Five Questions for Liz: Finance Hero
1. Describe your typical day? I always start my day of with a latte and a slice of Vegemite (Marmite’s superior cousin) toast or an egg on toast. I then check my emails and get started on a number of tasks – my job is never the same, one moment I’ll ...
Five Questions for Alice: Our Talent Managing Superstar
1. How do you start your day? In the glory days I would try to make myself breakfast (egg and bagel) and a coffee straight away when I arrive to get my day started right. I, however, gave up coffee for New Years, and this is my first day of veganism...
What word2vec means for SEO
The idea for writing this post came from a single line in the appendix to a presentation: “what’s the opposite of Canada?”. While this could be the set up for some pretty poor jokes, it’s actually the entrance to a rabbit warren of fascinating geeky ...
Your WordPress Yoast SEO cheat sheet
WordPress is an open source CMS that allows for the creation and management of simple websites that tend to work well across all browsers and devices. WordPress actually started out as a blogging platform (similar to Tumblr or Medium), and evolved i...
Brainlabs do Christmas
Christmas festivities are taken deadly seriously at Brainlabs HQ. Three big days of celebration were planned for the most wonderful time of the year. First, Christmas cheer was stirred up as the team took a trip down to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park...
Brainlabs: Best Large PPC Agency Award
We always knew last night would be a big night - but we had no idea how big... We're talking about the UK Search Awards 2015: the biggest awards night in Search. The Brainlabs team headed down to the Southbank after work with all our fingers and toe...
SEO Forecasting
Statistical forecasting is a powerful tool that’s been used at Distilled for a while, both by consultants when analysing client data and by our in-house monitoring tool that alerts us to problems with client sites. In this post, I’m publicly launchin...
Sophie Excels at HeroConf
At Brainlabs, we all know Sophie is an Excel hero. Under her expert guidance, the Brainbox grads have been introduced to spreadsheet capacities beyond their wildest dreams. On Wednesday, Sophie shared those skills with PPC aficionados at HeroConf and...
Sophie & Dan at HeroConf
Today Sophie and Dan are off to impart wisdom at HeroConf. At 1pm, Sophie has some cracking secrets to share about how to use advanced Excel skills. Skills that will take your AdWords account to the next level - effectively the 1-Up Green Mushroom of...