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Meet the Crew Coding Crack-Squad

A team is only as good as its members, right? We have assembled the finest, most talented and sometimes funniest crew around. We're excited to meet you! Check out what makes each of us unique...below.

Nathan Maggard

Nathan Maggard

CEO & Founder

Obsessively growth-oriented, Nathan sees unique angles in every business, always seeking the next leg-up.

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Jordan Kasper

Senior Developer

Jordan brings intuitive programming knowledge to our projects - every line of code is optimized before he lets it go out the door.
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Chris Maloney

Project Manager

Chris brings incredible knowledge to TFF. Design, development and CMS tech, he knows it all. Notably, also a former nuclear submarine tech, no joke.

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Antonia Porter

Social Media Strategist

Solve your 'I don't have time to tweet!' problem. Antonia manages direct brand interaction with your potential customers.
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Aki Anderson

Ruby Guru 

To be honest, she may as well have graduated already. Aki is our resident Rubyist. In English, she's an awesome asset.

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Sean Furr

Junior Designer

Pure. Talent. Sean gets the shakes if he's not sketching or designing..so we keep him busy.
John Maddox

John Maddox

CMO & Co-Founder

Bringing in new business is what makes John tick. He bridges the gap between clients and creatives.

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Dylan Mullins

Creative Lead

Calm. Cool. Creative. He's got your corporate re-design on lockdown.
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Susie Beard

Media Strategist

Susie makes the big deals happen. If your TV or Radio is underperforming she's your go-to girl to get things up to snuff.

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Dawn Aaser

VP Midwest Operations

Dawn is responsible for the successful launch of our new St. Louis branch.

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Sheridan Roberts

Junior Developer

We say junior just because he's new. He is a rockstar with MVC frameworks and OOP. You have to be a developer to understand anything he says.

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Taking Nashville Web Design By Storm

So far 2012 is looking like a banner year for Ten Fast Feet. We have significantly increased our website development and Nashville web design staff in order to cement our status as as one of the premier web design Nashville firms.

We are also proud to announce the hiring of Chris Maloney as our senior project manager. He brings significant talent and experience to Ten Fast Feet from both design and technical perspectives, and is an excellent resource for clients and internal personnel.

Sheridan Roberts has also joined us as a junior developer. We lured him away from Dell with promises of candy and a more relaxed atmosphere. He will be working under our development lead, Jordan Kasper, who is one of the most sought after developers around.

Antonia Porter will be assuming more responsibility in a client support role in addition to her duties as a social media strategist. Her current day-to-day interactions with clients and their brands will give her added insight into the needs of our clients and enable her to anticipate needs before they arise.

Ten Fast Feet is on the move in 2012. We look forward to helping our current and future customers grow. Don't hesitate to call us anytime!

Blogging for Interactive Agency SEO Boost

To be straight foward about the purpose of this post, we've been stuck at #1 on page 2 for "interactive agency" for a couple of weeks now, and we're hoping this post will put us over the edge onto page one. At the same time, this post will also explain a little bit about blogging for SEO credit, different ways it can benefit you, and dispel some of the rumors about its overall value to your search rankings. Now for an obligatory interactive agency reference...

Many so called "experts" will pump potential clients up on blogging, and how blogging by itself will put you on page one for all sorts of things. While there is some truth to this, specifically for long tail keyword strings, the real moneymakers are short tail strings like interactive agency, and you just aren't going to get onto page one without a whole host of off-site SEO techniques.

It's generally easy to get ranked for long tail strings because nobody is actively optimizing for them. Simply put, if less than say 50 searches are being done a month for a particular keyword, then it's normally not worthwhile to actively optimize. ROI is important, and unless one conversion is worth hundreds or thousands, effort is better spent elsewhere on high volume terms.

This is where blogging can come into play. If you title your post and write your article with strategic use of the keyword string you wish to optimize, you can boost your on-site search credit while getting ranked for a long tail string. Obviously in this post we are actually targeting a short tail, but we are doing quite a bit of off-site for "interactive agency" and need every bit of competitive edge we can muster.

An example of this at work would be our post titled "Why hire us for SEO". If you Google that string, you will see us at #1. In the four months following that post being indexed at #1, we have received an average of 12 visits a month from that keyword. It's highly targeted to a specific niche, but has only led to one sale, versus one of our sister sites being ranked #5 for "SEO Nashville" and receiving 200+ visits per month. That site has generated four new clients in just the last month.

To summarize, blogging can be very important for overall freshness of content on your website without forcing you to change your core content. If you utilize a dynamic module which pulls in your blog title and intro text onto your homepage (or another page you are actively optimizing) you have a sneaky way to boost your keyword density and title tags with less risk of a keyword stuffing penalty.

If you notice, "interactive agency" was worked in the first paragraph twice, and only three times throughout the rest of this post. After two more posts, this one will no longer be featured, however the title and intro paragraph will still be pulled into the homepage. We will continue to get credit for those keyword mentions until the post is either deleted, or no longer needed.

All this is to say, don't fall into the trap of thinking all you need to do is blog and you'll rank highly. It's an ancillary piece to a full SEO campaign and--while important--is not the "be all, end all" that some try to represent. If you have any questions about search optimization, please don't hesitate to call. We will give you the straight scoop on how it all works, and show why you should choose us for your SEO company.

Blog Archive

Taking Nashville Web Design By Storm

So far 2012 is looking like a banner year for Ten Fast Feet. We have significantly increased our website development and Nashville web design staff in order to cement our status as as one of the premier web design Nashville firms. We are also proud to announce the hiring of Chris Maloney as our senior...
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Blogging for Interactive Agency SEO Boost

To be straight foward about the purpose of this post, we've been stuck at #1 on page 2 for "interactive agency" for a couple of weeks now, and we're hoping this post will put us over the edge onto page one. At the same time, this post will also explain a little bit about blogging for SEO credit, different...
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The Joys of Web Development & Web Developers

Anyone who has ever gone through a web development project, or worked with a top web developer will tell you to always account for the unknown. That is pretty much a contradiction in itself, but is so true.  More often than not, clients come to us with a general concept for their business, and...
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"Top Interactive Agency" Status & New St Louis Office

A few weeks ago we started noticing visitors coming to our site from keywords like "top interactive agencies" and "best interactive firms." To our surprise and pleasure, our hard work is continuing to pay off as we are becoming increasingly visible as an important agency in both web design and development,...
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Do I Need Social Media?

The short answer is yes. Social media opens up a world of possibilities that wouldn't exist otherwise. Without social media in place, you could be missing out on leads, connections, and insights about your customer base—among other benefits. Here are seven reasons why you need a social media strategy...
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New Media Interactive To Traditional Advertising Agency

Over the next week or so you will be seeing some additions to the Ten Fast Feet website. We have been so busy the last several months there literally hasn't been time to build out our portfolio aside from our website design pages. Given our meteoric rise over the last month for...
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Why Hire Us For SEO PT2 - Preemptive Strike

For most business owners, SEO or search engine optimization, is a fancy term that has very little solid information behind it. We have had several potential clients in the last few weeks that have questioned the value of SEO and even our knowledge and ability to get the results we say we will.  This...
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SEO Update For "Advertising Agency Nashville" & "Interactive Agencies Nashville"

Last month I made an observation on the lack of search optimization competition in the Nashville marketing for "advertising agency" and "interactive agency" keyword strings. We had just put the wheels in motion to attack this segment of potential new business, with the expectation of a few months to...
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Nashville SEO and Web Up Marketing Seminar

We have been receiving quite a few requests for SEO consulting lately, and have decided to put together a free seminar on search optimization. This will cover how to incorporate traditional media advertising with online marketing to increase your ROI. Right now we are shooting for the end of September...
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Nashville Advertising Agencies Lookout!

We recently poached a top rep from local big media, this person who shall remain nameless for the time being, will be heading up our push to become a top traditional media agency in addition to a top interactive agency. With this addition all the pieces are in place to make a big splash in the Nashville...
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A Recent SEO Win

We had a great phone call today. It made today one of those "You know, we really help people grow." days. Mark Mellaon, director of Stepworks Rehab Centers in Kentucky surprised the staff here with a PILE of Dominos Pizza at high noon. Thanks, Mark!  Why the Gesture? Earlier in the day.. John,...
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Why Search Is The Worst Form Of Advertising? Have You Lost Your Mind (Job) Yet?

When this article first appeared on my phone, I thought it was some form of rhetorical question. Surely no one writing for the online and digital section of Adage could possible think this. Sure enough,...
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How To Rebound In Search Rankings After Rebranding

After three weeks of hand wringing and several anxiety attacks, Market Me Tennessee has successfully regain #1 position for web design Nashville following our rebrand to Ten Fast Feet. A significant portion of our website design work comes directly from search queries, so it was a tad bit worrisome...
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Trying to be the best place to work in Nashville!

Making TFF a great place to work So we decided that it's time to make Ten Fast Feet the best marketing firm to work for in Nashville. Toward that end, we have just purchased a ping pong table, and have scheduled a massage therapist to come in every two weeks so everyone can get a 30 minute massage....
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Why Should You Hire Us For SEO?

Because We're Awesome! That's Why! It is currently 130am on 11/25/10 also known as Thanksgiving, and the reason Nathan and myself are still up is our latest assessment of MMT's search rankings. As you can imagine, we are competing with people just like us for rankings, which means we are up against...
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Google Changes Algorithms

With many folks worried about the recent changes to Google's search results, we offer some insight. We should say, with a few hundred SEO clients, we bring a unique viewpoint. We've been able to normalize data and view many data points not available to smaller firms with just a few SEO results to compare...
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The Pains of Social Media

In response to a very valid complaint on busineses struggling to profit from social media:

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Social Media Doesn't "Work"

From Gloria: Will someone please SHOW ME how social media has produced a client, an account or a project for their business....
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USB Contortion

A quick rant on USB. I love USB...I love it so much that I, like you have six hundred devices that all conveniently plug in to my computer, my laptop, my phone, my mouse and the wall. Our company Schnauzer, Bruce has a USB port up his bum (although, we haven't conclusively tested this).

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Oh No! Not The Creative Types!

As a slightly less eccentric than normal creative type, and one that works with and manages other creative types for a living, I often find myself wondering how clients put up with us. Furthermore, when observing the CT's (creative types) in their natural habitat (advertising agency award extravaganzas)...
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Ad Agency Wars: Old School vs New School

During a meeting with an up and coming IT company, which happens to be owned by 3 members of the older generation, we received validation that the route we are taking as an agency is definitely the right one. Business owners are beginning to realize they have been throwing away money with many "traditional"...
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