While searching for any evidence for my very first Google check I received in early 2001 (back when there was no Adsense) I found a mail remembering me of the very first online marketing conference I ever attended and probably the very first online marketing event in Germany.
From 13th-15th November 2001 there was the Internet Marketing Conference (IMC) (wonder that their website wasn’t changed since) organized by the Swede Lennart Svanberg and german online company luna-park. There was a maximum of maybe 50 participants, sponsorships from the search engines was unknown and the setting in the house-of-industrial-associations is probably unthinkable today.
The only german participants I remember meeting there were Ron Hillman, Stefan Fischerländer, Klaus Patzwaldt and Mathias Schmitz, while there were lots of english speaking participants (e.g. Dixon Jones whom I see speaking at all the us-conferences) from all over Europe back then. I keep on meeting many of these guys at every online marketing related conference-event today and it’s really great to see that so many new faces joined the scene since then…
I keeps on searching for the historic Google check, but the memory of early conference times is alive again – alot has changed in the industry and I’m excited to compare todays SEO get-togethers with the ones we’ll see in 2013…
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Hi,
yes – those were the days :-).
During IMC Berlin a revolotion took place at Yahoo.Com – they started to show “sponsored links” from Overture :-). It was Barry Lloyd of MakeMeTop.co.uk that saw it first and I think it was the night of November 14th.. (Dixon paid for a lot of drinks so if I’m not sure here I’ll blame him)
[…] (English version is here) Während ich eigentlich meinen ersten Google Scheck (Anno 2001, als Adsense noch auf seine Erfindung wartete) suchte, fand ich eine Email, die mich an meine erste Online Marketing Konferenz erinnerte. […]