Notes from the build.
What we learn shipping websites, search programmes and paid campaigns for clients in India, the United States and New Zealand. Written by the people doing the work, dated, and updated when the advice changes rather than when the calendar says so.
A PPC guide for a small ad budget
A small paid-search budget needs a narrow brief, useful tracking and room to learn. Start by separating the money spent on ads from the cost of managing them.
Planning an ecommerce website that can grow
Plan your catalogue, pricing rules, integrations and search before choosing how to build or rebuild an online store.
Content strategy for a small business team
Build a content plan around your customers’ questions, your team’s capacity and the pages your business needs.
Cross-platform apps in 2026: Flutter, React Native or native
Cross-platform is the right default for most business apps and the wrong choice for an identifiable minority. Five questions usually settle which you are.
Full-funnel digital marketing: joining search, ads and email
Most small marketing budgets fail because three channels run as three unrelated projects. This is how we sequence them so each makes the next cheaper.
Social media for service businesses: what to post and measure
Keep your profiles useful to people considering your services. Start with a manageable routine, then decide what to expand from the work and enquiries it produces.
Email automation: raising ROI without annoying anyone
Four sequences cover most of the value in email automation for a small business. Everything past those is optimisation, and most of it is not worth the setup.
Email marketing best practices: 12 rules we apply to every send
This is the checklist taped to the wall. Twelve rules, each one added after we got something wrong in public.
Video marketing: what to make and how to measure it
Choose a useful video format, prepare the script and publish it where your customers need an explanation.
Local SEO in 2026: the map pack checklist for one location
A single-location business can do most of its local SEO in about six hours of setup and twenty minutes a week. Here is what those hours go on.
Conversion rate optimisation for low-traffic websites
Check your tracking, find obstacles and choose a research method that fits the traffic your website actually receives.
Mobile app marketing: getting the first 1,000 real installs
The first thousand installs are a positioning problem more than a marketing one. Here is the order we work in, and the number we watch instead of installs.
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Reading is cheaper than rebuilding twice.
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