Thinking for better growth decisions.
Ideas, observations and practical lessons from the work we do with growing businesses.
Marketing. Websites. Ecommerce. Performance. Commercial decisions.
Not content for the sake of content.
Thinking that might help you decide what to do next.
The question behind the work
Should we increase spend?
Featured thinking
Ideas for the decisions in front of you.
Growth & commercial
Why Google's advice isn't always the right advice
Business first. Channel second.
Google knows a huge amount about how to optimise activity inside Google.
But a platform recommendation and a commercial recommendation are not always the same thing.
Before accepting the advice to spend more, businesses need to understand sustainable acquisition cost, margin, conversion quality and what that growth is actually worth.
Ecommerce
Product feeds are either a growth asset or a silent tax
The technical details can have commercial consequences.
For ecommerce businesses, that makes product data a growth issue, not simply a technical one.
Read the articleWebsites & conversion
What is value?
People have to believe something is worth buying before they experience it.
That makes value an important website and conversion question, not simply a pricing one.
Read the articleMore from Everpro
The questions behind the work.
Growth & Commercial Thinking
Ideas about growth, economics, prioritisation and working out where the real opportunity sits.
Example topics
- Why you're not getting the ROI you expected
- How to find the real constraint in your growth engine
- When more revenue isn't necessarily better growth
- Knowing when not to increase the marketing budget
Paid Media & Audience Growth
Thinking about acquisition, distribution, audiences, creative performance and where paid media fits into the wider commercial picture.
Example topics
- Meta Ads: Stop over-relying on content. Build a winner-backed system
- Great content. Who is actually seeing it?
- When paid social is an audience problem rather than a content problem
- How to think about entering a new market
Websites & Conversion
Thinking about digital platforms as commercial tools rather than design exercises.
Example topics
- What is value?
- Trust signals that remove friction
- Product page checklist
- When should you rebuild your website?
- Why more paid traffic won't fix a weak destination
Ecommerce
The systems, data and decisions behind profitable ecommerce growth.
Example topics
- Product feeds are either a growth asset or a silent tax
- Revenue vs margin: what should you actually optimise for?
- Product architecture as a growth tool
- Where ecommerce growth gets stuck
Agency Relationships
Practical thinking about getting more value from the people responsible for growth.
Example topics
- The pitch shouldn't be the best part of your agency relationship
- What useful reporting actually looks like
- When should an agency challenge the brief?
- Specialist agency or integrated partner?
AI & Technology
Where new technology can solve a real problem, and where it is simply another distraction.
Example topics
- How to turn up in AI search
- Where AI genuinely helps marketing teams
- When automation is worth the effort
- Why AI should follow the problem, not lead it
A different kind of marketing content
We don't need another article explaining what PPC stands for.
There is already more marketing information available than most businesses could ever use.
So our aim isn't to add more noise.
We'd rather write about the questions that actually come up when you are trying to make a commercial decision.
- 01Should we increase spend?
- 02Should we change direction?
- 03Is the channel actually the problem?
- 04What should we measure?
- 05Is this profitable growth?
- 06Does the website need replacing?
- 07What are we missing?
And sometimes:
Should we do anything at all?
From thinking to action
An article should help you make a decision.
Reading something useful is one thing.
Working out how it applies to your business is another.
That's why every article can connect into Ask Everpro.
You can ask about the idea.
Challenge it.
Explain your circumstances.
Or ask whether the same thinking applies to what you're dealing with.
You don't need to turn every article into a sales conversation.
Sometimes the useful next step is simply a better answer.
Want to explore what this means for your business?
Latest thinking
Latest thinking
Paid media & audiences
International Marketing Doesn’t Necessarily Need International Content
Strong existing brand content can often travel into new markets before a business commissions a completely separate content programme.
Read articlePaid media & audiences
The Same Content Can Work Very Differently in Different Markets
A creative idea that is average in one market can perform strongly in another, which makes cross-market testing more useful than assumptions.
Read articleGrowth & commercial
We Keep Finding Tracking Problems Before Advertising Problems
Before judging paid media performance, it is worth checking whether the tracking is actually capturing the customer journey properly.
Read articleAI & technology
Your Website Is Getting More Visitors That Aren’t People
More website traffic is now coming from systems trying to understand and answer from your content, not just people browsing pages.
Read articleAI & technology
SEO Isn’t Dead. But Search Has Definitely Changed
SEO still matters, but useful, specific and original content is becoming more important as search gets more generative.
Read articleAI & technology
Google Isn’t the Only Place People Are Searching Anymore
Customers increasingly start questions in AI tools as well as Google, which changes what useful website content needs to do.
Read articleAI & technology
Some Websites Are About to Become Much Easier to Talk To
Page-level AI assistants can let visitors ask the website directly instead of hunting through menus and pages.
Read articleAI & technology
The Internet Is Filling Up With Perfectly Written Rubbish
AI has made polished content easy to produce, which makes original experience and useful specificity more valuable.
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