Prioritizing Features & Product/Engineering Investments
Probably the hardest job the executive team has at SEOmoz (beyond improving culture) is managing the prioritization roadmap for features. Right now, the vast…
The Uncomfortable Challenge of Topgrading Your Startup’s Team
If things go well at your startup, there will inevitably be a point where the business is growing ahead of the team’s abilities. Engineers…
Manufacturing Serendipity
I’m on the road ~100 days each year. When I’m in Seattle, I have at least 30% of my days filled with coffees, calls,…
Cynical Optimism
Geraldine sometimes tries to describe my outlook on life as cynical optimism. I think that’s a fair assessment. I generally believe that humans will…
Mozcon Feedback & Erica’s Letter to Speakers
I’ve written before on this blog about how we’ve been working to make Mozcon a remarkable outlier in the field of marketing conferences. Today,…
The First 500 Links
Most of the time, when I write about SEO, I like to present facts, data, or lessons learned from numerous experiences. This post doesn’t…
My Performance Review for the First Half of 2012
As I mentioned yesterday on the blog, it’s performance review season here at SEOmoz, and since transparency is a core value for us, I’d…
Making Performance Reviews Better
We’re doing performance reviews at SEOmoz right now. It’s tough, because on the one hand, I agree with a lot of the general criticism…
Mobile Won’t Change Everything
I constantly hear the refrain that “mobile’s going to change everything.” Everything in this context is typically presumed to mean search, social media, advertising,…
Harnessing Beautiful Writing
In the past few weeks, I’ve noticed myself drawn to some exceptional examples of the written word. I’m not sure why. I don’t normally…