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Digital Marketing From The Coalface — 107 episodes

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Strategy Over FOMO: The Case for the Niche, Accidental AI Apps, and the Reality of Meta Descriptions

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Differentiating Your Industrial Marketing and Stopping Google Ads Leaks

3

Why Engineering Websites Fail, Schema Myths Debunked & Navigating Zero-Click

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Why 92% of Minds Are Already Made Up in the Hidden B2B Buyer Journey

5

Hot Days and Hot Takes on Google's AI Ad Updates, YouTube Premarketing, and B2B Social Proof

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Smoke, Mirrors and Marathons, Or The Exhausting Reality of B2B Search

7

It's Official, Your Corporate Speak Marketing Blurb Is Killing Profit

8

Navigating "SaaS-mageddon", AI Answer Engines, and the Power of the Specifier

9

Why Google Ads AI is Bleeding Your Niche B2B Budget And The Brand Cost of Hyper-Aggressive Re-marketing

10

The "Swiss Army Knife" Myth: Why Engineering Firms Set Marketers Up to Fail

11

Surviving the AI Traffic Drop: The Rise of Search Everywhere Optimisation

12

AI in Google Ads, Otterly.ai & AI-Driven Agency Operations

13

Stop Selling "Solutions": Should Engineers Run Your Marketing? Bridging the Technical-Marketing Divide

14

From Keywords to Vibe Coding: The AI Era of Industrial Marketing

15

What Marketing Really Is And Why Engineers Get It Wrong

16

The Data Stream: Optimising Video Assets for AI-Powered Search

17

We Discuss The Power of NotebookLM & Minimising Clicks For PPC Success

18

January Blues, Skinflints, AI And General Moaning, HNY

19

No David, Franz Kafka Didn't Direct It's A Wonderful Life

20

As AI & Google Keep Stealing Your Content, What Can You Do About It?

21

AI Landing Pages, Cloudflare's Pay-Per-Crawl, and the Future of Search

22

B2B vs. B2C Marketing, AI Copywriting, and Demystifying TikTok Shop

23

The Psychology of Marketing: Overcoming Risk Aversion and Uncertainty

24

Websites, ABM And Red Bull, Or Was It Red Thunder?

25

From Order Takers To Consultants, The Sales Revolution Has Happened, Mostly

26

We've Taken The Nuclear Option And Put It In A Coke Can

27

The Data Fallacy: Why Perfect Marketing Attribution is a Myth

28

Google Thinks You're A 23 Year Old Mongoose Who Lives In Auchnagatt

29

How To Phone In Your Sincerity By Misusing Your CRM

30

Low Search Volume, High Reward: Rethinking Your B2B Keyword Strategy

31

Are You Signalling That You're A Thirty Bob Company?

32

Is Marketing Just A Bunch Of Tools Using A Bunch Of Tools?

33

Daring to Be Different: Escaping the Herd in B2B Marketing

34

Fake It Till You Make It And Gated Content Under The Spotlight

35

Too Many Businesses Are Still In The Digital Wilderness

36

Surviving AI Search Results and Making the Right CMS Choice for Your Business

37

Beware Of Self Proclaimed Marketing Gurus - Not Us Then

38

Are You Playing It Too Safe With Your Marketing?

39

Alex Is Grumpy, And So Is Google

40

Bound To Inbound? Then You're Bound To Succeed

41

The "Probably Not S**t" Strategy: Honest Marketing for Tech Firms

42

Unfortunately We Invited Our Devs To This Episode, Sorry In Advance

43

Following Google's Advice On Their Ads Platform? Just Flush The Money Down The Toilet Instead

44

If You Know Best, Don't Hire A Specialist, Plus Some SEO Fundamentals Unpicked

45

It's Not Hard, But It's Easy To Get It Spectacularly Wrong, Guess What We're Talking About

46

What? No Data? How To Position Content By Going Fishing

47

Is Your Digital Marketing More Like Digital Land Fill?

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If You Don't Trust Your Agency, Stop Wasting Their Time

49

Make Do And Mend Is An Awful Digital Marketing Strategy

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Two Tools Talking About Tools: A Guide to Free Data Stacks & Pricing Complex Tech Fixes

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This Week We Discuss Half A***d Briefs And Unreliable Data From Google

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Expect And Embrace Failure If You Want To Succeed Online, Wait, What?

53

If The C-Suite Are Not Engaged Your Digital Marketing Will Fail, So There!

54

So, Google's Been Telling Porkies, With Alex & Dave

55

How To Turn A #FFS Website Into A Lead Gen Website, With Alex & Dave

56

We All Love A Full Service (Agency), Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

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Fix Rubbish Web Pages And Grow Your Business, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

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Wanging On About Google & Stuff, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

59

Don't Let Your Web Guy Hold You To Ransom, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

60

Coz Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

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Why So Many Businesses Have Bad Websites, And Other Stuff, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

62

Take Digital Seriously Or Don't Bother At All, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

63

HubSpot, WordPress, Craft etc Are Just A Bunch Of Tools, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

64

Some Catharsis & Introspection, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

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Some Agencies Can Be Dickheads, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

66

Some Soul Searching And Waffle, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

67

Telling Great Stories About Boring Products, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

68

More Tenderness, More Fakery, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

69

The Episode Where We Rant About Google's Abysmal Customer Support, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

70

Are You Being Brave Enough, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

71

Love Me Tender, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

72

The One Where Alex Eventually Shows Up, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

73

More Rescues Than Thunderbirds, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

74

Poor Wee Scammer, Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

75

Digital Marketing Chat With Alex & Dave

76

Are You A Digital Marketing One Trick Pony?

77

Simple Advice For Using Google Ads Profitably

78

How To Avoid Blah Blah Content And, Instead, Win, Online

79

Heard The Cool Kids Talk About RevOps And Wondered WTH? We Explain It.

80

A CRM Is A Very Simple Concept That Will Help Generate Revenue, Here's How

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Why Your Website Might Not Be Delivering The Revenue It Should

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The Missing Link That Will Help Your Website Generate More Revenue

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Help, Our Website Was Built By A Have A Go Hero

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Paying For Clicks Doesn't Make You A Bad Person

85

Would You Trust Your Agency With Your Life? Transparency and Trust in B2B Tech Marketing

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Is Your Agency Just A Bloke In His Pants? Avoiding the "Fake Agency" White-Label Trap

87

Start With Nobody Cares, Because They Don't

88

Don't Trust A Design Agency With Your Website Project

89

Why Your Website Is Tanking Instead Of Ranking

90

Smart CEOs Get Involved In Digital Marketing, Here's Why

91

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Digital Marketing Engagement

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Making This Mistake Will Kill Your Website

93

What You Need To Know Before You Hire An Agency

94

A Fast Paced Lead Generation & SEO Recap

95

Not A Beginning Of Year Digital Marketing Checklist

96

Discussing Google's Helpful Content Update

97

The Problem With HubSpot

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How To Market Effectively During Financially Interesting Times

99

You Can't Buy Half A Pound Of SEO. Here's Why

100

Inbound Marketing Explained With Examples

101

Everyone's A F*****g Marketing Expert

102

Are Marketing Reports A Waste Of Time?

103

How Digital Agencies Can Truly Make Your Web Presence Sing

104

Lauretta Ihonor, Content Strategist, Talks To Us About The Importance Of Plain English

105

Don't Start A Website Redevelopment Project Until You've Listened To This

106

Beware Agencies Who Are Just Big Corp Lackeys

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Ever Googled The Question What Is SEO? In This Episode We Reveal All The Secrets And More, Or Less