#seoisaeo Podcast - Expert Interviews At Major Digital Marketing Conferences

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

Brian Harnish talks with Jason Barnard about SEO audits: now and into the future. Brian Harnish is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Professional and web developer with extensive practical knowledge of SEO, online marketing and advertising. He is self-motivated, enthusiastic, and a conscientious team player with proven experience in sales and content creation for digital media, creating marketing campaigns for new product launches across various social media channels, devising marketing and advertising strategies, and tracking product sales and costs by analyzing and entering sales, expense, and new business data. A detailed SEO audit report will be more effective if the clients understand clearly what they need to implement to improve on their website. And taking a step back and walking clients through each step of the process with a well-presented report, that takes into account the context of their industry, will definitely encourage them to implement what was recommended. Brian Harnish and Jason

Yuval Ackerman talks with Jason Barnard about selling more and better with ethical email marketing. Yuval Ackerman is the person you want to work with if you want to promote your brand without all the possible sleazy sales tactics in email marketing - but don't know how to do it yourself. As an ethical email strategist and copywriter, she helps entrepreneurs and companies tell their stories and sell without feeling guilty (and even have fun doing it!). She believes that email is a wonderful platform to build genuine and honest relationships with your audience, bypassing the unreliable "middle man" of social media. When she's not thinking of fun and ethical ways to help her clients market themselves, Yuval enjoys all things food, writing songs, and hosting a podcast about conscious relationships called “Loving Against My Instincts.” It is a daunting task to be exceptional and stand out in the vast number of emails subscribers receive every day. When the subscriber's email inbox has a string of unread mes

Benjamin Shapiro and Erin Sparks talks with Jason Barnard about is podcast SEO even a thing? Erin Sparks is owner and president of Site Strategics (founded in 2004), which specialises in high-quality Web services for small and medium-sized businesses. He is the creative force behind the 450+ episode EDGE of the Web Radio podcast, where he regularly interviews thought leaders in marketing and technology. His 23-year IT and marketing career includes 17 years of search engine optimization (SEO) experience. Site Strategics serves a diverse client base in the Midwest and beyond with omnichannel digital marketing utilizing an AGILE marketing approach. The EDGE of the Web podcast is the longest running and one of the top ranked SEO podcasts. Benjamin Shapiro is the founder, CEO and executive producer of I Hear Everything. He hosts two popular podcasts: Martech Podcast and Voices of Search Podcast. Early in his career, Benjamin walked away from eBay, where he had a successful career in business development. Now

Olga Zarzeczna talks with Jason Barnard about the secrets of a good technical SEO audit. Olga Zarzeczna is a senior/technical SEO specialist, an SEO consultant and an SEO auditor who started her SEO journey in 2012. She is a true SEO geek who is very passionate about her job. Her main focus is on technical SEO and she loves to do advanced technical SEO audits which sometimes takes her 30-40 hours. She runs her own SEO consultancy, SEOSLY, and is the Director of SEO at Market JD, a Chicago-based company doing SEO for lawyers. She has experience working for big brands like Procter & Gamble, LG, banks, large online stores and more. An SEO audit has no fixed time limit. The time it takes depends on the aim of the audit, the thoroughness the client wants and the automation choices the SEO expert makes. Olga is a huge believer in less automation, and more human intelligence, and although you may sometimes feel you are wasting valuable time, from an expert's point of view, it is worth investing time in an audi

Mike Ulmer talks with Jason Barnard about find the business story you'll tell daily the rest of your life. Mike Ulmer founded Catapult, a company that reflects his belief that great business books are great books. And at Catapult, story comes first. The company makes a point of interviewing its customers to find out their story, their processes, the ins and outs of their business, what they do, how they do it, and why they do it. Catapult's methodology: the "Only Ten Business Questions That Matter" questionnaire. And after 25 years in journalism and 15 books, Mike learns something new every day about the three essential skills of a writer: how to ask the right question, how to listen for the right answer, and how to find the right words. We all have stories to tell, maybe we have heard people say they do not, but in fact we all do. And in business, it's all about finding the right story, or even the best story, that will leave an impression on customers and that can be told over and over again. In th

Heba Ashour talks with Jason Barnard about how international image/video search works. Heba Ashour is Principal Program Manager Lead of Multimedia Search Ranking and Platform at Microsoft Bing. She is an experienced leader, technology manager, technical visionary, and passionate about using technology to democratise access to information, services, and opportunities. Heba focuses on providing users of search services around the world with engaging images/videos that match their exact intent in every scenario, empowering them to be informed, entertained, save money, and succeed. Previously, she worked at Microsoft Research's Advanced Technology Lab in Cairo, where she turned various research technologies into features that were integrated into various Microsoft products. In this delightful episode, Heba Ashour and Jason Barnard discuss how search engine users around the world are increasingly using visual and video search to get a quick and accurate answers to their questions and solutions to their probl

Georgios Chasiotis talks with Jason Barnard about how to build & maintain topical authority. Georgios Chasiotis is the Managing Director of MINUTTIA, which helps B2B SaaS companies accelerate their organic growth through data-driven content marketing and SEO. Georgios Chasiotis started as an independent marketing consultant, but was soon put on the path to start an agency. The goal: to build a team and scale a business by using his knowledge and experience to develop successful systems and processes. This path led to MINUTTIA, where Georgios realises his vision of content and SEO systems that rely heavily on strategy and avoid short-term tactics to achieve repeatable and scalable success for companies of different industries and sizes. In his spare time, he shares wisdom on LinkedIn or buries his head in psychology books to understand the "why" of human behaviour. Chasing keywords by covering a multitude of different topics for content writing can be really tempting. But there are more than enough topic

Jason Davis talks with Jason Barnard about how can small businesses use branded search? Jason Davis started as a WordPress developer creating custom themes for clients who needed an online presence. He has over a decade of hands-on experience developing WordPress websites and creating compelling user experiences. Jason is the co-host of the NerdBrand Podcast (he loves podcasts) and CEO of NerdBrand Agency: a branding agency that creates strategies, imaginative ads, web designs, and digital marketing tactics to achieve your business goals. What do you think of when you hear the terms digital marketing and branded search? Perhaps SEO or online presence? There are certainly tremendous opportunities that digital marketing can open up for a business, but what about small and local businesses that don't have the knowledge or resources to digitalise? In this insightful and fun-filled episode, Jason Barnard and Jason Davis discuss various online strategies and SEO tactics for small businesses including Keywo

Ravi Yada talks with Jason Barnard about the importance of behavioural analytics. Ravi Yada was born in southern India, grew up in the Midwest, and lives in the Pacific Northwest. He is an engineer, inventor, and public speaker. He currently works as a product manager on Microsoft Clarity. Ravi has worked in analytics, search, computer vision, and machine learning for nearly a decade and has developed numerous products at Microsoft, most notably Bing Visual Search. Ravi is an avid public speaker on AI products and technology, speaking at Microsoft Build, CVPR, DMEXCO, SMX, @Scale, and NRF. As a marketer, when building a website, you need to focus not on how YOU would personally use it, but how your users will - you have to walk in the user's digital shoes, as Ravi Yada puts it. That is where Behavioural Analytics comes into play! User behaviour analysis is the star of this episode. Jason Barnard and Ravi Yada discuss how understanding user behaviour on websites can help you improve user experience an

Emilija Gjorgjevska talks with Jason Barnard about SEO in the metaverse. Emilija Gjorgjevska is a Senior VIP Project Manager and Machine Learning Specialist at Wordlift. Selected as a 2019 LinkedIn Valued Member by Linkedin's research team. Accepted into Google's invitation-only virtual program, Google Inside Look 2019. Recognized by IEEE, British Council, Nesta, the University of Texas at Austin, World Bank, Pioneers, FCSE Skopje and home country media. Holder of two certificates for innovation. And has worked as a Python engineer in the SEO industry for the last few years. The constant evolution of digital marketing has opened the doors to virtual opportunities for every marketer. The emergence of highly advanced computer vision technologies that extract information from images and videos, marketers need to think "Mateverse" whilst also providing the best visual experience to their audience. In this episode, Emilija Gjorgjevska explains the Metaverse to Jason Barnard so that he (and we) can better