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Email me at
brandon {at} seattleorganicseo [dot] com
Here’s a little about me…
My life now (in Digital Marketing)
In my day job, I help guide a good number of dealer principals and their corporate marketing team with their organic search efforts as a Senior SEO Analyst for CDK Global. I have the incredible fortune of being on the largest SEO team dedicated to one vertical (possibly in the whole world) with the most organic search marketing clients as well. I manage the 4th largest Auto Group in the country.
At night (& some weekends), I keep myself busy with a few other projects. You can read about them in Projects, once I redo that page.
Update: 5/21/2018
Due to painful experience with my old hosting company, InMotion hosting, they shut down my old site that I didn’t pay enough attention to. As a result, many of the posts and details were deleted. I’ll build that content back up here including the rest of my background:
Serving as Principal of Seattle Organic SEO where I have helped companies of all sizes reach the top of Google for the most competitive keywords along with helping them sell for $50 million USD to $500 million USD. I’ve helped a good number of them leverage the “once in lifetime” and possibly “once in several centuries” opportunity with SEO, SEM and the various digital opportunities offered to us today. A little synopsis of how easy it can be done was documented in a blog post I wrote recently: Helping another employer rise to the top – Brandon’s Blog
I am open to discussion if you want to repeat some of my past successes. At the same time, I have very little time as you can see.
I’ve also had a colorful career working for some of the top dotcoms including Amazon dot com, Expedia dot com and DoubleClick (which is currently a division of Google). I’ve also spent 1/3 in other arenas that have provided me with incredible insight and now more than a 1/3 in education where I found an incredible amount of fulfillment.
Speaking of…(Education)
Shortly before, I served as Head of Curriculum and Teacher Development for the Southern region of China & Hong Kong’s Top Test Prep Company: SanLi Education. I helped students with ACT, SAT, SSAT, ISEE, TOEFL and IELTS and coached some of the Top Debate teams in the world.
To prepare for the successful coaching experience, I graduated with Honors from my high school which was ranked the #14th debate team in the nation and was a nationally competitive debater. I graduated from the University of Puget Sound (1 of 40 Universities in the Book: “Colleges That Change Lives”) in 1994 after turning down the University of Washington.
My students in debate and public speaking have consistently excelled in tournaments — one of my crowning coaching achievements involved leading a team of students who placed First in the 2013 World Scholar’s Cup Tournament of Champions. I worked with the same team to repeat their title as #1 at the following Global Round with over 2000 participants.
Recently, both the Jr. and the Sr. teams who took 1st Place in Writing at the Tournament of Champions at Yale in 2015 were coached by me either as a team or individually. The Scholar’s Cup successes are detailed here: http://brandonna.com/blog/the-top-scholars-cup-coach-in-hong-kong-in-the-world/
In terms of Test Preparation, I have helped students achieve a perfect 2400 & a 2390 on the SAT and a plethora of 2300+’s. On the ACT, I’ve helped students reach the 99% Percentile and 99%+ Percentile regularly with perfect 36‘s on the Reading and Essay sections. With regards to the SSAT, my students have regularly achieved 95%+ percentiles with 3 former students obtaining the top score possible – in the 99% Percentile. My middle school students, who I help pro bono consulting for boarding schools received offer letters from: The Hotchkiss School, Milton Academy, The Lawrenceville School and Peddie School.
Additionally, I’ve done a considerable amount of personal statement consulting where my students have obtained successful admissions to Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell, Northwestern, Duke University, UPenn, Dartmouth, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Rice, Johns Hopkins, University of San Diego, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University College London, Imperial College, Parsons and the ArtCenter College of Design.
Some of my past clients and even a few new ones that seem to find me here also occupy the few remaining weekend hours I have.
Lastly, here are some of my other profiles on the Internet which may complement these finer points:
Some details I shared in my old blog that opened my eyes to the power of blogging:
Anyway, just for the random visitor & to remind Brandon a little bit of his past life, here are a few things you may not know about this guy: