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Finding that perfect digital marketing agency or consultant can be a difficult task for a business. Many great businesses have been burned in the past by a bad agency while the good agencies and consultants struggle to get work. John Doherty saw this issue and decided to do something about it. So, in 2013 he launched Credo. Credo looks to match businesses with reputable and vetted consultants and agencies. Every consultant or agency is vetted by John and then he helps that business find the right consultant or agency to fit their needs and budget. John has spent several years in digital marketing, previously working as a consultant with Distilled. He has worked with small-VC backed start-ups to large hotel chains with multiple brands. John is a great resource in the SEO and digital marketing industry, so we are certainly excited to bring him on this episode of Edge of the Web.

Have you noticed an increase of videos that are showing up in your Facebook feed? Well, this certainly is a trend we are seeing and one we predicted. But with this increase in videos, it is getting harder and harder to get your video noticed. So this week, we wanted to talk with David Feinman, CEO of Viral Ideas, a video marketing agency out of Philadelphia. David gained national recognition for creating The Zombie Run that went viral across the country - getting featured by CNN and Wired. David shares with us some great tips on how to get your video noticed and keep them watching throughout the whole video. All this and more, today on the EDGE!

What is programmatic advertising? It has become a common practice in digital marketing agencies, but the term might be new to most people. Programmatic Advertising is the process of targeting specific users with your ad - which can be a more efficient spend of advertising dollars. The IAB is estimating that by 2018, programmatic advertising will be over 80% of a company's marketing spend - so it is definitely a market digital marketers need to be aware of. So we wanted to bring on Priya Kapoor of Point It. They have a great programmatic team at Point It and Priya is one of their Programmatic Campaign Managers. She has been in digital marketing for only a couple years and has caught on very quickly! This show we also have a very exciting announcement to make! Edge of the Web just received the "Best Podcast/Audio Series" award for 2017 from the Content Marketing Institute and Content Marketing Awards! We are very honored to have received the award and we're excited to meet everyone at the Content Marketing World in September.

Paul Klebanov has been building multi-million dollar websites since he was 14 years old and by the time he was 27, he had made $3.1 Million from the e-commerce website - and then lost it all. In this episode, we'll talk to Paul about how he built a successful e-commerce website and what he learned from his downfall. Plus, he is a speaker for SEMrush and has regular speaking gigs, webinars, interviews on a regular basis. We talk with Paul about the latest news out of SEMrush and what we can expect from the tool in the future. And if you didn't know, SEMrush is one of the best tools a digital marketer can have in their tool bag - we will go over some of the best features of the tool and how you can use it to do research on your competitors! !

We are back! After a few weeks off for a summer break, we are back at it and excited to bring you our next series of shows! If you have any questions or topics you would like us to discuss, please reach out to us! What is Native Advertising and how can I use it to help promote my content? Well, who better else to talk to us about native advertising than Chad Pollitt, Partner & VP of Audience of the Native Advertising Institute. Chad has been creating online campaigns for over 15 years for some of the world's most recognisable brands and has been named a member of the Forbes Top 100 list. He is also the author of "The Native Advertising Manifesto", "The Content Promotion Manifesto", and "51 Things Your Mother Taught You About Inbound Marketing." Chad is located locally, so we were glad to welcome him to our studio for this week's show!

Eight years ago, he was broke, in the middle of a divorce, had hundreds oof thousands of dollars in debt, and just lost his home. He then started a blog, wrote content, and has millions of visitors to his blog every year. That man is Jeff Bullas of JeffBullas.com and today we are going to talk to him about his story and why he started JeffBullas.com. Plus, he has a new eBook out called 101+ Tips and Tactics to Grow Your Web Traffic and we discuss some of the tips he has in the eBook. He also has a Udemy course called 7 Key Steps to Blogging Mastery.

"Five years from now, the world is a dark and terrible place. Our lives and our experiences are managed by robots, machines, and artificial intelligence which are owned and operated by international conglomerates." Those words were spoken recently by today's featured guest Jono Alderson at the Friends of Search 2017 conference a few months ago. Jono Alderson is the Principal Consultant for Distilled and he has spent the last two years researching and reading every press release, studying every merger and acquisition, analyzing every movement being made by some of these global companies like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Facebook, Uber, and more. This week we discuss with Jono why he thinks this future is a possibility and discuss how we can as marketers protect our jobs and improve our skill set for this new machine learning/AI world. All this and more, today on THE EDGE!

It was nearly one year to the day when we last talked to Nicholas Chimonas, head of Technical SEO at Page One Power, on Edge of the Web. Last May, we had Nicholas Chimonas on the show to talk about the 2016 Link Building Survey he conducts for Moz. This time on the show, however, we wanted to talk to Nicholas to talk about link building and the changes he's seen happen in the past year. And the 2017 Link Building Survey is out and if you are in the marketing industry, you are able to fill out this survey! Plus, we break down the latest updates from Google, Facebook, and recap this year's Google I/O. All this week on Edge of the Web Radio!

How do you create the content your audience wants? The likes, the comments, the shares....the lack of likes, comments, shares, sentiment, the amount of total brand conversation - these are all data points in your focus group of how your audience is perceiving your brand. On this show, we are talking to Stacey Jaffe, the Vice President of Digital Content and Channels for Teach for America, who had just spoken at the Digital Now conference in Orlando, Florida. Stacey and her team are creating content for Teach for America by staying true to their "north star". Find out more about this and more, today on the Edge!

Casie Gillette, the Senior Director of Digital Marketing at KoMarketing, leads digital marketing strategies for their clients and plays an integral part of the leadership team. With over 10 years of industry experience, Casie regularly speaks about search and social at some of the top marketing conferences in the country like SMX, SearchLove, PubCon, and HeroConf. Within the last month, she has spoken at two different conferences, SMX West and HeroConf, and we wanted to recap those presentations she gave for this episode!