Jon Payne - President, Ephricon Web Marketing

Jon Payne is President of Ephricon Web Marketing, a full-service SEO agency with offices in the Baltimore, MD and Charlotte, NC metro areas. Ephricon's primary focus is organic SEO as a lead generation tool for service firms, though the firm also handles some PPC management, web development and usability work.

In addition to his "day job" running Ephricon, Jon also has ownership in Lead Storm Media, an online lead generation company specializing in generating search-driven home improvement leads for contractors.

Jon has been doing SEO full-time for clients since 2003. Prior to that, he dabbled in web development, email marketing and general internet marketing - growing up learning to code HTML in Notepad, and then learning to embrace the various idiosyncrasies of MS FrontPage. As an SEO consultant, he's worked with clients of all sizes, from Fortune 500 to mom-and-pop operations, and also spent time as an in-house SEO specialist.

"Leads, traffic, rankings" is his mantra, in that order. He also speaks on occasion in the local Baltimore/DC metro area to various colleges and universities, trade associations and corporate training sessions.

Jon has an MBA from Loyola College in Maryland, and a BS in Marketing & E-Business from Towson University. Jon is also a SEMPO member, an active participant in several local SEO Meetup groups, and is the organizer of the Baltimore SEO Meetup Group. He recently moved from Baltimore to Charlotte, and now lives outside of Charlotte with his wife and daughter.

For more information on Jon Payne, visit his LinkedIn page, personal site, lead generation blog or follow him @jonpayne on Twitter.