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In this episode of the Remote CEO Show, I had the pleasure to interview Wissam Tabbara. Wissam Tabbara is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years as a founder, leader, and advisor. With his business acumen and technical knacks, Wissam led the building of numerous businesses, including Microsoft Adcenter in '03, Symform, which Quantum acquired in '09, and Azuqua, which Okta acquired in '19. Wissam is currently the founder of Truebase, a seed-stage startup redefining how b2b companies accelerate growth.
This episode, Founder and CEO of Zebra Advertizing Rocco Baldassarre talks about the rise of automation in marketing, how marketers can prepare for the changing world of marketing, and the different skills marketers need going into the future.Rocco Baldassarre is the Founder and CEO of Zebra Advertisement, which is currently managing accounts on Google AdWords, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft AdCenter spending an average of $5M US per month.Rocco is also a three-time Google Partners All-Star Winner, and was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 for Marketing and Advertising (Class of 2018). Here are a few of the topics we'll discuss on this episode of The Consulting Trap: How to get featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 for Marketing and Advertising. How marketing is changing and how to prepare for it. What makes a marketing campaign successful. The increase of automation in marketing. The different skills marketers will need in the future. How to stand out in an AI-created content environment. Advice for new marketers. How to assess a new client. Resources: Zebra Advertising Podcast Chef Connecting with Rocco Baldassarre:LinkedInConnecting with the host: Brian Mattocks on LinkedIn Brian Mattocks by email Quotables: 2:23 - “Marketing is going to change and is changing, first things first we can look at it on our day to day if you look at Google adverts, Facebook advertising, Bing advertising everything is moving towards automation which is making most of the marketing positions redundant over time.” 4:51 - “The first companies that want for a business to be successful are Google, Facebook, and all the other platforms out there why do they want that because unless the clients make money they are not going to make money with advertising so they will do everything in their power to make it as easy as possible for any company to make profits.” 18:39 - “I lived in probably 15 countries prior moving to the US and I picked up a bit of everything, the most important thing I learned is you need to learn to have compassion both with your clients and with the people working for you the reason being we always forget that we are talking to other human beings and a client sometimes might be mean to you but he might be mean because he's a human being he's worried about something so always being compassionate brings you way better results than being aggressive or mean or anything else.” 19:33 - “Continuos improvement you need to always try to achieve to be the best at what you do you never need to settle because remember this is a world that is globalized and there is always going to be someone who is hungrier than you are.” 20:04 - “You need clear mind to do your job well so sacrificing little pleasures for work it seems like an effort worth doing because it's going to help you grow your business but it actually clouds your mind the best ideas come to you when you're having fun and relaxing.”
Mel Carson is the CEO and founder of Delightful Communications, an award-winning B2B Technology Marketing Agency based in Seattle and London. It specializes in Video Production, Content Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing, Branding services.He began his digital advertising career as an editor at the search engine LookSmart in 2000, spending time at 24/7 Search as an Account Director before moving to Microsoft in 2005. He was part of the team that planned & executed the UK roll-out of Microsoft adCenter in August 2006. After 7 years at Microsoft as their Digital Evangelist, Mel departed in 2012 to launch Delightful Communications in Seattle.Over the years he has presented at over a hundred conferences and lectured on MBA, MSc, and online marketing courses, regularly advising curriculum decision-makers at Cranfield School of Management, Birkbeck College, as well as the University of Washington. He has also been featured in a fantastic array of top publications, including The Financial Times, Fast Company, The Next Web, Forbes, GQ, Quartz, USA Today, PR Daily, and Entrepreneur.com.Mel shares his path from being the face of Microsoft to heading his digital agency and helping B2B company leaders become spread through their influence in their industry, and why improving your mindset, taking care of your people, and continuous learning are some of the smartest decisions you can ever make to grow your business.This Cast Covers:How Mel began his digital advertising career before becoming the face of Microsoft (02:06)How moving to Seattle and getting laid off from Microsoft ended up being an unexpected blessing (03:03)What led him to start Delightful Communications (04:32)Why Delightful focuses on B2B technology marketing for enterprise companies (06:53)How he handles setbacks and challenges in the industry, such as clients pulling back budget or canceling in the middle of the pandemic (13:13)How attending a coaching course at the iPEC (Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching) changed his mindset and how that affected the way he ran his agency (15:01)Why Mel believes working on the mindset is so important (18:54)Losing around 25 pounds during the pandemic through physical exercise (20:18)The secret to the success of Delightful Communications (28:18)How people find Delightful Communications and how they acquire and retain businesses (29:58)The challenge with coaching the sales training team (35:58)Additional Resources:The Sales Driven AgencyMel CarsonDelightful Communications
Majestic as an SEO Tool is discussed as Majestic's U.S. Brand Ambassador Mel Carson talks about his most recent project he's been working on, involving broadening the audience for Majestic. Mel tells us how Majestic is no longer just a tool for the tech-savvy SEOs out there; whether you're in marketing, SEO, or even PR, Majestic can fit into your digital marketing tool belt!Mel Carson has more than 12 years of experience in the digital marketing industry. He is the founder of Seattle-based Delightful Communications, a social media, digital PR and personal branding consultancy. Mel Carson spent 7 years working as the Digital Marketing Evangelist at Microsoft Advertising building relationships within the online advertising community by supporting and educating through the Microsoft Advertising Blog, evangelizing through social media, writing and by speaking about internet marketing and digital at conferences, trade shows and other events. In 2000, Mel began his digital advertising career as an editor at LookSmart, a search engine. He spent time at the 24/7 Search as an Account Director before moving to Microsoft in 2005. He was an important part of the team that helped plan & execute the UK roll-out of Microsoft adCenter in August 2006. That same year, Mel helped set up Microsoft Advertising's Community Team, when it became apparent that Social Media Marketing was going to be huge. Mel has been a keynote speaker for several years, talking about Digital Marketing, Search, Social Media and adCenter at conferences and events in the UK, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Reykjavik, Dublin, Barcelona and Tenerife. He has also lectured on MBA, MSc and online marketing courses at Cranfield School of Management and Birkbeck College – part of London University.
Luke Webster is disrupting the billion dollar replacement razor blade market by promoting the art of shaving with a straight razor. He is snatching up all the straight razor domain names and building operating websites with PPC marketing campaigns.
Enterprise Press Release Tips, How you should use whats working for you in Google Adwords and use it in Microsoft AdCenter and Googles big move towards semantic search results. This and more are featured in this SES New York 2012 recap as Daron welcome guest co-host TopRank Online Marketing CEO Lee Odden and Incisive Media MD Matt McGowan.
Enterprise Press Release Tips, How you should use whats working for you in Google Adwords and use it in Microsoft AdCenter and Googles big move towards semantic search results. This and more are featured in this SES New York 2012 recap as Daron welcome guest co-host TopRank Online Marketing CEO Lee Odden and Incisive Media MD Matt McGowan.
Alex and Jared discuss new features on Google and MSN which include recent Google algorithm announcements, Google Adwords with Enhanced Ad Sitelinks and Microsoft adCenter with Dynamic Keyword Insertion.
Alex and Jared discuss new features on Google and MSN which include recent Google algorithm announcements, Google Adwords with Enhanced Ad Sitelinks and Microsoft adCenter with Dynamic Keyword Insertion.
In this episode we discuss Australian SEO. We also discuss how the Panda update put content scrappers ahead of original content creators in the SERPS. We also discuss Microsoft adcenter and why you should be interested in using it. The most popular Internet Marketing Podcast on iTunes. E-Webstyle provides PPC Houston.
In this episode we discuss Australian SEO. We also discuss how the Panda update put content scrappers ahead of original content creators in the SERPS. We also discuss Microsoft adcenter and why you should be interested in using it. The most popular Internet Marketing Podcast on iTunes. E-Webstyle provides PPC Houston.
Bas and Roy are joined Mel Carson, adCenter Community Manager for Microsoft in Europe. Mel joins in on commentary of the latest search news headlines, plus talks about Bing and his work in the adCenter Community.
Gillian visit Microsoft AdCenter on the SMX Advanced 2010 show floor. We learn about their work using Bing, new advertising tools in the works and more.
PageRank Paid Links Drop, Yahoo Fixes Site Explorer, Google AdSense Topics and Searching as Ben and Barry the big PageRank massacre, if you want to call it that. Yahoo Site Explorer, Microsoft adCenter upgrade, a Google Image update and the big question, Are SEOs better searchers?
Jeremy is joined by the Microsoft adCenter team including adCenter Community Manager Jeanie DuMont and Product Managers Natala Menezes and Brian Boland, and Group Manager James Colborn for a roundtable discussion.
Todd Malicoat aka Stuntdubl joined us to give us some really great tips on obtaining .edu links. Outside of that we talked about the Microsoft and Yahoo possible merger. Yahoo’s new robots-nocontent tag and Matts rebuttal of the so called Google Hell. We also talked about AdSense topics, Microsoft adCenter topics, AdWords and more topics.
We started off with a short discussion on Google’s click fraud numbers. We then talked about the NOYDIR tag, followed up with discussion on index updates from Yahoo!, Ask.com, and Google. We also discussed legal issues in search, Microsofts adCenter bug and much more.
To kick off the show we had some discussion on our new design here at the Search Engine Roundtable. We then got into the Google Presidents Day update, followed by a Google patent application discussion. Microsoft had a large adCenter bug, and Yahoo! Search Marketing also had a PPC bug. We discussed the Google AdWords algorithm