It's nearly 2012, and that means we get to revisit our expectations for 2011 and prognosticate for the year ahead. In keeping with tradition, I'm first going to evaluate my predictions from last December before determining if I've got the cred to make some for 2012. Here's the rules: For each prediction, we'll grade using the following points system: ...
It’s the 1st January 2012. You've been inundated with well-wishing SMS messages from numbers you don't have saved. You got up late and have only just showered. More than likely, you’re unbearably hungover. Like many others you have just begrudgingly thought about remedying the sour taste in your mouth...
Almost two years ago, Brad Feld put up an excellent blog post called "Be the CEO of Your Job" based on an interview with Mark Pincus of Zynga by the NYTimes. I loved the concept and have tried to apply it even since before I had a name for the attitude of independence that great companies tend to grant their team.
Because I grew up surrounded by entrepreneurs I learned early that working for yourself was a great way to make money and improve your lifestyle. However, even though I had this early drive to build businesses, I didn’t always know the right way to go about building or marketing them. In fact, through trial and error I eventually discovered what it takes to build and market a successful business, and the following five lessons are what I think to be the most important.
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I recently had the opportunity to give a lecture on SEO to 2nd year students at Birmingham City University. It was in computer room with every student having access to a computer during the lecture. This gave me the opportunity to get students to actively Google and discuss ...
NOTE: All of the slide decks in this post are free to download and distribute, as are any of the stats/graphics in them (please reference the source if you do). Hopefully they'll be helpful learning tools and will make your deck-building processes easier than mine have been! The past few weeks have been a whirlwind for me, and they're not slowing down anytime soon. Just 2 weeks ago, I je...
Prepare to stay out late, polish your dancing shoes and crank up the music. Today, I am very excited to announce that after almost two years, my book explaining everything I know about SEO is finally publicly available! And the crowd goes wild! ...
Hello you Mozzy bunch! I am very excited to announce the launch of our new PRO Q&A forum! Previously, PRO members have used our Expert Q&A feature to ask SEO questions to our Staff and Associates. As our community has grown into an incredible network of SEO and Online Marketing experts, we decided it was time to create a more interactive forum that would allow PRO members to become resources for one another and contribute to a growing database of quality information.
One of the people I admire and respect most in the technology, startup world is Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson. A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fred in his New York offices, just as we were ending our failed fund raising attempt. The writer...
Last year, I created 44 unique presentations, delivered via a variety of mediums - webinars, keynotes, private presentations and conference panels. It's certainly not a skill I've perfect, but it is something I've been asked about quite a bit, so I thought I'd share my methodology and some examples in the hopes that it can help those of you who've learned to love (or at least live with) Powerpo...
In my new book, Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google, I share 20 "Googley Lessons" that the Big G can teach marketers to help them better engage customers and prospects. Over the past 10 days I've "appeared" at 30 blogs as part of a ...
Today, I am proud to announce the new and improved Beginner's Guide to SEO. This free tutorial covers everything you need to know to get started improving your search engine rankings in the major search engines. Put simply, this is the resource I would have kicked a fool in order to get my hands on when I was f...
For the last year and a half I have been living abroad in Malta, and within a few months I started getting into learning about blogging and making money online and of course stumbled into SEO. Literally within days, SEO was all I could think about. Now it seem like I'm on a journey to great things and I wanted to share with you some of the things I have done to kick start my learning process....
Tips tricks and tools I use to get things done effectively and efficiently and lessons you can learn that apply in your day-to-day work and people management.