TLA Welcomes Neil Patel and Cameron Olthuis!

LBB Readers, I am very excited to announce the addition of Neil and Cameron as regular contributors and TLA Evangelists!  More details on their role with TLA here.

TLA Evangelist: Neil Patel

Neil Patel is an Internet marketing consultant and the founder of ACS which was started in 2002. He has lead Internet marketing strategies for small and medium sized businesses as well as top companies such as Hewlett Packard and Samsung. His experiences include search engine marketing and social media marketing.
Currently Neil is involved with the web 2.0 and online marketing community. He regularly attends web 2.0 meetups as well as industry conferences such as Search Engine Strategies and Ad:Tech.

TLA Evangelist: Cameron Olthuis

Cameron Olthuis is a web marketing strategist who specializes in social media marketing and search engine optimization. Cameron became a partner in the web marketing company, ACS in early 2006 as the Director of Marketing and is responsible for crafting the marketing strategies for both ACS's clients and ACS's own products.

Cameron has been involved in online marketing since 2000 when he started his own business that he eventually sold and then moved onto consulting roles and client-side positions. Cameron has worked with companies ranging in size from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

Cameron is actively involved in the online marketing community. He speaks regularly at industry conferences and seminars, participates in a number of organizations, and writes articles and blog posts for a variety of marketing publications.

TLA now available for Blogger Blogs!

We are excited to announce that Text Link Ads publishing program now is
compatible with Blogger! If you have not yet upgraded to the newest
version of Blogger, you will need to do so in order to use our publishing
program.

Thanks for your patience with us while we got our ad
program ready for Blogger. If you have a Blogger blog, create a TLA publisher account here today.  Next up for us will be getting TLA compatible with TypePad, any ideas?  We look forward to servicing you and making you some
money! 

*Hat tip to Belaji for bringing the Blogger implementation idea our way.

Job Opening At TLA NYC!!!

Readers,
please take a look at this new Sales position opportunity with TLA and consider
applying yourself or please pass it on to someone you think might be a great
fit.  The job is located downtown NYC (see map) at our brand new parent
company MediaWhiz.  The candidate would be working with a fun team in a
fast paced internet marketing environment in the greatest city on the
planet!  Itâs a no brainer!  Here is a little more about the jobâ



TLA
Sales Agent â NYC Office



Responsibilities
include sales and business development of TLAâs services to companies of all
sizes as well as interactive media agencies. This person is responsible for the
sales and the development of new business partnerships for these services.
Individual would be handling incoming sales leads as well as prospecting
new sales opportunities.



Sales
experience within the Search Engine Marketing industry a plus.  This is a
salary + commission opportunity.  Start date February 1, 2007.  Please send resume to: resumes (at)
text-link-ads.com

MonetizeIt Joins MediaWhiz

MediaWhiz today announced it has acquired Atlanta-based Online Media Promotions, LLC, which is known in the industry as Monetizeit. This acquisition expands MediaWhiz’s online marketing services platform to give it deep expertise in a number of lead generation vertical markets, including insurance and financial services. Lake Capital, a private equity firm that invests in growing services companies, first invested in MediaWhiz in August 2005 and provided additional capital to fund this transaction.

Founded in 2003 by Steve Wadley, Roger Dowd and Joe Hegedus, Monetizeit is a leader in the online lead generation space. The Company is recognized as a “one-stop shop” for internet advertising, handling all aspects of the process, including idea generation, product and offer testing, creative design, marketing and implementation of an effective long-term customer acquisition strategy for its clients. Monetizeit will continue to operate under its current name, with continued leadership from its existing management team.

“We are thrilled to have the management team, employees and clients of Monetizeit join the MediaWhiz platform. We have been using our online media distribution channels to drive traffic to Monetizeit’s offers for a number of years and this integrated partnership will significantly strengthen our ability to provide their clients with large volumes of high quality leads,” said MediaWhiz co-president Yannick Tessier.

“Adding Monetizeit’s strong lead generation capabilities is a perfect fit for our strategic growth plan. Not only will the acquisition bring further size and scale to our lead generation division, but it also allows us the opportunity to pursue cross-selling opportunities into new vertical channels,” noted Jason Cohen, co-president of MediaWhiz.

“We are excited to join MediaWhiz and gain access to new client relationships, infrastructure and additional distribution channels to support our clients’ marketing goals. With the support of the MediaWhiz team, we are confident that we can continue to rapidly grow our core business, while creating a platform for expansion into additional vertical markets,” said Steve Wadley, president of Monetizeit.

Would You Trust Your Dog With Mutt Cutts?

I was flying this week and enjoying Dumb and Dumber and couldn't help but to think back on Matt McGee's 21 Signs You Need a Break from SEO when I did a triple take on Harry Dunne's van promoting "Mutt Cutts".  Somebody help! :)