Author - Grant

Grant Simmons is an SEO marketing strategist, digital marketer, speaker, author, entrepreneur. Currently VP Marketing at Homes.com

Grant Simmons has 35+ years of experience strategizing and producing online, digital marketing & traditional communications (internal and external) for local, national, and international companies and organizations. Fortunate and honored to have had the opportunity to speak, educate & entertain at search & industry conferences; UCLA Anderson School of Business, Chiang Mai SEO Conference, Pubcon, Advanced Search Summit, Brighton SEO, SIS, SMX, SES, LRTCon, R3, DMO Advanced, Rocks Digital, Digital Summit, and more) around the US and around the world on digital marketing, content marketing, SEO topics Written SEO, marketing and lifestyle content for popular search & marketing podcasts, websites, and media publications, including Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Journal, SEMRush blog, Yahoo!, MSNBC, Realtor magazine, and various local & national news outlets. Had the honor of working with, M&M/Mars, Countrywide, Kwikset, GE and UPS as a Senior Producer at TGIF Productions before starting an entrepreneurial venture as Simmonet Marketing in 2001. Simmonet Marketing grew from 1 client to over 140, including the Young Presidents' Organization, SunAmerica, IPC - The Hospitalist Company, The City of Santa Monica, Warner Bros., San Mateo County, The City of West Hollywood, Paramount Studios, and more. Currently lead the performance marketing team at Homes.com, one of the largest real estate listings portals on the web (and a division of the CoStar Group), helping drive targeted traffic & quality leads both on and off Homes.com portal.