#seoisaeo Podcast - Expert Interviews At Major Digital Marketing Conferences

Will Laurenson talks with Jason Barnard about the key to a perfect website. Will Laurenson is a customer experience optimisation consultant helping ecommerce brands optimise their customer journeys for conversion and customer value. If you're looking for a better ROI for your marketing spend and higher Customer Lifetime Value, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or Twitter. Will also hosts the Customers Who Click podcast, a weekly interview with leading marketers from across the industry. Websites play an important role in sales, and when you design a website, you probably first think about what will appeal to your customers. But what if you got that wrong and should focus on how the website works for customers and how it answers their questions and concerns about your products or services, as well as your business. What should you do to achieve a high conversion rate? In this interesting episode, Will Laurenson explains how to tailor the customer experience to increase a website's conversion rate.

Burkay Alpyildiz talks with Jason Barnard about EoT: Enough of things and phygital explained. Burkay Alpyildiz is a Phygital Experience Leader, Serial Entrepreneur and Managing Director. After a solid engineering education, Burkay focused more on project management, international business and experience design. He founded or co-founded companies that had great success in their fields and had significant differences that made them unique in the industry. His primary expertise is developing products and solutions to industry problems. With his ability to manage complex projects, he is known in the industry as a problem solver. Burkay takes a holistic approach to designing digital experiences and believes that each link in the value chain has a major impact on the final product or service that the end consumer engages. His value-added products and services have received multiple awards from top management. In addition to his professional work, Burkay volunteers for SCORE Mentors in Metro NJ Chapter, which inc

Dennis Consorte talks with Jason Barnard about how to leverage press to build authority on Google. Dennis Consorte helps startups and small businesses because he believes that successful entrepreneurs give people hope, and that is more important today than ever. Dennis Consorte does this primarily through digital marketing and building teams and systems that enable incremental and sustainable growth in traffic, conversion and customer retention. He has over twenty years of digital marketing experience and sold his first ecommerce business in 2004. Today, he works as a digital marketing and operations consultant helping online businesses increase traffic, conversions and customer retention. His approach to digital marketing is unique in that he sees every touchpoint along the customer journey as an opportunity to build the kind of relationship one would expect only from face-to-face communication. Team building and storytelling are core to his methodology. Experts cannot claim to be experts just because

Tatiana Bonneau talks with Jason Barnard about domain names as brand assets. Tatiana Bonneau now works for MarkUpgrade.com and SmartBranding.com with the goal of helping entrepreneurs make better decisions about their online brands. She is interested in entrepreneurship with all its joys and pains, technology and how it affects our lives, names, business names and domains as brand assets. She is happy to help anyone with a serious interest with thoughts and ideas on any of these topics. Every website or business has its own unique domain name. And since it plays an important role in how customers can access or find your website, entrepreneurs and business owners should consider investing in one. The lovely Tatiana Bonneau shares her domain name expertise in this incredible episode. She explains the need for a domain strategy for businesses, its value, and the consequences of not having one. Some entrepreneurs and business owners shy away from the concept of owning a domain name because they don't kno

Mads Singers talks with Jason Barnard about building a team rather than just a group of coworkers. Mads has more than 10 years of experience in Fortune 500 companies such as Xerox and IBM and more than 8 years of experience coaching and consulting online entrepreneurs in management and outsourcing. He has also spoken at many major events such as CMSEO, TiECon, DCBKK & DMSS Bali, SEO Spring Training, 7 Figure Seller Summit and the Survive and Thrive Ecommerce Summit. Mads, who currently owns and manages 4 companies and employs more than 100 people, does not just talk the talk, he walks the walk. Mads is not only a management expert, but also an expert in growing and scaling an online business. He is one of the industry experts on the DISC method, which is a cornerstone of his management philosophy, and he shares his knowledge through the Effective Management Mastery course and community. Achieving attainable business goals requires a group of people working together as a team. Communication, trust, owner

Irina Poddubnaia talks with Jason Barnard about how to make 5-10% extra sales on Autopilot. Irina Poddubnaia is the founder of TrackMage, a package tracking software that increases sales and customer loyalty by providing a superior post-purchase customer experience. Her journey began by managing a fulfillment center in China for 2.5 years (without speaking Chinese) and then starting and successfully running a SAAS company to this day - completely remotely and without external funding. While ecommerce sellers focus on acquiring new customers, they often overlook the opportunity to generate additional revenue through their existing customers. Retaining customers and keeping them in a cycle to repeat orders should also be a priority in marketing strategy. In this episode, the amazing Irina Poddubnaia discusses how ecommerce stores can get additional sales from customers who have recently purchased and are still checking their delivery status. Irina also explains the importance of keeping your brand name

Alexandra Tachalova talks with Jason Barnard about links are the foundation of your site. Alexandra Tachalova is the founder of the online digital marketing event and relationship-based link building agency DigitalOlympus.net. Alexandra Tachalova is a sought-after speaker and also runs a digital marketing conference in Europe. She also writes regularly for leading digital marketing blogs, including Moz, SEJ, Salesforce, Hubspot and many others. Having quality links for your business does not necessarily mean you have to build them. With the right, high-quality content, you can generate them yourself. And there are other ways to get links organically. But how do you increase your chances of getting links, and what are the main problems you may encounter when getting links? In this incredible episode, the brilliant Alexandra Tachalova shares her extensive knowledge on link building. She discusses fantastic link building tips, closing the current link gap, and why link building is not a business problem

Ash Nallawalla talks with Jason Barnard about why enterprises need a CWO (Chief Web Officer). Ash Nallawalla has more than 20 years of experience in search engine marketing. He has worked as an independent consultant, as an in-house SEO manager for large companies, and on the agency side for smaller companies. He also founded and sold an SEO training company. He wrote a monthly SEO column for APC Magazine for many years. He recognized the need to close what he saw as an awareness gap among managers of the SEO function. He observed costly mistakes that resulted in ranking drops, which meant lost revenue for most companies. This inspired his latest publishing venture, a series of three books that includes "Accidental SEO Manager," currently available on Amazon. One person at the top of the organizational structure is responsible for each of the many departments that make up large companies. But can someone in the executive suite be held responsible for SEOs as part of the corporate organization, consideri

Carly J. Cais talks with Jason Barnard about spark your marketing with conversion content. Carly J. Cais started in marketing before she even knew it was marketing: she created websites for businesses in 2001 (her first website was a My Little Pony flipping shop ). She later started a niche blog and grew it over 12 years to a monthly readership of more than 120,000, partnering with ad networks and brands like L'OREAL, Martha Stewart Crafts and PLAID. She initially worked in B2C marketing, then moved into B2B in 2014, landing in the SaaS space shortly thereafter. After working with a number of early-stage startups, she found a knack for growing SaaS organizations through a combination of marketing, operations and Sales enablement, helping companies grow their pipeline, expand their customer base and lay the groundwork for scaling. She co-founded a consulting firm in mid-2021 and launched her own business as RevvSpark in early 2022. RevvSpark provides conversion content to marketing and sales teams of B2B Sa

Joseph S. Kahn talks with Jason Barnard about achieving harmony in your SERP results! From award-winning pop band to top-ranker for Looney Tunes, Joseph S. Kahn finds himself in new search engine ranking tactics and builds harmonics in digital teams every day. Among Joseph S. Kahn's many accomplishments, he was named "Leader of the Year" for John Maxwell's company Maximum Impact in 2003 practicing employee harmonics to make it into Fortune's Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies. Now Joseph S. Kahn is using his newly acquired SEO skills to create harmonic roadmaps for ranking at the top of Google. Achieving harmony in the SERP that sings to your audience and Google, how cool is that? Hum jamming is a brilliant way to get started and get the ideas flowing, and Joseph S. Khan's approach in all of these areas whether in the SERP or music is definitely incredible. Joseph reveals what he means by harmony in the SERP, as well as some great tips for SEO and how he managed to remove irrelevant results from Hum J

Shane Hodge talks with Jason Barnard about make your website a booking and buying machine. Shane Hodge is a globetrotter, speaker, high performance sales and marketing professional, motivator, chef, non-technical expert, motorcyclist and 10-year CEO/co-founder of TheCamel.co, a digital agency in the Philippines that is a global fulfilment partner for Duda agencies around the world, designs and builds sensational websites, does technical development and is a Google partner providing digital marketing services. In this day and age, people will research on the web before they buy anything. As a business owner, it is therefore very important to have a website where customers or potential customers can find out about the product or service you offer. Websites can be more than just a "customer attraction programme" and you can absolutely make your website a booking and buying engine for your business.  This entertaining and insightful episode with Shane Hodge and Jason Barnard offers incredible tips on how

Stacey Hall talks with Jason Barnard about how to make sales by staying in your comfort zone. Stacey Hall is the founder of Success with Stacey Hall and has made it to #1 on the bestseller list with 5 books in several countries. Her new book is Selling From Your Comfort Zone. She is known for her myth debunking social media marketing training program "Go for YES" which has helped thousands of people increase sales, satisfaction and success. She is an acclaimed speaker who received recognition for her TEDx talk. Her mission is to help salespeople reach and connect with their ideal audience, solve their audience's problems, and leave a legacy that will live on long after she is gone.  Going beyond your comfort zone can help you achieve in a variety of areas of life. But is the same requirement necessary for sales? Hmmm … What if you can be in a situation where people are attracted to what you sell whilst you stay in your comfort zone and maintain your principles, your talents, your confidence and your pow

Daniel Alfon talks with Jason Barnard about LinkedIn SEO and the LinkedIn SERP. Daniel Alfon is the author of Build a LinkedIn Profile for Business Success. Daniel joined LinkedIn in early 2004 and publishes articles, interviews, and exclusive content on advanced LinkedIn strategies for clients and subscribers on his website, www.danielalfon.com. Being at the top of Google SERP means a lot to any company or business owner. However, for agency owners, business owners and SMB users, LinkedIn as a search engine is also important to consider. LinkedIn is more B2B than B2C with a more focused and business-oriented audience, making it a preferred platform for business professionals, deal-makers, employees and even investors. LinkedIn is hugely intricate with almost as many subtleties as Google Search. So if you are going to use LinkedIn to drive business or get the new job opportunity you dreamed of, build a strategy and spend the time to implement it properly. Start with what people see on your LinkedIn p

Jonas Sickler talks with Jason Barnard about where do branded searches on Google come from? Jonas Sickler is a published author and SEO manager at Terakeet. He leads the inbound organic search marketing strategy for the brand and writes about how to gain positive consumer attention through SEO and content strategy. His advice has appeared in Forbes, CMI and Search Engine Watch. Large and small companies have different perceptions of their brand's online presence, although both are focused on attracting more customers. The way they treat their online presence still matters a lot. Large companies tend to approach online branding this way: they are well-known in the offline world and have a huge customer base, so why should they worry about managing their online presence when they are already well established? Smaller companies often fail to see the return on investment of digital branding. Online branding is vital to every business, big or small. Who is googling your brand name? It's not only customers

Katrina McKinnon talks with Jason Barnard about writing content at scale with humans. Katrina McKinnon is the founder of CopySmiths.com, a company that provides blog writing services for eCommerce stores. One of the 50 founding members of eCommerceFuel.com, Katrina McKinnon has also spoken at three conferences, served as a community greeter, and been an outsourcing and content expert for an ecommerce community of over 1,000 members over the past decade. Guest on the eCommerce Fuel, Practical eCommerce and eComCrew podcasts. Creator of more than 3,000 training screencasts and reviews for authors and the eCommerce community. Administrator of an African writers group with more than 35,000 members. How can writing high-quality content be maintained as the volume of output increases? Using AI tools is one good choice, but in this awesome episode, Katrina McKinnon gives a comprehensive look at how she maintains quality with human-written content as she scales up the volume of content written. Katrina McKin

Mickie Kennedy talks with Jason Barnard about how to make press release marketing work for you. Mickie Kennedy is founder and president of eReleases, a leading affordable press release writing and distribution company that has helped more than 10,000 businesses in nearly two decades. eReleases was founded in 1998 with the idea that publicity should not be limited to large companies.  Writing press releases for startups, new product launches or online courses is one way to reach a wider audience through the media and journalists. When crafted with strategic thinking and newsworthiness, press releases can be a very effective marketing approach. But how can you stand out from the crowd and be newsworthy enough to get the attention of the media and journalists?  The groovy Mickie Kennedy and Jason Barnard discuss brilliant tips and tricks around press release marketing for startups: what to think about while writing a press release, why others fail, and the value of press release marketing for companies.

Richard Nazarewicz talks with Jason Barnard about technical & product SEO for news. Richard Nazarewicz has worked across the digital spectrum for the past 20 years, typically demystifying complex search and optimization solutions to enable all business units to integrate search and SEO. In his current role at The Wall Street Journal, he focuses on product, technical and news SEO to make SEO a key component of WSJ, Dow Jones and News Corp. strategy. Originally from Caversham, Reading in the UK, he began his career during the dot-com boom as a consultant at Digital Computer Corporation, where one of the first search engines - Altavista - was developed and Web 1.0 was born. From there he began writing white papers on Windows NT server clustering on DEC Alpha servers, which was very advanced at the time. The Altavista browser at the time was primarily used as a tool to demonstrate the backend storage and server solutions he was working on. In 2002, he moved to Madrid, Spain to co-found a digital startup agency

Brooke Chapman talks with Jason Barnard about stop giving strategy away and turn it into a revenue stream. Brooke Chapman is the Executive Director for ThreeBy3 and 9Boxes. Brooke has a proven track record of delivering strong commercial results for large organizations in the professional services and nonprofit sectors. She has experience in marketing strategy and business growth, customer experience, brand development, and team development and optimization. Most small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners take a very tactical approach to marketing, with fragmented ideas that can be far from the broader business goals. However, moving forward and achieving long-term business goals requires more than a tactical mindset. Long-term goals are critical, and every business needs a strategic marketing plan to achieve them. Brooke Chapman and Jason Barnard offer their extensive knowledge of the importance of fundamental marketing to any business in this insightful episode. Brook Chapman presents the four mo

Meredith Kallaher talks with Jason Barnard about the ultimate conversion copy writing framework. Meredith Kallaher is a self-confessed podcast addict when she heard Rick Mulready of The Art of Paid Traffic say, "Facebook ads are simple. They are all about the numbers," that's when something clicked for Meredith Kallaher. Maybe an "aha" moment? Her CPA degree and six-year tenure at PricewaterhouseCoopers, combined with her expertise in social media marketing, have uniquely prepared Meredith to help companies execute and implement successful social media advertising campaigns. "I love numbers," Meredith mused as Rick explained that successful advertising strategies require managers to understand the lifetime value of a customer to a business and compare that to the corresponding acquisition costs by evaluating audience size, cost per lead, return on ad spend, and percent click-through rate. "EASY", said all the creative CPAs in the room! Copywriting is a critical component of a marketing and advertising s

Colin Shaw talks with Jason Barnard about UX is dead, long live CX (Customer experience is key). Colin Shaw is an original pioneer of "customer experience." LinkedIn has recognized him as one of the "World's Top 150 Business Influencers," where he has 291,000 followers. Shaw's customer experience consulting firm, Beyond Philosophy LLC, has been recognized by the Financial Times as one of the leading business consultancies for the past four consecutive years. Shaw co-hosts the highly successful Intuitive Customer podcast, ranked in the top 5% of all podcasts by BuzzSprout. Understanding people's experiences is important for any business, whether it's a small, emerging startup or a seven-figure company. How people - your company's customers, users or clients - feel and what they think about their experience doing business or using your company's products or services matters. But (oooh!) there's a huge difference between customers, users and clients.And knowing what customers want can be a huge challenge.