1. 3 DISCUSSING
  • Jeff Whelpley   May 01 2012   Flag

    Congratulations, Rand. One thing I have always wondered, though. I totally get the idea that two companies in the same space can work each other rather than against one another so that everyone benefits (i.e. win-win). I am just curious how the relationship between you and Dharmesh works as you continue to grow and there are more and more competing interests between Moz and Hubspot. Sure, the adoption of inbound marketing in general helps everyone in the inbound marketing field, but at the end of the day you are competing for the same customers. That may not matter when you are smaller, but will you and Dharmesh be able to do joint efforts like inbound.org in the future if Moz and Hubspot become the two titans of the industry (i.e. inbound marketing tools and services)?

  • Rand Fishkin   May 04 2012   Flag

    Not really - we provide very different products and focus on different parts of the market, too. Plus, there's ~300 Hubspot customers also using SEOmoz PRO. We really don't see each other as competitive. I'd guess it would be like Hootsuite and Followerwonk - both help marketers managing and analyzing Twitter, but no competitive aspects.

  • Scott Cowley   May 03 2012   Flag

    Congrats, but the memes weren't very funny.

  • Rand Fishkin   May 04 2012   Flag

    Doh... Sorry - we'll work harder next time :-)

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