How can we help you improve?
Our passion is helping marketers and business managers get more from digital marketing – to make the most of the great opportunities and avoid wasting time and money.
We share Actionable Advice to help grow your business and your personal marketing skills.
- How can we help you?
- What makes us different?
- Who’s behind Smart Insights?
- What we believe – our manifesto for today’s marketing
How we can help you?
We’ve created the Smart Insights membership options to help business owners, marketers and digital marketing specialist improve their commercial results from using digital marketing. It’s neither quick, cheap or easy, but with with the right planning and advice great opportunities are possible.
A good point to start is our digital marketing health check which will help you review your current use of marketing.
To help, we’ve created:
- An active community – you can ask questions and share advice on whatever is bugging you, whether that’s challenges, future opportunties, tools, stats or suppliers. Our belief is that there’s no better resource than other people like you!
- Best practice guides and templates – our Expert members up their game by using our resources to improve their digital marketing approaches.
- Online training – our great value training and how-to screencasts enable you to learn how to improve your marketing expertise. What’s more you can influence them, let us know about the topics you want to hear about or be involved with.
- Advertising – as an online publisher, we also offer advertising to help agencies and vendors of digital marketing services reach their audiences
- Digital strategy consulting – we’ve helped many companies through reviewing their digital channel strategies for affiliate, email, search, social media marketing and conversion rate optimization based on our analytics and persuasion expertise
What makes us different?
This is the advantage we offer to help you build your expertise:
- Actionable advice – review and improve results with our practical workbooks, templates and videos - all our content helps you map, plan and manage
- Fact-based actions – we show how to use Google Analytics and the latest stats to make measurable improvements
- Comprehensive and structured – 150 techniques joined up by the RACE framework – we keep to plain English do our best to limit jargon
- Different ways to learn – Templates, Ebooks, Video courses and screencasts; we think it’s important that you can learn and apply new ideas your way
- Great value – Everything on-demand, all year for less than the price of a training course
Who’s behind Smart Insights?
The Smart Insights team are all seasoned, active digital marketers working on projects to define and implement digital strategies for clients. We’re keen to share our experiences to help others and learn more – the learning never stops in digital marketing…
The three co-founders of Smart Insights are:
- Dr Dave Chaffey, a bestselling author of books on digital marketing and Ecommerce, recognised in 2004 by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as one of 50 gurus who have “shaped the future of marketing”. Dave continues to speak, train and consult on digital marketing strategy with his main focus on developing member services for Smart Insights.
- Dan Bosomworth, our marketing director, has experience spanning brand development and digital marketing, with roles both agency and client side over the last 13 years. He is also Managing Director of First 10 Digital, a digital marketing agency active in the creation and marketing of Smart Insights.
- Stuart Miller, our technical director, who has many years of experience of creating interactive web applications and websites and is also the technical lead with First 10.
We select our specialist Expert commentators for their in-depth knowledge and experience of specific digital channels and techniques. But comments and recommendations from members add dramatically to everyone’s knowledge.
What we believe – our manifesto for today’s marketing
Getting the most from the many marketing opportunities available today is challenging. In creating our new site, we want to offer advice to make a difference, so we set out how in our manifesto.
This is what drives us, what we advise, what we think is needed to be successful in today’s marketing:
1. Digital marketing is Marketing.
2. You need a strategy.
3. Measurement and optimisation are the foundation.
4. Joined-up customer-centred marketing is essential.
5. Keep communications human
6. Be agile
7. Inbound marketing trumps outbound marketing
8. Engagement is the real challenge
9. Think Global, Act Local
10. Markets are conversations
