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The Lost Marty Weintraub Rockstar Videos

Posted by Lauren Litwinka on August 11th 2010 in SEM Poetry Slam | 8 comments

Last October during a mundane office cleaning, the aimClear team happened upon an epically rad relic of the 80′s… a black & white  36×48 inch relic, to be more precise. Publication of  The Lost Marty Weintraub Rockstar Pictures gave new meaning to the tongue and cheek “PPC rockstar” and “Social Media rockstar” verbiage that had been lobbed at Marty in the past. Read the rest of this entry »

What the Hell is SEO Now Anyway?

Posted by Marty Weintraub on April 28th 2010 in Rants, SEM Poetry Slam | 17 comments

The disdain on their faces is usually palpable.  I’ve been experiencing subtle Facebook derision from mainstream SEOs now for two years. Last week’s edition was a conversation with Greg Boser, President and CEO – 3 Dog Media, a new friend and brilliant speaker on the SMX Search Marketing Conference series circuit.

Dude is a salty-dog SEO genius. However, as we each shared what we were planning to discuss with Australian conference attendees, I had barely started when Greg made it clear, with nary a word, that Facebook demographic segments are a bunch of bullshit.  He actually squinted when I referred to Facebook “organic” as “SEO.” Go figure… Read the rest of this entry »

Marriage, Sex, SEM & Modern Dating Metrics

Posted by Lauren Litwinka on February 9th 2010 in SEM Poetry Slam | 2 comments

Power girl on the prowl…

What Are You Thankful For? Rad’ Peep ReTweets

Posted by Marty Weintraub on November 25th 2009 in SEM Poetry Slam | 1 comment

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I’ve been watching TweetDeck all morning  for the real-time search “thankful.” Feeling extremely grateful, I asked a couple a’  thousand of our closest friends what exactly they were thankful for. Some of the answers from tweeps were warm and touching. We found some  snarky-ass results in Twitter search segment SERPs, which we grabbed to RT-share here. Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s Affirmations For This Search Marketer

Posted by Marty Weintraub on October 23rd 2009 in SEM Poetry Slam | 3 comments

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The wind whistles howling, this blustery Canal Park morning, 7:20 AM.  The water churns brown, surface licking little whitecaps, tinted iron ore agitated by waves. There’s going to be snow south of us along the Shores of Lake Superior today, hazardous travel they say.  It’s about 43 degrees Fahrenheit outside but I’m good.

Each year it takes about a week of around-freezing weather to acclimate a soul and I’m there.   Really, I got up and went to the store pre-dawn this morning wearing shorts, sandals and my Marshall School blaze-orange down vest.  I’m good because Duluth makes you hardy in deep & handy ways.  The seats in the Jeep are heated. Bring it. Read the rest of this entry »