search engine marketing

For the second consecutive year, search engine and social media marketing agency, Anvil Media, ranked in Portland Business Journal’s Fastest-Growing Private 100 Companies. At the PBJ Fastest Growing Companies awards reception, Anvil received recognition as the 32nd fastest growing private company in Oregon. Anvil has received previous recognition from Portland Business Journal, including 10th Fastest [...]

The third annual SEMpdx SearchFest will be held March 10th at the Oregon Zoo.  Danny Sullivan, the godfather of search engine marketing (as well as SearchEngineWatch, Search Engine Strategies, SearchEngineLand and SMX) will keynote the daylong SEM conference. Having co-created the original SearchFest in 2005, the SEMpdx board has taken the industry event to a [...]

Having just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers: The Story of Success, my head is spinning once again. As Gladwell has done in the past with The Tipping Point and Blink, he managed to get me thinking about whole new ways of living and doing business. In that vein, The Outliers successfully argued that we [...]

Search engine marketing agency Anvil Media Inc. scored big in the 2009 edition of Portland Business Journal’s Book of Lists, appearing on 4 separate lists:
-10th Fastest Growing Private Company (ranked by percentage of growth 2005-2007)
-12th Largest Interactive Agency (ranked by 2007 revenue)
-15th in Corporate Philanthropy (ranked by cash donations for companies under $10 million in [...]

If you’re looking for a new career due to the economy, or are interested in honing your marketing skills, Portland State University (PSU) has a course for you. The Professional Development Center (PDC) is hosting a Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Workshop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on December 5th & 12th. In that workshop, [...]

Two years ago, a major player in the world of online business directories, approached me to develop a customized search engine marketing (SEM) service offering for small and local-based companies. Having focused Anvil Media on servicing Fortune 1000 companies, I hadn’t spent much time considering a scalable SEM service model. Over the next week or [...]

I recently visited Detroit, MI to pitch a rather large automaker a bit of Anvil’s search engine marketing magic. Being a Portland-based SEM agency, this was a huge opportunity for us. Despite the economy, we still had a good meeting and I wanted to celebrate on my last night in Motown. I stopped by the [...]

At the recent SMX Advanced in Seattle, Anvil Media’s own Leisa Hall posed a question to Google’s Matt Cutts: does he feel like he’s search engine marketing’s (SEM) moral compass?  Although it wasn’t attributed to Leisa or Anvil, it did generate a few laughs and hearty post-event discussion.  Even if the initial question about being [...]

Hallie and I attended The Portland Business Journal’s 2008 Fastest Growing Private 100 Companies reception tonight at Portland Art Museum. We represented Anvil Media, the only search engine marketing (SEM) firm to make the PBJ Fastest Growing 100 List. Needless to say, we were pleasantly surprised with the outcome. After watching clients [...]

I just spent a little time this morning reviewing my schedule and noticed I’ll be attending, exhibiting or speaking at quite a few events over the summer. I thought I’d take this opportunity to share a few of the events with you here, so you can plan accordingly.
07.16 – pdxMindShare
07.16 – SEM for SMB [...]