Posted Saturday, March 29th, 2008. Filed under Jim's Crazy Ideas.
I haven't been blogging much, sorry, ya know, I'm totally down with staying under the radar. There's enough other people keeping each other in check that I'm fine with sitting back and watching the games being played. I'm fine with reacting internally to what goes on out there, and not being a part of the conversation these days.
But hey, I thought I'd give a brief update on what Jim's been up to, or what's on my mind at the moment.
So what's Jim been up to? Well, besides Internet Marketing Ninjas and SEO Class (first one April 11th), as far as We Build Pages stuff, we still take on the occasional client, but at least we're able to "cherry pick" leads to match our open time slots.
We continue to improve our methods all the time via people, knowledge, tools, and the build up of the Ninja Army at We Build Pages. We'll soon be cycling in some of our own sites into our work mix, just as if they were a client.
I've seen a lot of website business plans since I started over 9 years ago, and I'm out to follow the money. We still continue to find amazing trusted old websites. The trick is how to preserve the content and trust, and build upon it so that it makes a profit. That's a challenge in itself.
We strive to preserve the content, and add more resources to it. We've been working on widgets, and "long-term linkbait" content/stats, and we're starting to spread the word on other related webpages.
I've been studying up on companies who offer good lead programs. I've been reading/re-reading/analyzing documents that tell what a human might think when they view your webpage, and how they may judge your page, so that we can build the type of quality resource search engines might be looking for.
We're working on doubling our staff this year (from 25 to 50), so lots of interviews/training going on. We still building internal tools to make our jobs easier, while still keeping a human touch where it needs to be.
I lost 10 pounds in the SEO's Fight Fat contest. The entire team is going to Atlantic City tomorrow and monday, nicely fully paid for by one of our happy clients. I'm going to Amsterdam in 3 weeks to visit a client. I hear the coffee is really good over there.
FYI, I've turned down all speaking gigs this year (except SEO Class), I'm happy to stay under the radar and just do my thing now.
How's everyone out there doing? I'm Feeling Lucky.
Richard: Missed your wise posts Jim! Seems Google stock is down about 10% since you sold it in January '07. Do you think it's time to get back in?
Peter Davis: Actually, coffee in Europe sucks. The only decent coffee I've had made by Europeans is Italians.
aaron wall: Nice anchor text Jim, thank you. May I suggest a delicious brownie (or 2) to go with the Jamaican coffee you will be drinking?
christine: Great article! Apparently according to one commenter, the people are thin there. Congrats on your weight loss though as well.
Jim Boykin: Nils, best wishes, maybe yahoo or msn might be opportunities now, who knows, right now I've got no money in the stock market.
Matt Keegan: Staying under the radar is wise these days. As far as linkbait goes, keep up the good work, it is something that I work on frequently myself.