On occasion I get asked to take part in a media event, or in an ongoing series of posts like Barry Schwartz SEO Roundtable Series "Honor an SEO / SEM" for which I have to provide interview-like responses to a series of questions. What I love about these opportunities is they cause me to reflect. …
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Search Influence layoffs make March 28th the worst day of the year
Search Influence laid off 5 full-time employees today and eliminated 2 part-time jobs. "It's a marathon, not a sprint" they say. Except they don't tell you it's a marathon through a battlefield. That at mile 12 you might get shot. And at mile 19 the bridge might be out and at mile 25 -- I …
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And now I’m Inbound Sales Certified, too
I figured since I was here I might as well do the sales certification, too.
That’s right, sucker – I’m Inbound Certified
We recently signed up with HubSpot to use their marketing automation and sales tools so I thought it would be a good idea to go through their certification process. This is really great educational stuff and at the end they give you a cool badge 🙂
Paula Keller and Brent French are getting Married!
I'm really excited to be able to mention that my friend and colleague, Paula Keller is getting married this summer to Brent French. Paula Built a spiffy website for their friends to find all of their relevant info. This picture is from that website. Brent's family runs a shop which restores old motorcycles: French & Sons. …
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I love you all and thanks!
I've been struggling with how to start this. So I’ll start it with "I love you all and thanks”! Two years ago today I was in the hospital having open heart surgery. At the tender age of 44 years old I had allowed myself to become sedentary stressed out overweight and it caught up with …
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What would @mattcutts do with this link outreach?
We received an interesting link solicitation on the Search Influence info email that I thought I'd share. It's interesting that they never ask for a "link", but they do offer payment for posting content. Here's the email, names changed to protect the (maybe) innocent: Hi, My name is Michelle of [name removed].com. I came across …
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Scam Alert – eGumball
Scam Alert! One of our clients made an update to his map marker location, shortly after which he received a phone call from someone identifying themselves as a "Google Specialist". The caller identified that there was a location update. Verify the correct address and then said “your business is listed as miscellaneous” — our customer …
Hey Will why aren’t you at #Pubcon?
Some of my friends (thank you) have noticed that I'm not at #Pubcon. I'm really bummed that I'm not there. I was really excited, both to speak on two panels, and to visit with industry friends. I wanted to write this so that everybody would know what was going on with me, from the horse's …
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