The Blog of Brandon Milford - Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Design

Hi everyone, I wanted to drop in to apologize for my recent
absence. While attending Search Engine Strategies in San Jose I received news that
my mother had passed away. I left San Jose early Wednesday morning (August 9^th) and returned to Georgia. I am
now back in North Carolina,
I have returned to the office, and soon I will be posting regularly.

To wrap up my SES experience, we had a great time Tuesday and received a number of visitors to our booth and even ran into a few of our current clients. Tuesday evening we attended Google Dance at Google’s corporate headquarters. It was great to see the Googleplex and more of Silicon Valley.

I arrived in San Jose Sunday afternoon for the Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo.  We are exhibiting IntelliContact on Tuesday and Wednesday and attending a few sessions. So the exhibition kicks off tomorrow morning and after setting up today (technically yesterday as it is now after midnight) we decided to take the CalTrain up to San Francisco. This was my third time in San Francisco in the past eleven months, however I had never made it out to The Golden Gate Bridge until today. It was amazing. We walked across the bridge and back again and took a lot of photos along the way. We then took a cab to Pier 39 where we made our way over to Alioto’s for dinner. After dinner we took another cab back to the CalTrain station and returned to San Jose.

I’m looking forward to tomorrow. It’s always a blast talking to others about our software and how we can help grow their business. We’ll be exhibiting from 10:15am until 6pm tomorrow and 9am until 3:15pm on Wednesday.  Tomorrow from 6:30pm until 11pm Google is having their annual "Google Dance" at their corporate headquarters in Mountain View, so we’ll be attending that tomorrow evening. It should be fun!

It’s now 1am and I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow, so it’s off to bed for me. Stay tuned as I’ll be sharing additional insight from the conference…