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SearchLove San Diego in Focus: Three FREE San Diego 2017 videos
In case you hadn’t heard by now SearchLove San Diego 2018 is happening on March 26 & 27, in the stunning setting of Paradise Point. While that alone should be enough to encourage you to join us and our speakers, we wanted to give you a little more insight on what to expect. Over the next few weeks... Read more
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Working from the Office - the New Working from Home
One perk companies of any size can offer their employees is flexibility around working from home or flexible work schedules. While there can be disadvantages of offering flexible work schedules, almost everyone agrees the pros outweigh the cons. But why not also invest in your office environment as... Read more
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A Marketer’s Guide to Models
Clients desperately want forecasts and as a result, we hear these questions all the time - all boiling essentially down to some variant on: These are scary questions to hear from a client - and they are easy ones to push back on - often with some variant on the common reasons reputable SEO firms... Read more
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What We Learned in December 2017: The Digital Marketing Month in a Minute
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Happy New Year! The decorations are tucked away for another year and we’re all settling back into work, getting ready for the busy year ahead. The end of 2017 didn’t slow down on the digital news front, so let’s take a look at what happened across the web while we were busy preparing for the... Read more
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Creative Inspiration: Content We Enjoyed this Autumn
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Following on from our post this summer, where we talked through a range of exciting new content, from peace tributes to social adverts, we now turn to what has got eyeballs on a brand this Autumn. Read more
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How to use the MECE framework
The method I’m outlining in this post is how I resolve difficult technical problems because it lets me focus my effort on what matters most. The approach respects the importance of the technical problem and acknowledges that there is more to the whole story. Read more
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What We Learned in November 2017: The Digital Marketing Month in a Minute
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In our final roundup before Christmas, there’s plenty to talk about from all the main players in the tech and marketing industries. The hottest topic at the moment is undoubtedly net neutrality, set to affect the US but with potential repercussions much further afield. Read more
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Back to Basics: the Dos and Don’ts of Contacting Journalists
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One of the things I’ve learned over the years, working with smart people in hard-working teams is the tendency to try and run before you can walk. So, with the benefit of new experiences and hindsight, I’m gonna take you all back to the basics of PR and outreach (specifically contacting journalists) with a list of do’s and don’ts. Read more
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3 Awesome Things You can do with LinkedIn’s New Website Demographics
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Recently, LinkedIn rolled out its new Website Demographics feature which allows any business that has a LinkedIn Ads account to better identify who exactly is coming to their site. While Google Analytics has for years shown us aggregate data with sessions, pageviews, and more, we actually don’t know who makes up these metrics. What LinkedIn aspires to do here is provide granular information about your website’s visitors. Because all of you are busy, I’ve taken the liberty of hashing out a couple of the best ways to use this data for good with your company. Read more
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6 Easy Ways to Discover Your Search Competitors
Who hasn’t heard the proverb “keep your friends close, and your enemies closer”? This phrase alludes well to a key aspect of good SEO strategies: knowing who your search competitors are. Even if you know who your traditional business competitors are, you need to bear in mind that if they are not competing for the same keywords as your sites, then they are not a “search” competitor. So, how can you easily find your real online competitors? There are many ways to do this manually (using search engines), as well as free and paid tools to help automate this process. Here are six quick and easy tools to help you with your competitive research. Read more
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Demystifying the Design Process with Sketch
For non-designers, there is often a level of mysticism around the way we work. In your job, it may well be your responsibility to brief a designer, but as for what happens in between that stage and finally seeing the fruits of their labour – well, this may be rather alien. While it’s not necessarily important to know the ins and outs of this, this post aims to demystify the process and shed light on one of my favourite design programs at the moment, and equip you with good reason to convince any digital or web designer you work with to pick it up if they don’t use it already. Read more
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What We Learned in October 2017: The Digital Marketing Month in a Minute
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This month’s industry includes stories from most of the major tech companies, including Facebook’s News Feed experiments, Google’s ever-growing hardware selection, and Apple and Amazon both falling foul of the European Commission. There’s also the SearchLove London 2017 roundup and the best from the Distilled blog. Read more