719 | News from the EDGE | Week of 9.30.2024

It was nearly one year to the day when we last talked to Nicholas Chimonas, head of Technical SEO at Page One Power, on Edge of the Web. Last May, we had Nicholas Chimonas on the show to talk about the 2016 Link Building Survey he conducts for Moz. This time on the show, however, we wanted to talk to Nicholas to talk about link building and the changes he's seen happen in the past year. And the 2017 Link Building Survey is out and if you are in the marketing industry, you are able to fill out this survey! Plus, we break down the latest updates from Google, Facebook, and recap this year's Google I/O. All this week on Edge of the Web Radio!

23 Maj 20171h 10min

How do you create the content your audience wants? The likes, the comments, the shares....the lack of likes, comments, shares, sentiment, the amount of total brand conversation - these are all data points in your focus group of how your audience is perceiving your brand. On this show, we are talking to Stacey Jaffe, the Vice President of Digital Content and Channels for Teach for America, who had just spoken at the Digital Now conference in Orlando, Florida. Stacey and her team are creating content for Teach for America by staying true to their "north star". Find out more about this and more, today on the Edge!

16 Maj 20171h 5min

Casie Gillette, the Senior Director of Digital Marketing at KoMarketing, leads digital marketing strategies for their clients and plays an integral part of the leadership team. With over 10 years of industry experience, Casie regularly speaks about search and social at some of the top marketing conferences in the country like SMX, SearchLove, PubCon, and HeroConf. Within the last month, she has spoken at two different conferences, SMX West and HeroConf, and we wanted to recap those presentations she gave for this episode!

2 Maj 201757min

Ryan Shelly is the founder and CEO of Shelly Media Arts - a growing digital marketing agency based out of Melbourne, Florida. What started out as a side-gig for Ryan while he toured solo became a full-time job after his second child. And the last two years he's seen 10x growth as his agency continues to grow and help their clients. Ryan joined us on the show this week to discuss authenticity and empathy. A lot of businesses and marketers seem to ignore this step when writing their content. Plus, it helps with SEO! Listen to Erin, Tom, and Ryan discuss why this is so important to your marketing today on the EDGE!

18 Apr 20171h 17min

Robert Rose, the Chief Strategy Officer for the Content Advisory, joined us on the podcast this week! Robert has worked with more than 500 companies, including 15 of the Fortune 100 and has provided marketing advice for brands like Capital One, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and others. He is also a co-host of the podcast PNR's This Old Marketing - which is consistently ranked as a top marketing podcast with more than one million downloads a year. Robert has written two books, "Experiences: The 7th Era of Marketing" & "Managing Content Marketing", with a third due out later this year called "Killing Marketing." We have been big fans of Robert Rose for quite a while now and we were able to grab an hour of his time to talk a variety of marketing topics including: social media, live video, programmatic advertising, but mainly focusing on content marketing and storytelling for your business. Plus, we learn about his show that appeared on Showtime as well as a play that made a run on Broadway!

11 Apr 20171h 16min

Jeff Sauer, the founder of Jeffalytics, joins us on the podcast this week to talk about his different online courses he provides for digital marketers. Jeff has been focusing on improving the number of qualified digital marketers by providing tangible courses in Google AdWords, Google Analytics, and running a digital agency. He also uses this passion of teaching to help today's college students learn digital marketing, as most colleges don't provide those types of skills. Plus, we find out that Jeff and his wife have been living out of a suitcase for the last two years and living in AirBNB houses. Check out this fun podcast today!

5 Apr 20171h 18min

We have a special show for you today! Mark Schaefer, Executive Director of Schaefer Marketing Solutions, has just released his newest book and we were able to grab an hour of his time last week. His new book is called Known: The Handbook for Building and Unleashing Your Personal Brand in the Digital Age is the first book of that will teach you how to build your own personal brand and become "known." This book gives step-by-step instructions from some of the most successful people on how they focused their efforts, created a plan, and was able to build that personal brand. Mark Schaefer spent over 15 months writing and interviewing people all over the world for this book to find out how they became known. With this book, Mark even included a Workbook that gives you exercises and other bonus material to get you started in developing your own personal brand. If you are interested in buying this book, please click here!

3 Apr 20171h

Amy Bishop is the Director of Digital Marketing & Technology at ZirMed, a financial and clinical performance management tool for healthcare organizations. Amy joined us on the podcast this week to talk about her role with ZirMed and how she focuses her company's marketing towards the long sales cycle. What marketing can/should your company do if you are in a similar industry as healthcare? Find out some great tips and more this week with Amy Bishop! Download our show today or subscribe to our show on iTunes, Google Play, SoundCloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, or Stitcher! Sponsor One of the sponsors of Edge of the Web SEMRush - the world's leading competitive intelligence and keyword research tool trusted by over 1 million online marketers every day. If you want to see exactly where your competitors are advertising online, then head over to semrush.com/edgeoftheweb to get your 14-day free trial today!

28 Mars 20171h 2min