GYDA - Grow Your Digital Agency

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Tim Butler Founder of Innovation Visual. Tim has a background in marketing, sales and consultancy as well as having deep digital expertise. He has worked in a wide variety of sectors such as marketing services, technology, banking, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, professional services and finance, giving him a very broad and in-depth view of business. Using this...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert interviews Byron Marr. Byron is head of paid search at Aira. A self-taught digital media specialist, Byron has worked in paid media for eight years and in 2020 was ranked in the Top 50 Most Influential PPC Experts by PPC Hero. In 2017 he joined Aira, a Google Premier Partner and Facebook Marketing Partner who work with medium to large businesses across a range of industr...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Mark Wilkinson. Mark is a multiple business owner, coach, speaker and published author. Originally, music was Mark’s life as an international house music DJ and record producer. He was resident DJ at the famed Ministry of Sound in London, played music in 65 different countries, and achieved a UK Top 10 hit! At 33 years of age, Mark collapsed with an incurable di...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Michael Tipper of Peak Performance Productivity. Michael is on a mission to help busy professionals squeeze even more juice out of this thing called life by helping them cross the bridge from overwhelm to overachievement. From distraction to disciplined delivery. From procrastination to purposeful progress. His specialities include: How To Be Productive Working...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Gordon Glenister. Gordon is an influencer marketing strategist trainer and speaker  He is also the Global Head of Influencer Marketing at the Branded Content Marketing Association and the CEO of Membership World. Gordon was formally the director general of the British Promotional Merchandise Association for 11 years then launched his own membership consultancy i...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Lee Goff. Lee is an entrepreneur who grew up in Mississippi. He started his first agency, Getuwired, in 2003 in his upstairs bedroom with absolutely nothing and grew it into a multi-million-dollar agency. He retired from the agency in early 2014. Then in June of 2016, sold out the remaining shares to his long-time partners to pursue his passion of mentoring smal...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Mike Lander. Mike is a successful entrepreneur and expert negotiator with a proven track record of buying, growing, and selling businesses for seven-figure sums. He’s raised over £6.5m of acquisition/growth capital in his career and grown companies to over £20m revenue and £4m EBITDA. Mike has a uniquely valuable perspective on negotiating commercial deals, havi...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Cate Sevilla. Cate is an author and journalist who has led and managed editorial teams for some of the world’s largest media and tech companies – including Google, BuzzFeed and Microsoft. She was a founding member of BuzzFeed UK and later became Editor-in-Chief at The Pool, at the helm when the company collapsed. Cate is the host of the careers podcast ‘The Hear...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Farhad Divecha. Farhad is Managing Director of AccuraCast. His vision, technical know-how and drive have been instrumental in turning AccuraCast into London’s leading search engine marketing firm and one of the UK’s top search agencies. His experience includes the successful launch of numerous online companies, management of an $80 million+ product line and winn...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Gareth Hoyle of Marketing Signals. Straight from university, Gareth started his own digital marketing agency from which Marketing Signals has grown. A commercial mind with a deep technical understanding, he conveys comprehensive digital marketing knowledge in a straightforward and easily understandable way to stakeholders at all levels. An investor in people. Ro...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Mark Haslam. Mark is the Founder and Managing Director of Loud Mouth Media in Belfast. Establishing Loud Mouth in 2011 after gaining valuable experience as a Web Consultant in the telecommunications industry, Mark’s fervent passion for digital instilled his vision to set up a specialist PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising agency. His aim has always been to do PPC di...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Stefan Bardega. Stef is Co-Founder of Traktion, a new SaaS platform that helps businesses discover and hire the best freelance marketing talent. Stefan spent the previous 15 years building various agencies including two that reached number one spot: MediaCom and iProspect. He grew the MediaCom digital agency business from 14 to 300 people during tenure and was m...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Amanda Barry. Amanda is a business and personal development coach who works with entrepreneurs, focussing particularly on those running ethical, environmental or social impact businesses. She qualified with the Co-Active Training Institute, one of the world’s leading coaching training organisations and is certified with the International Coaches Federation. She...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Rand Fishkin. Rand is the Co-Founder and CEO of SparkToro. He has dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his blogging, videos, speaking, and his book, ‘Lost and Founder’. When Rand’s not working, he’s most likely to be in the company of his partner in marriage and (mostly petty) crime, author Geraldine DeRuiter. If you feed...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Patrick Gilbert. Patrick grew up in Long Island, NY. He studied marketing and economics at the Pennsylvania State University and currently serves as the Executive Director at AdVenture Media Group. He is internationally recognised by Google for his expertise with automation, having been asked to deliver presentations at Google conferences held in NYC, London, an...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert interviews Warren Knight. Warren is an award-winning keynote speaker, a top 100 Global Influencer and top 100 Tech Influencer.  He is internationally recognised as a speaker, trainer and coach on Digital Leadership & Digital Transformation, with nearly 15 years digital experience he’s an award-winning technology entrepreneur, certified Agile leader and author of Thin...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert interviews Dixon Jones. Dixon Jones is a multi-award winning entrepreneur who has helped to build the Internet Marketing industry for over 20 years. He is currently an investor and CEO of Inlinks.net which is the first entity SEO toolset built from the ground up around its own Knowledge graphs and NLP algorithms. He is best known in the industry for building up Majestic,...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Jason Barnard. Jason is an author, speaker and consultant on all things digital marketing. His specialist subject is Brand SERPs (what appears when someone googles your name). He teaches Brand SERP optimisation to students at Kalicube.pro. He also hosts a marketing podcast, where the smartest people in marketing talk to Jason about subjects they know inside out....

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Kostas Petrou. He is the founder of the creative agency, Ascend Digital. He fell involve with digital marketing 8 years ago and studied through the CIM (Chartered Institute Of Marketing) at Loughborough College. He then worked in- house for a few years learning and perfecting the art of marketing but very quickly realised that his skillset and passion was in dig...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert interviews Anton Shulke of SEMrush. A mathematician by education, Anton is now head of influencer marketing at SEMrush and the brains behind all of their informative webinars. Robert and Anton discuss: Background, Anton’s history Webinars – live or recorded Experts as ambassadors Core audience growth as the KPI How to create awareness 35% attendance the stadrad metric; h...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Geoff Burch. Geoff is an internationally acknowledged authority on Change, Leadership, Sales and Customers.  An inspirational speaker who has a genuine in-depth understanding of business. Geoff is one of the most respected authorities speaking today. A best-selling author and business guru, Geoff has been voted ‘Business Communicator of the Year’ by the UK Speec...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Andy Lambert of ContentCal. Andy is one of the founding team and director of growth at ContentCal. From starting out as an agency and then launching their software product in 2017, ContentCal is now used by over 40,000 businesses in over 140 countries. Robert and Andy discuss: The journey to 2020 Managing content in a crisis V.O.I.C.E. What does ‘good look like?...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert talks to Jonny Tooze. Jonny is the founder of LAB and has been part of the UK digital community for the last 20 years. LAB is a digital agency specialising in human behaviour and innovation. Jonny has recently formed a group and started to acquire other agencies. He’s an advisor to many agencies outside of LAB, and has helped them grow and tackle complex challenges. He h...

In this GYDA Talks, Robert interviews Adam Harris of Freshmindset. Adam specialises in providing leaders with the insights and tools they need to develop expertise in making the right introductions, and leverage this knowledge for strategic sales success. In other words, he’ll help you determine who and what you need to know, and who and what they need to know, to produce measurable and sustainabl...