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Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us today Jeff. You’re known throughout the design industry as one of the leading branding experts who has written several successful books and spoken all over the world on the subject. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into the field of graphic design? I appreciate the opportunity to answer your questions for Thought Leader Thursday. I have now worked as a professional designer for more than 30 years. My interest in design started as early as grade school, at a time when graphic design was referred to as “commercial art,” and I told people “I want to be an artist when I grow up.”  Of course, most people tried to discourage me from following a career path where it was...

Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us today Shane. Some time ago, Aaron Wall pointed your website out to me. Since then, I’ve come to believe it should be required reading for any business owner, especially anyone who is trying to make an impact online. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you’ve built up the knowledge that you share on your website? I graduated from The University of Alabama with a degree in Management Information Systems, which was great because it gave me not only a great computer foundation but also a great business foundation as well. I didn’t appreciate then what a tremendous blessing that would be. That was 1995, and widespread use of the Internet was just taking off. Thankfully, I got in early...

Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us today Donna. I think a lot of people have run across you at some point on one of the many forums or blogs that you routinely contribute to, but I think you’re probably best known for your DazzlinDonna blog, where you offer a wealth of information for people looking to start making money online. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started with online business? I went through my own economic downturn quite a few years ago when the job situation all but disappeared in my area. I’d been laid off from yet another job, and I’d grown tired of working for companies that always seemed to fail no matter what size they were. At that point, I...

Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us today Aaron. I think almost everyone knows who you are, and in my opinion, you’re one on the top 3 go-to guys when it comes to SEO, but for anyone that’s been living under a rock, would you be so kind as to tell us a bit about yourself and your company, SEO Book? I originally started the site to sell an ebook about SEO, but have since morphed the site into a leading online SEO training program offering a support community and exclusive member only tools. Our blog is one of the most popular blogs in the industry, and we offer a bunch of free SEO tools as well. SEO has changed tremendously since we first got our feet wet, and there are...

Starting this week, we will begin interviewing a forward-thinking innovator in the marketing industry each and every Thursday to learn and share their insights with the rest of the world. Be sure to check back soon because you’ll find the kind of information that you won’t find anywhere else, along with all of the marketing tips that we regularly post here. We’ve already got the first five weeks booked, with the likes of Aaron Wall, Donna Fontenot, Shane Pike, Rae Hoffman, Rand Fishkin and many more to come. For the rest of you, if you think you’re of the caliber to join this elite cadre of industry gurus, follow us on Twitter (@wildfiremg ) and point us to some of your most thought-provoking writing. If it’s up to par, we’ll contact you for an interview. Feel free to blog and twitter...