Ranking Locally: Your Guide to GMB & SEO (Unknown Secrets Revealed!) Ep. 580
Are you struggling to rank for local search terms? Have you ever wondered if creating separate local landing pages for various locations could be the…
Reddit now appears on the first page of most Google searches after a deal with Google, making Reddit advertising a high-value, underused channel for brands seeking organic visibility and community-based audience targeting.
Reddit is on the first page of almost every search. You can target the subreddits of where people are searching and Reddit showing up, and then advertise on that platform.
We spotlight current marketing challenges and showcase standout examples of exceptional strategies and current issues, all with a fresh marketing perspective! We cover Reddit’s powerful advertising features and how they can benefit your marketing strategy. Learn why you need to leverage Reddit’s unique audience targeting to reach users based on interests, even if unrelated to your product. See how to engage…
Reddit appears on the first page of almost every Google search result after a deal between Reddit and Google. Marketers can target specific subreddits where their audience already gathers, reaching users based on demonstrated interests even if those interests are not directly tied to the advertiser's product.
Brands should contribute value and respect community norms rather than spamming. Organic pitching in Reddit communities gets removed by moderators. The recommended approach is paid advertising that aligns with user preferences, similar to showing up at a networking event and actually engaging rather than just handing out business cards.
According to a Search Engine Journal article cited in the episode, Reddit's unique audience targeting lets advertisers reach users based on demonstrated interests, even when those interests are not directly related to the advertiser's product. Reddit also invests in AI-driven advertising solutions to improve targeting and ad placement.
The host recommends niching down into small segments, winning micro-growth in each, and expanding gradually rather than attacking a large competitor head on. He notes that big companies often have only a few engaged people actually driving their marketing, which creates an opening for focused smaller competitors.
Reddit is on the first page of almost every search. You can target the subreddits of where people are searching and Reddit showing up, and then advertise on that platform. I think that's phenomenal.
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SEO is a tool. SEO is a very, very powerful tool to increase trust, authority, to show up at all stages of the sales funnel. However, it's still one channel.
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There's been more changes in the last 36 months in SEO than in the last 15 plus years.
Matt Bertram
Howdy. Welcome back to another fun-filled episode of the Unknown Secrets of Internet Marketing and SEO podcast. My name is Matt Bertram. I'll be your host for today. I have a great lineup of a ton of experts coming to you very soon. I'm going to be doing a lot of recording next week. I know I took a little bit of a hiatus. We over-traveled this summer. Things were very busy. Hopefully, everybody's getting back and into the swing of things and want to deliver you some great content. There's a lot of things changing with SEO. I also, in my hiatus, I was doing a lot of trainings. We had launched a small business coaching program. What else? We onboarded a ton of new clients, and we've hired some new people. So I've been really busy on my end. I've been doing a lot of work and training and onboarding and trying to do it all. And I thought I should get a podcast out to you guys, let you know what's going on, as well as let you know what to expect coming up. We're going to be doing a series on Amazon ads and e-commerce. There are some new programs that Amazon's launching. We don't talk a lot about that, but we have some experts coming on to do that. We do actually a lot for Chris's supplement company. They're launching new categories on Amazon for local deliveries. Actually, they're highlighting furniture right now and a lot of changes. And I think it's very exciting. So I want to bring some experts on about that. I have some other kind of series that I want to do as well. I also have some big names that I've had on my other podcast. We had the head of IBM Global Sales and Marketing on my other podcast, and I've been doing a lot over there. And I apologize for slacking off, but I'm going to get into the routine here. And as we move through to Thanksgiving, I'm going to deliver y'all, over-deliver you a ton of
content because that's what we want to do. So I guess hopefully that covers the potatoes. If you're a small business and you're looking for a coaching program or if you're a marketing manager that you're just overloaded and you need some support, we have some small business and midsize business solutions where we do full brand management. And you can check over at EWRdigital.com some of those services if you're interested. But I also am recording the day after the most recent presidential election. And while I'm not going to speak any politics on this, I do want to talk to some things regarding the marketing side as well as a little bit of news in the industry before we jump into the meat. There was an ad that was put out, and I will put a link to it in the show notes, by RFK. So RFK recently supported Trump, okay? And whatever your opinions of that are. But he put out an ad called Trump Derangement Syndrome Ad. And if you have not seen this, this is brilliant marketing. There's a lot of things that are starting to happen in this campaign, and there really have the last two years. Ever since Obama, digital marketing has taken a forefront, and I love to watch what's going on. But I'll put a link in the show notes. It didn't take a lot to do this ad if you're in the industry, but it's so powerful to break down barriers, to open up people, and really, what are you trying to do with marketing? You're trying to automate sales online. You're trying to influence somebody. You're trying to move somebody from point A to point B. And there's some real power in this ad as far as who it's speaking to and what it's trying to perceive, and also kind of putting a light spin on, well, a pharmaceutical ad. And so I know we've been getting hit with a lot of pharmaceutical ads, and I was in the pharmaceutical industry and the advertising. And so it just really
spoke to me, and I just thought it was brilliant. So I'll put that in the show notes for you to check out. Also, something I think that's super big news from a search engine standpoint, this was last month. Google was ruled a monopoly. I know that's shocking. Either you already knew that it was a monopoly or you never thought that they would rule against it. I think the biggest thing that's going to happen is Samsung and Apple are not going to be able to default put Google on the OS systems or the phones. And I think there'll be some appeals and there'll be some different things. But if you think about Silicon Valley, if you think about even Amazon, the strategy is pick a segment and own it and basically get a monopoly monopoly style lead in that space. So you want to own that space and then move on to a new segment. And that's really how Silicon Valley has operated for a long time. And Google's done it great. I mean, they still have roughly 90% market share. Now, I think there's a lot of other things happening. I think people are searching differently. I think people are getting their information differently and Google's adapting with it. If you've been in the search engines, you see the AIs coming up in the searches. That costs them money. That's computing power to process that. I don't know how long that's going to last for, but it certainly is interesting. There's also a search engine out there called perplexity.ai landed a client recently that put us in, like put in, you know, SEO agency perplexity.ai something. And we came up and it was interesting because he called me and or he called the company. And he's like, the only reason I'm talking to you guys is because you came up first in this and then basically one of our digital marketers that answers the phone connected him with me and then got on the call with him based on like what they were looking to
do. And he was like, oh, man, I also listen to your podcast. And so that was a pretty cool connection. And really what I want to be talking about today as kind of transitioning into some of the meat here is. SEO is really, really powerful for a fractured market, OK? If people don't know who the market leaders are or they don't have a referral or something like that, they go to Google and you want to own a lot of the different SERP phrases that people are looking for. And that builds credibility all the way through the funnel. Well, another big component and another big news story, I guess, that happened is Reddit did a deal with Google. I think it has something to do with a lot of the AI content that is starting to proliferate across the Internet. And Reddit has a real community. If you've ever tried to post in Reddit and you're not part of the community, you'll just get shunned out, right? Like they they hate spam in that community and they, you know, different subreddits really protect what they're doing. Google did a deal with Reddit that they're starting to show up on the first page of almost every different kind of search result. I mean, there are certain categories that they're in, so they don't show up every and every one of them, but they show up a lot. And you all know how much traffic that, well, SEO gets and and you need to be on the first page, the higher, higher up on the first page. And and Reddit continues to show up and you get community news associated with that. So there is that deal done by by Reddit and Google. So if you're not thinking about, hmm, maybe I should be advertising on Reddit or even other social media platforms, that's kind of what I wanted to talk about today. And the analogy I used with a client, I guess, earlier this week was SEO is a tool. SEO is a very, very powerful tool
to increase trust, authority to show up at all stages of the sales funnel. However, it's still one like like channel. Right. And so when you're running advertising campaigns, you're using multiple channels, you're trying to reach people in different ways for for different capacities. Certainly, if you're running ads, I don't like running, you know, all awareness campaigns, which, you know, it hits the same person and you get that brand lift. But it doesn't reach a lot of people or it doesn't get people to the site or it doesn't focus on conversions. Those algorithms are tweaked to run a little bit differently. So you want to run a layered campaign. Also, if you're wanting to run like streaming radio or if you're wanting to do, you know, over the OTT or CTV, you know, you can't track clicks sometimes. Right. And so you're looking for broader, higher end awareness as you build that funnel. And I love SEO. I started off actually on the paid side, but I love SEO and I really dove into it because it just checks so many boxes. And the ROI is so there and you want to really maintain the real estate after you stop spending ads. Now, do we use ads? Do I love ads and campaigns? Absolutely. I'm not like all SEO or nothing. I think these things work together in the analogy that I was getting to is, you know, if you have a door open in your house, let's just say, and maybe that's not a great analogy. I don't know. But you have a door open and you're trying to get a breeze coming through the house or let's call the breeze traffic. Uh, you just have one door open and well, you know, some, some, some air will get in there. It will circulate, what have you. But if you open like a window and a door or two windows, uh, and, and now you've got like a current flowing through there. I mean, it's, it gets powerful enough to sometimes slam a door if
that's ever happened to you. Like you have a window open or a door and you open another door and the other door slams that current gets really strong. And so I like to use, uh, paid to support the SEO campaigns. Now, a lot of people like to go paid first and then they want to layer in SEO or a lot of people don't even get there and just want to keep, uh, paying, but you're targeting a different kind of customer. You're reaching somebody differently, but when you can start, uh, using like both hands, let's use that analogy. Um, you get a lot more effective of what you can do if you just had one hand. Right. And so I love SEO. I love paid ads. I love influencer marketing. Again, these are all different tools and you know, you're not directly influencing people in Reddit, but you can be advertising in that group in a way that is acceptable to the community and you can get brand exposure that way. And I don't think a lot of brands are thinking about this. Like Reddit is on the first page of almost every search. You can target the subreddits of where people are searching and Reddit showing up and then advertise on that platform. I think that's phenomenal. Now, you know, I don't know how much experimentation you've done with the type of people that are in those subreddits. And you want to do some research based on that. Also, you want to do some research based on the type of people that go to your site. Where else do they like to go? Right. What else do they like to do? Uh, and there's, there's ways to figure that stuff out. And, you know, one of the things you might want to look at is like, what Reddit subgroups might they be interested in and where might they be hanging out if you're going to catch people there. And you got to hit people so many times before, um, you're a valid consideration of what
you're trying to do or what you're trying to influence or the storytelling or messaging you're, you're trying to perceive, especially like the bigger brands. Because you want to be omni-channel, you want to be everywhere. And, um, now there are tools that help you tie this stuff together. And, you know, there's some really great platforms out there. And if you look at like ROAS on, um, some of these e-commerce channels, as well as, uh, what you're doing when you're doing other things, not just like one channel, uh, you see huge benefits. Like one example is when we ride like streaming radio or, you know, we do, we, we, we do terrestrial radio, but I have a partner that does that. Like we do not, or, or an agency partner that, that does that. And we've been on some multi, um, multi like, uh, agency committees. Um, we're not like running terrestrial radio. So don't call me about that. I know, I know I've been, I know enough about it, but I don't, I don't do it. I don't do the media buys. And also I like that the digital component, you see what's going on. So, um, I like going that route first, but anyways, when you do something like that, you get a bunch of people searching for your specific brand. Right. Cause well, they can't, um, click on a link. So they search your brand. Well, Google loves when people search for brands, you get a lot of brand lift. If you're trying to do X, Y, Z or whatever you're trying to achieve, uh, having people search for your brand. Brand might be part of that formula. And that's, that's really fantastic. Or if you're trying to do other things and you need a strong brand presence, that's one way to do it. I think Reddit is a fantastic way to do it. And so, um, just to kind of go into that a little bit more, uh, there is an article by, uh, search engine journal. And I, again, I'm slacking. I
haven't written an article, uh, for them in a minute. Uh, we've been really, really busy and we've launched some of our own properties and, uh, we got a lot going on. I've been asked to be, uh, fractional CMO of a number of companies that we've been doing marketing for, and we've just kind of knocked it out of the park. And they just, I guess, want, want more of my time. And, um, the agency is doing well and, and, and I have more time to give. So, uh, but, uh, you know, okay. So there's an article search engine journal, Reddit strategy to attract advertisers on interest-based targeting. Okay. And so this goes into a lot of detail on why this might, uh, be a good solution. And also it talks about how Reddit's been investing in AI driven advertising solutions to reach, uh, better people. You've seen that with Google. There's a continuous change, uh, and really what they like to do, uh, even on, uh, other social platforms is, you know, here, here's what you want the, the, uh, title to be, here's your description. And then AI will generate like five different titles and then you can click on the ones or modify them and then run them and then do some AB testing to figure out what messaging is working best. And, uh, I think it's been working fantastic, uh, as our experience has been, um, you know, also there are some of these platforms, right? Some of these social platforms are really, really rudimentary. Um, and, and so you can't get good data or you can't get good targeting. We have a couple of nonprofits that we're trying to target a specific person. Some of these platforms don't, um, really give you a great way to target it. So you're trying to kind of get close as like a Venn diagram, trying to lay over as many characteristics as you can to try to try to get it right. Um, but again, brand lift standpoint, you want to be omni-channel, you want
to be everywhere. Some of the key takeaways. Okay. And, and it's, it's all the way at the bottom. I will link to this in the show notes, but key takeaways for marketers and business owners, Reddit's unique audience targeting capabilities allow advertisers to reach users based on their demonstrated interest. If, even if they aren't directly related to the advertiser's product or service. See, I think that that's fantastic. If you think about the customer journey, how do you reach these people? This can help uncover new opportunities for the audience expansion and engagement. The platforms focus on facilitating authentic conversations key while passionately, while passionate communities provide a trusted environment for brands to connect with their target audience. However, marketers should approach these communities with respect and aim to contribute value to the discussion. So we're talking about community management, right? So there's people out there that do community management. I think it's highly effective, uh, Facebook groups, there's LinkedIn groups, um, getting involved and adding value to, uh, a community you're part of, not just going in and, and pitching, um, is really key. I think, you know, a lot of, uh, community job boards or, um, uh, chat, chat, chat boards, um, same kind of context. It's just Reddit's, uh, aggregating a lot of that community and, uh, have really enhanced the features. And if you haven't been on it, and if you haven't been on it, I mean, that's one of the places in addition to Twitter or X where I now get my news, um, because it's real time. It's, uh, what is it? Citizen journalism, I think might be the term for it. And I mean, I'll give you an example. Uh, there were some fires in, in Rio dos in New Mexico. Um, and, and we have some, some friends there and, you know, it's big in the big news and essentially. The national media wasn't really covering it on Twitter. I was getting real time posts for people and I could search for different things and I could see what was
going on real time. And then I was getting things that were in the news cycle two to three days before anybody reported on it. And, you know, look, if you're a blogger out there, um, or you're, uh, you know, trying to, trying to hit your numbers on, on view rates or, or trying to be a reporter, I mean, Twitter X is, is really, um, key. And I think really Reddit is a great way to, uh, get feedback and, um, from, uh, quantitative research that you're doing, uh, on different brands. I think there's a, a really a big way to leverage, uh, this community, but you gotta, you gotta get involved with it. Um, and I know a lot of people don't always have time to do it. And that's why advertising to that group in that community is a way that you, um, approach it in a way that is professional, but you're not trying to like spam, uh, something in there organically, which never works. I mean, think about the person that goes to like a networking event, which they're coming back and we've been busy with some conferences and stuff like that. But like that person, like, don't be that person that has a bunch of business cards that walks up to a group that hands the business card, their business card to everybody doesn't ask what they do, whatever. And then they leave and they think that someone's going to buy based on that. And, um, you know, a lot of the things that are happening in person just happen in line. That's just a re a different platform or a recreation of that human experience. And that's kind of what that is. You're just kind of spamming it. And that business card, uh, will get deleted by a moderator or it'll get, uh, you know, it'll get hidden or buried. Um, and no one looks at it. And I would tell you, that's the thing I actually dislike the most on, on X or Twitter, whatever is just like the nonsense.
You know, um, I'm sure that someone's going to come out with the AI filter that, uh, only showing me the relevance. And I like kind of how it's starting to hide it and say like, okay, these are relevant comments. The rest could be spam. Um, you know, I think a lot of these platforms are maturing, uh, in what they're doing and it's becoming less wild west. But again, you want to optimize for what is happening currently that you're an early adopter for. And I would tell you that if you're still listening to this podcast and you're still getting value, take action. Like nobody's really advertising on Reddit. Everybody outside of Facebook and Google really are just getting crumbs from the advertising spin that's happening. I think you want to really spread it around and you should really consider Reddit. Okay. So Reddit heavily invests in AI driven advertising solutions, which can help marketers improve targeting, optimize ad placement. And enhance creative customization, staying informed about new AI features can help advertisers remain competitive on the platform. Also, I think that this is a great way to see what other tools I'm seeing AI, uh, getting integrated into a lot of different tools we're using and it's making them better. And it's making the people that are power users of them more efficient. Um, and I think that now more than any other time change is happening and you want to change with it. As Reddit expands its ad offering, it remains committed to balancing monetization and user experience. Marketers should be mindful of this balance and aim to create non-intrusive ad experiences that align with user preferences. So I'll give you a great example of this, the Superbowl, right? The Superbowl people make ads that are entertaining. And, and I mean, I watched the Superbowl specifically for the unveiling of specific ads, but people don't mind ads if they're entertaining or they're targeted properly. So it's offering a solution to you, I'll give you an example. Uh, I think a lot of people listening may
have been exposed to a recruiter, uh, executive placement person, uh, at a time, a headhunter, right? Um, and if headhunters are calling you and you're not interested in a role or a job or whatever, it's, it's kind of like, like, Hey, I'm not interested. It's kind of like, you know, it's a spammy call or it's a pest or I don't know what term you want to use, but, but it's not helpful to you because you're not in market for a new job. However, right. If you just, you know, brushed up your LinkedIn profile and, um, you're looking to take that next step in your career, or you just got, went through a review and you didn't get the, the pay increase you wanted, or, you know, somebody, a boss or somebody's rubbing you the wrong way and you're looking to make a change and a recruiter calls you with a fantastic opportunity at the right time, right place, right message. Right. Then you're like all ears, like, Hey, I'll talk to you for whatever. Like, how can I help you? What, what do you need? Um, that's kind of how advertising works. And, and that's why, uh, all this data is so powerful, uh, in digital marketing. You're not just, Hey, let's run a print ad and just hope it goes well. Let's buy a billboard and just hope that, you know, the 13% of people that are driving by this actually see it and take action. Um, you can make changes, you can change messaging, you can see what people are doing. Um, like there's so much more that, that happens. And, and I think that one of the things I see more than anything else is when I look at competitor brands, uh, for clients in all industries, you just got people doing really bad targeting. To be honest, um, uh, local companies that are advertising nationally, um, and maybe only service 25 miles from a geographic area. And they're just running these ads nationally and they're spending a bunch of money. That's
just bad targeting. And that's not helpful because that's not even a product you can service. So, you know, again, it's a tool. If you use it properly, it can be really effective. And I would tell you that digital marketing and SEO level, the playing field with the big players. And if you're competing against a big company, cause I'm doing a lot of stuff, uh, right now from a brand strategy standpoint, uh, on the oil and gas front industrial front with, with companies, uh, that are, that are trying to reach that market that, that can do very, um, advanced campaigns. And, and there's some really fun stuff that we can, we can do because we can add these different channels. We can do the budget. We can build out little apps. Um, so I did something for a candy company and, um, we worked with a partner, of course, like we don't build apps, but there's, there's just awesome stuff that, that you can do. Um, but there's only like two people at that big company in that department that really care or like, let me give you just, uh, you know, I'll make it up. But like, let's say there's five people or 10 people on the team. That's actually who you're competing with. And they have actually a set limited budget. It's not the whole company necessarily. If you're competing in, in a niche market or they're trying to develop a market. And maybe there's like two or three people on that team that, that actually know what, what's going on or kind of driving the marketing component of this. And then like one of those people is just like not engaged maybe because they're, they're not in the office anymore. They're working remote. They're maybe not talking. Maybe they're focused on another project or they're getting pulled in this direction, but you probably have like one to two people that you're really, really competing against. And one of the, one of the people might be looking for another job or something like that.
Like they're not like so invested. So if you're a small business or you're a medium sized business and you're trying to compete against these bigger companies, if you have a good strategy, you can do that. I'm about to publish a bunch of case studies. Okay. And I, our, our website needs, needs, needs an overhaul. We haven't, we haven't put up stuff for a few years and we're working on the brand stuff. And, um, you know, really excited about, uh, what we're going to be rolling out. But man, I have case studies explaining to you how to attack these bigger markets and how a startup can go up against like $8 billion company and when, right. And how do you win? You don't eat the whole elephant at one time. You eat it in small bites. You eat it in different niches and different segments and a little bit of here and a little win there and a little traffic here and a placement here and a ad conversion here and some, uh, brand branding on Reddit here. Um, you're going to win and you're going to win it. You know, you're going to be getting that micro growth here and here, and you're going to be wearing away here and you're going to be able to establish the brand. And if you niche down small enough and then you own that market, then you start expanding. Um, I will, I'm going to do, I'm going to try to do a, a like infotainment documentary, uh, with this sunglass company that we're working with. And, um, I'm going to be going and, uh, meeting with the owners and, um, I'm going to try to record the whole thing and, and put it out for people to kind of expand. Experience and see, uh, how that process goes to take a brand that was actually developed in COVID to go up against huge companies and win, but when one step at a time, not, not to take them head on. Right. And I have multiple case studies
of how we've been able to do this and supplements and a number of other brands. So you have to be strategic with your marketing. You have to make sure that you're measuring what's going on and then step-by-step you can win, you can reinvest and you can take that market because the big players might not be focused on you yet. And you can build up a big enough war chest to start taking them on. Now, of course you can go get private equity and you can raise money and you can go head to head, but I also don't think that that's a great strategy if you're not the market leader, uh, out of the gate. So, you know, I do blogs and, and talk about some of this stuff and, and, and really I've, I've written a number of books on, on personal branding, right. Of how, how those can apply to, um, all kinds of things, but overall brand placement, super important. And SEO helps do that, right? Okay. So, uh, let me, I'm digressing. I apologize. The platform offers that we're talking about Reddit here. Uh, the platform offers full funnel management solutions such as, uh, Reddit brand lift. So we're talking about that, like reaching, uh, customers, uh, making them see an ad a number of times to, to remember that. Now, sometimes, you know, you gotta be careful that gets annoying. If you see the same ad, like five times in one day, you're like, okay, I got it. Right. Uh, but conversion lift is pretty important. So, you know, sometimes people need a little bit more of a nudge. That's why I like with retargeting where you can, um, uh, change those messages as you reach them. So you're having kind of a one-way conversation with them and it's not incredibly hard to set up. Uh, and it's super powerful. It's probably what I think most small businesses are missing most. They need to be looking in to retargeting a lot of times when, when we do audits of campaigns, they're
running like branded campaigns, which is a whole nother podcast. I've done some in the past of what I think about that and how you should approach it. But the agencies or the freelancers that are doing that are trying to get, um, metrics, right. Or in the affiliate space, uh, people like to bid on your name because it's a high rate of a conversion, but it's not really helpful to the overall goals of the brand. So you want to make sure that there's alignment there, but conversions are good. Um, so that helps advertisers assess the impact of their campaigns. Advertisers should use these campaigns and closely monitor the campaign reforms to optimize for better results. Again, you need to know what better results are. We're, you know, the small business coaching program, which is already, uh, really filling up pretty quickly. Um, that's what we're going to be explaining. What I'm going to be doing in this is I'm going to be helping small businesses that want to take control of their marketing, take control of it, where I help kind of keep them out of the ditch and drive strategy. Um, this is a kind of a pilot program that I'm launching. I have been coaching a lot of, uh, different agencies recently. Um, and really I had never really considered coaching and it just seems like there's a lot that, uh, I could do to help. And, and so I'm getting some more time. And so that is kind of a direction that, that, that I'm open to going. And we've launched this small business coaching program at Matthew Bertram.com. Um, I was able to acquire my own name, so that's great. And if you haven't done that yet from a personal branding standpoint, you probably should. Um, while Reddit presents exciting opportunities for advertisers, it is essential to approach the platform with a tailored strategy, considering the user's, uh, unique characteristics and community dynamics. Marketers should invest time to understand the platform ad offering targeting capabilities and best practices to maximize their success
on Reddit. So I didn't go into a ton of tactics there, but I think that this relates back to the RFK ad about how, like who their target audience is of like his audience. And then like, what of the goal of what he's trying to do is, um, and he was trying to, uh, he's supporting Trump now. And so what he's doing is he's running the ad to try to, um, hit people that just are like anybody, but Trump, um, and, and, and break down those barriers to, to communicate a message. And then there'll be follow-up messages that, that he'll be communicating to, as we move into the election to, um, move them on that path to consider voting for him. And, you know, again, not trying to get political here. I just think it is absolutely brilliant. And it's a masterclass in marketing at the highest level with a lot of money. If you watch what these political campaigns are doing and how they're positioning and what they're saying, and even like human dynamics of like, you know, trying to, uh, trying to, uh, you know, get the other person to, to react. Um, and also understanding what the, uh, competitive landscape does and where they're weak and where, uh, they're strong and vice versa where the client and how to hit on those buttons to get somebody to take a certain kind of action or think a certain kind of way or move in a certain kind of direction. And so, uh, businesses use this a lot and, and we've done mostly stuff for nonprofits, uh, haven't done a lot of like, um, political or public influence, uh, campaigns for businesses, uh, starting to do a little bit of that stuff now. Uh, but not, not like that's not our, our current wheelhouse right now, uh, but super interesting on how you're moving the needle there. And just to kind of wrap up this podcast, and I know I could keep going on and, uh, thank you so much. I know I hadn't
done a podcast a long time, uh, but if you are looking to increase revenue, uh, in your business, if you're looking to, uh, get a second opinion on your current marketing strategy, I know we're moving into the end of the year, maybe looking to make a change to get more out of your marketing. You know, reach out to us, um, go to EWR digital.com, set up a free consultation with one of our digital marketing experts. Uh, we've been around 25 years. We have a fantastic program. The marketing strategy we're doing are working and I have been revamping a lot of what's been going on because the last 36 months has been like a zoo. Okay. There's been more changes in the last 36 months in SEO than in the last 15 plus years. Okay. So we had to retool some things we had to look at, uh, how things were, uh, changing and impacting and we've modified our strategies and our clients are absolutely crushing it. I need to probably read a testimonial here. Uh, we got a bunch of them across the internet. Uh, please check it out. If, uh, this is, uh, meaningful for you. Also, if you're a marketing manager and you're just overloaded and, and you're looking for a integrated agency to, uh, you know, say, Hey, I know what I want to do. I just need help doing it. Um, give us a call. Uh, maybe we can help you out. Uh, we typically start a client with one or two different services. Uh, we, our average clients are now six years plus with us. Um, and they continue to add services and grow because they're seeing ROI. And, uh, if, if you know that digital marketing, uh, works, but it just hasn't worked for you yet. Uh, let's get a second opinion. We'd love to talk to you. Um, we'll be having some more podcasts coming out very, very soon. I am going to be, uh, interviewing a number of really, uh, great experts. I may start to release
them sooner. Uh, I got like five interviews next week. Um, so stay tuned and thank you for listening until the next time. Bye-bye for now.
Matthew Bertram is an AI keynote speaker, creator of DIG® (Digital Information Governance), and owner and CEO of EWR Digital. He helps energy and industrial leaders win visibility in AI search (GEO and AEO), is President of ModalPoint and CMO of the Oil & Gas Global Network, hosts The Best SEO Podcast, and has authored eight books including LLM Visibility. More about Matthew Bertram.
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