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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 TopicRanker — a platform which uses AI powered bulk SERP analysis to recommend easy-to-rank keywords based on weak spots in SERP which your competitors are struggling with. It was acquired by Mangools in September 2024.
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2021-2023: Founded SmallBizTools – an affliate review blog site featuring the best business software tool reviews. It was acquired by SemRush in 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 by SEOJet in 2020. It was acquired again in 2024 by early employees of Slack. 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 2014. Google’s acquisition #166 dated September 11, 2014 see on Wikipedia. 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.