Damon Burton
Smart SEO & Internet Marketing Blog
What if Paid Ads became Illegal?
What if paid ads became illegal? How would you market your business? It's slowly becoming a reality, as paid ads effectively just became illegal in Washington for healthcare providers with House Bill 1155. HIPAA updates that are following suit may also make this...
Russell Brunson’s Inner Circle Member of the Month
Grateful for this recognition of Russell Brunson's Inner Circle member of the month, for the second time. It's a privilege to give and learn in other communities. The older and "wiser" I get, the quieter I become. The evolution of that is a constant dialogue in my...
More Impact > More Money
I travel to a lot of entrepreneurial events to speak and learn. Meet a lot of accomplished people, see fancy cars, and hear stories of success. One thing I’ve noticed from the last few events is that I care less about business and more about impact. That’s not to say...
Will AI kill SEO? No.
"ChatGPT is going to kill SEO, marketing, and even put your toaster out of a job…" C'mon. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been making waves, and many marketers are in a rush to jump on the bandwagon. I get it. AI is cool, it's new, it's sexy, it's romantic. There's...
Reputation > Contractual Perfection
Reputation to deliver matters more than promises to deliver. I've had the same contract, with small revisions, mostly adding an entire page of reasons NOT to hire my agency, for probably a decade. Just noticed I've had this spelling error all these years. 😆 "cashing"...
Time > Luck
Two years ago, started mentoring a 19 year old. He wanted to get into search engine marketing. Told him to learn web design first, because you can't optimize a website if you don't know how websites are built. Recommended he build them for free for the experience. A...
Kids First
I remember sitting in the living room of me and my wife's first house. I had just quit my day job and started my business. And, she had about a month left before our first kid would be born. I remember telling myself two things 1) "Grind it out now, so I don't have...
“Dad. How come all the ‘top people’ say…”
Was driving home from my son's soccer game last night, when he asks out of nowhere, "Dad. How come all the ‘top people’ say you have to be a doctor or a lawyer, or a mayor to be successful? But Elon Musk and Bill Gates are more successful, because they’re...
Curve Balls vs Superpowers
For 50 minutes, that's my blood coming out the left arm, getting filtered, passing through a UV light to kill germs, mold, and bacteria, then getting oxygenated, and pumped back into my right arm. I'm on a mission to live my best life, including beating my auto-immune...
