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My Izeafest Keynote Speech

I just finished the keynote and its viewable here for those who missed it.  I was really nervous for this.  I have never given a keynote speech before and especially not one kicking off the conference!

Izeafest is rocking! You can really tell the difference between conferences that are out for profit and ones that are more for promoting their brand. This is one that is promoting their brand. Tons of freebies and great events.

Here is the keynote in case you wanted to see it and missed it live.

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  1. bali villas

    very nice info

  2. Önder

    i missed it but now i can watch it from band i think.

  3. Nebraska SEO

    It took me a few days to finally get around to listen to this speech and some of the other stuff from Izeafest. Looks like it was an interesting conference.

    Congrats on the job you did. I think the top take away should be that people need to do less talking and do more doing.

  4. Adam Christie

    Thanks for posting that video. Enjoyed your speech – very inspirational.

  5. CultureMob.com

    Good job, first timer!

  6. imnotadoctor

    very inspirational!

  7. Rekzai

    Wow ustream sucks so bad

  8. mathew

    Yet again another great speach but I think google has a difficult job because however good their guidelines are they are going to be abused!

  9. Anderson

    Good work money, very smarty speech, thanx for sharing

  10. Bryn Youngblut

    Great information shared, it was nice to hear your story again besides just reading about it. Very inspirational.

  11. jim

    Great keynote, thanks for sharing it with everyone.

  12. The Good Blog Guide

    Hey JS. Excellent keynote, I love your screw google tactics. Social marketing is a far better way to get good quality traffic these days. The power of word of mouth is growing everyday.

  13. SEO next

    Thats the thing …
    Let the goal of google (which is to have the best sites to show at the top) and our goal be same….
    Once the sites we make are made kept in mind the readers perspective and not SE stuff links and rankings should come automatically in a genuine way.

  14. Reid

    simply awesome job!

  15. SEO Tips

    Thats a wonderful speech!

  16. Chris Mac

    Dude, It went out at 27:42 and wouldn’t work and I missed what you said and I was like, something important :( lol, def put this on google.video er youtube

  17. TYCP Entertainment Magazine

    Smashing speech, Jeremy. Wicked. I like that you got straight to the point. No BS. Can’t stand it when people drag on without getting to the point.

  18. atlanta wedding photographer

    I really liked what you said about setting goals and not settling for what you have. In addition, you had accountability from you wife to make the right choices that would get you where you want to go not necessarily what you want to do at the moment. It was almost like Steven coveys book, “First things first.” It is far too easy to do the good things instead of the best things.

  19. HSD

    @ ZK@WebTrafficRO: totally agree with you lol

  20. HSD

    good speech

  21. Bryn Youngblut

    Awesome, watching it now.

  22. cheap used cars

    nice keynote.. you came off relaxed and natural, with interesting content. Good work shoe.

  23. cheap used cars

    the guy before you is a huge fan of pay per post? you obviously didn’t invite @calacanis to this event

  24. Sohail

    Just read John Chow’s blog, a very inspiring speech.

  25. Patrick

    The sound went out in the middle of it for me. But sounded good up until then. Any chance you can put it on YouTube?

  26. Moneybites

    looking good buddy, hopefully this will be the first of many

  27. Online Dividends

    Wow, thanks for uploading the speech. Bookmarked!

  28. Paul

    Smart man nice job – thanks for letting us view your speech.

  29. web hosting rebates

    great speech Jeremy. Thanks for sharing

  30. big jason

    great talk man. some really good gems in there

  31. Dan

    Great speech! Glad I could catch it on ustream…

  32. stevewrightaz

    MONEY on the ‘Screw Google’!

  33. Wii Downloads

    good stuff shoe i didn’t know much about your background so it was really interesting to me.

    kinda reminded me and i’m not sure why but it reminded me of your t-shirt that says “SEO SUCKS” i gotta get me one of those t-shirts

  34. Nick Throlson

    Great Key Note Speech!

  35. PTC Blog

    HAHA… Shoe me the money!

    Great work brother! I think your perspective on SEO is refreshing. Build the site for the users and the SEs will follow! Keep it up!

  36. StudentPilot

    Shoe – great speech, but I gotta ask you… how do you get your thumbs to bend back 90-degrees like that? :)

  37. Nimic

    Fantastic speech man. You did great. I like hearing about how you started. It’s inspiring as I saw a lot of similarities in myself. Quitting WoW was one of the best things I ever did, so much time to work on real projects now. Wish I could have come see the keynote in person, I’m just down the road in Orlando, but I had deadlines at my 9-5.

  38. Cheryl W

    Great speech! Enjoyed getting to know you better.

  39. ZK@WebTrafficROI

    SCREW GOOGLE – I am with you on this , Shoe

    • Jeremy Schoemaker

      Ya I hope people actually watch the video though and see the context of it. I actually love Google just think more people should build sites for people and not search engines

      • Online Dividends

        That’s what ultimately matters- even if google brings you 1000’s of visitors every day, unless you can keep them with your content, then you won’t benefit from this traffic.

  40. Jacob M

    Nice Keynote. I know far too often I get stuck being excited about doing stuff without actually doing it. Your Keynote saved me from buying another book too… =)

    Keep up the great work, and thank you for the kick in the butt.

  41. atlanta wedding photographer

    I thought that the title said, “the laziest keynote speech.” Funny how we read into things.

  42. purposeinc

    That was great.
    Matt Cutts will be proud. It was really a very white hat talk, build great content and don’t worry about the Search Engines.
    Build the traffic, then the Search Engines will show up later.

    Always great to hear your story. Very inspirational.

    • Nebraska SEO

      It’s sort of a double-edged sword, no?

      White hat in spirit but with the actual words “screw Google.”

  43. David G.

    Jeremy,

    Great Keynote, you have Great Leadership qualities. I love how you gave Tigh the credit for the revenue increase.

    David G.

    • Jeremy Schoemaker

      just don’t tell him that. … I coordinated his flight so he would not be at the speech ;)

  44. Garry Conn

    Hey Jeremy,

    Awesome speech man… it was great to learn more about you on a more personal side of things. Also I think that it is great how you recognize publicly your wife and mother in law for their hard work and efforts. You’re a class act in my book.

  45. Sam

    Great presentation, I really enjoyed it. You didn’t look nervous at all. Like they say, you put the most pressure on yourself. I gurantee nobody else noticed.

    • Dick

      I agree, all turned out very well. Watch pleasure.

  46. CoolProducts

    Good speech Shoe. You said that you were very nervous, but you couldn’t tell. Love the music they play during intermission btw.

  47. Enkay Blog

    Its good to see this video. Looks very nice there and good job on the keynote!

  48. Steven-Sanders

    Watched it live. Great speech. Alot better than the one going on right after you. BTW, when does the winner of the trip to the ThinkTank getting posted?

    • Jeremy Schoemaker

      it will be posted later today… still waiting on the votes from attendees

  49. ways to earn online

    Nice speech. Looks like a cool place to be. Very fun environment.

  50. Michael D

    A collared shirt, wow. Looking good.

  51. acrucia - adult toys price comparison

    ah damn i missed it. I’ll be sure to take a look when i get in. Thanks for sharing bud.

    • Chris Jacobson

      Great speech, Shoe!

    • Blogging Millionaire

      I missed it also. I’ll watch it later.

      • Online Dividends

        You’d better watch it later. It’s a good speach.

        • mrkbsm

          that was my plan, but hotel internet seems to be foiling that. Gonna have to watch tomorrow!

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