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Since 2009 I’ve helped companies such as DowJones, Realtor.com, Nextiva, Aura, Pipedrive, Wistia, CultureAmp, Backlinko, Helpscout rank #1 organically on Google for their key terms. Check out the case studies.
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2022-2024: Founded & scaled TopicRanker — a software tool which helps you find long tail keywords based on weaknesses and problems in SERP. We’ve grown from 0 to 1600+ customers in a year since we’ve launched.
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2021-2023: Founded SmallBizTools – an affliate blog site featuring the best business software tools. It was acquired by SemRush in September 2023. Watch or listen to case study here.
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2014-2020: Founded JustReachOut — a PR outreach software tool to find and pitch relevant journalists. It was acquired in 2020 by Adam White of SEOJet. Jon Katzur one of early Slack employees bought the company from Adam White in 2023. Read more here.
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2012-2014: Scaled a startup named Polar Polls from 0 to 40M+ pageviews per month. It was acquired by Google in September 2014. Read the case study of my exact strategy from start to acquisition.
I am a contributor for Intuit, Forbes, Entrepreneur, TheNextWeb, TechCrunch, Moz, AListApart, SEMRush, Mashable, Huffington Post, WIRED and many others. My latest articles are here.
I started a speaking series called ZURBsoapbox and interviewed Tim Ferris, Neil Patel, Dan Martell, Winklevoss Twins, founders of Dribble, Eventbrite, WordPress, LinkedIn, Twitter, 99Designs, Overstock, StackOverflow, Pandora, and many more.