<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31957505.post-9136973637482760357</id><published>2008-12-12T12:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T12:49:34.745-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ses'/><title type='text'>SES Chicago</title><content type='html'>Well another round of SES is over in the warm 15 degree city of Chicago.  There is a definite change in focus from the retail segment, they seemed to have slowed way down in experimenting around and really focusing on their businesses with this new economic climate.  I am not really seeing a slow down in spending online, but then my clients have a decent SEO strategy and are doing quite well with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think we will not be able to see how 2009 is going to look until the end of Q1.  But this should be a very interesting year to come.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31957505-9136973637482760357?l=www.aaronshear.com%2Fblog%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31957505/9136973637482760357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31957505&amp;postID=9136973637482760357' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31957505/posts/default/9136973637482760357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31957505/posts/default/9136973637482760357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.aaronshear.com/blog/2008/12/ses-chicago.html' title='SES Chicago'/><author><name>Aaron Shear</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16766660862891069901</uri><email>ashear@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='03022645335592770670'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry>