Why Awards Help the Industry

For all their flaws, recitals drive performers to improve.  A presentation drives us to to be more concise, exams drive us to study, and awards–awards that are thorough and reputable–drive us to look closely at how we perform. This is why OMCP supports awards in search marketing like the 2016 Landy Awards. The publishers behind the awards value excellence and have served the search industry for over 20 years. In fact, OMCP PDUs are earned through participation at SMX conferences and events.  But most importantly, the judging criteria is applicable and […]

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‘Take Ten’ Interview with Scott Brinker, Co-founder & CTO of ion interactive

Scott Brinker Co-founder & CTO of ion interactive Editor of chiefmartec.com Program Chair of MarTech Author, Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster and More Innovative “The vision of marketing as the keeper of the relationships between the customers and the market at large is more true than ever, but as a result, marketing now has all this increased responsibility for engaging with the sales team in a deeper way, engaging with the customer service team, working more closely with IT.” Welcome to ‘Take Ten’, OMCP’s podcast where we spend

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‘Take Ten’ Interview with Dennis Yu, CTO, Blitz Metrics

Dennis Yu,  CTO, Blitz Metrics “There’s been a gap between having a diploma and actually being able to do a job. Employers just want to know, of the many things that they have to get done, that they can rely on one person who’s certified in PPC or SEO or social media marketing. They just want to know that this function can operate without them having to worry, and therefore, a trusted certification like OMCP can be valuable  because it’s backed by not just passing a quiz but having actually

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‘Take Ten’ Interview with Kevin Lee, CEO Didit & We-Care.com

Kevin Lee CEO, Didit & We-Care.com “The reason that training and certification play a really important role is that whether you’re an in-house marketer looking to bring on additional staff to help you with all of these various tasks, or you’re an agency looking to bring on staff, you want to be confident that they have at least some foundational level of knowledge and that’s where training and certification become so important, as well as continuing education.”     Welcome to ‘Take Ten’, OMCP’s podcast where we spend 10 minutes,

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‘Take Ten’ Interview with Aaron Kahlow, Founder, Mindful Order of Being

Aaron Kahlow Founder, Mindful Order of Being “Validation of your knowledge is important. Even if you feel like you know it all, you need somebody to validate it. I think it’s important for us to have those standard bearers out there and to have people that realize this is part of how you get ahead in the world.”       Welcome to ‘Take Ten’, OMCP’s blog where we spend 10 minutes, more or less, talking to online marketing thought leaders, educators, and career professionals about training and certification with

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‘Take Ten’ Interview with Kevin W. Tharp – University of Wisconsin-Stout

Kevin W. Tharp Program Director BS in Digital Marketing Technology Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-Stout “What that certification does in this field, just like every other field, is it goes to an established set of criteria. These are standards, and so that ability to get certified as having those standards when you go then to an employer from a student’s stand point, you can say that this actually is vetted knowledge.” Welcome to ‘Take Ten’, OMCP’s podcast where we spend 10 minutes, more or less, talking to online marketing thought

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‘Take Ten’ Interview with Dr. Emad Rahim, PMP, OMCP

Dr. Emad Rahim, PMP, OMCP Kotouc Endowed Chair/ Director/ Associate Professor | TEDx Speaker | CM of the Year | Empact100 Honoree Bellevue University, Jack Welch Management Institute, Project Management Institute “I think there needs to be balance between traditional education and competency-based testing, right? Where academia changes a lot slower than industry standards. So it may take a year or two for me to get a new degree program implemented and approved. It may take me a full year to revise a curriculum based on changes in the industry. Where

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‘Take Ten’ Interviews with Pubcon Attendees Eric Kozlik and Robyn Fischer

First Interview Eric Kozlik Digital Content Manager Price Benowitz, LLP “Well, I believe that competency-based certifications are important to any industry where quality is something that people are concerned with. The tricky thing about marketing is that it’s a little bit difficult to sometimes operationalize those competency-based benchmarks, so to speak.”     Second Interview Robyn Fischer Paid Media Director Be Found Online “At a smaller company, I think it’s for me, at least, it’s very important (certification) just because we know what everybody’s capable of at this point. We

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‘Take Ten’ Interview with Rand Fishkin – Moz

Rand Fishkin Wizard of Moz “I think it would be really really powerful and it would be wonderful to see people coming out of those certification programs doing a wonderful job in the industry and then having that certification program be able to be recognized by agencies who hire consultants, by businesses that hire in house SEOs, by marketing teams that want their marketers to get trained.”     Welcome to ‘Take Ten’, OMCP’s podcast where we spend 10 minutes, more or less, talking to online marketing thought leaders, educators, and

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‘Take Ten’ Interview with Bill Hunt – Back Azimuth Consulting

Bill Hunt Global Strategy Consultant, Back Azimuth Consulting “I think that you’re going to provide a valuable service to people because you don’t sell these things. You, yourself, are not necessarily doing the training as if you were an agency. An agency doing a training is always going to be skewed to their approach and their biases.”       Welcome to ‘Take Ten’, OMCP’s podcast where we spend 10 minutes, more or less, talking to online marketing thought leaders, educators, and career professionals about training and certification with hosts Jane

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