WIMB is currently accepting resumes for an entry level intern position.

Likely candidate should be interested in learning Internet Marketing concepts and tasks, should be outgoing and work well independently. Candidate should be competent in FTP and HTML. PhotoShop,  PHP and MySQL knowledge is a bonus.

Currently the position would be a work-from-home.  We will be opening an office in Saint Louis, MO (south) area next year.  Intern would then be required to spend some time in our office, but hours and location of your contribution can be flexible.

Potential assignments include:

• Slicing PSD files into usable HTML/images
• Link building
• Article submissions
• Keyword research
• Wordpress theme editing

Yes, we will teach you if you don’t understand some of it, but you are expected to be a quick study and competent with a PC.

Please send your Word or PDF resume, a few examples of your web work and compensation requirements to info@whereismybusiness.com by Nov 15, 2009. No hard copies accepted.

Will Hanke will be speaking at the Look at Me SEO Seminar in St. Louis on August 27.  Tickets are $149 for the all day event.

For all of those who have taken Will’s classes in the past, you know you’re in for some great information.

Also, we will be providing a Free SEO Audit to every attendee at the event. ($199 value). So get to it!

For more, visit the event website: http://www.MarketStL.com

I’ve added one last date for March – sorry for the short notice, but these are the only dates I could get.

Social Media for Business
Wednesday March 11, 6:00PM – 8:30PM

Marketing Your Business Website
Thursday March 12, 9:30AM-Noon

To reserve your seat, call 636-296-5171.  This seminar is extremely limited in seating.  Once it is filled, we will take names for the waiting list, but I may not be teaching any more until later this summer, so this really is your last chance.

Once upon a time, you hired a marketing firm to promote your new blue widget. You are proud of your widget, and you believe this marketing firm to be the best in the area.  You meet, go over your widget, and they come up with a great plan to help you promote your widget.

After a few weeks, your phone calls are up, your website visits are up, but its still not what you expected.  You still are the #2 widget company in town.

How would you feel if you came to find out that the same marketing firm is marketing another blue widget for your competitor? What if your competitor was spending more than you?

It’s no wonder you’re still #2, but what’s more important is that there is definitely a conflict of interest here.

There are many SEO companies who take on several clients from one industry. Personally I just don’t see how it’s possible.  If you hired us to rank your website number one for ‘blue widgets’, and so did your competitor, where would our allegiance lie?  With the one with the bigger budget? The one who hired us first?

Neither.  We won’t do it.  We will not take more than one client from any particular industry.  We will not overlap targeted keyphrases.  It’d be against our ethics, yet plenty of SEO firms do it.

Now, there are plenty of cases where our firm will have several clients from similar industries, but not competing ones.  For instance, we could have a family dentist and an orthodontist. They are in the same general industry, yet seeking different customers and targeting different keyphrases.  We couldn’t take on a new orthodontist, though, unless they were physically targeting a different area.

Before you hire an SEO firm, make sure you ask if they already have clients in your industry.  Get keyword specific and make sure they’ll be focusing to get you to number one!