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Risk Mitigation During Early Stage Consulting 29 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Making the jump. Quitting your job. Making a living outside of your 9-5. These things are difficult to do, and one of the things that prevents most from ever doing it is the risk. The risk of being st...
The Danger of I vs We When Building a Company 6 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
The habit I’ve most wanted to break in the early stages of having others work at Siege relates to problems with differentiating between “I vs We”. I vs we is the pronoun choice that says very little, ...
Early Lessons From Building a Consulting Company 20 May 2013 | 08:47 pm
Nine months ago I quit my job to start my first company, Siege Media. Three months later, I talked about the mysticism of entrepreneurship, “taking the jump” and how the process was remarkably easy – ...
How to Quickly Find Content That Shouldn’t Be Indexed 28 Mar 2013 | 05:00 pm
Duplicate/thin content is almost always bad, and it’s sometimes difficult to find it on our websites, especially the bigger ones. Lots of different advanced operators and code searches can bring up so...
How I Improved My Public Speaking 12 Dec 2012 | 07:00 pm
In mid 2011, I had what was really my first speaking gig, at SMX Advanced, about link building. I had done a link building clinic before 10 or so people before, but this was the first serious thing I ...
Introducing Siege Media 29 Nov 2012 | 07:00 pm
Today is the official launch of Siege Media, my digital marketing consultancy. Check out the blog for the official announcement post. For those wondering what the launching of the blog there means for...
Digital Marketing Keyword Interest Over Time 27 Nov 2012 | 07:00 pm
Google’s Keyword Trends tool is extremely interesting to me. Here, we can see if businesses, tactics, and more are in free fall, growth, or stagnation. We can potentially identify stock opportunities ...
Authority Bloat: An SEO Industry Problem 20 Nov 2012 | 07:00 pm
A few years ago, I did work for a client with seasonal burst - and not just “sorta” seasonal burst, a seasonal-exclusive burst, that required extremely aggressive link building techniques. This clien...
Making The Jump: Reflections Three Months In 2 Nov 2012 | 05:00 pm
Three months ago, I made the jump to entrepreneurship. Since that time, I’ve been asked a few questions about what that process has been like, so I thought I would write a little update post to give a...
How to Get a Job in SEO 31 Oct 2012 | 05:00 pm
Yesterday, I was lucky enough to give a talk to the University of Washington INFO 320 “Information Needs, Searching, and Presentation” class, about what they need to do to get hired in search and SEO ...
