Blog by Rodney Bartlett

3 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website

May 24th, 2009

If you have a website there are few things more important than driving traffic to that website. Consider what it would be like if you were the owner of a retail store (or maybe you are a store owner) and one day the door to your store never swang open. Customers never arrived and your sales floor was a ghost town.

This is what it would be like if no one was looking at your website. It is not ...

Defining my Job

May 11th, 2009

I teach.

I teach business owners and marketing teams how to market their businesses online.

I teach about Google Adwords

I teach about Search Engine Optimization

I teach about blogging, social media, twitter, facebook and online video.

I've been trying to boil exactly what it is that I do. More than teaching, I think of the purpose of my job as helping other people succeed. Teaching is i ...

Bringing Rodney Bartlett (the website) back to life

April 26th, 2009

I've had this website for quite some time but it really served no purpose. I've just completed freshening up the look a bit to something more simple and streamlined. Now, I'm working to freshen up the content. So why do I have this website / blog. I guess you could say that it acts as a bit of a resume online. More than a resume, it shows what I've done, what I'm up to and also a bit of, what ...

2nd SEO Workshop is a Success

November 9th, 2007

We just finished up teaching our Search Engine Optimization Essentials workshop. Our goal with the workshop is to give participants hands on practice and personalized instruction. All of our classes are super small on purpose. We are not interested in getting big numbers we are more interested in you getting big results.

In our last SEO Workshop we had 4 students. Everyone got a complete sit ...

The Worlds Oldest Blogger

November 5th, 2007

So I've been pretty lazy with blogging. I know, I know - I should practice what I preach.

I've found some new motivation today to blog more regularly and I wanted to take 2 minutes and write about it.

I read an article on Yahoo! Canada News about the worlds oldest blogger and I figured if Granny can blog regularly so can I.

Here is a quote from the article by Raquel Castillo
"Today it's m ...

SEO Presentation at the Real Estate Tech Meet Up

October 2nd, 2007

Last night, October 1st, the Reach'd Team did a presentation at the Vancouver Real Estate Tech Meet-up There was a very interested and attentive crowd that took in the presentation entitled, "Googl'd Yourself Lately?" Real Estate agents came from all over the lower mainland to hear the presentation and ask questions.

Everyone is asking how can I get found in Google? No small ...

The Winds of Change in the Real Estate Industry

September 11th, 2007
I just attended the Vancouver Real Estate Tech Meetup tonight at Ceili's Irish Pub. The Meetup is a monthly event hosted by Ubertor.

Tonight Joel Burslem of Inman News was in town talking about the winds of change blowing through the Real Estate industry. In his initial statement he mentioned the market in the US that is currently tanking and his thoughts were basically that the market in Ca ...