#seoisaeo Podcast - Expert Interviews At Major Digital Marketing Conferences

Carly J. Cais talks with Jason Barnard about spark your marketing with conversion content. Carly J. Cais started in marketing before she even knew it was marketing: she created websites for businesses in 2001 (her first website was a My Little Pony flipping shop ). She later started a niche blog and grew it over 12 years to a monthly readership of more than 120,000, partnering with ad networks and brands like L'OREAL, Martha Stewart Crafts and PLAID. She initially worked in B2C marketing, then moved into B2B in 2014, landing in the SaaS space shortly thereafter. After working with a number of early-stage startups, she found a knack for growing SaaS organizations through a combination of marketing, operations and Sales enablement, helping companies grow their pipeline, expand their customer base and lay the groundwork for scaling. She co-founded a consulting firm in mid-2021 and launched her own business as RevvSpark in early 2022. RevvSpark provides conversion content to marketing and sales teams of B2B Sa

Joseph S. Kahn talks with Jason Barnard about achieving harmony in your SERP results! From award-winning pop band to top-ranker for Looney Tunes, Joseph S. Kahn finds himself in new search engine ranking tactics and builds harmonics in digital teams every day. Among Joseph S. Kahn's many accomplishments, he was named "Leader of the Year" for John Maxwell's company Maximum Impact in 2003 practicing employee harmonics to make it into Fortune's Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies. Now Joseph S. Kahn is using his newly acquired SEO skills to create harmonic roadmaps for ranking at the top of Google. Achieving harmony in the SERP that sings to your audience and Google, how cool is that? Hum jamming is a brilliant way to get started and get the ideas flowing, and Joseph S. Khan's approach in all of these areas whether in the SERP or music is definitely incredible. Joseph reveals what he means by harmony in the SERP, as well as some great tips for SEO and how he managed to remove irrelevant results from Hum J

Shane Hodge talks with Jason Barnard about make your website a booking and buying machine. Shane Hodge is a globetrotter, speaker, high performance sales and marketing professional, motivator, chef, non-technical expert, motorcyclist and 10-year CEO/co-founder of TheCamel.co, a digital agency in the Philippines that is a global fulfilment partner for Duda agencies around the world, designs and builds sensational websites, does technical development and is a Google partner providing digital marketing services. In this day and age, people will research on the web before they buy anything. As a business owner, it is therefore very important to have a website where customers or potential customers can find out about the product or service you offer. Websites can be more than just a "customer attraction programme" and you can absolutely make your website a booking and buying engine for your business.  This entertaining and insightful episode with Shane Hodge and Jason Barnard offers incredible tips on how

Stacey Hall talks with Jason Barnard about how to make sales by staying in your comfort zone. Stacey Hall is the founder of Success with Stacey Hall and has made it to #1 on the bestseller list with 5 books in several countries. Her new book is Selling From Your Comfort Zone. She is known for her myth debunking social media marketing training program "Go for YES" which has helped thousands of people increase sales, satisfaction and success. She is an acclaimed speaker who received recognition for her TEDx talk. Her mission is to help salespeople reach and connect with their ideal audience, solve their audience's problems, and leave a legacy that will live on long after she is gone.  Going beyond your comfort zone can help you achieve in a variety of areas of life. But is the same requirement necessary for sales? Hmmm … What if you can be in a situation where people are attracted to what you sell whilst you stay in your comfort zone and maintain your principles, your talents, your confidence and your pow

Daniel Alfon talks with Jason Barnard about LinkedIn SEO and the LinkedIn SERP. Daniel Alfon is the author of Build a LinkedIn Profile for Business Success. Daniel joined LinkedIn in early 2004 and publishes articles, interviews, and exclusive content on advanced LinkedIn strategies for clients and subscribers on his website, www.danielalfon.com. Being at the top of Google SERP means a lot to any company or business owner. However, for agency owners, business owners and SMB users, LinkedIn as a search engine is also important to consider. LinkedIn is more B2B than B2C with a more focused and business-oriented audience, making it a preferred platform for business professionals, deal-makers, employees and even investors. LinkedIn is hugely intricate with almost as many subtleties as Google Search. So if you are going to use LinkedIn to drive business or get the new job opportunity you dreamed of, build a strategy and spend the time to implement it properly. Start with what people see on your LinkedIn p

Jonas Sickler talks with Jason Barnard about where do branded searches on Google come from? Jonas Sickler is a published author and SEO manager at Terakeet. He leads the inbound organic search marketing strategy for the brand and writes about how to gain positive consumer attention through SEO and content strategy. His advice has appeared in Forbes, CMI and Search Engine Watch. Large and small companies have different perceptions of their brand's online presence, although both are focused on attracting more customers. The way they treat their online presence still matters a lot. Large companies tend to approach online branding this way: they are well-known in the offline world and have a huge customer base, so why should they worry about managing their online presence when they are already well established? Smaller companies often fail to see the return on investment of digital branding. Online branding is vital to every business, big or small. Who is googling your brand name? It's not only customers

Katrina McKinnon talks with Jason Barnard about writing content at scale with humans. Katrina McKinnon is the founder of CopySmiths.com, a company that provides blog writing services for eCommerce stores. One of the 50 founding members of eCommerceFuel.com, Katrina McKinnon has also spoken at three conferences, served as a community greeter, and been an outsourcing and content expert for an ecommerce community of over 1,000 members over the past decade. Guest on the eCommerce Fuel, Practical eCommerce and eComCrew podcasts. Creator of more than 3,000 training screencasts and reviews for authors and the eCommerce community. Administrator of an African writers group with more than 35,000 members. How can writing high-quality content be maintained as the volume of output increases? Using AI tools is one good choice, but in this awesome episode, Katrina McKinnon gives a comprehensive look at how she maintains quality with human-written content as she scales up the volume of content written. Katrina McKin

Mickie Kennedy talks with Jason Barnard about how to make press release marketing work for you. Mickie Kennedy is founder and president of eReleases, a leading affordable press release writing and distribution company that has helped more than 10,000 businesses in nearly two decades. eReleases was founded in 1998 with the idea that publicity should not be limited to large companies.  Writing press releases for startups, new product launches or online courses is one way to reach a wider audience through the media and journalists. When crafted with strategic thinking and newsworthiness, press releases can be a very effective marketing approach. But how can you stand out from the crowd and be newsworthy enough to get the attention of the media and journalists?  The groovy Mickie Kennedy and Jason Barnard discuss brilliant tips and tricks around press release marketing for startups: what to think about while writing a press release, why others fail, and the value of press release marketing for companies.

Richard Nazarewicz talks with Jason Barnard about technical & product SEO for news. Richard Nazarewicz has worked across the digital spectrum for the past 20 years, typically demystifying complex search and optimization solutions to enable all business units to integrate search and SEO. In his current role at The Wall Street Journal, he focuses on product, technical and news SEO to make SEO a key component of WSJ, Dow Jones and News Corp. strategy. Originally from Caversham, Reading in the UK, he began his career during the dot-com boom as a consultant at Digital Computer Corporation, where one of the first search engines - Altavista - was developed and Web 1.0 was born. From there he began writing white papers on Windows NT server clustering on DEC Alpha servers, which was very advanced at the time. The Altavista browser at the time was primarily used as a tool to demonstrate the backend storage and server solutions he was working on. In 2002, he moved to Madrid, Spain to co-found a digital startup agency

Brooke Chapman talks with Jason Barnard about stop giving strategy away and turn it into a revenue stream. Brooke Chapman is the Executive Director for ThreeBy3 and 9Boxes. Brooke has a proven track record of delivering strong commercial results for large organizations in the professional services and nonprofit sectors. She has experience in marketing strategy and business growth, customer experience, brand development, and team development and optimization. Most small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners take a very tactical approach to marketing, with fragmented ideas that can be far from the broader business goals. However, moving forward and achieving long-term business goals requires more than a tactical mindset. Long-term goals are critical, and every business needs a strategic marketing plan to achieve them. Brooke Chapman and Jason Barnard offer their extensive knowledge of the importance of fundamental marketing to any business in this insightful episode. Brook Chapman presents the four mo

Meredith Kallaher talks with Jason Barnard about the ultimate conversion copy writing framework. Meredith Kallaher is a self-confessed podcast addict when she heard Rick Mulready of The Art of Paid Traffic say, "Facebook ads are simple. They are all about the numbers," that's when something clicked for Meredith Kallaher. Maybe an "aha" moment? Her CPA degree and six-year tenure at PricewaterhouseCoopers, combined with her expertise in social media marketing, have uniquely prepared Meredith to help companies execute and implement successful social media advertising campaigns. "I love numbers," Meredith mused as Rick explained that successful advertising strategies require managers to understand the lifetime value of a customer to a business and compare that to the corresponding acquisition costs by evaluating audience size, cost per lead, return on ad spend, and percent click-through rate. "EASY", said all the creative CPAs in the room! Copywriting is a critical component of a marketing and advertising s

Colin Shaw talks with Jason Barnard about UX is dead, long live CX (Customer experience is key). Colin Shaw is an original pioneer of "customer experience." LinkedIn has recognized him as one of the "World's Top 150 Business Influencers," where he has 291,000 followers. Shaw's customer experience consulting firm, Beyond Philosophy LLC, has been recognized by the Financial Times as one of the leading business consultancies for the past four consecutive years. Shaw co-hosts the highly successful Intuitive Customer podcast, ranked in the top 5% of all podcasts by BuzzSprout. Understanding people's experiences is important for any business, whether it's a small, emerging startup or a seven-figure company. How people - your company's customers, users or clients - feel and what they think about their experience doing business or using your company's products or services matters. But (oooh!) there's a huge difference between customers, users and clients.And knowing what customers want can be a huge challenge.

François Nadeau talks with Jason Barnard about From SERP to M&A: The 8 figure ROI blog post. François Nadeau has more than 7 years of experience in digital marketing and SaaS. He has written for a number of websites including Indie Hackers, The Startup, freeCodeCamp, Baremetrics, Wishpond and Growth.org. He has given keynote speeches at more than 13 startup and web development conferences in Canada, the US, and Europe. He has long been a strong proponent of bootstrapping and Jamstack. How much effort does it take to stumble upon an amazing business opportunity? Marketers and business owners, if that is a question you ever asked yourself, then this is for you.  This week's awesome guest, François Nadeau, shares his incredible journey from blog post to 8 figure M&A. He also shares how he values creating content that best serves the audience in order to trigger business opportunities. Don't be put off by the rather geeky start to the episode (it spans with headless e-commerce and Knowledge Panels)… the

Tim Fitzpatrick talks with Jason Barnard about simple marketing fundamentals to accelerate revenue growth. Tim Fitzpatrick is an entrepreneur/business owner with marketing and growth expertise. He has over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience and has a passion for developing and growing businesses. This passion served him well in operating and managing a wholesale distribution company he helped run for nine years before it was acquired in 2005. Since then, he has experienced successes and failures. In 2013, he founded Rialto Marketing and has since helped B2B professional services firms accelerate revenue growth and attract more ideal clients. He believes marketing should not be difficult. But you must remove your revenue roadblocks if you want to grow consistently and predictably. Before starting a business, launching a new product or offering services, it is vitally important that marketers and business owners lay out their marketing strategies. But how much of the typically used marketing technique

Anton Shulke talks with Jason Barnard about looking back on the groovy years and looking forward to the years ahead. Anton Shulke (The Livestream Guy) is a livestream production manager. Since 2015 he has been working on live events, webinars and podcasts for major players in the SEO industry like Semrush, Duda and smaller companies like Kalicube. As of 2020, he has worked as production manager on over 100 episodes of the Kalicube Tuesdays series of livestream events. Anton's role as production manager includes booking guests, organising the show, technical testing, and running each episode. Guests have included Carrie Rose, Nik Ranger, Andrea Volpini, Dave Davies, David Bain, Bill Slawsky, Danny Goodwin, Erin Sparks, Mads Singers, Rebecca Berbel, Koray Tuğberk GÜBÜR, Kevin Indig, Cindy Krum, Barry Schwartz, Tim Soulo, James Mulvany, Dr Ai Addyson Zhang, Bengu Atamer,David Avrin and Neal Schaffer, Patrick M Powers, Ryan Foland, Matthew Tenney, Ted Rubin, Rand Fishkin, Olsia Korobka, Teodora Petkova, Russ J

Austin Armstrong talks with Jason Barnard about how to get your business on TikTok today. Austin Armstrong is a consultant, lifelong digital marketer, public speaker, SEO nerd and TikTok marketing expert. He has been involved in search engine optimization and social media marketing for over 17 years. Austin is CEO and co-founder of Socialty Pro, a full-service digital marketing agency based in Alexandria, VA. He also hosts BusinessTok, a TikTok marketing podcast where he interviews real businesses using TikTok to start and grow their business. Austin has extensive experience and knowledge in various industries and loves helping individuals and businesses grow their online presence to generate brand awareness, customers, and product sales by getting creative and thinking outside the box. Companies use social media platforms to get in front of their target audiences. Each platform has its strengths and drawbacks, but in this episode, TikTok is the star. TikTok started out as a fun social media platform th

George Kapernaros talks with Jason Barnard about the key to retention for E-commerce. George Kapernaros holds a bachelor's degree in political science and international relations from the most prestigious university in Greece. He started his career in content marketing at Smarter Chains (an Industry 4.0 tech startup founded by former Procter & Gamble executives). In 2018, he joined Divbrands (bootstrapped e-commerce startup) as a direct response / performance copywriter. He was the company's third contractor. Within two years, Divbrands grew to over 100 employees and contractors, and he rose to Head of Copy, Marketing Manager, and eventually Marketing Director of the company. In late 2020, he felt an irresistible urge to pursue new ventures and left Divbrands to begin his entrepreneurial journey. To this day, he maintains a great, consultative relationship with Divbrands. Attracting new customers in the ecommerce space is becoming increasingly difficult because advertising costs are extremely high, and

Mike Capuzzi talks with Jason Barnard about how to write a short book to boost your search engine results. Mike Capuzzi is a publisher, author and book publishing coach who has been helping clients achieve exceptional marketing results since 1998. In 2019, he launched Bite Sized Books, a new publishing concept for creating short, helpful books (known as Shooks™). Mike is the author of 15 books, including two Amazon #1 bestsellers, The 100-Page Book and The Magic of Short Books. Writing a book is a powerful marketing strategy that a marketer or business owner can use. Rather than making money directly from sales, a book is an opportunity to differentiate yourself from the competition: since you and your competitors may already be using a number of similar tactics, writing a book is something that will set you apart. An a massive bonus is that they also increase your authority in search engines like Google. Mike Capuzzi and Jason Barnard focus on how to create "Shooks" (short, helpful books), with the

Pamela Wilson talks with Jason Barnard about use your skillset to make money online in midlife. Pamela Wilson coaches mid-career people to build profitable online businesses. She is the creator and head trainer of The Offer Accelerator, where she helps people create high-value offers that generate $10-20,000 in revenue each month. Pamela is a digital marketing consultant, keynote speaker and founder of PamelaWilson.com. She is the author of two popular books on content marketing: Master Content Marketing and Master Content Strategy. Mid-career marketers often have in-depth knowledge about their craft. They know a lot about the ins and outs of business. But when they strike out as an independent consultant, they often struggle and scramble with the thought of always attracting a new audience, pulling prospects into the bottom of funnel, and converting them into clients. How can you, as a consultant, make that process less of a problem by building a foundational income that takes the stress out of marketi

Andrew Holland talks with Jason Barnard about the value of SEO. Andrew Holland is a well-known voice in the field of search engine optimisation (SEO). His story starts in the police, takes a detour to the British Boxing Board of Control and currently sees him as Head of Organic at Manchester SEO agency Embryo. Andrew's perspective on search engine optimisation is based on his knowledge and deep understanding of the consumer journey, search intent, The Messy Middle and Behavioural Psychology. After hearing what Andrew has to say, your view of marketing and how you use it to increase sales could change forever. There is no immediate and definitive timeframe for visible results in SEO. It takes time, a lot of effort and ultimately, hard work. All too often, SEO is either forgotten or seen as standalone by companies in their digital marketing strategies. But what if SEO itself is brand marketing? Quite interesting! In this digitalised world, search engines like Google are the first port of call for infor