About Go Fish Digital

Mgmt team

• Brian PattersonPARTNER & CO-FOUNDER
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  Brian is a Partner and co-founder of Go Fish Digital.  With over ten years of digital marketing experience, he has a track record which includes working with some of the world largest organizations and top websites.  He is a contributing author to Search Engine Land, Moz, and MediaPost. Brian is one of the foremost experts in online reputation management and is regularly featured in local and national outlets.  (For press inquiries please contact press@gofishdigital.com).

  Brian is a graduate of George Mason University and lives in Ashburn, VA with his wife and three children.

  Brian can be found online at:

  Twitter: @brianspatterson
  LinkedIn: /BrianSPatterson
  Slideshare: /brianspatterson

  Notable Publications:

  Fix Your Online Reputation | Kiplinger
  4 Ways to Increase Your Positive Yelp Reviews | Fox Business
  5 Free Deep Reputation Management Checking Tools | Search Engine Land
  Google Autocomplete: Your Personal Brand’s First Impression | Search Engine Land
  How Google Autocomplete Can Affect Your Brand’s SEO & ORM Strategy | Search Engine Land
  Our Online Reputation Management Playbook | Moz

• Dan HinckleyPARTNER & CO-FOUNDER
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  Dan specializes in innovative digital marketing solutions, brand strategy, and technical web development and support. He works in step with clients to manage SEO, ORM, Conversion Rate Optimization, and website design and development projects, from start to finish. He is Google Analytics Certified and leads the Google AdWords programs.

  Dan began his career in brand strategy management before transitioning into IT consulting for the US Government. These experiences uniquely position him to develop comprehensive strategies for SEO that span across branding and IT domains.

  Ten years of SEO experience have made Dan a seasoned industry veteran in tune with the latest capabilities. As a consultant, his clients have included GEICO, AAG, American Petroleum Institute, Marriott, US Department of Defense, US State Department, George Mason University, and Penn State University among others.

  Dan can be found online at:

  Twitter: @dhinckley
  LinkedIn: /danielhinckley

  Notable Publications:

  New Study: Data Reveals 67% of Consumers are Influenced by Online Reviews

• Mike MoriartyPartner
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  Mike leads Go Fish Digital’s media relations, market strategy, and new business.  He has a passion for helping people build and improve their brands through digital marketing.

  Prior to joining Go Fish Digital, Mike worked at the full service digital agency STEAK, part of Dentsu Aegis in Covent Garden, London.  He began his career in digital marketing ten years ago working on the forefront of combining traditional public relations with digital marketing at PRWeb/Vocus (acquired by Cision).  He is a Washington, DC area native (Gonzaga High School graduate) and lives in Falls Church, VA.

  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/moriartymike

• Bill SlawskiDirector of search marketing
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  With more than 20 years of SEO experience and a Juris Doctor Degree, Bill is the foremost expert on Google’s patents as related to SEO. Bill is the Editor of SEO by the Sea, a prominent search engine optimization blog, where he is the author of over 1,000 posts. Bill’s experience includes Fortune 500 brands and some of the largest websites in the world. Bill is a contributing author for Moz and Search Engine Land.  In 2014, he spoke at industry leading conferences  about topics including search engine algorithms, universal and blended search, personalization in search, search and social, and duplicate content problems.

  Recent Speaking Events

  2014

  PubCon-(Las Vegas) “Semantic Web, Knowledge Graph, and Other Changes to SERPS – A Google Semantic Timeline”
  SMX-East (New York) “Hummingbird & The Entity Revolution – Knowledge and Search, Two Swords Sharpening One Another”
  Semantic Tech and Business (San Jose) “Semantic Search”

  2015

  SMX-West (San Jose)
  Pubcon (Las Vegas) “Evolution of Search”

  Recent Publications

  Music, Lyrics, Ads, and Answer Boxes at Google
  Unraveling Panda Patterns
  Direct Answers: Extracting Text from Pages Citations

  Recommendations:

  Matt McGee

  Editor-In-Chief at Marketing Land

  Bill is one of the kindest and most reliable guys I know — always ready with a compliment or word of encouragement. Beyond that, he’s also one of the smartest! A lot of us know and do search marketing, but none of us come at it with the understanding of the theory behind search algorithms that Bill has developed through tireless research into patent applications and similar scientific documents. He does us all a big service via his blog!

  Mark Traphagen

  Senior Director of Online Marketing at Stone Temple Consulting

  While I have not worked with Bill, I have engaged with him regularly via social media for two years now, and he and I both spoke at a conference together. I have come to rely on Bill as at true expert in the field of SEO; one of my most reliable sources of information.

  In SEO, there are tons of people who claim to know what they are talking about. Bill is one of the relative few who backs up what he says with intensive research and testing, and is able to provide real data. For that reason, he is one of my top go-to resources when I really need to know “what’s what.”

  Bill has always impressed me with his knowledge, thoroughness, and integrity. I would not hesitate to recommend him to anyone in need of the services he can provide.

• Mia FickenDigital Marketing Manager
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  Through 12 years of experience with advertising agencies and in-house educational institutions, Mia has garnered an expertise in traditional and digital marketing, brand management, integrated campaign development and implementation, product planning and customer engagement.

  In the past she has led campaigns for Honda, Belmont University, The Nashville Zoo, AKG Acoustics, Ovation Brands, Columbia State Community College, and several automotive clients.

  Mia holds a B.A. from James Madison University and a Masters of Business Administration from Belmont University with a focus on marketing and negotiation. She is also trained and certified in the Harvard Program on Negotiation (PON) Method and Lean Healthcare.

• Daniel RussellDigital Marketing Manager
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  Daniel is one of the fastest rising stars in the digital marketing industry. In just the last year, his innovative work for clients was featured in The Washington Post, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Yahoo News, and Inc. He has been interviewed about his marketing efforts on KABC and the Growth Hacking Podcast. He has also covered innovative marketing and growth techniques as a featured speaker at Google I/O DC, Search Insider Summit, DMAW Digital Day, MASB Summit, and NetSquared.

  Daniel graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Economics and History and received his J.D. from George Mason School of Law. He is also a licensed attorney.