About ONE seo Inbound Marketing company in United Kingdom, United Kingdom
My marketing career really started when I joined a small manufacturing business with a job description of just 3 words: ’sales sales sales’.
I had been in sales roles before previously but quickly noticed something very different on joining this business.
In previous companies the sales had been driven by telemarketing mailshots eshots and the like.
Here however there seemed to be a daily stream of enquiries from the website between 3 and 10 per day.
These leads were mostly low quality and not related to some of the higher value and higher profit items we sold but still it got my interest.
’What if’ I thought ’we could get the same number of leads coming in each day but for our other high-value services that were worth 10 or 20x the value.’
I enquired and was told that this stream of enquiries was because the company was paying for a service called SEO – something I had heard of but never really looked into.
I checked and sure enough our website ranked in the top 3 for the 3 search terms that the SEO company was targeting but the search terms targeted were not the ones that would make much difference to my sales so I contacted the SEO company and asked them to add 3 further search terms related to the high value products that I wanted to sell.
The SEO company doubled our monthly fee for adding in the 3 extra search terms then proceeded to do nothing – several months down the line and our rankings for the added search terms were still far from page 1 of Google and there were no new enquiries that I was desperately waiting for.
It was at this point that I started to study at least 1 hour a day and experiment with SEO and CRO techniques on our website becoming a self-taught in-house digital marketing expert.
A few changes later and within weeks the website was starting to rank on page 1 for around 20 new terms that I had added to our focus list and the enquiries started to flow in.
The results were dramatic – the business I had joined went from slow decline to growth of 22% the very next year with no decline in gross profit either because the lines we were promoting through SEO were the higher-profit lines.
The people enquiring had already educated themselves about our services on the website and had made their decision that this company looked like the right one for them and my job was then to not mess-up the sale and simply provide them with what they had already decided they wanted.
Sales continued to grow averaging 12% growth each year over the next 3 years against a backdrop of a shrinking market size in our industry.
I then decided to branch out and offer my digital marketing services to other businesses and One SEO was born.
