Analysis of 1 Million Employees Helps Explain Retention & Loyalty
We run monthly managers’ meetings at SEOmoz with the goal to improve communication between managers, hone individual skills and discuss issues that can help…
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The Web’s Publishers Can Only Take So Much
The article 11 Sexy Girls with Star Wars Tattoos that You Don’t Have the Right to Publish should be scaring marketers and content creators…
The Power of Support
Sarah (Moz’s COO) and I snuck in a quick 10 minute sitdown today in between some other meetings. We do this pretty regularly –…
Seattle vs. The Valley
If you live in Seattle and work in or around the startup ecosystem, you’ll have heard the “why-can’t-we-be-more-like-the-valley” conversation plenty of times. The typical…
Making Email More Scalable
UPDATE: This experiment in productivity didn’t work; more details at the end. If you’ve been referred to this blog post in an email reply,…
Fear of Ignorance
This past week, I was interviewing a candidate for a VP role along with two of our engineering leads. Everyone in the room excluding…
Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised
Over the course of this year, I’ve written a couple times about raising a potential round of venture financing for my company, SEOmoz. At…
Why I’m a Conference Whore
Mark Suster, whose blog and tweets I enjoy and whose investments strike me as innovative and smart wrote a blog post in October, Be…
What I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Company
Every year that I’ve run SEOmoz, I’ve thought to myself “Who was that idiot they let run this place last year?” _ It’s not…
The Irony of the US Economy in 2010: No Jobs + No One to Hire
There can be little doubt that the US unemployment rate is at historical highs. The US Labor Department does a good job compiling these…