About

Murray Newlands FRSA is an entrepreneur, investor, business advisor and speaker. Newlands is also an adviser to the Draper Nexus Network of Things Fund that invests in IOT companies. He advises entrepreneurs and start-ups on various subjects from funding to growth strategies. Newlands received a Bachelor of Laws and he is qualified as a Lawyer. He gained his Green Card by being recognized by the US government as an “alien of extraordinary ability.” Newlands is the author of “Online Marketing: A User’s Manual” published by John Wiley & Sons. Murray regularly contributes to Forbes and Entrepreneur. Murray co-authored Content Marketing Strategies for Professionals with Bruce Clay. Murray runs the agency Influence People based in Palo Alto.

I am awesome at

SEO, Social Media, Content Marketing, Blogging, Entrepreneurism, Video Marketing

Favorite Tools

YouTube, Final Cut, Photoshop, SEM Rush, Follow.net

Search Podcast

New #MarketingNerds Podcast: Taking Over a Social Media Account with Ashley Ward

Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! In this podcast recorded at Pubcon Las Vegas 2014,...

Murray Newlands
11/28/2014
430 Reads
88 shares

SEO

Managing Enterprise SEO: An Interview with Dan Mooney

Managing the SEO strategy for an enterprise-level corporation can be a challenging task. The sheer size of an enterprise business...

Murray Newlands
9/14/2014
916 Reads
149 shares

SEO

Managing Home Depot’s SEO: An Interview with Sean Kainec

Managing the SEO and content marketing strategy of a major retailer involves a lot of planning and expertise. According to...

Murray Newlands
9/12/2014
1.3K Reads
163 shares

SEO

Understanding Topical Trust Flow: An Interview with Dixon Jones

As part of our coverage from the Share 14 conference in San Francisco, I caught up with Dixon Jones from Majestic...

Murray Newlands
9/9/2014
421 Reads
59 shares

International Search

International SEO is a Huge Opportunity For Marketers: Interview With Eli Schwartz

As part of our coverage from the sold-out Searchmetrics x Search Engine Journal conference in San Francisco on SEO, content marketing,...

Murray Newlands
7/26/2014
1.2K Reads
167 shares

Content Marketing

Reach Customers at Every Step of the Buying Journey: An Interview With Erik Ford

As part of our coverage from the sold-out Searchmetrics x Search Engine Journal conference in San Francisco on SEO, content marketing, and...

Murray Newlands
7/24/2014
383 Reads
91 shares

Careers & Education

Creativity and Real-Time Technology Come Together at Cannes Lions

Last week I was at Cannes Lions, the world’s largest annual awards show and festival for professionals in the creative communications...

Murray Newlands
6/28/2014
492 Reads
116 shares

Careers & Education

Cannes Lions 2014: Grand Prix Winners in Cyber Category

Cannes Lions, The International Festival of Creativity, took place just last week and I was fortunate enough to be there in person, taking...

Murray Newlands
6/27/2014
1.8K Reads
57 shares

SEO

An #Interview With Dennis Goedegebuure on AirBnB and Internal Linking

As part of our coverage from the sold-out Searchmetrics x Search Engine Journal conference in San Francisco on SEO, content marketing,...

Murray Newlands
6/26/2014
791 Reads
91 shares

SEO

eBay’s Jordan Koene on Improving Click-Through Rates for Better Rankings

As part of our coverage from the sold-out Searchmetrics x Search Engine Journal conference in San Francisco on SEO, content marketing, and analytics, I...