Digital Agency Network - Top Digital Marketing Tools Preferred by Digital Agencies
Digital Agency Network - Top Digital Marketing Tools Preferred by Digital Agencies
Digital Agency Network - Top Digital Marketing Tools Preferred by Digital Agencies
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Participants
Charney Weiss John Curley Hannah Byrd Matthew Rouzaud Sergiu Tabaran
Director of Social Media SEO Specialist Creative Brand Manager Marketing Strategist eCommerce Specialist & COO
at 9thWonder at 9thWonder at Absolute Web at Absolute Web at Absolute Web
Bethany Rathbone Johnny Craston Sam Martin-Ross Kevin Van Siobhan Graham
SEO Team Lead PPC Team Lead Managing Director Digital Optimisation Content Specialist
at Digital Uncut at Digital Uncut at Digital Uncut Specialist at DIJGTAL at DIJGTAL
Will Turner Ben Hirons Stella Tsokeva Vincent Mazza Alex Lyle
Director, Digital Production Founder Digital Marketing Strategist Managing Partner Search Engine Advertising
& Operations at DIJGTAL at Due North at eDesign Interactive at eDesign Interactive Specialist at Emote Digital
Ben Wheelhouse Lily Keating Becky Carré Sam Biggins Tommy Wilson
Head of Marketing Digital Projects Director Head of Paid Media Head of Development SEO Account Executive
at Emote Digital at Emote Digital at Evoluted at Evoluted at Evoluted
Participants
Carl Huang Miraj Mandal Sarah Quek Ben Wood Elliot Haines
Head of Enterprise Head of Performance Content Marketing Team Strategy Director Head of SEO
at First Page Digital Media at First Page Digital Lead at First Page Digital at Hallam at Hallam
Jon Martin Harry Brace James Webster Lauren Roitman Fiona Cubitt
Technical Director Senior Web Analytics Senior Ecommerce PPC Senior SEO Strategist Director
at Hallam Specialist at Impression Specialist at Impression at Impression at Kindred
Thom Bransom Connor Borrowdale Lindsay Smith Dan Irascu Marcel Sobieski
Design Director Client Engagement Manager CEO Head of Marketing Founder
at Luminary at Massive Media at Massive Media at Mobiteam at Mobiteam
Benjamin Boehm Kevin Fidler Pat Bechtel Mitchel White Richard Trigg
Marketing Director Sales Manager SEO and Copywriting Managing Director Experience Design Director
at NuStream at NuStream Specialist at NuStream at Reward at Tangent
Steve Clark Aayush Gupta Mattan Danino Matt Moore Tom Jarvis
Head of Digital Growth Sr. Manager, Brand & CEO Director of Paid Media CEO
at Tangent Marketing at Uplers at WEBITMD at WEBITMD at Wilderness
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Advertising Management & Analytics Tools
21 Tools 9 Participants
17-23
Collaboration Tools
36 Tools 22 Participants
24-34
Social Media Marketing Tools
20 Tools 9 Participants
35-47
Web Design Tools
16 Tools 11 Participants
48-56
eCommerce Marketing Tools
15 Tools 8 Participants
57-63
Remote Working Tools
23 Tools 26 Participants
64-77
SEO/SEM Tools
17 Tools 13 Participants
10
Executive Summary 5
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CA 17
15 UK
2
USA EU 6
Asia
8
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Agency experts also rated the importance of the features while choosing
a digital marketing tool:
INTEGRATIONS - - 6 22 13
PRICING - 6 25 13 5
USER-FRIENDLINESS - 1 7 23 17
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Sam Martin-Ross
Managing Director at Digital Uncut
London, UK
We’re a digital marketing agency for startups and scaleups, we enable startups to fast
forward their growth by delivering expert and innovative digital marketing services.
As managing director I focus on client strategy, oversight, as well as new business and hiring.
Our preferred tools are BigQuery & Data Studio as we predominantly work with Google’s Cloud
Platform.
Google Data Studio: It provides a free, user friendly interface to visualise data and
showcase reports. It doesn’t have all the features as more advanced tools like
Microsoft BI or Tableau however is constantly evolving, more easily integrated into
other Google products e.g. Google Sheets, and has more than enough functionality for
our current requirements.
BigQuery: It is an excellent data warehouse, and to get data from third party sources
in there we use a combination of Stitch (for common platforms e.g. Google Ads/
Analytics/Marketo/Salesforce) and custom API scripts where Stitch doesn’t have a
pre-built connection (e.g. SnapChat Ads).
Johnny Craston
PPC Team Lead at Digital Uncut
London, UK
Here at Digital Uncut, we are focused on delivering effective and innovative digital marketing
designed to help startups and scale-ups grow their business efficiently and sustainably.
Google Ads Editor: Essential for any Google Ads manager, to organise and operate
large ad accounts, allowing for efficient bulk editing and visualisation.
Adpiler: This has proven to be the best tool for sharing previews of HTML5 Ads with
clients that we have found. It also allows for the viewing of ads on websites.
Google Data Studio: This tool allows us to combine data and metrics from several
sources and draw direct comparisons on performance as well as identify opportunities
for optimisation.
Ben Wheelhouse
Head of Marketing at Emote Digital
Melbourne, Australia
Emote delivers powerful websites and measurable marketing. In my role I head up our
marketing team, and services.
With 30+ clients across digital advertising, search, content and social, we work with amazing
brands, and thrive off the chance to grow business of all sizes, across a variety of industries.
Day to day, I work closely with our Account Managers and Marketing Specialists to ensure that
our clients are getting the best outcomes.
Zapier: A great tool that allows us to link digital platforms. Really handy for getting
leads sent directly from ads to the clients inbox, or to integrate the platform interface
with our reporting platforms.
ClickCease: Allows us to cut down on fraudulent clicks for many of our clients and
ultimately get more out of their media spend. This is particularly useful across Google
Ads.
Becky Carré
Head of Paid Media at Evoluted
Sheffield, UK
Evoluted is a full-service web development and digital marketing agency. Our digital
marketing arm offers SEO, Digital PR, and Content along with a full range of Paid Media
services across both paid search and paid social channels. I joined Evoluted earlier this
year as Head of Paid Media to drive the team forward with paid media innovation, as well as
working agency-wide to grow our client portfolio and create a best-in-class digital marketing
team through marketing, training, and process.
Google Ads scripts: Perhaps the most important day-to-day tool we use is our
Google Ads scripts. Evoluted is fortunate to have a whole team of developers in-
house to build pretty much anything we need for PPC management. This includes
monitoring performance and budgets, keeping our Optimization Scores healthy, and
management of shopping campaigns for our ecommerce clients.
DashThis & Google Data Studio: Finally, our reporting dashboards are essential
for a channel as changeable and reactive as PPC. We use Dashthis for our client-
facing reports and Google Data Studio for the team to monitor their accounts across
numerous search and social channels, all in one place, in real-time.
Excel and Google Sheets: Of course, a shout out to Excel and Google Sheets… where
would PPC be without them?
Harry Brace
Senior Web Analytics Specialist at Impression
Nottingham, UK
Impression is a multi-award winning digital marketing agency specialising in PPC, SEO, Digital
PR, CRO and Analytics.
My role within Impression covers client reports, Google Analytics health checks, tracking
implementation and more. Having accurate and reliable data is key in making important
digital marketing decisions and drives our data-driven approach.
We use Adverity and BigQuery for our data warehousing solution. This gives us a reliable way
to collect data from our various marketing platforms and then pull this data into Google Data
Studio.
As this platform uses Google Big Query, our reports are much faster than data pipeline tools
and connectors. A benefit of using an ETL/warehousing solution is that you can store your
data transformations permanently without having to run them on the fly.
Fiona Cubitt
Director at Kindred
We are based in Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Greater China, South East Asia and Europe,
working with brands from across the globe. We help you grow in Asia Pacific and beyond. I’m
the director of the agency.
Benjamin Boehm
Marketing Director at NuStream
Allentown, USA
We combine the use of these, often with the keyword planner from Google Ads so we
can visualize a campaign strategy to fit the goals of the client. By being thorough and
understanding their needs, we can align our plan for relevance and authority.
Mitchel White
Managing Director at Reward
Manchester, UK
Growth partners for forward thinking brands, Reward works with sustainable and ethical
brands to unlock new growth with search & social channels.
Google Ads: Mixing Google’s machine learning algorithm with human insights is a
great balance, the platform has become a lot better at automating strategies, mixing
this with continuous improvement tweaks to ad copy and landing pages has allowed
us to .
AdRoll: Allows us to cut down on fraudulent clicks for many of our clients and
ultimately get more out of their media spend. This is particularly useful across Google
Ads.
Matt Moore
Director of Paid Media at WEBITMD
HubSpot: The most important metric to us is the revenue generated from our ad
campaigns. We use HubSpot to analyze the flow of a lead past the initial contact
point and into the various sales stages all the way to a closed deal. With HubSpot we
have the ability to attribute this closed won revenue back to specific campaigns and
initiatives for improved optimization effectiveness.
Google Ads Editor: Google Ads Editor is a phenomenal tool provided free by Google
allowing agencies and individuals build campaigns and make bulk changes in a
spreadsheet modeled application.
Collaboration
Tools
Project management software
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MeisterTask - easy project management Zoom, Google Meets, Slack, Front, Asana -
that works for medium sized teams. to stay connected to my team and clients.
Working from home has put a greater Airtable is the critical tool that brings our
emphasis on project management, a key team together on one platform under the
component to success that is, at times, flexible working arrangement. It greatly
overlooked. Some of my favorite tools advances our operation’s efficiency
to help with this include: monday.com - on launching successful social media
this is a great project management tool marketing campaigns and saves hours on
that makes running an account so much trivial tasks. From planning and drafting to
smoother. Toggl - this time management scheduling to reviewing key metrics on our
tool accurately tracks the time you spend campaigns, the tool supported organizing
on different tasks as you’re completing all the data in one place in the formats that
them, allowing you to effectively manage bring the most value to us, allowing us to
and monitor where you’re spending your see every step of the process clearly.
time throughout your day.
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Collaboration
London, UK Sydney, Australia
Asana is our primary tool for work/project While I was working from home I found that
management and is key to delivering Asana helped me to manage and prioritise
work in a timely manner, to the highest my workload. It allowed me to collaborate
standard. on projects with my team, so we were
still able to work closely during that time
and ensure that we met deadlines for our
clients. I also found Figma really helpful,
as it’s a collaborative interface tool that
Sydney, Australia
allowed my team to easily build and share
creative assets, which they shared with me
easily via a link, so I could use them when
Kevin Van scheduling in content for clients.
Digital Optimisation Specialist at DIJGTAL
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Collaboration
New Jersey, USA Singapore, Singapore
Working from home, we use applications Writing tools like Grammarly and
like Zoom, Skype, Slack and Microsoft Hemingway Editor help me improve
Teams to connect with each other and set my writing. Also, tools like Frase and
meetings with clients. In addition to the MarketMuse empower me to think of
design tools mentioned above, we also use relevant topics and ideas.
cloud-based tools like UXPin and InVision.
To organize our workflow we also use
Basecamp, Jira, BugHerd etc.
Nottingham, UK
Singapore, Singapore
Elliot Haines
Head of SEO at Hallam
Miraj Mandal
Head of Performance Media at First Page Digital I couldn’t imagine WFH without Slack
and Jira. It’s essential for collaboration,
communication and building company
Google Data Studio has been one of the culture. WFH can be isolating both
most powerful tools that we’ve used to professionally and personally. We also
monitor campaign performance, it’s use Notion for information storage and z if
vast number of integrations allows us to people want to use it.
aggregate all the work we do for a client
into a single view. This helps to not only
keep the team focused on the metrics
that matter, but also saves the team time
instead of having to navigate between
different platforms and configuring the
same view.
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Collaboration
Nottingham, UK Berlin, Germany
Some of our research tools have been Asana, Slack, Google Hangouts, Google
particularly interesting and insightful this Podcasts.
past year. Some specific tools to mention
are: SEMrush Competitive Intelligence,
Search Metrics Research Cloud, Google Ads
Insights Beta.
Allentown, USA
Benjamin Boehm
Nottingham, UK
Marketing Director at NuStream
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Collaboration
Allentown, USA London, UK
We use many other tools such as SEMrush Aside from those specific tools for SEO/SEM,
to have a better idea of what keywords the tools that have helped us the most are:
are being searched for and what our 1. Notion - this platform creates an ‘all-in-
competitors are doing. one’ workspace that blends your work apps
into one. We use it for all of our project
management, client boards, meeting notes
etc. It makes collaboration really seamless
across a remote team.
London, UK
2. Google Suite - we use nearly every single
product in the Google suite, but rely on
Google Data Studio and Google Sheets/
Richard Trigg Docs the most.
Experience Design Director at Tangent
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Charney Weiss
Director of Social Media at 9thWonder
Founded in 1980, 9thWonder was born out of a single purpose — to help our clients discover
the difference that creates immediate and long-lasting impact for their organization.
Opportunities that grow your brand and business.
We offer a full suite of social media management services, including strategy, content
creation, editorial calendars, community management, social listening, analytics and
reporting.
Sprout Social: We use this more affordable social media management tool for clients
who need a simple solution to scheduling, community management, and analytics.
Sprinklr: We use this powerful social media management tool for clients who value
strong capabilities, integrated functionalities, and deep analytics.
functionalities, and deep analytics.
NetBase Quid: We use this social listening tool to track conversations outside of our
clients’ owned properties surrounding specific industries, brands, competitors, or
products. This tool helps us understand audiences and identify trends.
Hannah Byrd
Creative Brand Manager at Absolute Web
We are a full service eCommerce and Digital Marketing Agency. We are passionate, fast-
paced, experienced team.
My current role - I work in the marketing department, but often work with creative and
development as well. I work to maintain and elevate the creative standards/goals for all of
our clients and the agency. I also act as a true Brand Manager in many ways being sure that
creative/messaging is consistent across all channels.
Fran Hale
VP Marketing & Sales at Brave Bison
London, UK
Brave Bison is a new-era media and marketing group that specialises in social media. Brave
Bison combines a leading social marketing agency and content studio with a media network
of over 650 channels and 158m followers. Our recent partners include the likes of Panasonic,
Australian Open, VOXI, Uniqlo, Badoo and BBC.
As VP Sales & Marketing, EMEA, I lead the team that delivers social marketing strategies for our
clients and partners.
Tubular Labs: We use Tubular Labs, the world’s leading global video measurement
and analytics platform. It helps us to keep on top of social trends and it’s the best
tool out there to understand what brands are doing on social. The platform gives us
invaluable metrics and insights to benchmark success and grow our audiences.
Synthesio: We also use Synthesio, a social listening platform that helps us strengthen
our social media strategies. As a global agency, it’s crucial for us to capture social
media intelligence from different markets and Synthesio does just the job!
Chandni Kothari
Associate Director at Croud
Croud is a global, full-service digital marketing agency that works with some of the world’s
leading brands. Through the connection of data, technology and creativity, Croud develops
strategies for sustainable growth that drive immediate business impact.
As Associate Director, I play a key role in the development of Croud US’ Biddable offering,
working closely with the team to ensure that our clients are receiving optimal service.
Pencil: We are currently testing Pencil, a dynamic creative platform that generates
ads using AI technology. From different color palettes to a wide range of formats,
the possibilities are endless when it comes to designing creative. I particularly love
how they use their API to predict how it’ll perform against your KPIs, which helps you
understand how it’ll perform before it goes to market.
The tool also makes it incredibly easy to traffic ads, making the workflow smooth.
Because the Pencil team consists of creative experts as well as other digital specialists
who have worked directly in ad platforms, the tool has been seamlessly designed to
offer a handful of solutions to social media marketers.
Joyce Ko
Digital Content Manager at Digital Business Lab
Specialising in social media for more than 8 years, we are social media mavens with an
international flair engaging brands with creative storytelling, comprehensive strategies,
professional video production, meticulous data analytics and social media management in
their digital marketing campaigns and needs.
We promise to increase brand desirability and customer engagement using inspiring and
meaningful content produced by our diverse team of experts (25 experts & 12 different
nationalities).
Facebook Business Manager: It gives us powerful tools to fuel our clients’ FB/
IG marketing strategies and produce exceptional results for our clients, such as
thousands of website clicks, conversions, ultra-targeted ad campaigns, etc. Advanced
tactics such as leveraging Facebook Pixels opens up new opportunities to create
custom audiences, enabling us to run powerful campaigns such as retargeting and
identifying niche target audiences. Ultimately, we elevated our client’s performance,
reached new audiences or markets in Asia while optimizing their budgets. Great news
in 2021: we are recognized as an official Facebook Marketing Partner!
Klear by Meltwater: This big data search engine for influencers, is the influencer
management tool we use to identify, onboard, and manage the right influencers for
many different targeted campaigns (such as high engagement, sales-driven, etc).
It enables us to support brands tapping into specific niches and market segments
via authentic partnerships with macro, micro, nano influencers. Furthermore, its data
intelligence offers key engagement metrics, enabling us to establish high reach
instead of investing in big influencers with low engagement.
Siobhan Graham
Content Specialist at DIJGTAL
Sydney, Australia
DIJGTAL is an Experience Design & Marketing agency based in Sydney, Australia, with offices
in Vancouver and LA. We specialise in transforming business problems into human-led
solutions. Our client base includes early stage startups, enterprise ventures and corporate
ventures.
As the Content Specialist at DIJGTAL, I am required to oversee all content for our clients across
all channels, including social media, email, PPC and SEO.
Buffer: I currently use Buffer to schedule posts for our clients across Instagram,
Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Facebook Business Manager & Asana: For paid ads on social, I use Facebook Business
Manager, while I use Asana to track and manage all of the copy shared across social
media for our clients before scheduling it in to be published.
Stella Tsokeva
Digital Marketing Strategist at eDesign Interactive
Raven Tools: We use Raven Tools with integration to Google analytics, PPC marketing,
competitor research and social media marketing. Analyzing the right data is very
important to our agency.
Sarah Quek
Content Marketing Team Lead at First Page Digital
Singapore, Singapore
First Page Singapore is a digital marketing agency offering SEO, Google Ads, Premium Content
Writing and Reputation Management.
My current role as Content Marketing Team Lead involves overseeing all content works
including but not limited to SEO copywriting, Google Ads copywriting, blogging and organic
social media management.
HubSpot: We use HubSpot to schedule and track the progress of our social media
campaigns. HubSpot is a wonderful tool because it gives us a 360-degree view of the
progress of our campaigns.
Falcon: Falcon is useful in managing organic social media posts for multiple
campaigns. It also helps us upload multiple types of media. Furthermore, it is able to
pool data from the reach we obtain.
Tom Jarvis
CEO at Wilderness
London, UK
Our work has been recognised by The Webbys, Marketing Week, Digiday, The Drum,
eConsultancy and other leading awards and publications.
Sprout Social: We use Sprout to schedule, track and report on our award-winning
platform and community management. Sprout is easy to use and has scaled with us
an agency since the start.
monday.com: We use monday.com for all our campaign tracking and management.
Easily creating boards for whoever needs to be across a campaign has been
incredibly important, especially during the pandemic when we are all working
remotely.
Frame.io: Our creative team use Frame.io to collaborate and stay connected with the
wider team when producing video and creative content. It allows our team to work
quickly and share content from anywhere in the world.
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Collaboration is key Collaboration capabilities help agencies work faster by minimizing frustrations and allowing
teams to create great work. The ability to assign custom roles and permissions leads to seamless
work and satisfied clients. Getting feedback on one platform allows your team and your clients
to comment on projects, streamlining efficiency. Editor X, our advanced web design platform, is
due to launch concurrent editing abilities, which means your team can critique and collaborate
on the same site in real-time.
Use your Your tools should all work together toward a common goal; to free your team to do what they have
resources wisely been hired to do; a stellar job. Let the technology work for your agency, rather than your team
wasting time working for it. Ascend, our marketing and customer management suite, allows you
to manage business better: with mailing lists, reminders and streamlined workflow capabilities.
Another example of optimising resources and accelerating client timelines, are development
tools that cut your dev time in half by providing zero-setup and intuitive features, such as Velo.
One platform; Integrating all your tools onto one platform saves your agency time, energy, and allows you to
hundreds of scale your business and provide client success. Your agency can work more efficiently, reach
solutions goals faster, and offer clients custom solutions that fit their unique needs. Being able to work from
a place that houses all these tools will ultimately excel your team and the client’s expectations.
Leverage and grow By picking the tools that work for you, you can enhance and grow your business to the heights
your agency it deserves. The Wix Partners program is a complete digital ecosystem for creating, managing
and growing businesses online. With the help of dedicated account managers you can keep up
to date with industry trends and ultimately, grow business faster and more efficiently.
Sergiu Tabaran
eCommerce Specialist & COO at Absolute Web
Miami, USA
Absolute Web is an eCommerce Growth Agency based in Miami (Florida) and Los Angeles
(California). Since 1999, Absolute Web team has helped companies achieve their eCommerce
goals through custom development, UI/UX design, API integrations and digital marketing.
The agency has strong partnerships with leading eCommerce platforms such as Magento,
Shopify Plus and BigCommerce. My role at the company is to strengthen our strategic
partnerships and find the best eCommerce solutions for our merchants.
Figma: We use Figma for wireframes and UI/UX design, as it is very powerful and super
collaborative.
InVision: We also use InVision to present Mobile, Tablet and Desktop design
prototypes, as it helps our clients understand the designed experiences better.
Adobe Suite: Lastly, we of use Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, After
Effects) to enrich our designs with creatives and immersive animations and video.
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Tony Ng
Founder and Creative Director at DigiSalad
My role is to oversee all UX & UI Design and provide Digital Transformation Insight to our
clients.
The reason to engage the mentioned tools is because those tools provide a user friendly
interface for designers and it also leaves the room for design to customize their preferred
setting.
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Will Turner
Director, Digital Production & Operations at DIJGTAL
Sydney, Australia
DIJGTAL is a design and marketing agency focused on turning complex business problems
into innovative human centred solutions.
My role at DIJGTAL is to bridge the gap between our cross-functional teams and ensure
they’re supported in meeting our client’s, and our own, business goals.
Figma: There are too many great features to list (and more being added regularly)
but one that stands out is ‘multiplayer’. Our team is made up of Creative, UX and UI
designers and a lot of the time, we need to have more than one person collaborating
on a project. With multiplayer, we can have multiple people working on the same
design in real time. Figma also has a simple approach to handover which is extremely
useful when we pass designs across to the development team.
InVision: This is a great tool for building out simple prototypes. It’s been around for a
while but still gets the job done when you need a fast, static and interactive example.
It’s extremely easy to set up and it has a markup feature which is perfect for the client
review process.
Pen & Paper: I feel like this gets lost a lot when tools are mentioned but it’s our
preferred place to start with any design work. It’s too easy to get lost in the detail or
precious of an idea once you’ve made it digital. Sketching thoughts down keeps them
conceptual and it’s lightning fast.
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Vincent Mazza
Managing Partner at eDesign Interactive
eDesign is a digital experience agency fueled on talent, artistic flair and unconventional ideas.
We offer web design, corporate identity, digital marketing and brand positioning.
Our team aims to deliver the most forward-thinking web experiences. We push boundaries
and keep experimenting to be the best partner our clients can hire.
My role as a managing partner includes working on many levels. From project management
to digital strategy, I am involved in every project we take on.
We use these essential design tools to create fantastic user experiences online. Imagination
has no limits at our office and we are always experimenting with new technologies.
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Sam Biggins
Head of Development at Evoluted
Sheffield, UK
Evoluted is a Full-service digital agency focusing on value based delivery to our clients.
As the Head of Development, my role is to ensure we are able to have the talent and expertise
to deliver successful projects to our clients on time and budget.
Figma: Only primary design tool is Figma. Having moved from Photoshop in the last
couple of years and exploring the other offerings such as Adobe XD and Sketch we
have settled on Figma as our preferred tool.
Hotjar & Google Analytics: For UX analysis we use Hotjar and Google Analytics which
allow us to step through a user’s journey and optimise their CX. These tools give great
insight into the users without having to bring test users into a UX lab.
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Jon Martin
Technical Director at Hallam
Nottingham, UK
A collaborative digital agency, we use strategic skills, creativity and technical edge to help our
clients grow their revenue and thrive online.
Steered by strategy and long-term vision, we work in partnership with you to develop
integrated marketing campaigns that shout about what you do.
My personal role is to run our website and data offering and teams.
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Thom Bransom
Design Director at Luminary
Melbourne, Australia
Luminary is one of the longest standing digital agencies in Australia. We specialise in digital
transformations informed by evidence based research, we are agnostic in our CMS approach.
Figma: We use Figma as its the most powerful, web-based UI prototyping tool
available for digital designers. The ability to design, present, prototype and collaborate
in one place makes it a powerful tool for our agency. We will often also use Sketch as
a tool for creating digital experiences but we find it does not have all the features we
require.
Abstract: It is a wonderful tool for version control of design files in the same way
development teams manage their branches and master files. It allows teams to
always work from a single source of truth with updates being managed & reviewed by
admins.
Miro: It has been our primary tool for remote workshops and collaboration. The ability
for our clients to feel engaged and active in our remote sessions via Miro means our
approach is not impacted by decentralised teams.
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Lindsay Smith
CEO at Massive Media
Vancouver, Canada
Miro: Collaborative white-boarding and workshop tool is ideal for brainstorming with
remote teams and clients.
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Marcel Sobieski
Founder of Mobiteam
Berlin, Germany
Mobiteam is the proven design, development and creative partner from Berlin. Mobiteam does
custom Web Design and Development. It is specialized in designing aesthetically beautiful
and high-quality websites for corporate, personal and eCommerce.
Our clients get websites that sell, attract and obtain market and customer’s respect.
Mobiteam creates web projects since 2012 and has 14 professionals. Besides the custom
projects, we launched 3 startups and made 2 exits to US and UK companies so far.
Speaking about the design tools, there are three of them we enjoy and consider to be a great
thing to use:
Somehow the first 10 projects were evenly distributed, but lately, both we and the clients prefer
using Adobe XD. Perhaps it is a matter of getting used to something. They are all equally good,
slight pros and cons we can bring for any of them. Nonetheless, our pick goes for Adobe.
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Richard Trigg
Experience Design Director at Tangent
London, UK
Tangent is part consultancy, part agency, completely digital. We solve digital challenges
and craft memorable customer experiences through product design, engineering and
optimisation.
I lead a talented team of designers to build new digital products or optimise existing ones. I
specialise in helping clients improve their design processes by replacing assumption with fact
and insight. If my 15 years as a product designer have taught me anything, it’s that ’design is
never done’.
Our team covers both design and research, so our top tools will reflect this blend of
requirements.
Figma: Figma is a great tool for us because it allows us to do sitemaps, prototypes and
UI design all on the same platform, whereas we used to have to use multiple different
tools. It’s also been useful during this period of working from home due to its cloud-
based and collaborative nature.
Userlytics: This research tool is incredibly useful for unmoderated remote usability
testing. It has tree testing and card sorting features which work well and this platform
is also better value when you compare it to some of the bigger names. We use it to
conduct speedy tests (with results back from participants overnight) to be able to
build out a prototype or test an existing site quickly.
Lucidspark: This tool is great for running remote workshops as it functions as a virtual
whiteboard for real-time collaboration.
Web Design
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47
Aayush Gupta
Sr. Manager, Brand & Marketing at Uplers
I have been a part of Uplers from the beginning and it is indeed satisfying to see it develop into
the brand that it is today. As the Head of Marketing, I am responsible for brand positioning,
media outreach, content strategy and everything else it takes to build a brand.
Today, we’re a globally recognized outsourcing agency that helps businesses around the
world thrive in today’s competitive environment by providing cost-effective solutions in areas
like Digital Marketing and Web Development.
Figma: Figma is a Vector graphics editor and prototyping tool that is completely web-
based so you don’t need to stop to save, install or export designs. The designers can
just go with the flow. Files are up to date so collaboration is easy.
Adobe XD: It is a design and collaboration tool powered by Adobe that allows you
to not just create but also share UI/UX designs. Create wireframes, animations,
prototypes, digital product designs and more.
Adobe Photoshop: From photo editing to digital painting and graphic designing, you
can do it all on Photoshop. What’s more it can be used across all devices like desktop,
mobile and tablet.
Web Design
eCommerce
Marketing
Tools
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49
Matthew Rouzaud
Marketing Strategist at Absolute Web
Absolute Web is a full-service ecommerce and digital marketing agency. I focus on the
marketing side & strategy.
Klaviyo: Easy to use and provides a cost effective solution that JUST WORKS.
Shopify: The ecosystem that the platform has built is unmatched in most other cases.
Marketers love the platform.
Smile.io: Dead simple way to create a rewards program & experience for loyal
customers.
eCommerce Marketing
10
50
Lily Keating
Digital Projects Director at Emote Digital
Melbourne, Australia
We transform brands with a digital first approach, helping them from their overall digital
strategy - from their website right through to their marketing and brand allowing them to
establish a seamless digital presence and to engage with their target audiences across all
their digital platforms.
As Digital Projects Director I oversee the full website building lifecycle, from Discovery to
Deployment.
Google Analytics: The gold standard in monitoring tools that gives us a good overview
of how the site is performing and what needs improving.
Pingdom: Ongoing monitoring and push notifications if any site goes down so we can
rectify any issues immediately - integration with Slack makes this tool very easy to
keep an eye on.
Mailchimp: Fantastic all rounder for email marketing clients large and small. Clients
find it super easy to use and if we need to get a campaign out fast the platform can
accommodate with templates etc.
eCommerce Marketing
10
51
Carl Huang
Head of Enterprise at First Page Digital
Singapore, Singapore
First Page is the fastest growing digital marketing agency in Singapore that can help you
create an effective online marketing strategy and build online presence, with worldwide
presence in Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong and more.
As the head of enterprise, I manage a team of digital marketers who project manage and
execute digital marketing campaigns for enterprise-level clients, many include E-commerce
online shops, and marketplaces.
Facebook Ads Manager: For reaching the masses and effective audience targeting.
eCommerce Marketing
10
52
Ben Wood
Strategy Director at Hallam
Nottingham, UK
We’re a digital agency based in Nottingham, UK. Our clients include businesses such as Boots,
Esso, Speedo, and The United Nations.
Our methodology involves delivering a truly integrated service across all disciplines,
underpinned by a central strategy team to ensure all decisions are made objectively based
on delivering the most effective campaigns possible.
VWO (Visual Website Optimiser): A market leading CRO tool that enables our team
to test different variations of pages with the aim of improving conversion rates. Even
a minor improvement to conversion rates can have a huge impact on ecommerce
revenue. What’s more, VWO also offers personalisation capabilities allowing you to
amend website content depending on factors such as user location and more.
Hotjar: Hotjar is a cost effective method of gaining insight on how your website visitors
behave once on your site. Features include screen recordings, heat mapping and
customer surveys.
eCommerce Marketing
10
53
James Webster
Senior Ecommerce PPC Specialist at Impression
Nottingham, UK
My role within Impression as a Senior Ecommerce PPC Specialist is to manage the relationship,
strategy and performance of some of the leading ecommerce brands.
This means that any optimisations to the shopping feeds will also be replicated when
using the product feed for paid social platforms like Facebook and Pinterest.
Shoptimised also allows for price comparison testing for identical products that are
listing in Google Shopping. This is incredibly valuable information to be passed back to
the client so they can see how price competitive they are.
SA360: The second tool that we use from a paid media perspective is SA360. The
SA360 platform helps impression manage a large portfolio of clients that use multiple
ad platforms in one single place.
VWO: Finally, as a CRO agency, we work with VWO to give us access to the latest
technology to deploy onto your website easily ready for researching and a/b testing.
eCommerce Marketing
10
54
Connor Borrowdale
Client Engagement Manager at Massive Media
Vancouver, Canada
We’re a brand + experience design agency for those with ambition. At Massive, I focus on
engagement with new client partnerships, as well as their in-project experience.
WooCommerce: Turns your WordPress site into an e-commerce powerhouse. It’s ideal
for businesses selling under 10m in sales.
Craft CMS: The up and comer. Craft CMS is a powerful CMS that continues to
improve over time. If you’re a digital-savvy brand that wants a future-proof branded
e-commerce platform, Craft CMS is your solution.
eCommerce Marketing
10
55
Dan Irascu
Head of Marketing at Mobiteam
Berlin, Germany
I’m the head of the Online Marketing Department at Mobiteam, helping others in need to find
good tech reads and great IT services. Continuously exploring new borders of marketing.
Mobiteam does custom Web Design and Development.
WooCommerce: We use this more affordable social media management tool for
clients who need a simple solution to scheduling, community management, and
analytics.
Shopify: is known as well for the variety of tools the owner has, and also for the
ease of implementing solutions with little or even no knowledge. However, handling
e-commerce on Shopify gives users mixed feelings - Some feel themselves a part of
something bigger, while others don’t get the entire comfort because Shopify is a fully
hosted provider.
It is very individual, but both providing all the necessary things for a perfectly running
eCommerce website.
eCommerce Marketing
10
56
Kevin Fidler
Sales Manager at NuStream
Allentown, USA
Being a client-focused, detail-oriented digital marketing agency, we deliver the right product
at the right price to give our clients the exposure they need to succeed.
As the Sales Manager, I work to align their goals with our strategy to effectively combine the
right mix of services that will work best for their goals and within their budget.
LimeSpot: The first tool we use is LimeSpot for our Shopify sites. It helps having AI assist
you.
Klaviyo: It helps as well. We believe that programs specifically made for ecommerce
tend to be more accurate and able. Klaviyo is a great fit for our email needs.
Partial.ly: It is another tool we use because when we need payment, it gives our
customers an easier option.
eCommerce Marketing
Remote
Working
Tools
Los Angeles, USA London, UK
We use Microsoft Teams for all agency At Brave Bison, we are big fans of Slack.
communications, meetings, and client Without Slack, it would be far more
calls. challenging to stay in contact with each
other, both individually and in groups.
When we left the office in March 2020,
many felt that businesses would struggle
to communicate efficiently but using Slack
Los Angeles, USA
has allowed our superstar employees to
easily stay in touch with each other and
has been a great help.
Hannah Byrd
Creative Brand Manager at Absolute Web
Chandni Kothari
Associate Director, Biddable at Croud
Los Angeles, USA
eCommerce Specialist & COO at Absolute Web priority, and Google Chat and Meet have
helped me maintain great communication
with them. These tools are the closest
Slack. This platform has helped us and substitutes I have to being able to ‘pop
our clients the most, especially working over to their desk’ to talk through some
from home. Slack is the ultimate tool client work or just to catch up. With these
any company should be using. It brings two tools, I love that I can drop a meet
people closer (digitally), makes the link to any of my coworkers and instantly
communication and information sharing hop on a call with them to answer any
easy and intuitive. questions they or I may have.
10
58
Remote Working
Hong Kong, Asia New Jersey, USA
Sydney, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Will Turner
Director, Digital Production & Operations at DIJGTAL
Alex Lyle
Slack and Google Hangouts were critical. Search Engine Advertising Specialist at Emote Digital
We have a great office culture but it was
hard to keep up with everyone working
from home. Being able to message or jump Slack and Zoom for easy communication,
on a call whenever was key with keeping monday.com for client task management
up the banter. We’d also have open calls and keeping track of everything.
for the team to join in while they worked
which almost felt like we were all working
together in the office again.
10
59
Remote Working
Melbourne, Australia Melbourne, Australia
Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams for Slack - Versatile and easy to use.
ongoing communication. monday.com for Trello - This has helped us track tasks more
managing workflows efficiently. efficiently.
Zoom - We’ve been able to keep in contact
through Zoom.
Google Calendar/Gmail - We’ve been able
to coordinate the team even though they
Sheffield, UK
are now in different physical locations.
Becky Carré
Head of Paid Media at Evoluted
Sheffield, UK
10
60
Remote Working
Sheffield, UK Nottingham, UK
Working remotely has been a slight Slack - this has enabled our team to
adjustment to Evoluted but as a Digital stay close through the pandemic and
Agency the majority of our tools and has become our collective stream of
processes were already online. Google consciousness across the business. Yes
Meet and Slack have become heavily it can take some getting used to if you’re
used internally and to keep lines of transitioning from email, but is well worth it
communication open with our clients. in the long run.
Zoom for conference calls and reporting. Slack, Jira & Google Meet - they’re central
to how we manage work and collaborate
as a team.
10
61
Remote Working
Nottingham, UK Vancouver, Canada
Google Meet and Google Chat seem to be Our team uses Zoom regularly for
the obvious ones! I’m not sure how remote communication with each other and
working would have worked with the ease clients. In project, we use Figma and the
to quickly jump on a video call or send a Adobe Suite to bring our website designs to
quick message to a client or co-worker. life.
Melbourne, AU
Thom Bransom
Design Director at Luminary
10
62
Remote Working
Berlin, Germany Manchester, UK
Slack, Asana, Google services. Slack and Google Meet have been two of
the tools we’ve used most throughout the
pandemic to keep in touch. We’ve also
been using Asana to manage our projects
more effectively whilst we’re working
Allentown, USA
remotely.
Pat Bechtel
SEO and Copywriting Specialist at NuStream
London, UK
10
63
Remote Working
SEO/SEM
Tools
10
65
John Curley
SEO Specialist at 9thWonder
SEO at 9thWonder is woven through each aspect of content, user experience, development,
and design to create custom websites that rank, and bring in qualified traffic.
SEMrush: I love the keyword research, keyword rankings reports, and competitive
audits available in SEMrush. It helps 9thWonder show clients how they compare in
search engine results, additional opportunities, and how they’ve improved over time.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider: It basically lets us download your entire site into a
spreadsheet to review it all at once. We can quickly see any missing or incorrectly
formatted data across the entire site along with any errors, redirects, http/https issues,
duplicate pages, and more.
SEO/SEM
10
66
Elizabeth Baggan
Senior SEO Manager at Croud
Croud is a global, full-service digital marketing agency that works with some of the world’s
leading brands. Through the seamless connection of data, technology and creativity, Croud
develops strategies for sustainable growth that drive immediate business impact.
As Senior SEO Manager, I am responsible for driving and supporting high level strategy for our
clients across technical, content and off page SEO.
SEMrush: is fantastic for conducting keyword research. Its keyword gap tool
makes it much easier to do competitive keyword research and see where there are
opportunities for optimization on a client’s site.
Ahrefs: is best for backlink research, allowing you to easily monitor your client’s
backlink profile and identify any changes that may require attention.
Screaming Frog: is the most reliable and easy-to-use crawler, although I often like to
supplement it with other crawlers like Sitebulb and Botify.
Sitebulb: is another great crawler that does a lot of the analysis for you. Plus, it doesn’t
hurt that it also has a great interface.
SEO/SEM
10
67
Bethany Rathbone
SEO Team Lead at Digital Uncut
London, UK
We are an SEO & PPC agency that supports startups and scale ups across the UK and USA. We
aim to contribute to client growth through our services.
I lead the SEO team. I onboard clients, create and drive their SEO strategies and ensure work is
completed on time and to a high standard.
Keyword.com: We find Keyword.com the most accurate keyword tracker and their
customer service team are also really helpful and friendly.
Google Data Studio: We integrate most of our tools with Data Studio Reports, which is
really useful for clients as they can see up to date SEO and PPC KPIs in one place.
SEO/SEM
10
68
Kevin Van
Digital Optimisation Specialist at DIJGTAL
Sydney, Australia
DIJGTAL is an Experience Design and Marketing agency based in Sydney, Australia with offices
in Vancouver and LA. We specialise in transforming business problems into human-led
solutions. Our client base varies from early stage startups to corporate ventures.
As the Digital Optimisation Specialist, my role allows me to oversee the SEO and SEM team,
from onboarding, optimisation and reporting. We take a data lead approach, leveraging
technology to maximise return on investment.
Google Tag Manager: Setting up the correct triggers and tags is crucial in our
attribution reporting as well as optimisation of campaigns. We take a test, learn and
iterate approach to everything we do, and this would not be possible without being
able to accurately measure the results.
Google Search Console: Measuring the success of our SEO strategy requires us to
monitor the ranking and performance of our target keywords and Google’s Search
Console integrates seamlessly into Google Studio which we blend with other data
sources to analyse and optimise.
SEMrush: Monitoring user search trends based on our key phrase sets, feeds our
optimisation strategy to constantly evolve with the market. Another key feature we use
is its ability to forecast potential traffic to the website for a given set of keywords.
SEO/SEM
10
69
Ben Hirons
Founder at Due North
Melbourne, Australia
SEO/SEM
10
70
Alex Lyle
Search Engine Advertising Specialist at Emote Digital
Melbourne, Australia
Emote Digital is a full service digital agency based in Melbourne, Australia. I provide SEM and
SEO services for our clients.
Google Search Console: A must-have because it’s a Google product. It’s useful for
day-to-day data to see the performance of your website, it highlights technical errors
and helps make sure your site is in good health.
Google Analytics: It’s essential for understanding website and ad performance. Being
able to create audiences, goals and ecommerce tracking is important.
SEO/SEM
10
71
Tommy Wilson
SEO Account Executive at Evoluted
Sheffield, UK
Evoluted provides digital marketing, bespoke web development and digital design services to
large UK businesses and multinational companies.
I work across client accounts doing everything from keyword research to technical audits. I
love the technical side of SEO but I also get to work with our talented content team on ideation,
which means I’m not just staring at data all day!
Ahrefs: I use Ahrefs for things like keyword tracking and link analysis.
Sitebulb: It is useful for technical audits & saves me a lot of time, plus the interface is
awesome.
Beyond that there are quite a few web apps and browser plugins I use for small tasks,
and of course Google’s own tools like Keyword Planner, Lighthouse, Search Console
etc.
I prefer slick, simple tools that do one thing really well, rather than trying to cram everything
into one package. I like to mix it up and paint a broader picture if I can, as I’ll often see different
results from different tools performing the same task.
SEO/SEM
10
72
Miraj Mandal
Head of Performance Media at First Page Digital
Singapore, Singapore
First Page Digital Singapore is one of the fastest growing Full Suite Digital Marketing Agency in
Singapore providing solutions like SEO, SEM, ORM, Social Media, Content and Creatives.
My name is Miraj Mandal & I lead the entire Performance Media Team. My current role
includes Performance Strategy & Business growth for existing clients, Training the entire team,
improving structure for streamlining processes along with pitching new prospects for client
acquisition.
Sentr: First Page Digital’s Proprietary Technology Tool. Sentr is one of the important
tools for Account Management & Client’s Profile. We manage all of our client’s details
including communications, contact details, billing details, campaign statuses etc
which is directly linked to our Emails.
Similarweb: It is one of the important tool we use for Competition Analysis. Similarweb
helps us to identify the main traffic source for the competitors based on the website
visits. It also helps us to analyse the rationale between Organic Vs Paid traffic
segmentation in terms of Keywords, Search Volumes, competitiveness, CPC’s, etc. With
analysing in-depth competition information in terms of Marketing Channels, Device
Wise Traffic Distribution, Website Engagement Metrics, All Channels Segmentation.
SEMrush: Keyword Research Tools & Competitive Research. SEMrush is also one of the
important tool we use for SEM Keywords Research, Keyword Planning etc. SEMrush’s
Advertising Research option gives a clear picture of competitor’s Google Ads assets.
SEO/SEM
10
73
Elliot Haines
Head of SEO at Hallam
Nottingham, UK
Hallam is a full-service digital agency based in Nottingham, UK. I head up the SEO department
at Hallam managing a team of 7 specialists.
Our team has expertise in a wide range of specialisms within SEO including, Ecommerce SEO,
International SEO, Technical SEO and Local SEO.
Excluding Google’s own tools - 3 of our favourites are Screaming Frog, SEMrush and Ahrefs.
Each tends to play a different role.
Screaming Frog: is great for technical checks and audits. Their log file analyser is
great for digging deep into how search engines interact with the website.
SEMrush: has loads of features that are useful and is great for keyword data and
competitor analysis.
Ahrefs: I use mainly for link analysis. Special mention for Deep Crawl too for tech SEO
audits and monitoring.
SEO/SEM
10
74
Lauren Roitman
Senior SEO Strategist at Impression
Nottingham, UK
Impression is a multi-award winning digital agency that specialises in SEO, Paid Media, Digital
PR and CRO.
As a Senior Strategist within the SEO team, I am responsible for creating and executing
performance-focused SEO strategies to help my account portfolio achieve their organic
growth objectives. I also manage a team of SEO executives; providing mentorship, training
and support.
Ahrefs: There’s probably not a day that goes by where I don’t use Ahrefs at some point.
It’s an incredibly versatile tool that offers insights across every facet of SEO strategy.
Whether it’s competitor analysis, a backlink audit, or keyword research AHREFs is
usually my first stop for research and auditing.
SEOmonitor: A big part of my role focuses on driving organic growth for my clients
through keyword ranking improvements. SEOmonitor is our chosen tool for monitoring
keyword performance, but its capabilities go far beyond just your standard keyword
management. From within the interface you can also carry out keyword research, use
the Topic Explorer to identify potential opportunities for your portfolio and even dig into
Search Console data, too.
Google Search Console: Finally, Search Console; a must-have in every SEOs toolkit
and another one I visit daily. The breadth of data you can gather from Search Console
helps me to understand how our clients’ sites are being viewed by Google, and how to
optimise for better performance in the search results. I particularly enjoy using Search
Console to dig into page performance.
SEO/SEM
10
75
Pat Bechtel
SEO and Copywriting Specialist at NuStream
Allentown, USA
NuStream has been providing custom digital marketing in the Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia, and
New York City since 2010.
I am an SEO and Copywriting Specialist for the company. Based on what the client’s needs
are — I do a little bit of everything for them. That might include optimizing existing meta
descriptions, image alt tags, and onsite content. Or, I may create new landing pages, blog
posts, and infographics. Whatever I do for a client, I make sure to always follow SEO best
practices.
SEMrush: Allows you to analyze your own website as well as the websites of top-
ranking competitors.
Google Analytics: Automatically collects the data that I need regarding conversions,
the number of users, and average session durations.
SEO/SEM
10
76
Steve Clark
Head of Digital Growth at Tangent
London, UK
Tangent is part consultancy, part agency, completely digital. We solve digital challenges
and craft memorable customer experiences through product design, engineering and
optimisation.
In my current role as Head of Digital Growth at Tangent, I am responsible for helping our
clients define their marketing strategies across various digital channels including display, SEO
and social. This activity covers everything from acquisition, audience research, media and
optimisation.
Aside from the more obvious Google Suite of analytics tools, we use:
Screaming Frog: This tool enables us to run website crawls and log file analyses that
tie in nicely with our general workflow. It also forms a good basis of the work that we do
from a technical standpoint.
SEMrush: This tool is a brilliant platform for all things online visibility management. It
enables us to identify competitive rankings, positions and content opportunities, whilst
also performing internal audits of our clients’ websites.
Ahrefs: This tool allows us to establish our clients’ domain authority and the position
of other competitor websites in their sector or niche. We also use it to identify
opportunities for link outreach and digital PR which to pass onto client teams.
SEO/SEM
10
77
Mattan Danino
CEO at WEBITMD
WEBITMD is a Growth Marketing + Sales Enablement Agency with offices in Los Angeles,
New York City & Dallas. Founded in 2008, our mission has been to deliver a customized yet
engineered approach to business growth that combines strategy & creative with data &
technology.
Our clients, ranging from Silicon Valley startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, love our highly
customized, consultative approach, and have said they consider the WEBITMD team as an
extension of their own.
SEMrush: SEO insights tool for deep website analysis and optimization.
SpyFu: Search analytics and competitor research tool for online advertisers and digital
marketers.
HubSpot: HubSpot offers a full platform of marketing, sales, customer service, and
CRM software.
SEO/SEM
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