Month: October 2020

Ben Aston is a serial entrepreneur with plenty of project management chops. For one thing, he’s used The Digital Project Manager to provide mountains of information to people on this very important, very useful subject. He’s also the founder of Black & White Zebra, a digital media publishing company based in Vancouver that runs a …

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The holiday season is here, and with it, challenges for local businesses. Kanika Thakran, former SEO Director with Milestone Internet Marketer, has tons of actionable local SEO advice for this season. This holiday season is unique for local businesses due to the pandemic. Kanika provides a slew of actionable ideas that both reflect the foundational …

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It’s hard to be in the digital marketing world without hearing about SEMrush, the all-in-one marketing toolkit for SEO, PPC, social media, content marketing, and marketing research. It’s one of the most powerful MarTech tools available to agencies today.  Eugene Levin is the Chief Strategy Officer at SEMrush. As one might expect, he’s an expert …

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Brad Fagan is the Senior Insights Marketing Analyst at Uberall. Uberall helps global brands strengthen their “nearby” brand presence. They’ve worked with the likes of McDonald’s, DHL, Shell, Pizza Hut, BP, and dozens of other companies that have local businesses and franchises spread all over the world.  Recently, Brad put out a report called Creating …

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What would it look like to build an agency that’s prepared to scale from Day 1?  Andy Cabasso knows. It took him just three years to build his agency, scale it, and sell it for a profit. He was looking ahead towards that acquisition from the very beginning and achieved it. Talk about an exit …

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It’s pretty impossible to work in Local SEO for very long without hearing Mike Blumenthal’s name. The “Godfather of Local,” as the nickname itself might imply, has been one of the big-name experts in the industry for a very long time. He’s the co-founder of GatherUp, and he’s had his own local search blog for …

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We got a bit technical on today’s Agency Ahead podcast. Okay, okay, we got real technical, because our guest was Rachel Anderson, a technical SEO analyst at DeepCrawl, a cool tool that allows you to understand all the technical aspects of your website and how they might ultimately impact SEO performance. Tune in if you’re …

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Jon Hall was the founder and creator of Grade.us, a review management platform for agencies. He’s now on a brand new project as the founder of Switchbird. Switchbird agencies the power to offer powerful SMS marketing solutions to local businesses.  Today he joins us on Agency Ahead to talk a little about local marketing. He …

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