Andrew Grinaker | Digital, SEO and Social Media Strategist Blog | Seattle, WA

“What in the #%$ happened to your blog?” That is what most people are probably saying when they visit my blog. You know, all 10 of them over the past month. I took a break from the blog for two reasons. Reason #1: Build my Family We had our second beautiful daughter, Ruby Caroline on [...]

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Outside of my normal paying job, I coach AAU basketball. A few months ago, I first encountered Mr. Ballmer at an AAU tournament at the Rainer Valley Teen Center in south Seattle, for a game his son was playing in. His son happens to play in the same grade as the team I coached. For [...]

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What is the best fantasy football site? My first fantasy football experience was when I was 12 years old. My dad felt my football knowledge was solid enough to invite me to be part of his fantasy football league. A league he had done for several years with work friends. The “live draft” was held [...]

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Back to the Blog – Post Baby by Andrew Grinaker Well, it has been almost 3 weeks since I last posted a blog entry. But unlike in the past, I have a viable excuse for my absence. Two weeks ago my first child (daughter) was born at 8:26am weighing 7lbs, 5oz. Her name is Addison [...]

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Can Mobile Apps Help Save the Newspaper Industry? As a journalism graduate and a newspaper subscriber (Seattle Times), I am rooting for the newspaper industry when everyone else thinks it is outdated and a virtually dead medium. I never felt confident in the paid online subscription route and usually avoided it at all costs. However, [...]

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Connecting People to Community through Twitter by Andrew Grinaker One of the worst fires in Seattle history took place Saturday morning in the Fremont Neighborhood, killing five. The fire victims included two girls ages 5 and 7, two boys ages 5 and 14 and a 21-year old woman. All five were part of an extended [...]

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Utilizing Facebook Insights to Understand your Social Media Audience by Andrew Grinaker Getting people to “Like” your Facebook fan page is one indication to see how popular your social media profile is. However, with the recent advancement of Facebook Insights, you can now view expanded analytics and a deeper dive into the engagement of your [...]

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Location Based Social Networking for Dealers by Andrew Grinaker (full disclosure, I now work in the automotive industry, working for the Cobalt group) Location based social media, or Lo/So for industry enthusiasts, has grown wild in popularity the past 18 months. Foursquare, the most popular location based social network has surpassed 500,000 users and over [...]

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Hiring the Online Marketing Dream Team Who should I hire? What should their responsibilities be? What sort of experience should they have? What type of linear structure should be in place? When starting a company or expanding on your online marketing division, these are the some of the questions that are sure to be circling [...]

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http://www.seomoz.org/blog/search-engine-landscape-2010 Great PowerPoint presentation that outlines some great graphics and explains some SEO basics in greater detail. It’s harder to disseminate what Rand would like to talk about since there isn’t an audio track, but the graphs and charts are well worth the time to scan/click through it. Favorite Charts: Page 34 – Algorithm Guess [...]

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