A.K.A. Gary Beal/Gary The Scuba Guy, GaryTheScubaGuy, GaryTheScubaDiver and Facebook's IPO
I get asked a lot of funny questions...
I attended a great conference last week, the GPEC (Gala Premier e-Commerce conference) and I was asked a few interesting questions (but god forbid anyone raised their hand for any one of a half dozen questions I asked - lol - I was a talking a bit fast.
What a great bunch.
I spoke with a bunch outside the main theatre after the conference and some off-the -wall questions came up and it got me to thinking some of the other ones I've gotten, so since I am worn out from conferences and a 10,000-word SEO white paper I just finished, and I have nothing better to write about, this sounded like a good idea.
These have come from people in and out of the industry by the way...
Where did Gary The Scuba Guy/Diver come from?
I am a scuba diver of many years, which is why I now live in Malta. It's very complicated.
What do you do for a living?
I am a bodyguard for a MacAir, iPad, a Dell and a 1TB external hard drive. The only time they leave my side is going through the very familiar screen gate at airports and I kinda tear up.
No really I carry a couple laptops all around the world talking about what I do on it and hammering on it between stops. I am in essence a migrant US citizen. Maybe even a vagrant with a credit card, a gypsy or Vagabond.
Do you like speaking in front of people? I couldn't do it...
I sweat like a stuck pig every time. Back when I was doing 4 Gaming and Affiliate conferences a year in party towns (I've been to Amsterdam 14 times, and not just transferring flights) and the thing to do was go out and party all night...I did. Would I jump off a bridge if yadda yadda yadda...short answer, at that time, hell yes!) But speaking for 2 hours in front of a few hundred people and making sense is a realistic goal...believe me. I guess I thought with practice comes perfection.
The short answer is no, its still nerve wracking.
How did you get to where you are?
I'm a bit obsessive compulsive and its centered around SEO and computers. I'm from back in the Commodore 64 and TRS 80 era. The closest you'll get to my age is I'm divisible by 5. I work 5-9 and not 9-5. I wake at 3am to "hit the head" and I'm checking rankings. I live, eat and breath Google and short of a restraining order use every brain cell I have left to engineer results. It's what SEO's do. The fact we get paid great for it is gravy.
I am SEO. Hear me roar.
Where can I learn SEO on a professional level and make the big bucks?
The first thing I would recommend is the need to read and the gest to test. Prove someone wrong. Desire to find the breakthrough tactic. Take it personally and never give up. Tell people everything you know because it will change. And lastly; get an O-ring for your computer chair, a fridge and microwave next to your kit, and outside of conferences, any social life for at least as long as you want to be successful
If you aren't willing to make, or continue making these sacrifices, then be the number that "wonders what happened"
Where do you find the time to write?
I don't. I'm a typical American and when I either piss everyone off and they leave, or they just get tired of hearing me ramble on about SEO, I write it down.
Are you buying Facebook IPO?
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| Facobook IPO |
No. just joking. I just needed a reason to put "Facebook IPO" in this post to Tweet and retweets through my 100+ account strong Twitter network and also to hopefully attract a few RSS scrapers to republish the link to Gary The Scuba Guy (this blog) so I've shamelessly bowed to my inner SEO alter-blackhat-ego.
After all, any SEO is blackhat.
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