Show Notes:

  • 00:12: Meet Tom Critchlow, Strategy Consultant, Founder of SEO MBA and former VP of Operations at Distilled
  • 1:21: How to secure a substantial SEO budget
  • 5:13: Tom’s contrarian take on how companies should invest in SEO
  • 6:15: The secret behind organizational charts
  • 7:42: Best metrics to use for proving ROI
  • 10:46: Common mistakes in strategy presentations to the C-suite
  • 13:43: The correlation between updating content and renewals
  • 15:50: Why communicating ROI in annually is ideal
  • 17:14: Tips for communicating link building ROI
  • 20:50: How to calculate monthly link value
  • 21:20: Revenue forecasts don’t always have to be right, here’s why
  • 23:23: Ideal timelines for revenue conversations with the executive team
  • 24:30: The value of email sign-up’s
  • 26:47: How to navigate securing budgets in a difficult environment
  • 31:08: How to build a better proposal for your client
  • 34:01: How long should a pitch take for a big C-suite?
  • 41:27: Why new Directors can be your key to funding
  • 44:03: Lessons learned, why growth and excitement are more useful than you think
  • 49:44: Impress with communication
  • 53:43: How to express results when your client is already trending up
  • 54:30: What’s next for Tom’s SEO MBA

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