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		<title>Brendan Egan Featured in USA Today as AI Marketing &#038; SEO Expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO, October 10 2023 – (USA Today) Brendan Egan is honored to announce his latest feature in USA Today on the subject of SEO and AI in marketing. In the article, his company, Simple SEO Group, is credited as one of the industry&#8217;s top agencies, highlighting specifically Simple SEO Group&#8217;s industry-disrupting AI integration in SEO [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brendan Egan Interviewed As Digital Marketing Expert On NewsMax</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Brendan Egan was interviewed in May 2022 as a digital marketing expert, speaking on the topic of the pending purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, along with commentary regarding the number of robot or &#8220;bot&#8221; accounts which exist on social media.  The full interview can be viewed below.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Engage Announces Sweepstakes with the American Cancer Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Engage  is excited to announce the launch for the 2nd year of a series of sweepstakes featuring Division I Men’s Basketball head coaches Mike Krzyzewski (Duke), Kelvin Sampson (Houston), Brad Underwood (Illinois), Fran McCaffery (Iowa), Eric Musselman (Arkansas), Porter Moser (Oklahoma), Scott Drew (Baylor), Steve Donahue (Penn), Isaac Brown (Wichita State), James Jones (Yale), Jeff [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Engage Announces Partnership with the MLSPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Engage, a Los Angeles technology company democratizing and digitizing the talent booking industry, and the Major League Soccer Players Association (MLSPA) are proud to announce a strategic partnership to bring MLS athletes to the online platform. Engage will leverage the partnership with the MLSPA to help their players secure bookings for speaking engagements, execute campaigns [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>7 Best Ways To Prevent E-commerce Shopping Cart Abandonment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People who visit your e-commerce store don’t always make a purchase. Visitors may leave right away or after a few minutes of browsing through the products. Many of these visitors even leave after adding items to their shopping cart, which is known as shopping cart abandonment. In fact, it is estimated that about 77% of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>5 Reasons Why Your Content Marketing Strategy is Not Effective</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s been said that there is no better long-term marketing strategy than content marketing. But unfortunately, many businesses give up on content marketing because they don’t see the value in it. If you’re not seeing results with your content marketing, it’s best to analyze your strategy to see where things went wrong instead of losing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Get Feedback From Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s no better way to improve your business than to listen to feedback from customers. After all, these are the people who will decide whether or not your business will be successful, so it’s important to make sure they are satisfied with your services. But, getting customers to open up and share their honest opinions [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Important Are Links For SEO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Google uses a number of algorithms to determine how to rank a page within search results. Google’s first algorithm was PageRank, which used the number and quality of links to determine the importance of a website. Marketers quickly started to realize they could improve their rank within search results by building as many links to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Should I Syndicate My Content Across Different Platforms?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of time and effort to create a single piece of well written, informative content. In fact, it’s estimated that it takes most marketers between one to two hours to write a 500-word blog post. Because this is such a time-consuming process, it’s important to maximize the exposure of each piece of content so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Engage Announces Launch of Online Talent Booking Platform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Engage, a Los Angeles based startup with a mission to democratize the talent booking industry, announced the beta launch of their proprietary platform on October 9, 2018. The online platform digitizes the process of booking talent for various types of events and engagements. Engage has begun onboarding talent and readying the platform for bookings with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Google’s Big August 2018 Algorithm Update &#038; It’s Impacts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Implementing effective SEO strategies is difficult, partly due to the fact that Google frequently updates its algorithm. The rules of SEO change with every new algorithm update, which means marketers must remain on their toes and ready to adapt to whatever Google decides. The most recent algorithm update took place in August of this year. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Web Design Trends For 2019 &#038; Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many companies make the mistake of thinking that their work is over once their website has been built, but that’s not the case. Frequent updates are crucial to the success of your website—and your business, too. It’s important to stay on top of trends in the web design world so you know when it’s time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Top Marketing Trends To Follow In 2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Y2K, and over the last two decades the internet and digital marketing have changed tremendously. A year ago, marketing experts predicted that digital marketers needed to take a closer look at micro-moments on a mobile device. More and more people are using smartphones for quick interactions [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brendan M. Egan &#038; John S. Shegerian Announce Release Of First Book, 101 Tips From The Marketing Masters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 08:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Brendan M. Egan &#38; John S. Shegerian, serial entrepreneurs and founders of The Marketing Masters, a digital marketing agency with offices in Chicago and Los Angeles, announced this week the release of their first book, 101 Tips From The Marketing Masters – Ways To Supercharge Your Marketing &#38; Exponentially Grow Your Business. The nearly 400 page book covers 101 unique marketing tips [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ERI Names Brendan M. Egan to Board of Directors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2020 22:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ERI, the nation’s largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company, has announced that it has named Brendan M. Egan to its Board of Directors. Egan is a serial entrepreneur who focuses on leveraging his experience in software development and marketing to create new technologies, disrupt existing industries, and make impactful [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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