News, Articles & Knowledge

How to Survive the 'now' and Support your Brand for the Future

08-Apr-2020 13:38:00 | 3 Minute Read
Dr Martin Stillman-Jones provides his expert opinion on where businesses should invest their costs to survive the 'now' and support your brand for the future. He tells us which three things should definitely not be sacrificed in an economic downturn in which we are in now. 
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Topics: Strategy, The State of Marketing

Free Google Ads Credit for Small Medium Businesses

03-Apr-2020 10:53:14 | 2 Minute Read

Google has just announced that they will be providing $340 million in ad credits to small and medium sized businesses on the Google Ads platform. These credits are intended to reduce the cost of maintaining an account and help businesses reach out to their customers during this unprecedented time.

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Topics: PPC, News, Strategy

Why You Need to Move your Spend from PPC to SEO

03-Apr-2020 10:51:26 | 4 Minute Read

When people are buying products and services paid search, also known as Pay Per Click or PPC, can be a great tactic to use to get people looking for what you are doing to buy from you. Or if it is an offline purchase, submit a lead form to start the purchase conversation. You pay your money for the click, get people to the site and if the conversion metrics multiplied by the cost per click (CPC) work you get leads at a profitable level. But paid search works on the here and now. What if those conversion metrics plummet? Even with rapidly dropping CPCs, when people aren’t buying paid search simply doesn’t deliver.

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Topics: SEO, PPC, Strategy

Leadership in a Coronavirus Pandemic World

03-Apr-2020 10:13:13 | 5 Minute Read

Dr Martin Stillman-Jones, MBA.MSc.C.Eng.FRSA.FRIBC shares his thoughts on how to lead from the front and make rapid decisions in a coronavirus pandemic world. 

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Topics: Strategy

Google Search Updates: Changes to Featured Snippets

24-Mar-2020 16:00:00 | 2 Minute Read

Google have announced that if your page has been listed as a featured snippet on a search result page, then it will no longer also appear as a standard blue link on the first page.

How this will impact your page's rank?

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Topics: SEO, Website, Work, Content, Strategy, The State of Marketing

Working from Home to Provide Digital Marketing Services

20-Mar-2020 12:30:00 | 1 Minute Read

The COVID-19 situation has had an impact on all aspects of our lives. From avoiding pubs and clubs to cancellations of major events to our working situations, with the UK government advising social distancing and working from home where possible.

The Innovation Visual team are no strangers to remote working. We are continuing to provide effective digital marketing services and produce great work and excellent results for our clients, to our expected high standards. This will not change, and we will be working even harder to ensure our clients' success in these difficult times!

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Topics: Work, Content, Strategy, The State of Marketing