Chicago SEO + Web Development

I just confirmed that I’ll be speaking in the St. Louis, Missouri area on Thursday, June 11th at the Market Saint Louis “Look at Me” Seminar. It’s a single day event in Glendale that will cover everything from bringing business owners up to speed on search engine marketing and SEO concepts and trends, to search [...]

On the show, we regularly discuss the value of attending search conferences in terms of education and networking opportunities, and we strongly encourage SEO beginners to attend at least one. Unfortunately, these conferences are usually pretty expensive to attend. Between airfare, hotel, food (and bar), cabs to and fro, etc. it gets spendy fast. Thankfully, [...]

We’re less than 3 weeks out from SES San Jose, Aug. 18-22. If you’re running low on business cards, or you need new ones printed with updated contact info/title/etc, get on that PRONTO! I know I go through business cards like water goes through a sieve at conferences, so make sure you’re well stocked and [...]

I had originally planned on being in Vegas from December 2 (Sunday) through December 8 (the following Saturday); however, my plans were “modified” due to a “situation” and as a result, I will be in Chicago until December 5 (Wednesday) and miss the first two days of PubCon. While this sort of sucks, because I [...]

If you’re someone who is responsible for marketing a business website, but doesn’t actually work for an agency, or works for a business that is primarily brick-and-mortar and might be a late comer to the “internets”, you’re probably going to have to justify the time away and cost of your conference attendance to your boss(es). [...]