I’m Going Client-Side Well, it’s over. Agency life is officially finished for me. I’m onto other challenges. After growing from an SEO specialist to the senior specialist, up to becoming the Head of Digital (Products) for a large agency, and after 3 years of blood, sweat and way too many tears, I’ve left the agency […]
Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. – Lisa M. Amos I have a friend, Jordan, who’s really going through the struggle at the moment. He’s a new entrepreneur and he’s experiencing the growing pains of
Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever. – Charles Xavier Last year I turned 40. I worked for the last 25 years of my life – from Dunkin Donuts cashier to student work at the college library and then online. I ran a successful photo studio, worked in affiliate […]
Time Management? “I can do this myself and make more money! I’ll have more free time and no boss.” A year later you don’t sleep, worry about paying the bills, and haven’t been outside in over a week. Where did it all go wrong? Was there a day when it all fell apart? Business owners […]
Twitter chats use hashtags (such as #marketingchat) and a specific day and time (ie. Thurs, 4 pm EST) to hold a discussion, normally led by an organizer who posts questions to prompt answers from the community. You will see tweets that look like the screenshot below. You can see some vital information here. I’m answering question #4 […]
“I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters” – Charles Schulz The Peanuts Movie comes out November 6. I don’t have small children and I won’t go see this movie in the theatres. I don’t read parenting websites and even though I’ve always loved Charlie Brown […]
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Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure of working for, in and then on an exceptional SEO team. Over that time I’ve noticed a few recurring patterns with those team members who washed out and those who have stayed long term. When you go from hundreds of clients to thousands it becomes exponentially […]
Yesterday I was reading a new blog post on Problogger and considering redoing the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. I bought the book years ago and it’s such an excellent piece of content. Now that I’m back to blogging I thought a refresher through one of my favourite pieces of content was due. […]
What do your customers want? Over the past 15 years I’ve heard business owners give every excuse for why they don’t give customers what the customers want. “But I don’t want to sell the digital images.” “But SEO is more important than PPC.” “But our competitors don’t do it that way.” “But building a list […]