Advertify

We’re an expert Paid Advertising and SEO firm for professional service businesses.

Advertify is the type of agency that focuses on getting results and building long term relationships. Many of our clients have worked with us for years.

 - I oversee our expert team - focusing on the commercial and strategic ecommerce growth offering at Advertify. 
- After 10+ years of working in the digital agency world, with hundreds of ecommerce B2C and Lead generation B2B businesses across a range of industry vertical & digital services. I've decided to focusing on what I'm exceptionally good at: paid social advertising & SEO with a focus on return on investment.
- Commercially motivated and technically capable paid advertising & SEO Specialist working on a range of digital advertising projects.
 - With a legal and professional background in law, I understand the professional services sector + have the marketing expertise over the last 10 years to help firms grow in the professional services sector.
- Overseeing the execution and creation of profitable advertising/marketing campaigns
- Creating briefs and recommendations for new funnels as well as improvements to existing sales funnels that are profitable within a short time frame.

Founder

Joy Raj Indian Restaurant

- Director at the Joy Raj Restaurant in Clifton, Bristol 
- Overseeing the management and brand direction of Joy Raj Restaurant and JR Catering
- Constant increase in year on year footfall with a strategically based promotional calendar
- Created better projection of food and drink offers
- Increased Food sales year on year
- Look after finance,accounting, customer and media relations
- Controlled operational costs and labour percentage to maximise profit 
- Undertake development of the Joy Raj Group which includes our catering arm - JR Catering
- Reduced overall expenditure year on year
- Managing suppliers and delivery process to retain our sustainable business model 
- Network to create as many business relations in order to both grow and learn from others
- Handle various budgets to support and sustain the growth of the business
- Liaising with various businesses to see how we can expand further

Co-Owner

Kiddie Kart

KiddieKart is a marketplace for all parents to BUY or SELL pre-loved baby & toddler items.

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- Inspiring and motivating a cross-functional team, helping to drive positive culture & a strong working environment with a focus on paid advertising & SEO
 - Manage & develop team members to help them increase their portfolio of clients + identify growth opportunities
 - Relay the strategic direction of the business so that is it widely communicated internally
 - Ownership of forecasting and P&L management
 - In expectations with the wider business, ensure timeline + successful delivery of our solutions mapped to customer needs & objectives.
 - Looking at processes, current structures and how we can make workloads, output more efficient & of a higher quality

 - Develop a detailed understanding of our clients’ businesses objectives & incorporate this thinking into our strategic approach to leading & growing the account. 
 - Generating new business opportunities & driving the growth of the agency
 - Build key influential relationships whereby clients trust and value our opinions, and seek advice on their business and marketing issues. 
 - Continually monitor client relationships and satisfaction, ensuring quick resolutions and transparency
 - Maintaining & growing client relationships commensurate with the strategic and commercial importance of the relationship 

 - Overseeing the strategy, upsells & development of 100+ clients
 - Demonstrate a strong ability to communicate, present, pitch and influence key stakeholders at all levels of the organisation including executive and C-Level
 - Solid experience with SEO, Google Ads and Facebook Ads campaigns & strategies and understand the requirements, set up, workings of these to a high level
 - Strong track-record of B2B account management and new business sales
 - Negotiate contracts and close agreements to maximise profits for the business
 - Identifying new markets to penetrate where digital needs may be required
 - Ambitious with a consistent track record - heavily experienced in consultative sales approach

Head Of Commercial

- Able to develop effective commercial online / SEM strategies to grow client's businesses, ensuring ROI is maximised
- Creating new business relationships and growing the client base via networking
- Understanding the effectiveness and importance of Analytics and utilising this information to communicate insights and drive strategy
- Developing SEO, AdWords, Social Media and Social Advertising Strategies to bring ROI and ensure profitability to businesses
- Worked with one of the fastest growing chains in the UK on their online strategy - they have grown 400% in the last 4 years
- Strong commercial awareness and budgeting skills - Have increased online revenue and lead generation for multiple clients consistently
- Conducting gap analysis - identifying missing or weak areas to establish development areas
- Managing a diverse portfolio of clients, building strong client relationships at all levels of the business 
- Advising on Digital Advertising (AdWords/ Bing Ads & Social Adverting)
- Smart Traffic re-branded as Bigg Media Limited

Account Director

Smart Traffic

Senior Digital Consultant (November 2015 - Aug 2016)

- Building effective SEM Strategies for all types of businesses online
- Managing a range of portfolio of clients 
- Advising on Digital Advertising (PPC/ Bing & Social Adverting)
- Enhancing and developing current relationships with business clients as well as creating new business relationships - Networking with local businesses 

Digital Marketing & Partner Services Consultant (April 2014 - October 2015)

- Building relationships with new agency partners - providing white label Blogger Outreach and Content services
- Creating new business relations for those looking to undertake digital marketing
- Manage a large portfolio of clients undertaking SEO campaigns
- Working within a team of digital consultants
- Part of a large group of digital consultants, SEO/digital marketing technical experts and campaign specialists
- Assisting clients in getting businesses onto page one of Google for the brand, product or service, drive relevant traffic to their website, raising brand awareness and generating more enquiries and sales
- Building on best SEO practices, PPC knowledge, natural link building, and outreach programmes
- Creating bespoke proposals for clients to create the most efficient digital strategy
- Undertaking and creating presentations to present to prospects and clients
- Building relationships with partners looking to utilise our white label blogger outreach services

Senior Digital Consultant

Houkara

- Opened a Shisha lounge business in Bristol
- Business development
- Managing suppliers and delivery process to create sustainable business model 
- Overlook dealing with management of staff, stock and the overall running of the business
- Ensuring that all processes were in place when the business opened 
- Networked to create suppliers, local support and a solid customer base
- Utilising seo marketing techniques to create an effective online presence

Partner - Sales/Marketing & Business Development

Lebara Mobile Ltd

- Undertaking the management, mentoring and supervision of 5 Business Developments Executive’s and 6 promotional and merchandising staff - choosing promotional locations and maximizing Lebara visibility across the Southwest
- Looking after 450+ varying businesses and institutions across the South West for Lebara including universities, retail shops, language schools and ports to create a successful portfolio of businesses using Lebara products
- Making sure that the team deliver on a range of KPI's on a monthly and quarterly basis
- Have increased the percentage of Lebara business in this area by over 110% since taking on the position
- Managing various budgets to support the performance of the team
- Undertake the analysis of call rates/productivity and visibility by members of the team to maintain the required standard
- Growing the South West for Lebara as an instrumental force over competing MVNO's: This has been completed by enhancing and developing current relationships with business clients as well as creating new business relationships and leads
- Assisting with issues/queries that Lebara BDE's encounter that need further assistance
- Looking after promotional and marketing activities within this region and subsequently co-ordination and monitoring of staff to execute such relevant activities
- Liaising with various departments to conduct audits of business who utilise the Lebara brand and products
- Supervising the branding of retailers with Lebara shop fronts and merchandise- looking after the contracts to conduct these activities as well as ensuring they are carried through to a high standard

Area Manager/Business Development

Heat Recruitment

- Speaking to law firms and legal institutions to create business to business relations
- Conducting business development when cold calling clients
- Retaining existing clients through careful client management, understanding the business and  commercial awareness
- Keeping up to date with Employment Law
- Sourcing new clients and candidates to develop new business leads
- Marketing, creating adverts and developing awareness of the firm
- Keeping up to date with legal reforms and practices in order to understand and appreciate the  current legal market

Legal Consultant - Sales and Consultancy

Lyons Davidson Solicitors

Paralegal

- Management of own caseload, taking sole responsibility for conduct of approximately 200 client files from implementation to completion
- Responsible for drafting Counsel Briefs, trial bundles, negotiating with third party solicitors, insurers and client's
- Dealt with MOJ cases
- Have dealt with litigation up to trial and settlement and non-litigated cases
- Undertaking legal research utilising internal resources, precedents and external research tools

Lidverts

- Business development manager in a advertising and marketing firm
- Creating business relations with direct marketing by email shots and cold calling to create leads
- Built up and maintained a portfolio of clients whilst developing strong relationships
- Door to door business to business selling
- Liaising with clients and suppliers to manage sale cycle
- Have exceeded targets and managed sustained growth of sales aspect of the business
- Time management and organisational skills were key to managing clients

Founder/Business Development Manager

Are you running a law firm or and accountancy practice & facing challenges in:

  - Consistently generating leads?
  - Getting traffic to convert?
  - Ensuring profitable client acquisition?

If so, you're in the right place.

I've worked with over 500+ businesses in the last 10 years, helping professional firms like yours to:

- Continuously place yourself in front of new clients
- Helping people get in contact once they have discovered you
- Optimise the client acquisition process for scalable growth

Interested in transforming the way you attract and convert clients? Drop me a DM. 

Speak soon.

Salim

Salim Ahmed

Nationwide Building Society

Communications Manager

Bloxx Creative

Director

Copy & TV

Communications Consultant

HAUTE Direct Marketing

Providing clients with excellent service and cost savings across their Data Processing, Print, Direct Mail and Postage activity.

To find out how HAUTE Direct Marketing can help you - get in touch today.

Krystal Nights

Bristols premier Shisha events and hire service providing shisha event management to private and corporate clients. 

From a single pipe hire, through to a managed event providing shisha to hundreds of people Krystal Nights is the chosen brand in the South West for shisha events and hire.   Previous clients include Channel 4 and Bristol University as well as private weddings, birthdays, mehndis and more.

Pioneered the e-shisha pen in Bristol, with outlets in clubs and retailers throughout Bristol.

Owner / Manager

Response One

Providing Project Management services for a spectrum of clients in the charity and retail sectors.  

Consult with clients on artwork/creative specifications, print requirements, data quality and postage to provide the most appropriate solution.

Manage the postal accounts of clients to provide discounts on postage prices, ensuring they are using the most applicable service to maximise the savings they can achieve.  Currently R1 is responsible for posting c100million mailpacks per year.

Coordinate client data cleansing and audits.  We’ll check the clients database against the 347 million trusted suppression records that we use to highlight any data integrity issues such as...
Deceased individuals
Customers that have moved address
Incorrect or incomplete names and addresses
Duplicate names and addresses
Individuals who have requested not to receive cold direct mail through the Mailing Preference Service (MPS)
Customers that have moved and can be re-addressed

This saves clients money not only on production, but postage, improving the campaigns ROI and also enhancing the brand image.

Work to, and assist in the production of client budgets, understanding their final campaign aim and maximising the potential ROI by utilising our extensive network of suppliers and negotiating the best prices in the marketplace.

Project Manager

Xerox

Responsible for managing direct mail projects for Lloyds Banking Group.  This involves managing the clients high expecations ensuring the projects run smoothly and that all stakeholders are suitably informed at all times.  To ensure the projects run smoothly the core element of the role is to coordinate external suppliers through the DM supply chain including printers and mailing houses from project briefing through to completion, managing the costs and schedule as required.

Direct Mail Project Manager

One third of the Houkara partnership.

Houkara is Bristols number one shisha lounge that offers the best shisha experience in the South West.  Alongside shisha we also offer ice creams from the award winning Yarde Farm and ice cream based milkshakes as well as teas, coffee, hot chocolate and soft drinks.

As one third of the ownership team I have worked with the other partners and come to democratic decisions on all areas of the business.  From painting and decorating, to marketing, accounitng, project management, and law I have been involved in all fascades of the business to make it Bristols most regarded shisha lounge with a dedicated customer base.

Some examples of experiences in setting up Houkara were:

Dealing with legal aspects like applying for planning permission, change of uses, business formation.

Financial aspects like daily and montly cash flow as well as sourcing finance, preparing financial accounts for the business plan, supplier management including negotiations.

Marketing management from creating the brand image, ensuring the branding is adhered to, managing marketing communications and increase brand awareness to our target market through various means.

Operational management involving business processes and staff managment.

Procurement duties and supplier management to ensure the business has stock held at all times and ensuring these are purchased at the most competitive price.

Partner

Mail Handling International

Manage and coordinate document direct mail campaigns for clients working closely with the client, programmers, and printers to complete the mailing to the highest standard and on schedule.

Completed accurate briefs ensuring requirements are adhered to for international mail for downstream access and suitable postal suppliers are chosen.

Producing accurate quotations, manage budgets, and coordinate external suppliers.

Create invoices and ensure work is accounted for and within budget.

Work to client timelines to ensure campaigns arrive on required drop dates.

Suggested business improvement ideas.

Account Handler

Computershare

Manage and coordinate document mailings for clients working closely with the client, designers, programmers, and printers to complete the mailing to the highest standard and on the correct mailing date.

Processing of documents including dividends  and share plans.

Manage multiple pieces of work and delegation of work.

Producing quotations and ensuring project budgets are not exceeded.

Manage stock and place orders when necessary.

Adhering to strict FSA regulations and internal processes.

Analysis of all proxy jobs completed by Computershare Client Services in relation to specific criteria and production of management report.

Supporting role to Project Manager on variety of projects.

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