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And it is at this time, with a heavy heart…

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Greetings friends, family and distinguished colleagues,
As most all of you know, I stand gainfully employed as the VP/Development with The Karcher Group, Inc. in the Canton area. You may also know that I have grown with “my” company nearly a decade and we’ve been through many ups and downs along the way. Regardless of the times, The Karcher Group has flourished and is now celebrating a 10 year anniversary. And it is at this time, with a heavy heart, that I must disclose to you that The Karcher Group is about to go and do something completely irrational to all of it’s faithful employees?

No, it is not what you’re thinking – “I’m being fired” or “We’re closing our doors” – it’s even worse! The Karcher Group, Inc. will be changing it’s web address to a 3-letter domain!

We’ve been working for 10 d$%n years to gain the best SEO ranking, client and industry credibility building the best standards-based, accessible websites possible and then we have to go and be “fortunate” enough to obtain a 3-letter domain (tkg.com). I guess you can consider it our birthday present to ourselves. This, no doubt, is a major undertaking that will put TKG’s skills to the test to maintain all we have established in the last decade. So, in traditional TKG style, we plan on making this experience a comprehensive social case-study that we hope to share with the industry (being that this may the first instance of it’s kind). We hope that all of you will watch and become an active part of this venture.

Should you choose to accept, this is a start to where your efforts would be most beneficial?

On any media outlet you can get your hands on, promote either this message or a simple mention of the event taking place along with a link back to tkg.com. Please let us know you are becoming involved so we can personally thank you, give you a mention in the case-study and keep you in the loop as to what and when things are happening. Oh, if you have other ideas, by all means, pass them along too! If we choose to implement them, we’ll reward you handsomely for it.

So long thekarchergroup.com and hello tkg!

Thanks in advance for any and all efforts from myself and the rest of your friends here at TKG.

SEW Live – Columbus!

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Join me Wednesday, May 9th for a special Search Engine Watch Live event in Columbus, Ohio at the Hyatt Regency. This informal, half-day event offers attendees the opportunity to meet editorial staff, Search Engine Strategies speakers, and members of the Search Engine Watch community in person, network with local peers (me), and discuss the hottest topics and latest news in the search industry.

This event will be hosted by the Editor of Search Engine Watch, Elisabeth Osmeloski.  

SEW LIVE! is a terrific networking opportunity for SEO consultants and SEM firms, interactive agencies and in-house search marketing managers in Central Ohio and the Great Lakes region.

I’ll be involved in the following session: 1:00pm – 2:15pm Organic Optimization

You can also catch fellow Karcher Group employee, Collyn Floyd, speaking on Link Building Strategies.

I hope to meet you soon; Cheers!