eTail East 2016 (past event)
August 14 - 17, 2016
1.888.482.6012
The Search, Display & Online Media Summit: Don’t Blow Your Budget On Search
The Search, Display & Online Media Summit: Don’t Blow Your Budget On Search
Email & CRM Summit: You Can Get More Out Of Your Email and CRM Programs
Innovator’s Summit: Defining The Future Of Retail - Bringing Together A Community Of Retail Innovators
Main Conference Day One: Reimagining and Reinventing Retail
Main Conference Day Two: Online And Multi-Channel Growth Fundamentals
Main Conference Day Three: It’s All About Growth – Mobile, Social And Emerging Markets
08:30 - 09:00 Continental Breakfast & Registration
Continental Breakfast & Registration
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome Remarks & Benchmarking Study
Welcome Remarks & Benchmarking Study
09:15 - 09:30 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
09:30 - 09:55 Keynote: SEO : Page Performance vs. Page Position
Bobby heads up the SEO efforts at Walgreens, ensuring his programs are offering the type of visibility and return that is needed to really move the needle. In this keynote session, he’ll discuss how to determine if performance is impacting your SEO visibility, the impact of performance on mobile visibility and the Google algorithm, and finally tools and guidance around how to address performance as a marketer.
09:55 - 11:10 Kickoff Of Interactive Roundtables
Table 1: New Customer Acquisition And Experience – Are Your Customers Feelin’ The Love?
Moderator: Joe Melton, VP Search Marketing, Your Amigo
Retail Moderator: Julie Daly, VP Digital Commerce, Ashley Stewart
Table 2: Search & Social Video Advertising
Moderator: Henry Wong, COO, Buzztala
Table 3: Maximizing Technology And Content Opportunities In Ecommerce SEO
Moderator: Craig Smith, Founder and CEO, Trinity Insight
Table 4: The Intersection of Mobile UI, Natural Language Voice Search and its impact on eCommerce - now and in the future
Moderator: Richard Wood, Senior Vice President of Development, EasyAsk
Table 5: Could Personal Relevance Pay Off?
Moderator: Jim Morrone, Senior Partner, Chief Customer Officer, GroupBy
Moderator: Joe Melton, VP Search Marketing, Your Amigo
Retail Moderator: Julie Daly, VP Digital Commerce, Ashley Stewart
Table 2: Search & Social Video Advertising
Moderator: Henry Wong, COO, Buzztala
Table 3: Maximizing Technology And Content Opportunities In Ecommerce SEO
Moderator: Craig Smith, Founder and CEO, Trinity Insight
Table 4: The Intersection of Mobile UI, Natural Language Voice Search and its impact on eCommerce - now and in the future
Moderator: Richard Wood, Senior Vice President of Development, EasyAsk
Table 5: Could Personal Relevance Pay Off?
Moderator: Jim Morrone, Senior Partner, Chief Customer Officer, GroupBy
11:10 - 11:40 Coffee & Refreshments
Coffee & Refreshments
11:40 - 12:25 Keynote Panel Discussion: Top Strategies To Increase The Effectiveness Of Your SEO Programs
Search is changing so rapidly, it can be difficult for marketers to keep up. Is the marketplace going through a major shift right now? What’s the best way to manage SEO? These executives know, and they are going to walk through all of your search concerns, challenges, issues, questions – and the best part? You’ll leave with tons of insight and pages of notes.
12:25 - 13:15 Continuation of Interactive Roundtables
Continuation of Interactive Roundtables
Table 1: New Customer Acquisition And Experience – Are Your Customers Feelin’ The Love?
Moderator: Joe Melton, VP Search Marketing, Your Amigo
Retail Moderator: Julie Daly, VP Digital Commerce, Ashley Stewart
Table 2: Search & Social Video Advertising
Moderator: Henry Wong, COO, Buzztala
Table 3: Maximizing Technology And Content Opportunities In Ecommerce SEO
Moderator: Craig Smith, Founder and CEO, Trinity Insight
Table 4: The Intersection of Mobile UI, Natural Language Voice Search and its impact on eCommerce - now and in the future
Moderator: Richard Wood, Senior Vice President of Development, EasyAsk
Table 5: Could Personal Relevance Pay Off?
Moderator: Jim Morrone, Senior Partner, Chief Customer Officer, GroupBy
Table 1: New Customer Acquisition And Experience – Are Your Customers Feelin’ The Love?
Moderator: Joe Melton, VP Search Marketing, Your Amigo
Retail Moderator: Julie Daly, VP Digital Commerce, Ashley Stewart
Table 2: Search & Social Video Advertising
Moderator: Henry Wong, COO, Buzztala
Table 3: Maximizing Technology And Content Opportunities In Ecommerce SEO
Moderator: Craig Smith, Founder and CEO, Trinity Insight
Table 4: The Intersection of Mobile UI, Natural Language Voice Search and its impact on eCommerce - now and in the future
Moderator: Richard Wood, Senior Vice President of Development, EasyAsk
Table 5: Could Personal Relevance Pay Off?
Moderator: Jim Morrone, Senior Partner, Chief Customer Officer, GroupBy
13:15 - 14:25 Lunch For All Attendees
Lunch For All Attendees
14:25 - 15:05 PANEL DISCUSSION REVOLUTION: Media Mix Modeling –Reducing Waste And Having A Relationship With Your Customers Across Channels
How can you find the right “mix” when there are so many online media options available? This panel looks at the way to maximize your budget, to ensure you aren’t overspending in areas where you shouldn’t be. You’ll be able to target your customers effectively and save money at the end of this session.
• Eliminating waste and overlap with your media mix
• Bringing in paid search with display to inform your ad buy
• Thinking about offline channels
• Measuring it (using attribution) effectively
• Onboarding data and matching customers to know who your site visitors are
• Learning which levers to pull for each customer segment
• Maximizing your display and removing waste
• Partnering with a third party to enable this
• Eliminating waste and overlap with your media mix
• Bringing in paid search with display to inform your ad buy
• Thinking about offline channels
• Measuring it (using attribution) effectively
• Onboarding data and matching customers to know who your site visitors are
• Learning which levers to pull for each customer segment
• Maximizing your display and removing waste
• Partnering with a third party to enable this
15:05 - 15:45 Panel Discussion: Taking A Close Look At New Product Ad Channels: What Works And What Doesn’t
There are more questions that answers when it comes to building successful PLA campaigns, but our panelists are presenting best practices within their own campaigns to share. They’ll discuss tried and true tactics surrounding structuring your campaigns, budget management to gain an effective ROI, leveraging shopping feeds, and a review of the most effect tools (bid tools, etc.) available to optimize your feeds.
• Are new Product Ad channels starting to take off?
• Are product ads a big channel for you?
• What will be the next major product ad channel?
• What are the best practices that you have in this area?
• How do you best structure your feed?
• What are your overall creative practices (what kind of product images, what kind of copy, etc.?
• What kind of templates work the best for certain product ads
• Do retailers still need third parties to help them?
• Are new Product Ad channels starting to take off?
• Are product ads a big channel for you?
• What will be the next major product ad channel?
• What are the best practices that you have in this area?
• How do you best structure your feed?
• What are your overall creative practices (what kind of product images, what kind of copy, etc.?
• What kind of templates work the best for certain product ads
• Do retailers still need third parties to help them?
15:45 - 16:15 Afternoon Coffee & Refreshments
Afternoon Coffee & Refreshments
16:15 - 16:16 Conclusion Of The Search, Display & Online Media Summit
Conclusion Of The Search, Display & Online Media Summit
16:16 - 17:00 Retailer-Only Speed “Dating”: Bring your business cards—you’ll need them! Search, Display & Online Media Summit
Think speed dating (without the date)! This fun session lets you meet a load of new and interesting people before the main conference kicks off. The best part? You’ll have a few minutes of conversation with everyone in the room, so be prepared to make a lot of new friends. Bring your business cards—you’ll need them.
17:00 - 23:59 eTail’s Olympics In Rio Reception
We’re kicking off eTail East in fabulous style at our Brazilian Welcome Reception. You'll instantly be transported to Rio with amazing food, Brazilian drinks, live Olympic games, and a surprise appearance or two. Grab a drink or two, there’s no better time to meet new friends than at our infamous evening receptions.