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Should Your Business Invest in Crypto?

Cryptocurrency has really taken off and evolved from a niche interest for tech enthusiasts into a serious consideration for businesses of all sizes. Whether it's for investment purposes, accepting crypto as payment, or even exploring blockchain solutions for internal operations, the space has presented both exciting opportunities and significant challenges.

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Why Your SEO Strategy Fails Before the First Word Is Written A Guide for Product-Led, AI-Savvy, Scale-Ready Brands

Most brands treat SEO like a home renovation: grab a checklist, hammer some keywords into place, slap on some meta paint, and hope the algorithm gods are pleased. But logistics aren't strategy. And checking boxes doesn’t build visibility — it builds clutter.

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Clients I’ve Helped: Real SEO, ORM, and OPM Wins from the Front Lines

Clients I’ve Helped: Real SEO, ORM, and OPM Wins from the Front Lines

This is a running list of brands, businesses, and projects I’ve supported through SEO strategy, Google Business Profile reinstatement, content marketing, technical fixes, and online reputation management.

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How to Recover a Suspended Google Business Profile for a Service-Based Business (and Why It’s Harder Than You Think)

How to Recover a Suspended Google Business Profile for a Service-Based Business (and Why It’s Harder Than You Think)

If your Google Business Profile (GBP) is suspended after you tried to do the right thing — like removing a PO Box or updating it to a service area business — you’re not alone.

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Signs You're Ready For A Career Change

When you have worked for a company, or in a certain position for a while, you can soon find yourself not enjoying it like you once did.

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Financial Planning Tips that will Rocket your Business Potential

A financial plan is one of the best ways for you to gain a better understanding of your finances. It also allows you to secure more funding and to ensure better cash flow management as a whole.

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Kinsta's Evolution: Addressing Past Challenges with Modern Solutions

Kinsta's Evolution: Addressing Past Challenges with Modern Solutions

Over the past year, Kinsta has implemented a series of enhancements aimed at bolstering security, improving performance, and streamlining user experience.

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Kinsta in 2025: From Consultant Chaos to Calm

Kinsta in 2025: From Consultant Chaos to Calm

Let me start here: I’m not a Kinsta customer. Never have been. I don’t have a billing dashboard, and I’m not here to evangelize. But for a good stretch of time—over a year ago now—I found myself the unofficial Kinsta whisperer for clients who had their WordPress setups go sideways. DNS snarls, SSL loops, Cloudflare conflicts, SEO landmines. That was my inbox.

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Beyond the Black Berets

Beyond the Black Berets

The Hidden History of the Saint Louis JROTC Rangers

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How to Open a Boutique Hotel and Make It Unforgettable

Opening a boutique hotel requires more than simply making beds. It involves crafting an unforgettable experience for visitors that they won't soon forget.

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Justin Prince Offers a Practical Approach to Wellness Leadership

Justin Prince Offers a Practical Approach to Wellness Leadership

Justin Prince is a well-known figure in business and wellness circles, with a track record in direct sales and entrepreneurial ventures. His latest project, MAKE Wellness, reflects a turn toward practical, science-informed health tools, shaped by personal experience rather than abstract vision statements.

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When SEO Gets Serious: What I Look for in the First 20 Minutes of Any Real Discovery Call

When SEO Gets Serious: What I Look for in the First 20 Minutes of Any Real Discovery Call

In a world of keyword fluff and templated SEO pitches, I’ve carved a different path. This post walks through my exact discovery call mindset — what I probe, what I diagnose fast, and how I determine if I can actually move the needle for a business. Whether you're hiring or just curious about what a real SEO operator looks for, here’s your inside peek.

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What to Expect from a Real SEO Expert: A Candid Guide for Founders, CMOs, and Agencies

What to Expect from a Real SEO Expert: A Candid Guide for Founders, CMOs, and Agencies

No fluff, no buzzwords—just a straight-talking breakdown of what actually moves the needle in SEO, based on 25+ years of doing the work.

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From Search to Summon: SEO for the AI-Powered Web

For years, SEO was a game of keywords, links, and rankings. You’d optimize a page, chase some backlinks, pray to the algorithm gods, and hope for a good spot in the Google SERPs.

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MAKE Wellness and Justin Prince: A Practical Approach to Modern Wellness

MAKE Wellness and Justin Prince: A Practical Approach to Modern Wellness

MAKE Wellness enters a crowded health space with a noticeably different tone. Instead of grand promises or trend-driven solutions, the company takes a measured, data-informed approach rooted in scientific literacy and user experience. At the center of that strategy is Justin Prince, an entrepreneur who came to wellness not to create a movement, but to solve a problem he observed in real time: the disconnect between what people are offered and what they actually need.

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When Google Pulls the Rug Out: Recovering Local SEO Visibility After Core Updates and Map Pack Chaos

When Google Pulls the Rug Out: Recovering Local SEO Visibility After Core Updates and Map Pack Chaos

If you’re a service business with multiple locations—say, in education, healthcare, or legal—and you’ve noticed your Google rankings tank, your map pack listings disappear, or your phone stops ringing, this post is for you.

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From Map Pack Obscurity to Local Lead Engine: A Strategic Guide to Local SEO for High-Stakes Service Businesses

From Map Pack Obscurity to Local Lead Engine: A Strategic Guide to Local SEO for High-Stakes Service Businesses

If you're in a competitive, trust-sensitive service industry — like financial services, legal, or home contracting — local SEO isn't optional. Here's how to turn your Google Business Profile into your most valuable lead generator, and why most businesses do it backward.

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MAKE Wellness Precision Health for a New Generation

MAKE Wellness Precision Health for a New Generation

The health and wellness world is full of big claims and broad solutions. In contrast, MAKE Wellness offers something more thoughtful: a focused, research-informed approach to supporting health that respects the complexity of the human body.

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4 Ways to Increase Productivity in Your Workplace

Improving productivity in the workplace isn't just about setting more targets and deadlines; it is also about creating an environment where employees can focus, stay motivated, and perform at their best.

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10 Tips To Boost Your Earnings As A Content Creator

The world of content creation is a very appealing career path for millions of talented creatives. It is a chance to earn money from your passion while you can also build a work schedule that suits you. Better still, the ceiling for potential earnings is far higher than most traditional jobs.

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How to Create a Positive Work Environment Where Your Employees Can Work Together

A positive work environment is one of those buzzwords that doesn’t really mean anything when you say it too much without thinking. But it’s actually a really important way to make sure that your workplace is productive. After all, happy employees are busy employees.

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Mistakes Businesses Make When Expanding Internationally

It’s not hard to see why a business would want to expand internationally. Once you move beyond the borders of your home country, you’ll have access to potentially millions of more customers — and that, of course, can make a difference to the number of sales and ultimately the bottom line.

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Brand Consistency Matters: The Key To Earning Trust & Loyalty

Every single successful business must have a brand that people can recognize and fall in love with.

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