I'm the owner of early bird digital marketing and am a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and digital marketing nut with 25+ years of experience. My digital marketing agency serves clients all over the US and Canada.I'm a Google Business Profile Diamond Product Expert, hand-selected by Google to be part of the Product Expert program, and am one of the few Platinum Product Experts in the world. I am (or have been) a journalist for leading digital marketing websites like Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, Adweek, MOZ, SEM Rush, Rio SEO, BrightLocal, SCORE and others. I'm an award-winning writer, receiving Search Engine Land’s SEO Contributor of the Year Award in 2018. For two years in a row, my blog posts were among the top ten most-read articles on Search Engine Land’s website. Often my articles are the most read or most shared for the month on the sites I contribute to.I am also a recognized speaker at leading digital marketing conferences, podcasts and webinars like Traffic & Conversion Summit, Content Marketing World, State of Search, Digital Marketer, SCORE, Moz, Edge of the Web, Midwest Digital Marketing Conference, Florida Realtors Convention and others. I also hold a Master’s Degree in Internet Marketing (and have the degree on the wall and student loans to prove it!) and am a LinkedIn Learning instructor (check out my Learning Local SEO course on LinkedIn!) I'm also an adjunct instructor and mentor for students as well. On my podcast, The Marketing Plan Podcast, I interview marketing experts like John Jantsch, Pete Vargas, Jason Portnoy, Rand Fishkin, Molly Mahoney, Sue B Zimmerman, Julia McCoy, Russ Henneberry and other leaders in the marketing industry. You can subscribe to The Marketing Plan Podcast on most major podcast platforms or visit https://www.marketingplanpodcast.com/I also volunteer as a SCORE Mentor for the East Central Iowa chapter in Cedar Rapids, IA. One of my SCORE clients won a national award thanks to my digital marketing advice. (I was able to go to Washington D.C. to accept the award and the award looks SO nice in my office -- sitting right next to my Search Engine Land award!)In my "spare time" I'm also an Instructor and Adjunct Instructor at universities across the country like California State University Long Beach; Loyola University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, San Diego State University and the University of Miami where I have fun teaching digital marketing courses to students of all ages!You can find out more information by visiting https://earlybirddigitalmarketing.com.