Garrett Laidler

Transform your company's online presence with targeted strategies? 🎯 | Follow for exclusive SEO & AI secret tactics | AI Specialist & Leading SEO Architect for Brands | Rocketed various companies to Google's top spot 🚀

Struggling to scale your business? Confronting the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing and SEO yet feeling lost in the vast sea of change?

Whether you're a mom-and-pop shop or a Fortune 500 giant, it's a common pain point to keep up with digital transformations, attract and retain top marketing talent, and drive an optimal ROI for marketing activities.

Complex recruitment processes, skill mismatches, rapidly changing market conditions, data privacy concerns, and ensuring a seamless integration of marketing technologies – these challenges can all weigh you down and stunt your growth potential.

Welcome, you've found your solution! As a visionary and seasoned CEO, CMO, and SEO specialist, I tackle these issues head-on to skyrocket your business to success.

Through comprehensive solutions, I ensure your digital marketing strategies align with industry trends, meet your ROI goals, and address your company's specific pain points. My extensive network connects you with top talent, my expertise simplifies recruitment, and my innovative approach to marketing navigates you through the complex digital world.

Drawing on a wealth of experience in boosting revenues, developing marketing strategies, and leading successful SEO agencies, I provide unique insights and practical solutions to overcome the hurdles you face.

What's in it for you?

1. Streamlined marketing strategies aligned with the latest industry trends.
2. Maximization of marketing ROI and efficient budget allocation.
3. Seamless integration of your marketing technology stack.
4. Proven tactics to attract and retain top marketing talent.
5. Guidance to ensure data privacy and security.

Got doubts? 

It's natural. But remember, tackling today's rapidly evolving marketing world requires more than in-house expertise. It demands a visionary approach I've honed over years of diverse experience.

Ready to take the leap? 

Reach out today, and let's start the conversation! Together, we'll drive your business toward unparalleled growth and success.

CEO & Executive SEO Expert

A results-driven, award-winning Growth Marketing Expert with an entrepreneurial mindset, specializing in SEO and digital marketing. Over 10 years of experience in developing and executing innovative, growth-focused strategies for multimillion-dollar businesses. Recognized as one of the top SEO experts in the U.S., leading teams to generate over $3.2 Million in annual revenue and successfully optimizing marketing campaigns to achieve conversion rates five times the industry average. Passionate about delivering exceptional results through strategic planning, data-driven analysis, and a highly collaborative approach.

Leading a team of top SEO specialists, content writers, sales professionals, designers, and developers in growing company revenue by 300% within the first three years.

• Implemented strategic marketing campaigns that resulted in a 200% increase in qualified leads and organic search traffic
• Successfully introduce new services and offerings, establishing the company as a leading innovator in the SEO industry
• Oversee the analysis and optimization of marketing channels, improving ad spend efficiency and ROI by over 40%
• Pioneer innovative SEO methodologies in local, national, and international markets, positioning the company as an industry leader

ActionableOps

ActionableOps is an AI consulting company that helps businesses unlock AI's potential to excel in their operations. We specialize in guiding companies through the AI landscape with services such as AI governance, Responsible AI, AI Policy development, AI Ethics, AI Training, and AI Implementation. Partnering with industry leaders like Textcortex and MindStudio, we ensure that our clients gain the knowledge and tools needed to thrive with AI.

Founder / AI Consulting

Kansas City AI Club

Primary Purpose: Foster awareness, adoption, and hands-on learning of the latest AI technologies by leading discussions, events, and workshops tailored to real-world business applications.

Key Responsibilities:
 - Technology Trends Leadership in AI
 - Curate and present emerging AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, voice agents, AI-driven automation).
 - Deliver accessible, business-focused insights on cutting-edge advancements.
 - Business Use Case Applications
 - Develop and showcase practical AI use cases (e.g., AI in customer service, operations, or marketing).

Workshops & Education
 - Organize hands-on workshops to teach members how to apply AI in real-world business settings.
 - Guide participants through implementation frameworks tailored to their industries.
 - Event Programming Support
 - Host and facilitate demos at Kansas City AI Club meetups.
 - Develop quarterly in-person or virtual workshop series, such as "AI Applications for Business Success."

Board Chair - Emerging Tech

UMKC Henry W. Bloch School of Management

The Regnier Institute Mentor in Residence Program connects seasoned mentors with student entrepreneurs in need of a helpful ear.

Mentor-In-Residence

National Speakers Association-Kansas City Chapter

Speaker

MindStudio

Agency Partner

RunWhen

RunWhen is a platform for troubleshooting complex tech stacks. It helps engineers identify when issues they are chasing lie in their app, their cloud-native platform or their vendors by answering the question: “What do I run and when?”

Advisor

Nobl9

Nobl9 is a service level objective SaaS platform that connects reliability metrics to business goals via a modern engineering workflow. Backed by CRV, Battery, Bonfire Ventures, Harmony Partners Cisco and ServiceNow.

Director of Operations

Code Ninjas

Code Ninjas is the world's largest and fastest growing in person children's franchise startup, that teaches kids how to code computers by building video games. Backed by Eagle Merchant Partners.

Director of Operations / Owner

OMT Brands

OMT Brands created a line of consumable pet products to be marketed and sold online through Amazon FBA and the Amazon, Ebay, Sears, and Walmart marketplaces.

Director of E-commerce Operations

City of Lakewood, Washington

Police Officer

🚀 Founder | Startup Operations Executive | Business Scaling Expert | Data Analytics | P&L Management | Process Optimization | Customer-Centric | Revenue Growth | Operational Efficiency | SaaS | Change Management

I’m Dale Thomas and here’s my story in a nutshell. 

- Authored the best-selling book “The Ultimate A.I. Guide for Small Business Success.” 
- Founded several technology businesses
- 20+ years of operations experience in Start-Ups and Enterprise (Ex - Microsoft) 
- Focused on helping SMB’s make sense of AI.  I specialize in AI agents, AI Consulting, responsible AI, ethical AI, policy creation, governance, and implementation of AI solutions. 

What you’ll get by following me: 
🔥Transparent & actionable AI advice
📆 Tips and Tricks Implementing AI Agents
🔍 Insights on implementing ethical AI practices
📢 Up-to-date information on AI regulations and legislation  

AI Partnerships
* TextCortex AI Partner - get a free account https://textcortex.com?via=ops 

A.I. Education
* MindStudio Certified AI Expert
* The London School of Economics - Ethics of AI 
* University of Pennsylvania - AI For Business
* Vanderbilt University - Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
* MindStudio Certified AI Developer

Struggling to make sense of AI for your small to medium-sized business? 

I’m here to help - so hit that “Follow” button!  

Dale

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