Five ways to use AI in your digital marketing strategy

AI is very much a hot topic at the moment : one of the fastest-growing markets of 2025. Over half of UK businesses see AI playing a very big role in their business and are planning to invest in it.

And if your business is digital marketing, there are many aspects of AI which can be used effectively in your business.

But is it all good news? What are the drawbacks of using AI for digital marketing?

In this article we take a quick look at five ways AI can be used effectively in digital marketing, and some of the advantages and disadvantages of doing so.

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How to improve ROI using SEO

You know that moment on Dragons Den where the entrepreneur is asked for their numbers? And they don’t know them. Digital marketing can be just like that. Take ROI for example. Do you know yours? In this article we look at what level of ROI you can reasonably expect to achieve from your website, and how to use SEO effectively to increase your current level of ROI.

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Escape to the Country?

Remote working opens up a new world of opportunity for many people. Because if you can work from home, does it actually matter to your employer where that home is?

A is for Algorithm

Behind the scenes, algorithms are being used to make major decisions about many areas of our lives. But what exactly is an algorithm? And how are algorithms used in digital marketing?

Top Tips for Successful Video Marketing

If you or your digital marketing agency is not already doing video marketing you can’t really escape any longer. In this article we present a balanced view of video marketing. We want to give you enough information to point you in the right direction, without losing you through boredom part way through

How to reboot your SEO strategy

2020 has been an unexpectedly eventful year. Almost everything has been affected by the global pandemic. We are all navigating our way through uncharted waters towards the new normal. Whatever that turns out to be. So it is completely understandable if you have rather neglected your SEO strategy during these turbulent times. But that needs to change. 

Do you Google My Business?

Are you using Google My Business?  If not, why not? Google My Business – GMB – is an easy way of enhancing your business’s public identity and presence on Google, including in local search results. If you do not have an active GMB listing, you risk losing out big time.

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How to kick start your digital marketing skills

Whether your digital marketing agency team has been working remotely through lockdown or whether you are currently on furlough, these are unsettling times. So the last thing on most peoples’ minds right now is furthering their career. But in this article we want to challenge you to rethink that. It’s time to kick-start your digital marketing skills if you are serious about making a career in digital marketing.

Is it really still worth creating content?

Now is a time of unprecedented world change.

Nothing is exempt. The rules are being rewritten. We are all negotiating a new normal.

So in this strange new landscape, is it really still worth creating content?

Who is influencing you?

The rise and rise of influencer marketing

The rise of influencer marketing shows no signs of slowing in 2020. It’s estimated that the influencer marketing industry will grow to approximately $9.7 billion in 2020. So whether you are a marketer in a business, or work for a digital marketing agency, it makes sense to become familiar with the world of influencer marketing.

Tell me a story: how to use storytelling in branding

It should come as no surprise that storytelling is becoming an increasingly significant factor in branding. The aim of using a story is to make the consumer feel something. By understanding why they should care about something, they will hopefully be sufficiently inspired to take action. 

Five Top Tips for Working from Home

Here we bring you our five really useful WFH tips for your digital marketing agency. And whilst we hope that they are indeed helpful, you may notice that some of them are slightly tongue in cheek ….

Optimising Images for SEO

An increasing number of all web searches – including mobile – are now happening on Google Images. This is a trend that is set to continue, which means that as a marketer or digital marketing agency you need to make sure that you do everything that you can to optimise your images to make it easy for Google to find them.

Your content strategy for 2020

When thinking about your content strategy for 2020, you want it to be better than ever. So with the festive season in mind, let’s take a look at three wise things you should keep doing and three wise new elements you could helpfully add to your content strategy for 2020.

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Finance and Retail

A direct lender we have helped grow £8m in t/o. and helped reduce dependency from lead brokers.

  • 5 year relationship
  • Helping CPA improve 70%
  • No. 1 in Google

Dominating paid search for SAP UK and improving lead flow for partners.

  • Improving engagement by 343%
  • Improving conversion by 32%
  • Generating £275k lead value

Working with Fair Finance for the past 8 years helping them to maintain dominance in the Not for Profit Finance sector and helping to improve the lives of disadvantaged communities in the UK

  • Client since 2015
  • Providing technical and marketing support
  • Page 1 for loans for bad credit - 9k per month

A direct lender we have helped grow £8m in t/o. and helped reduce dependency from lead brokers.

  • 5 year relationship
  • Helping CPA improve 70%
  • No. 1 in Google

Dominating paid search for SAP UK and improving lead flow for partners.

  • Improving engagement by 343%
  • Improving conversion by 32%
  • Generating £275k lead value

Working with Fair Finance for the past 8 years helping them to maintain dominance in the Not for Profit Finance sector and helping to improve the lives of disadvantaged communities in the UK

  • Client since 2015
  • Providing technical and marketing support
  • Page 1 for loans for bad credit - 9k per month
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