Chris Ecklund, President and CEO of Ecklund Marketing Group, is a Hamilton entrepreneur and philanthropist with a number of successful businesses to his credit. With Ecklund Marketing Group, he injects his trademark honesty into the SEO/Advertising business, which is populated by an alarming number of black hat operators and scam artists. His commitment to quality service, fairness in business, and maintaining client trust is reflected in his numerous professional affiliations: the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the NSA. In order to ensure that Ecklund Marketing Group can offer its many clients the latest technology in site design and optimization, he sends his staff to yearly search engine optimization conferences, where they learn from the likes of Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch (an authoritative guide to Internet search engines, search engine registration, and ranking issues) and representatives of Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
Rose Keefe, web designer and SEO specialist, has been creating and maintaining websites since February 1996. Prior to joining Ecklund Marketing Group in 2004, she spent four years in the administration office of North America's largest online Bed and Breakfast Directory. She freelanced on several celebrity websites, even assisting Sony Music UK in promoting one of its artists online. Rose is proficient in the use of Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and Search Engine webmaster tools such as sitemaps and proper anchor text selection. She also researches the growing number of vertical directories to locate quality link exchange opportunities.
Michael Poeltl is a graduate of the Sheridan College Illustration program and later received a diploma in graphic art and web design. He has been with EMG since 2004. Attending the Search Engine Strategies annual event in Toronto is one way Michael remains up to date on the ever changing technologies and strategies that dictate a website's ranking on the search engines. Trained in Dreamweaver and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), limited Flash, Gif annimation and other search engine friendly design techniques, Michael's knowledge combined with a flare for graphic design (trained in both Illustrator CS and Photoshop CS) is crucial to developing a website that will compliment your business. Creating blogs for our clients, setting up facebook and myspace groups and even networks, via the 'Ning' program, is just some of the work we do to martket our clients. Google webmaster tools and Yahoo site explorer are invaluable tools, along with adding client addresses into Google’s local search.
December 2-6, 2007 we'll be attending another SES conference in Chicago brushing up on our SEO techniques. We do this annually to make sure we're at the top of the food chain when someone is looking for a marketing company to handle their business over the internet. This is but one way we stay current on Search Engine Optimization practices.
To view our tips and snippets from the SES 2007 conference visit our blog.
We'll be attending the Ontario Bar Association Annual Conference Feb. 4-5 2008, meeting and introducing ourselves to the many Lawyers and Legal Assistants attending the exhibition.
