Mike Nott » Ayima http://www.nott.org SEO, Music, Photography & Other Stuff Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:18:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Ayima World Domination Plan – Step 2 http://www.nott.org/blog/ayima-world-domination-plan-step-2.html http://www.nott.org/blog/ayima-world-domination-plan-step-2.html#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:07:31 +0000 Mike http://www.nott.org/?p=118 The past 2 years have been pretty amazing for Ayima – growing from a small, few-man consultancy to one of the leaders in the UK search market.

During this time, we have been working hard to develop and stabilise our processes, infrastructure and execution, which we believe are now some of the best in the world. This now means that we are ready to expand, and the logical next step for us is to move into the huge US market by opening a new office in North Carolina.

One of the key requirements for us to do this, was to find a man on the ground that was both an exceptional SEO specialist and a friend with whom which we can entrust the Ayima brand. There was only one person that we could think of that fullfilled these two criteria – Mr Tony Spencer, also known online as “notsleepy”.

Tony Spencer - Ayima US

Tony Spencer - Ayima US

I first met Tony at PubCon Las Vegas in 2004 and he has since become one of my closest friends. Tony was also the second person that I hired to join my search team at PartyGaming and was a key part of all our SEO strategies and implementation.

Tony has an exceptional standing within the SEO world and is one of the true SEO’s SEOs. Unkown to most, he is often actually the “go-to guy” for many of the more public SEO experts when they need help. :)

Unfortunately for all you Americans this of course means that you’ll have to put with us being in town a lot more. So you’d better stock on beers as Rob is booking his tickets already.

So again, I just want to give a very warm welcome to Tony, the newest member of the Ayima family.

Me & Tony - PubCon New Orleans 2005

Me & Tony - PubCon New Orleans 2005

]]> http://www.nott.org/blog/ayima-world-domination-plan-step-2.html/feed 2 We Sold Out http://www.nott.org/blog/we-sold-out.html http://www.nott.org/blog/we-sold-out.html#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:19:23 +0000 Mike http://www.nott.org/blog/we-sold-out.html As you may have read, earlier this week Rob and I threw off any ounce of credibility in the SEO industry that we may have had, by selling out and exhibiting Ayima at Ad:tech London.

The thing is though, it really was far more successful than I imagined, and we got loads of great leads out of it. I definitely wouldn’t recommend Ad:tech to anyone as an actual SEO conference, but as a sales opportunity it was perfect.

Anyway here’s some photographic proof to ensure that we never forget how low we fell:

Mel Rob and MJ at Ad:tech

Me at Ad:tech

Ayima at Ad:tech

Relaxing after Ad:tech

]]> http://www.nott.org/blog/we-sold-out.html/feed 1 The Launch of Ayima http://www.nott.org/blog/the-launch-of-ayima.html http://www.nott.org/blog/the-launch-of-ayima.html#comments Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:04:41 +0000 Mike http://www.nott.org/blog/the-launch-of-ayima.html I would hereby like to officially introduce you all to the future of SEO consulting – Ayima Search Marketing!!

Ayima Search Marketing

Ayima was born out of the frustration felt about the poor reputation of the UK SEO industry, caused mainly by the low quality of the UK’s mainstream agencies.

We really feel there is a gap in the UK market right now for a REAL high-level SEO consultancy/agency.

Ayima currently consists of Mike Nott, Rob Kerry (evilgreenmonkey), Mike Jacobson & Tim Webb. However we already have our next couple of team members lined up (announcements coming soon) and look to keep growing in the future.

Well, the future’s looking bright and rosy right now and I’ll be giving you company updates here soon.

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