “likes” from Facebook. It’s clear that social media has impacted SEO, as Google is changing the way it returns search results.  But what about this change is any different than the others?  SEO is constantly evolving and transforming and the addition of social media in search is yet another way to keep us on our toes. If you missed this article on Mashable,check it out.  And if you want to talk to us about your own site, contact us anytime.

How Social Search Will Transform the SEO Industry

Sage Island is happy to announce the recent launches of both the ActionSportsNow website and blog.  ASN is a new, quickly growing business headquartered in Wilmington, NC.  ASN is an online database of shops, retailers, camps, resorts and independent contractors who serve the action sports industry.  Sage Island worked with ASN to develop their new website in DNN; the site features a search for action sport retails by industry segment and location.  The custom programmed search was developed based on the unique features offered by ASN.

The newly launched ActionSportsNow WordPress blog offers an online platform for ASN to stay connected with their customers and provide up-to-date industry and sports related news.  The site feeds news into the website, by sport, to offer the latest news to ASN users, no matter what source they are visiting.