Grant Simmons

Grant Simmons

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Grant Simmons led the SEO & Performance Marketing teams at Homes.com until early 2022, and has since helped a variety of top businesses drive brand awareness, traffic and leads. Grant has over 30 years of agency & brand experience serving industry-leading organizations such as; Paramount Studios, Red Bull, M&M/Mars, Disney, Napster, Warner Bros., UPS, Move.com, YPO, GE, Amgen & Fox Sports and is a popular speaker at search industry events worldwide, including; SMX, SES, SIS, Digital Summit, UCLA Anderson School of Business, eMarCom, C3, Social Shakeup, Multifamily Brainstorming, R3, DMA, LRTCon, Chiang Mai SEO, and has been quoted in Forbes, Fox Business, Media Post, Yahoo & other national publications. Grant works as the US Ambassador for inLinks – an innovative entity tool – and is a fractional Director of SEO for an incubator agency, as well as an advisor to various Silicon Valley startups. Described as an online marketing strategist, motivator, ideator, entrepreneur, & ‘proud American with a funny accent’, he prefers; father, sailor & expat Brit – though not necessarily in that order when there’s a fair wind.