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If I Were Marooned in the Caribbean

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This is a time of year when everyone comes out with their “best of this” or “most influential of that” sort of posts. This is our contribution to the end-of-year sharing of personal favorites. If I were marooned on a Caribbean island and could only read 6 search marketing blogs, Online Marketing Blog would be… Read More

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Selling an SEM Firm: Real-World Overview

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This incredibly relevant session featured the generous tutelage of Patricia Hall, Investment Banker, Hallmark Capital. She walked the audience, comprised primarily of search related business owners, through a brilliant real-world overview of how the financial community looks at the SEM industry and evaluates companies for potential investment or sale. Even if you’re not thinking about… Read More

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The Unfiltered Reality of SES Chicago

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Much has been written about the inevitable evolution of Search Engine Strategies which, though destined to occur eventually, happened cold turkey this week with the overlapping of PubCon. We’ll I’m here in Chicago and I’ve got feedback for you straight from the source.

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Challenges of Scaling Big PPC Management for Small SEM Shops

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Over the last 10 months the number of PPC accounts aimClear handles has multiplied by more than 20X, which has been seismic to say the least. At the same time the ever-evolving PPC landscape continually undergoes its own “global warming crises,” as heated paradigm shifts pile upon chilling conceptual overhauls at the advertising platform level.… Read More

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Rand Fishkin Again Shares FireFox Sidebar

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TopRank’s Big List, The AdAge Power 150, and the Search Engine Land right hand sidebar are among 50 or so of the most coveted blogRolls on which a blog can appear. For our part we created the dailyCrawl to view 400+ respected SEM blogs as a slide show. Rand Fishkin has shared a select list… Read More

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