Have you and your team had a great year collaborating on win after win for your clients? Have you found ways to streamline processes, gain efficiencies through automation, or be more creative Industry Email List than ever to drive your clients' strategies forward? If so, we want to know more, and we want to honor you with a 2020 Search Engine Land Award for Agency of the Year. However, Industry Email List start by checking out the interview below I did with the 5x Search Engine Land Awards judge, SMX conference moderator and president of paid search agency Find Me Faster, the ultra-knowledgeable and downright funny Matt Van Wagner.
Thanks for taking the time to do this interview, Matt! Let's start with a quick question: what is your experience in the search industry and how long have you been judging Industry Email List Search Engine Land awards? MVW: I've been in digital marketing for about 20 years now. Industry Email List As for prizes, I was one of the first judges at the time. Agency of the Year is one of the only categories we have that is judged by the entire judging team; SEOs and paid researchers To win, you have to impress a lot of people. But for you personally, what has impressed you the most in the past? Which aspects do you personally value the most? MVW:
Well, we strive for excellence. Global excellence for paid search, to serve customers, we review everything someone does. We are not looking for an agency that has done Industry Email List something interesting and has had good success. We're looking for someone who has shown a really demanding performance, in all the low-level detail work – and there's so much low-level detail – as well as really Industry Email List creative solutions at the strategic level of things. We are therefore looking for people who can express great creativity, great energy and very good campaign execution at the deepest level.