Yesterday I had lunch with Keith Schilling , another Charlotte SEO guy. He is the key man behind On Top Results , a web design, development and online marketing firm. His firm has a bit of a concentration on medical web design and online marketing for physicians.
Keith is also the founder and organizer of The Official Charlotte SEO & Search Engine Marketing Meetup Group . That’s a pretty long name, but a pretty interesting meetup group. Keith formed that group around the same time I formed the Baltimore SEO Meetup Group . We chose different approaches - he recruited the help of 4 co-organizers and grew the group… whereas I neglected my group, rarely prepared any material and was content having it be an "SEO Happy Hour" more or less. Hmmm, new blog idea - SEOandBeer.com?
Our venue for lunch was Mac’s Speedshop , a local BBQ joint on South Blvd in Charlotte. The BBQ was quite good, and the place was pretty packed - so apparently the secret is out. Parking was a bit tight - I parked like 2-3 lots down at the Taco Bell. Other than that though it was great.
Keith was probably the first Charlotte SEO guy I connected with once we decided we were going to move here. We had a few emails back and forth, few Twitter messages (@keithschilling ) and he also helped my lead gen firm out in evaluating a decision on whether or not to purchase a fledgling unique-bid auction site, as he was familiar with the site. If you are curious, we did not move forward with that.
Anyhow lunch conversation was quite pleasant and interesting. We chatted about the norm - how did you get into this industry, what type of work do you focus one, etc. Along the way we also touched on a few tidbits such as the fact that Keith is a pretty impressive golfer. We shoot about the same score… that is if he plays 18 and I play the front 9.