I'm a professor of applied AI. Author of 22+ Books, 7 Amazon #1 Bestsellers. 30+ years of enterprise-level expertise. Advisor to Harvard, Stanford & MIT.
From 2023 to early 2025, the focus was on prompts. However, reasoning AI (with chat memory, RAG, personalization, etc.) is very good at understanding out what people really want.
The focus is now "applied AI", which means, "actually use AI in business". Define the business goals and KPIs. Find datasets, add them to an AI, analyze the dataset to understand the market, competition, trends, opportunities, and more and use AI to achieve those business goals.
AI-enabled companies will be a handful of people with MBA-like business skills (not necessarily MBAs) and SME domain expertise who manage an array of AI agents in an agent-enabled site for A2A (agent to agent) activity.
Professor in Digital Marketing
I'm a professor in applied AI for digital marketing at California Science and Technology University (CSTU) in Silicon Valley and senior instructor at DMAnc. See more about the classes I teach.
Author of 22+ Books on Digital Marketing
My books include seven Amazon #1 Best Sellers and have been published in the USA, China, Taiwan, Mexico, France, Germany, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Italy, and Spain. Publishers include McGraw-Hill (USA), Tsinghua University Press (China), Jain Publishing (USA), Betwin (Paris), Klean (Denmark), and Editorial Jus (Mexico).
Search Engine Marketing was
published by McGraw-Hill (2009. 267 pg. ISBN 978-0-07-159733-3. Illustrations, tables, index). It was translated into simplified Chinese and published by Tsinghua University Press in Beijing. It was also translated into traditional Chinese and published by McGraw-Hill for Taiwan. “This is the first book to bring analytics, digital marketing, and traditional marketing together.” — Foreword by Haoyu Shen, Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Baidu.com.
I was the technical editor of Search Engine Marketing, Inc.
Certifications
I wrote and teach certification courses for corporate-level for mid-size and large corporations, including staff at government in US cities and states. Some are very large organizations with millions of members. My courses include search engine marketing (SEO), digital ads with Google Ads, Google Analytics 4.0 (GA4), LinkedIn Profile Optimization (LPO), and the use of LLM AI in digital marketing.
Advisor to Silicon Valley Startups
I’m an advisor to GPTDao, AIMW, Homesteading, ArcticEider.ai, EdgeEvo, SVRI, SVBS, and Livert. I help them with digital marketing strategies, connections, and more. I wrote Startup, a #1 Amazon Best Seller.
Board Member
I’m also on the board of the DMAnc, Sacred Stream, and several more.
Consulting
I've been a consultant to Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and other very large organizations. If you want consulting services, my best advice is to take my courses at CSTU or the DMAnc.
Testimonials
Ask my students. They nearly always rank me as Best Instructor, Best Course Materials, and Best Backyard Party.
How I Do Digital Marketing
- I do enterprise-level SEO for AI to build credibility, authority, and trust.
- This includes multimodal (text, images, video, audio) in 130 languages and 40 locales.
- Data-driven decision-making with metrics and KPIs that support business goals (not vanity metrics, such as likes or shares).
- Understand the audience's needs and genuinely help them (no manipulative or aggressive tactics).
- How I'm different from other marketers: Seth Godin, Neil Patel, or Gary Vaynerchuk focus on consumer psychology. Ryan Deiss or Russell Brunson use aggressive funnels, upselling, and lead generation tactics for short-term gains. Brian Dean focuses on only one tactic, such as SEO.
More about What I Do
I handbuilt digital devices with curcuit boards, electronic parts, and a soldering iron in the 70s. In 1987, I began Usenet, an early version of the Internet, and set up the Fidonet node for Denmark. I came to Silicon Valley on the 4th of July 1992. I’ve worked at SGI, SUN, Oracle, NTT, Brio, Acxiom, Cisco, and over 25 startups. I’ve built more than 350 websites. I co-founded three Silicon Valley startups (two with successful exits).
I’ve worked at SGI, SUN, Oracle, NTT, Brio, Acxiom, Cisco, and over 25 startups. I’ve built more than 350 websites. I co-founded three Silicon Valley startups (two with successful exits).
I was the cofounder and CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) at Lingolet, Inc. We built an IoT device, the size of a cigarette lighter, that did AI-powered translation in twelve languages, transcribed up to ten hours of speech, and connected you to live interpreters worldwide, incl. China. The corporate version gives you instant connection to some 2,000 interpreters in over 30 fields in more than 180 languages. I did the strategies for marketing, legal, investment, acquisition, and more.
At Cisco, I set up the first Global SEO in 44 languages in 84 countries. Cisco had been around for 25 years earlier, but they never did global SEO. I speak a bunch of languages and read several more languages.
I was the Director of the Digital Agency at Acxiom, where I led digital marketing teams for global Fortune 200 companies.
At Dialpad, I was employee #12, where I was the head of marketing and webmaster. It was the first VOIP service (before Skype). We grew from zero to 16 million users in one year, which was the fastest-growing company in history at the time. We were in the list of the world’s 50 largest websites.
I was National Chair of the NWU Tech Writers Trade Division from 1994 to 2004. I worked with technical writers, journalists, techpub managers, recruiters, and so on. I wrote part of the overtime law in California.
In 2005, I co-founded a startup, raised $500,000, and grew it to +175 staff employees.
In 2008, I co-founded The CCG Group with Stephanie Cota.
From 2005 to 2018, I managed MIT's Google Foundation Grant for the OpenCourseWare Project. I increased traffic from 52 visits per day to 17,500 per day, dropped the Cost-per-Click (CPC) from $0.70 to $0.07, and improve the Click-through-Rate (CTR) from 0.12% to 4.02% in the first six months and kept it over 8% for 200,000 keywords for the last five years. I managed two million dollars in the account to get 570.4 million impressions and 13.3 million visits. Over 8 million people downloaded courses. Many went on to become professionals, teachers, or professors. MIT placed me on their thank-you page between Google and the United Nations.
I have managed Harvard University Medical School’s Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) (the world’s #1 pediatric research hospital) $1m Google Foundation Grant since 2012. I added 150,000 keywords in 42 languages (all European languages plus Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and more). Within two weeks, I had 10% worldwide market share for pediatrics for only $300 per day.
I’ve been interviewed in newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV in Denmark, Germany, Greece, Brazil, China, Spain, Mexico, Finland, Ireland, Japan, the UK, France, Serbia, and other places. In March 2023, Boye & Co wrote a short bio of me.
I graduated from the Universität Heidelberg. Founded A.D. 1386, it’s Germany’s leading university and one of the world’s top schools, where I attended classes with Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jürgen Habermas. I did the entrance exams, courses, tests, and my thesis in German and graduated Magister Artium Heidelberg. I began my PhD on Heidegger, bought a computer to write the doctoral thesis, learned to write code, and dropped my PhD studies to continue in computers.
I live in Palo Alto with my wife and cat. If you want to know more stuff about me, see my personal page.
About My Website andreas.com
My website is hand-built. I wrote every line of code by hand. My website is artisan, organic, free range, and uses renewable energy (Palo Alto's electricity comes from solar and wind farms). The website is mobile-first, responsive design, HTML5, and uses a floating navbar. The search box is powered by Google.
People ask about my tech stack. That's a fancy way to say "what kind of stuff you use?" My main software includes Editplus and Sublime, Screaming Frog, Google Ads, Google Ad Editor (GAE), Google Master Client Center (MCC), Google Analytics 4.0 (GA4), plus Gemini 2.5 Pro for LLM AI with reasoning capability (the latest versions of DeepSeek, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic Claude/Sonnet, and others), Zoom, an HP Windows desktop computer and Microsoft Windows 11, a Windows laptop, and two smart phones (Samsung Android and Apple iPhone). I use WhatsApp and Wechat. For social media, I use Blue Sky, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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