I read a recent piece by Mark Ritson about what he calls the “Great Stay”. Fewer marketers moving roles. Fewer new roles being created. Hiring slowing quietly rather than dramatically. It did not feel dramatic. It felt structural… and sensible. Budgets are tighter. Teams are leaner. Boards are asking harder …
How To Report on Search Optimisation Success : Why ranking buckets beat vanity SEO metrics every time
Most ecommerce teams are still reporting on SEO like it’s 2015.A few headline keywords. A couple of ranking screenshots. Maybe a traffic graph lifted from Ahrefs if they’re feeling fancy. The problem? None of that tells you whether search is actually working as a growth channel. This is why I’m …
How To Optimise Your DPA Meta Ads So You’re Not Wasting Budget on the Wrong SKUs
A practical operator’s guide to using Marpipe to protect ad spend and unlock hidden revenue How Promoting the Wrong Products in Meta DPAs Limits Your Ability to Scale If you run ecommerce ads at any meaningful scale, there’s an uncomfortable truth most teams avoid. A significant chunk of your ad …
How To Optimise Creating AI Clips For Your Video Marketing Using Videowise
There’s something most ecommerce folks quietly agree on but rarely say out loud. Video itself is no longer the challenge. Almost everyone has video now. The real challenge is what happens after the camera is turned off. Hours of footage sit in folders, Google drives, and half remembered projects, and …
How AdCreative.ai Solves Your Meta Ad’s Creative Bottleneck (And Where It Falls Short For Some)
Most ecommerce teams hit the same wall with Meta ads: they know they need to test more creative variations, but the production cycle kills momentum. By the time your designer produces 10 variations, the algorithm has already stopped learning, your CPMs have climbed, and you’re behind again. AdCreative.ai positions itself …
The Compound Effect: Why Optimisation Is Your Route To Next Stage Ecommerce Growth
Most ecommerce founders are burning money trying to buy growth when they should be building it. You know the pattern. Revenue plateaus. Someone suggests “we need more traffic.” Budget gets shifted to ads. Numbers tick up temporarily. Then you’re back where you started, except now you need more ad spend …
How To Optimise Ad Campaigns Sending Better Signals to Algorithms
As platforms get more AI-driven, they optimise to whatever signals you give them. That’s not a theory. That’s how the machine works now. Google’s Performance Max doesn’t care what you want to sell. It cares what converts. Feed it bargain hunters through discount campaigns, and it’ll find you more bargain …
How to Optimise Your Product Feed Using Custom Labels (…and start making more money through Google Ads)
If I ever created a course it’ll be on Custom Label optimisation for Google Ads. Why? It’s still one of the most underutilised optimisation techniques for Google Ads success. I’ve just completed a Google Ads audit where the client is spending £25k a month. All ran by their appointed agency …
Ecommerce Growth & The Need For Speed
I’ve been thinking a lot about speed lately. Not speed for the sake of it (or the drug…), not hustle culture, not rushing half-baked ideas into the world, but the simple ability to move forward without everything feeling heavier than it needs to be. Because when you sit inside ecommerce …