Do YOU Connect with Content, Search, Social and Local? Now YOU Can!

The Local Social: We ROCK Content, Search and Social At Advice Interactive our mission is to provide the digital marketing community, and all businesses small and large, with the tools, resources, information and essential knowledge to have success with: Content Strategy and SEO Local and National Search Social Media Strategy & Engagement We share this information through blogs, videos, social media and events! Speaking of events …. On October 23rd […Read More]

Where to Begin with Local Search Engine Optimization

Maybe you read an article that talked about Panda, Penguin and Pigeon updates, but don’t understand how these animals pertain to SEO? Well, we are here to help and offer advice on how to get started with Local SEO. Achieving high rankings and visibility in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) for any business is the ultimate internet marketing goal, but it might not be the most achievable goal for […Read More]

How to Be an Instant SEO Expert: The 1 Minute Prep for Sales Calls

Do you make outbound cold calls to new digital marketing prospects? Do you receive inbound calls and need to appear like the instant SEO expert? If you answered “yes” to either of the questions above, you need a strategy to differentiate yourself from the fifteen other knuckleheads your prospects are talking to everyday. You need to be of value. Providing value is your most important objective. If you are of value, you will […Read More]

DFW Rocks Social Media Conference — Through the Eyes of an Intern

I’ve always found that I benefit most from doing a cannonball into the pool rather than going in slowly by just dipping my toes. Lucky for me, Advice Interactive’s rock star of a CEO, Bernadette Coleman, agrees. She gave me the opportunity to attend the DFW Rocks Social Media conference in Addison, Texas, over a late June weekend. For those of you who do not know the organizer, Lissa Duty, she is […Read More]

Your LinkedIn Professional Network

Your LinkedIn® Professional Networking: How to Connect, Optimize, and Implement for Success teaches you how to create top of mind awareness within your LinkedIn network through branding, optimizing your profile and using search to grow your network. Co-authored by Lissa Duty, Advice Interactive Group VP of community management, this book is your go-to CliffsNotes on leveraging LinkedIn. Highlight it, mark it up, refer to it and implement. This book focuses […Read More]

Bernadette Coleman Lands a Home Run at #DFWSEO!

I was really excited to have the opportunity to hear Bernadette Coleman, Advice Interactive CEO, recently present at the DFW Interactive Marketing, Internet SEO & SEM Meetup. Bernadette started in this industry in 2006 as a consultant, just like me, and has accomplished great things. Her presentation focused on local SEO, social media and content. Attendees left with many great takeaways. For me, her presentation affirmed everything I have been telling […Read More]

Content Marketing And SEO: A Chicken And Egg Story

Before we proceed to discuss the title of this piece, I’d like to look at three very fundamental questions. Q1. How many brands engage in formal marketing? Almost every single one—from small mom-and-pop stores to global brands— depends on marketing in some form or the other for daily sustenance as well as long-term growth.  Q2. How many marketers today are brave enough to stay away from digital marketing? Almost none. […Read More]

Matt Cutts Confirms New Panda Algorithm

What is Panda 4.0? Matt Cutts confirmed Tuesday evening that Google began releasing the Panda 4.0 update. Matt Cutts revealed to Search Engine Land that this algorithm update will impact ~7.5 percent of English queries. This update comes just a few days after Google released an update to their Spam Algorithm over the weekend, which specifically targets very spammy queries such as “payday loans.” What Does It Mean? Websites in the […Read More]

Why I Wasn’t Impressed with Michael King’s DFWSEM Presentation On Personas

I have followed Michael King’s work for a few years now, so I have an idea of what to expect from him in the way of presentations, writing and such. It’s fair to say I peruse everything I can find with his name on it, which gives me quite a bit of perspective. So when no less than four people asked what I thought of his recent talk at the Dallas/Fort Worth […Read More]

“Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing” Goes Global

We’re excited to announce the release of Chinese market translation of “Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing” by Rob Garner, Chief Strategy Officer at Advice Interactive Group. Due to the success of the book in English markets, this essential guide to modern Internet marketing will make its debut throughout China in late May 2014. “Search and Social” was published in 2013 and has since been lauded […Read More]