Agencies Driving Me Nuts
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- trooperbill
so i went to some agency to speak to OUR client about SEO cuz they were crucifying his site with a really nasty re-design
The agency guy was all buzzwords n shit n was basically muscling in our MY fucking client
turned the conversation around to highlight who was the fucking expert in the room... it wasnt him
man i hate douchbag agency execs
spoke to me like i was a dumbass who didnt understand about marketing... been doing this since you was in diapers douchyboy
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- whereRI0
whats your social media strategy?
- we do a lot of brand monitoring and conversation based social media... never sales! it just doesnt worktrooperbill
- sorry i was just kiddin actually :)whereRI
- lolclearThoughts
- trooperbill0
lol his response would be "twitter and facebook" - he was that kind of douche
- would care to share some of your insights about ur strategies?hektor911
- that kind of douchebag is already checkin in on Foursquare and watching Google TVclearThoughts
- monospaced0
Are you guys gonna touch base on a few of the key takeaways?
- right after i spearhead this here pen into your eyesocket.iCanHasQBN
- THAT'S the spirit!monospaced
- bigtrick0
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel stuck to his crotch. Bartender looks up and says, "hey, you've got a steering wheel stuck to your crotch!"
Pirate replies, "Arrr, it's drivin' me nuts!"
- hope that helpsbigtrick
- Slow clap,
I loledgeorgesIII - ouchSeriousFreelancing
- Orbit0
You went to some agency to speak to your client about SEO... and the OTHER GUY was all buzzwords n shit ?
- +100 HahahahaNONEIS
- yeah for realtrooperbill
- Please tell me you don't think SEO is a buzzword? Oh no, Mr Bill!SeriousFreelancing
- georgesIII0
Hey, Gramps its time you start using the social!!
- you know to show the equality of bandwith profiling netgeorgesIII
- akrok0
SEO always sounds like, hey...can't you spell CEO.
- citysurgical0
Net-net, this needs more brand truths.
- georgesIII0
the equilibrium of this level gives more strength to the aperture.
- clearThoughts0
So you went with your client to another agency???
What do you run yourself? Or what do you do? The design? Art direction?- the client requested the visit... he was already sold into a new shitty design (we didnt do the last one but it was nice and should be left alone)trooperbill
- NONEIS0
Sorry dude, but if you do SEO, then he might be YOUR client, but I am willing to bet the "Agency" wears the big boy pants in terms of decision making. Do you actually design or build anything for these people, or just show them how to peak their ranking on google in ways that will get you moved lower in the list 6 months from now?
- trooperbill0
@noneis its a long story, many local agencies outsource their seo to us (we're bloody good at it) but we are a full service agency ourselves... its criminal what our resold services are being charged out at and no we're not fly by night (tho i did have a client as us to black hat a site last week! i told him no... its not worth it)
- "Good at SEO" = done 2 hours googling it rather than 5 minutesPIZZA
- clearThoughts0
Can your 'agency' design a website? Or you just chatter about SEO?
- Anyone who doesn't understand the importance of SEO doesn't understand that business drives our work.SeriousFreelancing
- pretty sure that's not what he said, and as an interactive designer, it;s already YOUR JOB to understand SEO >:|NONEIS
- cannonball19780
If you are the SEO dude, then he's not a client, he's a customer, and you are the vendor.
- +1NONEIS
- whatever, you missed the point of his rant... because by saying what you just said, you're better off douching it up with the AESeriousFreelancing
- wahcannonball1978
- Miguex0
- hahaintVal
- Unjustified shit slinging.SeriousFreelancing
- justified factsPIZZA
- how do you check the number of likes?clearThoughts
- Douglas0
i went to a talk last spring where big wigs from Mother, WK, and Taxi all spoke... and every other word out of their mouths was twitter/facebook/foursq/tumblr/i...
- cannonball19780
^ Agencies rarely start their own trend, and if they do it's something for the masses to bleat, like "got milk"
- +1000. Most of them adopted a 'told you so' attitude after the dotcom bubble burst. Now they're evangelists...babaganush
- crayz0
I hate, SEO.
- Ancillary0
there are heaps of agency douch bag show offs where I work, I just want to nudge them out the window
- jetSkii0
SEO... does not create better websites. Just allows the bosses to monitor their sites with a better lens because they know jack shit about design
- wow, thanks for your incredible insight!SeriousFreelancing