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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 ou...

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 P...

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 manage...

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...

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 epi...

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...

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...

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...

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 - i...

Google Analytics is a wonderful tool that many marketers and websites use, but many marketers make mistakes in Google Analytics when it comes to campaign tagging. Well, we got a hold of Annie Cushing, the founder of Annielytics, to discuss how to make the best of your marketing efforts within Google Analytics. Some of the topics we cover include: - Campaign tagging - Creating Custom Channels & Dim...

Mathew Sweezey, the principal of Marketing Insights at Salesforce, joins us on the podcast this week.  Mathew has spoken at over 50 conferences this past year and his group at Salesforce has released some interesting statistics this past year.  This episode we are talking about the study called "The State of the Connected Customer" and how it relates to B2B companies and B2C companies.  Plus, Math...

Dana DiTomaso is the President & Partner of Kick Point and we are excited to have her on the podcast this week to discuss branding and branding strategy! Is your business struggling with your brand? Do you even know you struggle with your brand? Well, listen to this podcast to learn from one of the industry's best. Plus, some big changes are happening to the Marketing Technology Blog - so we check...

Joanna Wiebe, co-founder of Copy Hackers and Airstory, joins us on the podcast this week to discuss conversion copywriting. Joanna has helped businesses like Invision, Shopify, Crazy Egg, Rainmaker/Copyblogger, BT, AVG, and Tesco optimize their copy. She also works with research partners like Buffer, Wistia, and MadMimi to test some […] The post EP 207: Conversion Copywriting – Writing Sales Copy...

Is your marketing content cheating on you? You think your content may be OK, but could it actually be sending your prospects to your clients and away from what you want them to do on your website? We are talking this week to Amy Harrison, a copywriter based in Brighton […] The post EP 206: Is Your Copy Selling You Short? w/Amy Harrison appeared first on Digital Marketing Podcast | SEO Podcast | Ed...

Welcome to episode Doscientos Cinco (Episode 205) as we welcome Zeph Snapp, CEO of Altura Interactive, on the podcast this week. In the previous 204 episodes of this podcast we've never tackled the topic of International SEO and translating content – so we had to have Zeph on to tackle […] The post EP 205: Localizing Your Translated Content & Translation Fails w/Zeph Snapp appeared first on Digita...

Talia Wolf is one of the industry's top conversion optimization specialists and she joins us this week to tell us about her new CRO class, Emotion Sells: The Masterclass. She has taught conversion rate optimization on stages such as Google, Unbounce, MozCon, Search Love, CXL Live, and Learn Inbound. We […] The post EP 204: Emotion Sells: The Masterclass & Harry Potter w/Talia Wolf appeared first o...

As we start coming to the end of 2016, we try to get a handle on all the different tactics in digital marketing. And one of the most important tactics, that is constantly changing, is PPC. It's a huge environment to talk about and we going to be talking to […] The post EP 203: How To Survive & Thrive at SMB PPC w/Kirk Williams appeared first on Digital Marketing Podcast | SEO Podcast | Edge of the...

We are excited to be joined this week by Garth O'Brien, the Director and Global Head of SEO at GoDaddy, to discuss with him how he manages his team of SEOs and creates/implements a global SEO strategy. Plus, we also talk with Garth about how to change a company culture […] The post EP 202: Managing a Global SEO Strategy w/Garth O'Brien appeared first on Digital Marketing Podcast | SEO Podcast | Ed...

Jason White, the current Director of SEO at Hertz (and former VP of SEO and SMM at DragonSearch), joined us this week for our 201st episode of Edge of the Web. Jason started his new job with Hertz within the last month and is putting together his task list and […] The post EP 201: In-House SEO vs. Agency SEO w/Jason White appeared first on Digital Marketing Podcast | SEO Podcast | Edge of the Web...

Edge of the Web started on the local airwaves in Indianapolis on February 4, 2012. We've come a long way in the 4+ years and are now broadcasting in our own studio! And nothing goes better with your 200th episode than some steak, and Prime 47 stepped up and delivered! […] The post EP 200: Steaks, Spirits, & SEO appeared first on Digital Marketing Podcast | SEO Podcast | Edge of the Web .

As digital marketers, do you know when your message isn't hitting the mark? Or more importantly, why? Solving the "what" the customer is looking for is not the equation, but the "why" they are looking for should be the goal of digital marketing. So this week we are bringing on […] The post EP 199: Finding the Why in Your Digital Marketing w/Steve Hammer appeared first on Digital Marketing Podcast...

Ian Mackie, the Director of Social Advertising at Point It, joins us on the show this week to discuss the importance of Social Media Ads for your marketing campaign. Some of the topics we cover with Ian are: Why are other social media networks so far behind Facebook in social […] The post EP 198: Social Media Ads w/Ian Mackie appeared first on Digital Marketing Podcast | SEO Podcast | Edge of the...

In a recent Moz webinar, Amy Balliett, CEO of Killer Infographics described "Visual Communication" as: graphically represents information to efficiently and effectively create meaning – & when necessary, a limited text is included to explicate the meaning. There is no doubt that visual communication is a powerful tool for marketers […] The post EP 197: The Value of Visual Communication w/Amy Balli...

What a trip is has been! We started this journey over four years ago, recording in a small radio station here in Indianapolis, and leveling up, over time. There's been a lot of episodes, and huge amount of work for this shop of ours, and today we celebrate a big […] The post EP 196: Rand Fishkin Interview – Penguin 4.0, Moz Layoffs, & Running a SaaS appeared first on Digital Marketing Podcast | SE...

Steve Guberman, Director of Search Marketing of GolfNow.com, dives deep into Google Tag Manager with the EdgeTalk crew this week. Most search marketers are familiar with the Google Tag Manager tool, but how well do you know what all it actually can do? With a little imagination, Google Tag Manager […] The post EP 195: Google Tag Manager Hacks w/Steve Guberman appeared first on Digital Marketing Po...