An expert in SEO, Content Marketing and the Founder of Ardor SEO

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Bio

“My name is Kris Reid. I am a Software Engineer, originally from Brisbane where I graduated from the Queensland University of Technology (A university for the real world).

I was backpacking around the world a few years ago and because of my love for software development, I built an online game.  As the completion day came near for the game I made, I thought that I should learn how to market if anyone else is ever going to play with it. So, I started studying how Google works and learned about Search Engine Optimisation. I quickly discovered how important backlinks are – not just any backlinks, but only quality backlinks with relevant and compelling content on powerful industry-specific websites.

Then, I set out to build the perfect service to provide just that – high-quality backlinks with compelling content on industry-specific websites.

Fast forward a few years later, I now have a permanent office based here in Davao City, Philippines. It’s a quiet beach-side city that gives me access to virtually-unlimited skilled writers, editors, and content marketers to provide essentially limitless amounts of super high-quality powerful backlinks.”

Ardor was founded by Kris Reid, an Australian entrepreneur with a degree in Software Engineering from Queensland University of Technology.

After obtaining his degree in 2006, Kris decided to scratch his itchy feet by heading off to London. During his time in London, Dublin and Brussels, Kris worked under contract with Euroclear, Visa Europe and Sony Research & Development.

These development positions were ideal for Kris to become battle hardened in the real world of software engineering, finance, commerce and contracting.

The global financial crisis hit Europe very hard so Kris headed back to Australia where he developed an online game called Mob Warrior. Having completed the game, the one thing which all site owners need to face is how to get people to find the site and sign up to play it.

“This is when I first began to learn about SEO, meta data, title tags, content, keywords and links” says Kris.

He went on to explain: “Links were my initial focus, they fascinated me. Google rely quite a lot on links to indicate which site has more authority than another. Of course links are not the only thing Google relies on but regardless of fashion and what some experts claim, links are just as important now as they ever were”

With that in mind Kris built a linking service which is still a mainstay of Ardor SEO. The business began to grow as more and more clients came onboard.

To accommodate the growth and to keep the competitive edge which Ardor enjoys, Kris moved to Davao city, Philippines in January 2013.

He opened an office and moved the staff who had been working from home into the office.

The next big addition to Ardor was content, so Ardor Content was born with an army of English speaking writers and editors. Kris invented a unique user rating system to ensure only top quality writers remained on the team. This has ensured great content is the standard. Software engineers and managers were added to stabilize the growth and to maintain the high standards while the company grew at a phenomenal rate.

Next stop was Phnom Penh, Cambodia where Ardor opened another office in order to gain better access to expats in South East Asia. More management was added as well as a sales team, accountant, social media experts and more content and graphics staff. Now that the company has been fleshed out with professionals in all the key areas and has a proven track record of getting results it was time to consolidate all aspects under one banner, one site.

Ardor SEO provides professional services in Reputation engineering, Authority marketing, SEO, Social media response and outsourced first response services.

Websites & Social Media Links

Kris’s Website
Ardor Media Factory
Kris’s Linkedin

Interview Questions

• What’s your background and how did you start in the online world?
• Why you decided to focus on SEO?
• What’s currently working in terms of Off Page SEO?
• Is backlinks still working, if yes then how?
• How your back-linking service works and how the clients can make sure that they will not get a google penalty in the future?
• What’s really matter in terms of On Page SEO?
• How to Rank in Google with a Long-Tail Keyword Right Now?
• Is transcription is good for SEO? If yes then why still quality blog posts of 500 words beats a transcription of 10000 words on the same subject? Then why bother with the transcription?
• Good SEO Company from Bad SEO Company?
• How your content creation service works and how much it costs?
• What’s reputation engineering?
• What’s Ardor Secure?
• Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
• Share with us some of the tools or software that make you more efficient?
• What’s your daily life and work routine looks like? 
• What’s one marketing strategy that helped you the most in developing your business?
• What are your other hobbies?
• Who are your top 3 mentors?
• If you are just starting today in your field, from where you will start and what are you going to focus on to be more successful?
• The most important factors for success in 3 words?
• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What do you do to change your mood when you are depressed?
• What’s the best advice that you ever received?
• If you have the chance, what would you say to advice your younger self?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?
• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by? 
• What makes you really happy?
• How people can contact you?

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         An Innovative Artist & Interior Designer and the founder of Hectar Luxury Interior Decoration

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A Swiss Artist specialised in bringing out true meanings and spirits in her artworks using genuine luxurious materials. Each artwork has a philosophical meaning expressed in a unique way.

She has established cooperation with “Crystals from Swarovski®” and with Gold Leaf Supplies from U.K. using 24 Karats golden leafs in order to enhance the brilliance to her masterpieces.

Joann is an Artist and an Interior Designer. She was raised in Switzerland having lessons about all the sections of art. Her inspirators was her grandfather, who taught her how to express her emotions through Art. She starting doing mosaics, plastic arts, glass painting, paintings and crafts  since she was  5 years old. At 2005, she combined all her passion for art with her studies in the interior design. Through all these years she has done many unique projects with individualistic concepts for commercial and residential spaces. She is focusing in Luxurious Interior Design, she loves colors and precious elements in her projects. She uses pearls, gold, silver, diamonds, crystals, handmade woodcurved elements and blown glasses. She always customises decorative elements and furniture in order to give “soul” in her creations. She stronlgy beleives that in this way the creation will be a part of the client’s personality.

Interview Questions

• What’s your background and how did you start in the art world?
• In which kind of art you are specialized and how often you shift your focus to different types of arts?
• Do you sell only your arts or you sell some pieces from another artistes?
• Do you raise capital sometimes for your art or you finance it yourself?
• The sculpture that you have done to express the history of U.A.E got so much attention in the media, please tell us more why this project is unique and what’s representing?
• What are the materials that you like to use in your art and why?
• What are the best galleries in the UAE?
• How the artists can display their art at the UAE galleries, how it works and if there’s a cost involved please clarify it for us.
• What are the difficulties that the artists are facing nowadays because of the cost efficiency that’s coming with the digital printing factories and technology?
• How the artists should market themselves efficiently in the current competitive world and standout from the crowd?
• How artists choose the right price for their art in the current competitive world and how later can scale the price to generate bigger profits?
• How difficult is to be an entrepreneur artist?
• If the artists passion is not paying the bills then what to do and when they should quit their passion and get a job or do something else that pays the bills?
• What are the lessons of the truth that makes the artists express themselves truly and authentically?
• How to get featured in the local media in Dubai efficiently?
• How many team members are working with you, how many of them are offline and online?
• Who’s helping you with your videos? Is it a company or a member or your team?
• Which two social media platforms you prefer the most to market your art and why?
• Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
• Share with us some of the tools or software that make you more efficient?
• What’s your daily life and work routine looks like?
• What’s one marketing strategy that helped you the most in developing your business?
• What are your other hobbies?
• Who are your top 3 mentors?
• How do you like to learn, books, articles, videos, others?
• The most important factors for success in 3 words?
• What’s the biggest failure moment in your life and what did you learn from it?
• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• What do you do to change your mood when you are depressed?
• What’s the best advice that you ever received?
• If you have the chance, what would you say to advice your younger self?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?
• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
• Do you listen to any music when you work?
• What makes you really happy?
• How people can contact you?

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Founder & CEO of Aqua Fun (World’s Largest Water Inflatable Park)

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Experienced Chief Executive Officer skilled in Negotiation, Corporate Communications, Market Research, Management, and Business Development. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a B.S focused in Computer Information systems with Emphasis in web developer/webmaster from the national American university.

34-year-old Emirati entrepreneur Ahmed Ben Chaibah has built the largest inflatable water park in the Middle East. Dubai Aqua Park, which can hold up to 500 people at a time on the 77 metre by 33 metre obstacle course, is located at The Beach opposite Jumeirah Beach Residence in Dubai Marina.

Established in 2013, Ben Chaibah’s start-up Aqua Fun launched the largest inflatable slide registered in the world on the occasion of the UAE National Day on the Abu Dhabi corniche. The company has since then expanded into other GCC countries, including Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

Ahmed’s Website
Aqua Fun’s FB Page
Ahmed’s Personal FB
Ahmed’s Linkedin

Interview Questions

• What’s your background before Aqua fun?
• You worked in events before Aqua fun, tell us more about that?
• How & Why did you start Aqua Fun?
• How do you describe your transition from Employee to Entrepreneur? And what did you learn from it?
• If you transition now again what would you do differently?
• How did you raise capital?
• How your business model works? Is it an entry fee?
• Do you have new investors for each branch?
• What are the challenges that you face in Dubai as business owner?
• What would you like to improve or develop more in Dubai?
• Do you have expansion plans?
• Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
• Share with us some of the tools or software that make you more efficient?
• What’s your daily life and work routine looks like?
• What’s one marketing strategy that helped you the most in developing your business?
• What are your other hobbies?
• Who are your top 3 mentors?
• If you are just starting today in your field, from where you will start and what are you going to focus on to be more successful?
• The most important factors for success in 3 words?
• What’s the biggest failure moment in your life and what did you learn from it?
• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• What do you do to change your mood when you are depressed?
• What’s the best advice that you ever received?
• If you have the chance, what would you say to advice your younger self?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?
• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
• What makes you really happy?
• How people can contact you?

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          Profits Maximizer Coach, Author and
The Founder of The Top 1% Sellers Academy

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Ash Seddeek is an Amazon Best Selling Author. He is a success and leadership speaker and author. He is the expert on top 1% Sales Winners and Leadership Strategies and Behaviors in high tech and other industries. Founder of the Top 1% Sellers Factory: a consulting and training firm for Fortune 500 and start-up companies.

Ash worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Deloitte Consulting, Oracle and Cisco Systems on top 1% leadership development, strategic account manager sales training and strategic content for large scale corporate experiences such as Cisco Global Sales Experience and the Partner Summit with 25000 annual attendees.

Ash also founded Fremont Consulting, a boutique consulting services firm that he developed into a 7-figure revenue business with benchmark clients including HP, SAP America, HGST and, Trustmetrics among others.

Ash is co-author of MEANING: How Leaders Create Meaning and Clarity during Times of Crisis and Opportunity. You can get his first book: Start with a Vision on Amazon. You can also get his book with Jack Canfield: Road To Success. In Road To Success, Ash shares his Own it. Win it. Crush it Profit Success Formula in the book and is available for speaking engagements.

Ash studied at Harvard & Stanford Business Schools & has an MBA from the Leavey Business School at Santa Clara University.

Top 1% Sellers Factory
Top 1% Sellers Academy
Top 1% Sellers Podcast on the C-Suite Radio
Ask Ash Live
Ash’s Linkedin

Interview Questions

• What’s your background?
• What’s best cash?
• What’s FinTech?
• What’s the top 1% Sellers Academy
• What’s the most efficient road map to become a top 1% seller?
• Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
• Share with us some of the tools or software that make you more efficient?
• What’s your daily life and work routine looks like?
• What’s one marketing strategy that helped you the most in developing your business?
• What are your other hobbies?
• Who are your top 3 mentors?
• If you are just starting today in your field, from where you will start and what are you going to focus on to be more successful?
• The most important factors for success in 3 words?What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• What do you do to change your mood when you are depressed?
• What’s the best advice that you ever received?
• If you have the chance, what would you say to advice your younger self?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?
• What makes you really happy?
• How people can contact you?
• Do you have any notes or suggestions to improve Be Efficient Tv?

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BNI Founder Dr. Ivan Misner “Be Efficient Tv asked me some of the best questions I have ever had”
دكتور ايفان مايزنر يقول بان برنامج كن كفوءا قد سئله بعض افضل الاسئله التي سألت له على الاطلاق

Dr. Ivan Misner is the Founder & Chairman of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization.  BNI was founded in 1985.  The organization now has over 6,600 chapters throughout every populated continent of the world.  Last year alone, BNI generated 5.4 million referrals resulting in over $6.5 billion dollars worth of business for its members.

Dr. Misner’s Ph.D. is from the University of Southern California.  He is a New York Times Bestselling author who has written 19 books including his latest release; Who’s In Your Room?  He is a columnist for Entrepreneur.com and Fox Business News and has taught business management at several universities throughout the United States.  In addition, he is the Senior Partner for the Referral Institute — a referral training company with trainers around the world.
Called the “Father of Modern Networking” by CNN and the “Networking Guru” by Entrepreneur magazine, Dr. Misner is considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on business networking and has been a keynote speaker for major corporations and associations throughout the world.  He has been featured in the L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York. Times, as well as numerous TV and radio shows including CNN, the BBC and The Today Show on NBC.

Dr. Misner is on the Board of Trustees for the University of LaVerne.  He is also the Co-Founder of the BNI Charitable Foundation and was recently named “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Red Cross.  He and his wife, Elisabeth, are now “empty nesters” with three adult children    Oh, and in his spare time!!!  he is also an amateur magician and a black belt in karate.

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