Grow your business through digital marketing advice and up-to-date strategies.
Find the right digital marketing partner with Credo.
Sometimes you need to email someone but you don’t have their email address. Sure, you could go about tweeting at them, or DMing them, or messaging them on LinkedIn for it, but doesn’t that seem a bit counter-intuitive? If you have them there, then why not go ahead and ask your question there? If your question needs to go via email, then there are a few great ways to find someone’s email address for free and quickly. These are my…
For a limited time, get 20% off Personal plans using our link. I’ve been building and hosting websites since 2008, since the very beginning of my career. While trained as a front end web developer and technical writer in university, I had to learn the ropes of web hosting, servers, and more simply through trial, error, a lot of downtime, and a few wins along the way.
Brian Dean, if you don’t know him, is the founder of Backlinko. Started as an outlet for him to share what he’s learned, he’s built it into an SEO training company that allows him to travel the world and make a positive impact on the SEO world. In this conversation, we talk about unfair advantages. Brian is a master of identifying unfair advantages and opportunities that allow him to go to the next level. We talk about: How he tried…
If you haven’t heard of Zapier, you should check them out. If you’re growing a company and trying to bring together multiple services to talk to each other, you either have to write custom code or use Zapier. They’ve built an impressive business, and today Wade tells the story and the lessons they’ve learned.
Marketing is a black box, right? I remember when I was in university from 2003-2007 and had friends who were marketing majors. Marketing seemed like a total black box to me because I had no idea how to do it. Cue irony because now marketing is what I think about everyday (and guess what, this post that you’re reading is marketing for my business!) If you’re not a marketer, then you might be super confused about how to actually grow…
Josh Pigford is the CEO and founder of Baremetrics, which they say is “Metrics, forecasting and engagement tools for teams using Stripe, Braintree, Chargify and Recurly.” They help SaaS and subscription businesses have clarity into their subscriptions, revenue, churn and more.
Live chat is all the rage these days on websites. I used it on Credo for a number of months and decided to remove it completely from the site. But I think live chat is a valid solution to a valid problem for the right companies. Let me tell you why.
Also find us on iTunes. A little bit of a different video for you today. One topic I have become very interested in, because it’s something I’ve been working through at Credo, is making sure you are producing the right content for your audience. I know it’s Marketing 101, but sometimes it takes time to figure out who you best serve and then double down on them.
Nick Loper is the founder of Side Hustle Nation. He started the site because he was starting side hustle businesses which grew into full time income. He actually started side hustles on the side of his main hustles, and then the side hustles became the main hustle. Meta, right? Nick and I actually first got connected because I came across one of his current side hustles and I emailed him. Then we met in person in Boulder and have continued…
Britney Muller is the SEO and Content Architect at Moz. She’s recently moved from Denver, my town, to Seattle to work in Moz’s main office. At MozCon 2017, she gave an incredible case study about what she did on Moz to see movement forward of Moz’s organic traffic. In this video you’ll learn: How she identified tens of thousands of low quality profiles, and why she noindexed them; The results she saw from this; What she’s learned from trying to lose…
Aleyda Solis is one of my favorite people in the digital marketing world. She’s whip smart, has a ton of hustle, is always doing interesting things and sharing the learnings with others, and she’s super fun to hang out with (I’ve had hangovers for days after hanging out with her). She’s also an incredible marketer and entrepreneur, and over the last few years has built a business that she loves running from wherever she happens to be in the world….
Something I get asked a lot is how Credo generates projects, or “leads” as people like to call them. I prefer to call them projects because they’re more than a traditional lead which can mean anything. A “lead” in the digital marketing world can be anything from an email address to a full scope from someone who is ready to buy right now. I talk about projects because we’re a business that makes its revenue off referrals. We generate the…
Martijn Scheijbeler is the head of SEO at Postmates, one of the fastest growing startups in Silicon Valley. Before that, he was head of growth at The Next Web based in Amsterdam. In this video, we talk about the challenges and opportunities of doing SEO/growth for high growth companies and well known brands. I hope you find it as fascinating as I did! Quick note: my video did some weird things and so you’ll only see Martijn’s face and not…
Running a marketing (or any) organization at a company is a big job. I’ve done it, and looking back on those years it was one of the toughest times in my career yet also one of the times that I learned the most. One of the lessons I learned across those two years as well as the past 2.5 years running Credo is around how to set yourself and your organization up for success when you don’t have unlimited headcount…
Greg Gifford is a mensch, the VP of Search at DealerOn, and the owner of an epic beard. I’ve been friends with Greg for quite a few years now, and over the last few I’ve watched him grow his team over at DealerOn, focused on the auto dealer SEO space. Greg is a master at Local SEO and speaks the world over, so I was super happy to get to speak with him about Local SEO, how they sell…
In this video, I speak with Ashley Ward who is currently the corporate speaker for SEMrush, the well known and loved SEO and digital marketing toolset. I wanted to catch up with Ashley because she has years of social media marketing and digital experience, but really focuses on how social media can move the revenue needle for businesses. I don’t know about you, but I have always been quite skeptical of social media for business. We’ve all seen it done…
If you follow the SEO industry at all and care about organic traffic to your website, you might be aware that Google confirmed that they are making meta descriptions almost twice as long as before. They said to Barry Schwartz over at SEroundtable/SearchEngineLand/RustyBrick: We recently made a change to provide more descriptive and useful snippets, to help people better understand how pages are relevant to their searches. This resulted in snippets becoming slightly longer, on average. When you search my brand…
Nathan Chan is the founder of Foundr (https://foundr.com/), an online magazine for entrepreneurs. He started it as a side hustle, and over the last few years has grown it into a powerhouse brand producing content for entrepreneurs. They even had Richard Branson on the cover super early on, so they must be doing something right! And they’re just getting started, if you listen to this full conversation!
If you’ve arrived at this post via a Google search, you are probably in one of these two groups: You are a business that has identified SEO as a growth channel for you business and you don’t know who to hire, or You are trying to figure out if SEO is going to be a growth channel for your business. This article is for both of you, though if you’re in the first camp you should probably go ahead and…
Sean Smith is the cofounder of Simple Tiger, a digital marketing firm that has been on Credo since the beginning. They specialize these days in startup marketing, especially SaaS companies, helping them get traction through SEO, content, and promotion. In this video Sean lays down some of the most common SEO and content mistakes he sees startups making that, when corrected, can drive huge growth. Simple Tiger on Credo Simple Tiger’s website Sean on Twitter
In my daily work on and in Credo, I often am asked who the “best (SEO/content/marketing) agency” is. I have literally heard those exact words hundreds of times in the last two years. I get it. We all want “the best”. We are all addicted to quick answers and quick solutions. The world has trained us to think that there is one “right” solution, and usually a quick one, to many of our problems.
Loading...