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The Coach Yu show is where we bring you the latest insights and expert guests to help you excel in your business endeavors. In our recent episode, we had the pleasure of hosting a special guest, Danny Leibrandt, the CEO of Full Funnels, a digital marketing agency specializing in serving home service businesses. Empowering Local Service Home Businesses: Danny Leibrandt’s …
After 9 months the only thing Dennis Yu received from Brandon Deboer was a lot of wasted time and ultimately getting blocked by the person who took his cash and ran.
Here’s how influencers and scammers cheat buyers out of millions of dollars through a thriving black market where followers, engagement, podcast, and app downloads are faked for pennies. Do you want to be internet famous? It can be bought for NOTHING. The website is called “justanotherpanel.com”. Many social media agencies selling “social media growth services” are just reselling fake bot …
Today, the advisor, Yu, is here to take a piece of advice… An agency friend ran out of money by continuing to employ dead weight. The dead consequences are nice people but don’t do any work, so the clients are demanding refunds. The agency owner is so empathetic that they don’t want to let anyone go. The agency friend feels …
Many advertisements boast about being featured on well-known media outlets such as Forbes, Inc, and Entrepreneur. It begs the question: why is this such a common occurrence? To delve deeper into this topic, we recommend watching our explanatory video which aims to shed light on the reasons behind this marketing strategy. The practice of advertising being featured on popular media …
In the world of Fake PR, maintaining the integrity and coming out clean is no small feat. So, major props to Ulyses Osuna for coming clean about paying writers under the table to post featured articles. Not only does this violate journalism ethics, but it’s illegal per FTC disclosure rules. Then there’s Gavin Lira and Grant Lira of Empathy Firm, …
Do you want to know the methods that some agencies use to trick their clients? In this episode of Coach Yu, Dennis discusses some of these SEO hacks with Nicholas Rubright, CEO of New Reach Marketing and an expert in SEO, Digital PR, and Link Building. What are the ways SEO is used to fool people? Domain Authority One way …
I got hit up by some guy named “David Smith” (which is a suspect name– hard to find him). His website is legalfirmseo dot com, but you can’t find it when you search for it: So naturally, I take a look at the SEO of this legal SEO firm: A bunch of zeros.No organic traffic, no SERP features, no inbound …
I got a desperate call from my friend, Philippe. He and his wife are massage therapists in San Diego. Their business got wrecked by COVID– mandated to be shut down for over a year. Thus, income went to zero. They had to take out loans to pay their bills. They heard of this local internet marketing company called GoBeRewarded run by a …
The latest wave of SEO spammers are now selling “influence”– to get your articles on high power sites, create that content for you, grow your followers, and drive high levels of fake engagement. See this chart as an example of what it costs for a posting on each site. “TAT” is turnaround time. We write for most of these sites and know …
Remember the advice “don’t talk to strangers or adults offering you candy” as a child? When you’re a marketer, would you accept if someone offered you a program that makes $17,000 per day that sets up in less than 10 minutes? Uh, no. We shouldn’t touch get rich people. Replace the candy with “easy” schemes designed to lure you in. Like …
