Seriously Helpful Businesses
We have been working with Check That Company for many years, and not only do their reports help us massively when calculating budgets, they were the first website we implemented a WordPress blog onto.
This website offers low cost ways to market your business and has a custom built backend system which we use for testing.
Conveyancing website for a local firm, holds top positions for local terms.
Leisure and Tourism website that we have been running since the business started in 2012, including their onsite blog and social media.
Ecommerce website selling children’s toys, running on a BigCommerce system that we use for training.
This has been a joint venture of ours since 2010, we run the social accounts for the company and test new paid social ad strategies regularly.
Business as usual for Seriously Helpful…
Director of Leading B2B software company
MD, Large B2B conference services business
Marketing Manager, B2B Leading Hygiene Products Supplier
Consultant, H&S Business Management Company
Seriously Helpful?
The team behind Seriously Helpful Marketing have been innovating online for over a decade and specialising in Search for almost as long as Google has.
We’ve built websites, we’ve managed software developers, and prior to selling out to a City PLC we built our previous Search business into one of the UK’s top companies with 55 experts across 5 offices. It doesn’t mean we know the answer to everything but we’ve seen most problems before and if we can’t fix it, we usually know partners who can.
Over 95% of our work is carried out by UK staff, we use ethical techniques and are always honest about what can be realistically achieved – not many search firms can say that. That’s another reason why many of our client relationships span years and we have an excellent portfolio of genuine testimonials from clients old and new.
By basing ourselves in the heart of the Midlands we can keep our costs highly competitive for quality SEO, so much so that we are used as the outsource arm for some London agencies – as our hourly costs are no higher than some of their former offshore suppliers.
Click Email below to ask us any questions about how we work and to see how we can be Seriously Helpful to you or visit our Contact page for different ways to contact us:
Ethical Business
An Ethical Business in more ways than one
2) Employees are all stakeholders in the company and even trainees are paid the Living Wage, not just the Minimum Wage. We also provide perks beyond government recommendations for an engaged and happy workforce. Suppliers that help make our clients businesses perform better can also become stakeholders, and these equity benefits don’t get taken away when people leave.
3) Our Directors peg their pay at around the level of the staff average – encouraging the whole business to perform, and we publish the data transparently (along with all our other metrics) which are available for clients or prospective clients to see.
4) We take our CSR responsibilities seriously too. We were a Carbon Neutral company from only our second year of trading and we go way beyond the offset needed to counter our 45 “double-deckers” equivalent of CO2 produced each year.
5) We help others Offset+. Our Seriously Helpful Offset Service helps companies achieve their own Carbon Neutral claims – we have developed low cost techniques to enable the majority of companies to offset for life* for just £600 per employee, and better still we manage everything for you.
6) We Give Back. Through our association with Northants Business School, Corby Enterprise Zone (average satisfaction score 93%) & Aston University (where we are business alumni of the Goldman Sachs Funded 10K Small Business Program) we run an education program to educate smaller businesses and start-ups in how to best to invest their scarce capital online, teach them which channels deliver the best ROI, useful shortcuts, pitfalls to avoid etc.
7) We Help Charities. As a Midlands based business we thought it would be nice to start out with our CSR charity program by helping locally based charities – so the first organisation we are helping by providing free SEO and Social Media guidance too is FCN, The Farming Community Network – a very worthwhile organisation which helps farming families in times of distress. Our most recent addition is as a founding sponsor of Keep Care Homes Live (
8) We believe in our people. All our staff have progressed through higher level NVQ programs in Business Administration. If our staff think like business owners isn’t it likely we will be on the same wavelength?…..so we invest time in making this happen and extend our NVQ program into teaching staff new skills, not merely validating what we already know.
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The days of using tricks to get to the top of Search Engines like Google are sadly behind us… These days, they play the tricks to get business owners to spend excessive budgets on Paid Search / PPC, even though they know it’s unlikely to make clients a sustainable Return on Investment.
Mix it up and appear less focused. It’s one reason why we don’t reveal the details about our business and why we don’t join Google forums etc.
Obviously it’s not easy to appear less focused about your business when you really want to focus – and it’s taken us a long time to learn these kind of techniques and the others that govern where a website appears in the rankings – we think 140 factors make a difference and you’ll almost certainly be surprised at what’s top of our list!
For a no obligation discussion about your online performance please do get in touch by email or phone below – we are sure you’ll find it an enjoyable and Seriously Helpful experience.
The Seriously Helpful Team
We are a small team but have huge amounts of experience and knowledge in almost every aspect of Online Marketing.
This is an SEO centric view of the world predicting how much resource is anticipated to lift specific keyword phrases onto Page 1 Google, based on where a site sits today and the competition over a sustained period – for us it’s simply not good enough to guess at budgets and we don’t know why other Search companies persist in doing it.
