2013 Most Influential SEM tournament begins!

Last year’s worthy champion.

Who’s the most influential SEM in 2013? Here’s your chance to weigh in: PPC Associates’ second annual Most Influential SEM Tournament!

Last year’s inaugural tournament sparked passionate support, fierce head-to-head matchups, and over 46,000 votes cast. This year, we’ve instituted some strict voting rules (once per round – no incognito-window chicanery!) and introduced some new names to the 64-person field.

Who will be our Cinderellas? Can anyone dethrone 2012 champion Brad Geddes? Will any Twitter feuds (looking at you, feisty #ppcchat crew) break out? Vote now and stay tuned!

The official voting schedule (voting opens and closes at noon PT on the days shown):

- First round: Monday, Feb. 25-Wednesday, Feb. 27

- Second round: Wednesday, Feb. 27-Friday, March 1

- Third round: Friday, March 1-Monday, March 4

- Quarterfinals: Monday, March 4-Wednesday, March 6

- Semifinals: Wednesday, March 6-Friday, March 8

- Finals: Friday, March 8-Wednesday, March 13

Good luck to our contestants!

- Hillary Read, Marketing Manager

About Hillary Read

Hillary Read joined the search engine marketing world in August 2011 after over 5 years of e-commerce site and product management at ivgStores, LLC, and Mercantila, Inc. Prior to her move to the West Coast, Hillary was a sportswriter for the Burlington (VT) Free Press and a sports copy editor for the Boston Globe. She graduated from Harvard with a degree in English; she has also spent time in New Mexico as an artist-in-residence (fiction writing) at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM. She is a sports zealot and has a working knowledge of French.

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