About Elmer Boutin

Elmer Boutin is a Marketing Technologist and have been working with web sites and in web marketing since 1996. He started out doing websites for local businesses such as car dealerships and an art gallery. He also helped start an online rental property referral website aimed at assisting military people find homes before they moved.


Elmer currently works at GTB as SEO Director and specializes in search engine optimization (SEO). Prior to joining GTB, he was Director of Search Strategy at Rockfish and was the practice lead for Online Reputation Management in addition to heading up SEO efforts for many of their clients. Before that, he was Webmaster for Wilsonart International where he was involved in everything from social media to server administration to web application development.

Elmer advocates that Strategy, Content, IT and other Marketing groups work together to have the best possible digital marketing efforts and thus benefit the enterprise. He also believes it's important for everyone to develop themselves as leaders, to learn to be the best they can be at whatever they do.

In this space, Elmer draws upon his vast and diverse experience to offer you advice how to do your work better. Although he slants towards web marketing topics, many of the articles here have applications in many different fields.

Elmer ...
  • is a veteran of the U.S. Army (14 years in the Military Intelligence Corps)
  • Understands Czech and German
  • holds an amateur radio license (KB5NJU)
  • is married
  • has three great adult kids
  • and plays the bass
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