1st Business: Portrait Artist

There wasn't much of an internet when I started my first business as a portrait artist in the early '90s.

Marketing Out of Necessity

Fine art led to graphic arts in an effort to market my own home based business which I eventually abandoned to became a full time marketing professional.

Budweiser: 1st Corporate Marketing Job

My art skills landed a job as a sign painter for Birmingham Budweiser. Later I was promoted to my first corporate marketing position as their POS/Sign Shop & Events Marketing Manager.

After almost 4 years there I went through a flurry of marketing industry jobs:

• Sign Shop Production Artist
• Traditional Print Marketing Artist
• Screen Printing Art Director
• Creative Director
• Art Director
• Marketing Director

Then Came Google

Shortly after Google was born, I found myself learning SEO (Search Engine Optimization) while freelancing as a self taught web designer at an "Internet" Ad Agency.

I didn't know it then but I would be a freelance contractor for the rest of my life.

+20 Years Self-Employed Life

For the last +20 years, I have been a Freelance SEO Specialist with a brief interruption as a w-2 for Winn-Dixie Grocery Store as their webmaster and marketing specialist.

SEO Marketing for All Kinds of Industries

I've marketed for Luxury Real Estate Brokers, some more Ad Agencies as a white label SEO and a number of other businesses, some that I still work with.

That's My Real Life SEO Marketing Career in a nutshell.