719 | News from the EDGE | Week of 9.30.2024

Frederick Vallaeys is the Cofounder and CEO of Optmyzr - a PPC tool for advertisers and agencies. Frederick worked at Google for 10 years as a Google AdWords Evangelist and was also a member of the team that created the AdWords Editor. He has a passion for simplifying the AdWords space with scripts and automation. We had a great time talking with Frederick and we encourage you to check out their PPC toolset! Also, this last week we met a great group of college students from Ball State's CADMA program (Center for Advancement of Digital Marketing & Analytics). The program aims to provide students with hands-on experience with marketing technology and get experience in working as a digital marketing agency. They are a one-of-a-kind program for colleges and since they were in our backyard, we wanted to get them on the show! Be sure to follow their group on Facebook to keep up with the program!

21 Mars 20171h 28min

We have interviewed guests all over the world but rarely do we get to talk to someone locally like we did this week. Kyle Lacy, the new VP of Marketing of Lessonly, joined us in our studio this week. Kyle's career began in Indianapolis having roles with ExactTarget and Salesforce Marketing Cloud before heading off to Boston to work with OpenView, a venture capital firm with over $715M under management focused on expansion-stage software companies. But has moved back to Indianapolis (about three weeks ago!) to take this role with Lessonly. Kyle has spoken at conferences all over the world and is even the author of Twitter for Dummies. In this episode, we talk about getting investment dollars for Indianapolis, what he means by "The Knowledge Divide", and his childhood desire to be a Civil War reenactor. Check out this great episode with Kyle Lacy and we hope to have him on the show again in the near future!

16 Mars 20171h 11min

Paddy Moogan, the former florist and law student, is the co-founder of Aira, a digital marketing agency based in the UK. Paddy is a well-known SEO and has been working in SEO since 2004 when he was meant to be studying for a law degree and got bored. He was the VP of Operations at Distilled before leaving in 2015 to start Aira. Paddy is also the author of "The Link Building Book" and has spoken at a number of different conferences including SMX Sydney, MozCon, BrightonSEO, SES, Marketing Festival and SAScon. In this podcast, Paddy wanted to talk with us about the lessons he has learned in running an SEO agency for the last two years. Like I said earlier, he started Aira in 2015 and it has now grown to 12 people! What has he learned and what advice can he give to other agency owners. Plus, we saw a great presentation that Paddy did at last year's BrightonSEO conference called, "Sustainable Content Marketing." We wanted to discuss with him some of the points he made in that presentation and how you can use them to help build a sustainable content marketing plan for your business or clients (plus earn some great links!)

14 Mars 20171h 8min

Maureen Jann is the Director of Marketing at Point It and host of the podcast Fine Point Digital Marketing. We had a great discussion with Maureen and covered a variety of topics. Mainly, we focused on branding, programmatic advertising, and her love of crochet and fancy shoes! What are programmatic ads and what tools do you need to use for programmatic? Maureen breaks all of that down in this episode (and be sure to download her whitepaper, link is below!) Plus, in the MarTech segment, Douglas Karr talks about his experience with programmatic ads as well. Download our show today or subscribe to our show on iTunes, Google Play, SoundCloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, or Stitcher!

28 Feb 20171h 11min

Mike Arnesen is the owner and CEO of Upbuild, a 100% remote consulting agency that specializes in end-to-end optimization. Mike joined us on the podcast from his home office in Portland, OR and we wanted to talk with him about his unique way of running an agency. Upbuild is not your average consulting agency. They have a small team and each team member is only in charge of four clients...that's it. They also vote on whether they should work with a new client, and if it is not unanimous, then they don't work with them. And did I mention they are all remote? Mike is also very passionate about culture and has great thoughts on building company culture. He even wrote a great blog for one of their clients about how he built his culture-first company. Listen to our latest podcast in the player below! Time Stamps 4:45 - Start of the News 18:55 - Start of Interview

20 Feb 20171h 9min

Larry Kim, the founder and CTO of Wordstream, joins us on the podcast this week from a snowy Boston to discuss a variety of topic including RLSA, Machine Learning, Rank Brain, SEO Predictions for 2017 and his fascination with Unicorns. Larry Kim founded WordStream in 2007 as a consultancy while it funded a team of engineers to develop and design software for search engine marketing automation. He is also a frequent blogger for Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, Moz, Inc. Magazine, and others. In our conversation, we dive deep into PPC and SEO with Larry and we find out more about his history, his 2-year-old son (#PPCKid), and his thoughts on the future of digital marketing. It was a fun interview with Larry and we hope our listeners enjoy our conversation! 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!

14 Feb 20171h 36min

Five years ago we started a radio show on the northside of Indianapolis. We broadcasted live at 8 a.m. and decided to save the show as a podcast. In those five years, we've added Douglas Karr to the show, moved to a different radio station, to now broadcasting out of our own podcast studio in downtown Indianapolis. Thank you to everyone who has listened in the last five years! On this special 5th anniversary episode, we are lucky to be joined by Dan Shure, Founder of Evolving SEO, and fellow podcaster - the host of Experts on the Wire. Dan and his wife Sarah run Evolving SEO together in Worcester, Massachusetts and he's also an associate at Moz. We had a great conversation with Dan about SEO which focused on how to find gaps in content, which he called "Opportunity Gaps." Plus, we discuss how branding/advertising and SEO can intersect and can you make improvements to your homepage's meta description? You bet you can! Listen to Dan talk about how Macy's fails at this but gives several examples of who has great meta descriptions! We also spend some time in the show discussing podcasting with Dan and talk about lessons we both have learned from doing our podcasts. Strangely enough, we also find out that the initials of both of our podcasts are "E-O-T-W." Weird... It was a fun conversation and we hope to have Dan on again in the near future! With Douglas Karr of MarTech, we talk about a recent blog post on their website in which they argued that lead forms are dead. Do you agree? Find out about these topics and more, today on the EDGE!

7 Feb 20171h 28min

Ronell Smith is a content strategist from RS Consulting as well as a Moz Associate. Ronell works with a lot of big brands in his organization and we wanted to pick his brain about how he helps clients develop a content strategy and customer experience through the content. As he says in the podcast, marketers spend too much time focused on what content is and not what it does. Content is a noun - it is people, places, and things. Plus, we talk a little bit about his latest blog on Moz.com - how to do effective email outreach. This week on MarTech, Douglas Karr talks about an interesting infographic from Salesforce explaining about how to create a customer journey map. All these things and more, this week on the Edge!

31 Jan 20171h 23min