Master Certification Graduates Hard at Work
Monday, March 30th, 2009
“Once a Market Motive superstar, always a Market Motive superstar.” That’s kind of our motto around here. Well, okay, so we’ve never actually said those words, but we’re definitely thinking them! One thing that’s for sure, our graduates remain part of the Market Motive family, and just as with my Great Uncle Leo and Great Auntie Teddy who sell knock-off designer purses at Florida swap meets, I like to keep track with what’s going on with Market Motive family members. A number of graduates have gone on to do great things by putting their education to work and I figured I’d give a little update on what’s been going on with them.
Here are some notable news items since graduation:
Ali Alage officially opened the doors to his own Internet marketing consulting company, known as Boost Labs LLC. “My very first client, a IT Support company, signed on with me on Jan 26, 2009. With just doing the very basic SEO practices I learned from Market Motive, on March 1st the client notified me that they received 3 leads for IT support contracts from 3 separate companies that found them via Yahoo and Google. The client was so happy that they are now requesting Online PR services, PPC, Social Media help, and a complete web site redesign to better optimize their site for SEO, which is a big contract early on for a small company like mine (not to mention a lot of work). I really am grateful for being part of the Master Certification program and everything that Market Motive has provided me.”
See, this is exactly the type of things we like to hear around here. Excellent work, Ali!
Andres Snitcofsky entered the Biggest Search Geek contest http://www.marinsoftware.com/searchgeek/ and finished 4th, which was a nice little feather in his cap. Additionally, Andres’ company won the digital campaign of a major political party.
We love the search geeks around here. They are our people.
Kevin Cobourn has taken his new web analytics knowledge and is currently building a web analytics platform business unit. “It’s the Wal-Mark of web analytics…low prices, high value,” Kevin jokes.
Uncle Leo and Auntie Teddy would be so proud.
After completing the Certification, Mark Bietz has expanded his roles at Rasmussen College and has also developed a seminar geared towards small business owners on Internet marketing. Mark has also been implementing information from his Web Analytics certification to better understand the business as a whole and how users interact with his site.
Keep it up, Mark. You’re all the talk around the Market Motive analytics division water cooler.
Our other graduates, Anne Henegar, Jennifer Day, Kevin Bates, and Armando Zamarripa have been a little more coy about their achievements, but they still remain valuable members of the family. That’s right, fruit cakes and fake Gucci purses for everyone come holiday time!
– Scott Milrad
