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This week I took the guys over here at Global Marketing Strategies; Dave and Scott Brandley, and talked about their background in online marketing and some of their amazing tools. Not only did they give some great tips they also shared some interesting things going on with Trust Guard, their online website verification company. Take a listen above or read the transcript below.

Garrett: Hello everybody, this is Garrett Pierson here, Your SEO Mentor. I’m excited today to interview Dave and Scott Brandley of Global Marketing Strategies and Trust-Guard.com. I’m going to start off today with asking a question, so that those who don’t know the Brandleys can get a little bit of background on your SEO and online marketing industries, maybe your family, hobbies or anything else you want to talk about. Give us a little bit of your background, Dave.

Dave: Scott and I are father and son. We’ve been doing stuff online since 1997, back when the internet was a rumor. People were just starting to do things with it. We’ve kind of figured out how to make things work over time. It’s taken us a while. We built our own shopping cart. We sold products online, figured out how to get traffic in a small niche. We were getting about a million visitors a year to that small niche, which was pretty good. About four or five years ago, we sold that business. We realized that we had some skills that we had learned along the way about traffic and conversion. We love doing that kind of stuff. We’ve developed some tools that help people with their traffic and conversion. That’s kind of our hobby too. We love to come to work and do things like that.

Garrett: You guys work together, father and son. Scott, how has that been, working with your dad?

Scott: It’s been great. Sometimes we want to kill each other, but most of the time we’re like best friends. We work off of each other. We come up with good ideas and make our good ideas even better. It’s been a lot of fun.

Garrett: Why don’t you guys tell us a little bit, about why you guys enjoy it? Dave, you mentioned that it’s a hobby. Tell us a little bit, about why you guys enjoy online marketing, the industry, and your career these past ten or eleven years that you said you’ve been doing this?

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It’s official! I am proud to announce that I have joined the guys (Dave and Scott Brandley & Team) at Global Marketing Strategies owners of Trust Guard.

Although I don’t think much of titles, I am honored to be the “Operations Manager” where I will be organizing the operations of the company by taking my managing skills and putting them to work. I will also be taking on the task of building up strategic alliances/partnerships with related companies in the online marketing industry. So if you are at all interested in a partnership with Trust Guard then feel free to email jv (at) trust-guard.com or call me at (877) 848-2731.

I also will be the mouth piece at the new Trust Guard Twitter account at Twitter.com/TrustGuard and other Web 2.0 properties that Trust Guard will be setting up in the future.

If you have not yet checked out what Trust Guard has to offer then I suggest you do so NOW! You might want to compare Trust Guard to companies like McAfee Secure (HackerSafe), Truste, BBB, ControlScan, Verisign and see what we have to offer that they don’t and compare pricing.

If I told you that placing the Trust Guard seals on your website would and could increase your sales/conversions by 41% not sure if you would believe me, but what if Bryan Hoover of RadiantSmile.net told you and other website owners just like him. Now, am I saying that your conversion rate is going to go up 41%? NO. But what I am saying is that myself, Bryan Hoover and others have had similar results with being verified by a third party like Trust Guard and simply placing the seals on our websites.

Sorry about that last two paragraphs, seemed a bit salesy (is salesy even a word) but hey I am very passionate about my new position and the Trust Guard services. Can you blame me?

P.S. Next week I will be doing a podcast interview with Dave and Scott Brandley with more about Trust Guard latest innovations. So stay tuned!

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