Our membership site has only been open for a couple years (with a 3 month pause in there) and I personally wrote about 25,000 posts in the forums, answering thousands and thousands of questions. It honestly doesn't get much more personal than that IMHO.
If you haven't experienced it then sure it can seem like marketing for the sake of marketing, but the fact that I was willing to shut down the site (make it bring in $0 revenue for 3 months while it was costing 5 figures a month) shows that I am not trying to maximize revenues without care toward quality...and that I am willing to invest in having a quality service.
And Patio11 has frequently highlighted on Hacker News that the best advice he got from us wasn't even directly SEO advice, but tips to help change his sales copy. That indeed came from doing a direct and personal review of his site.
If we didn't deliver on what we promise do you think I would have risked closing the site to customers for 3 months?
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From the optimized (?) seobook.com front page: "And now you can hire Aaron as your personal SEO coach for just around $10 per day!"
Oh my.
cute... $300/mo per month subscription = $10/day. bleh... a subscription is hardly the same as personal coaching.
Our membership site has only been open for a couple years (with a 3 month pause in there) and I personally wrote about 25,000 posts in the forums, answering thousands and thousands of questions. It honestly doesn't get much more personal than that IMHO.
If you haven't experienced it then sure it can seem like marketing for the sake of marketing, but the fact that I was willing to shut down the site (make it bring in $0 revenue for 3 months while it was costing 5 figures a month) shows that I am not trying to maximize revenues without care toward quality...and that I am willing to invest in having a quality service.
And Patio11 has frequently highlighted on Hacker News that the best advice he got from us wasn't even directly SEO advice, but tips to help change his sales copy. That indeed came from doing a direct and personal review of his site.
If we didn't deliver on what we promise do you think I would have risked closing the site to customers for 3 months?