My Internet Life Story
My name is Fred and I’m a local search marketing expert. It took me the longest time to even admit that (almost 5 years). I started getting into internet marketing about 6 years ago. It wasn’t until sometime last year (2011) I finally accepted that fact that I’m an expert in my field. Why? I’m not really sure. Maybe it’s because I can probably do this stuff in my sleep. Or maybe it’s because I’ve optimized over 200 websites and whenever I visit someone’s website I can instantly tell whether or not it was optimized properly. I don’t even mean to do it sometimes. It just happens automatically. I know… I can read your mind right now and you’re probably thinking that I probably got issues. But that’s completely ok because if you hired me to do your local search marketing, you would think something completely different (smiley face).
As you can probably already tell, this is my passion. I have a deep passion to help local small business owners, non-profits and entrepreneurs get more visitors and leads through social, local and mobile media channels. If you’re a local business owner or non-profit organization, I want you to start thinking about these 3 things: Social-Local-Mobile. Don’t forget them. Research it. If you do you’ll find out that there’s a revolution going on right under your nose. The time to get involved is NOW. Better yet, the time to get involved is more like yesterday. Don’t miss this opportunity to get involved with it. If you do you will be glad you did. If you don’t, the consequences can be catastrophic later on. Ok, maybe I exaggerated a tiny bit. But don’t worry, you’re in good hands now. You have found your source to help your business get out of the stone age and into the 21 century. I’ll be your guide to help you navigate through all the noise.
My Passion
This passion of mine is so deep that I cringe every time I see a local business website that doesn’t have proper meta tags on their website. Yes, it’s that bad. If you don’t know what meta tags are, I forgive you. That’s what I’m here for. Meta tags are part of your website’s on-page optimization that tells Google what your site is about. If goggle doesn’t know what those are then it’s difficult for them to rank your site in the search engines.
My Former Career
Well, enough about technical terms and on to more about my background. I’m a former NFL player that found a passion in local internet marketing. When someone hears about me being a former NFL player sometimes they come back to me and say “Hey man, I Googled you!” My 1st reaction is normally, “what, you didn’t believe me?” You can’t lie about anything these days because Google will find you out. So I’ll just wait a few moments for you to Google me since everyone else does it.
Go ahead…my last name is Vinson. And make sure you include “NFL” in your search term because there’s another Fred Vinson that used to play in the NBA.
Ok…so I’ll wait here while you Google me because I know you’re anxious to do it.
Finished? Ok, I’ll continue…
My Background
Ok…so now that you’re back, more about my background. After I retired from football back in 2005 I had an interest in building websites. Even though I had an Engineering degree from Vanderbilt University that had nothing to do with building websites, I wanted to follow my interests and passions. So I taught myself. I built my 1st website for myself and came up with an interesting thought. I thought to myself, “what good does it do if I have a great looking website but have no traffic coming to it?” Yes, the “build it and they will come” revelation hit me. Except that revelation is completely false. Long gone are the days when you build a website and visitors magically come swarming to it. So what do you have to do to make that happen? Ok, I’ll give you a hint…Social-Local-Mobile. I told you not to forget those 3 words. Looks like we got some work to do. (another smiley face)
A Local Marketing Expert Is Born
This is where my passion for internet marketing began. After the “build it and they will come” revelation hit me, I starting reading everything I could get my hands on about how to get traffic to websites. Back then if you wanted to learn internet marketing you had to either latch on to a known internet marketing guru or learn yourself through trial and error. I did both. And in the process I spent countless hours searching the internet and reading everything I could find about SEO. The madness never stopped every since then. I’ve learned that in order to stay on top on what goes on the internet marketing world you have to always have your ear on the pulse of internet marketing trends.
My Current Career
When I moved down to Orlando in 2009, I started doing contract work for a hotel internet marketing company near Winter Park. I was hired full time 6 months later. I guess they liked me enough to bring me on staff. Since then I’ve optimized over 200 hotel websites and that number keeps growing.
Conclusion
I’ll keep my conclusion very brief since you were interested enough to read my entire mini biography. I know local search. And if Google doesn’t like your website or if you want to get more visitors to your website then I think I can help. So feel free to look around my site. I have loads of information on here that I believe will help point you in the right direction to get you more traffic and hopefully more paying customers. But remember the 3 words that I told you to never forget. Social-Local-Mobile. It’s happening now. So get involved now.
