Grant Ruxton Email & Phone Number

Glasgow, Glasgow City, Gb

I run a thriving digital agency managing multi-million pounds worth of SEO traffic with many big commerce clients. Active in over ten countries and three continents. My responsibility is to provide effective strategic and creative direction to all the delivery teams at Boyd Digital. I build the teams and create an environment where clients needs can be met and surpassed while enabling staff at all levels to improve and upgrade their skillsets. Client highlights include:Large international ecommerce client in the voucher and discount space:- A five-fold increase in client’s SEO traffic revenue year on year.- Increased click through rate and average EPV by 12% average year on year.Countrywide Plc – UK wide;- Full service SEO strategy and implementation. - Directly led to creating online enquires and trackable phone calls which led to assisting the digital channel in contributing £280M plus of annual revenue.Starwood International Hotel Group;- Global one-off project.- More than 1500 hotels worldwide.- Carried out onsite optimisation for 10,000 plus pages across three continents resulting in a 27% increase in web traffic. Smartbox;- Parachuted in to help support the internal SEO team with multilingual outreach, SEO data/intelligence work and major issues around backlink building. - Ran analysis and we went for SEO quick wins and completed following tasks; - Researched, tracked and position checked thousands of lines of keywords. - Competitors KPI analysis. - Created reports highlighting the keywords with the highest potential ROI.

Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ie

I was approached by the founders earlier in 2018 to spearhead their ambitious growth targets. I advice on all digital marketing and traditional marketing channels for this fast growing business. Also utilising my extensive industry connections to fast track marketing growth in UK and Ireland.

Barcelona, Barcelona, Es

Overall responsibility for operations of tilllate.com in the UK. Managing three full time staff and 200 part time photographers and contributors. Leading to month on month traffic increase of 15%.Responsibility for managing and developing revenue from direct sales, agency sales, affiliate deals, sponsorship and events.Development of brand propositions for tilllate.com, tilllate magazine and affiliates (Dating, gaming, music downloads and travel.)Developing and implementing marketing and promotional strategies across tilllate.com and tilllate magazine communication channels and social networks. Resulting in 200% increase in magazine subscribers and acquisition of thousands of social network followers.Creating integrated marketing campaigns for high profile clients such as Smirnoff, Bench and "Talk to Frank" resulting in five figure advertising revenue.Management of International Licensing of tilllate.com in nine European countriesLiaising with international license holders and managing transition of ownership from Switzerland to UK.Protecting the tilllate brand internationally and maximising international sales and marketing activity.Key member of project team that will move hosting and technical support for tilllate.com from Switzerland to UK.

Managed large scale marketing projects including a 20,000 capacity two day music festival.Responsible for all on-line and off-line marketing. Managing agencies and in house staff.Managed development of festival website and integration of in house e-commerce ticketing solution. Managed a variety of client facing digital marketing and development projects.International PPC campaigns, SEO campaigns and Social Media consultation to private and public sector bodies..Specifying marketing led requirements for large web design projects including bestvaluecars.co.uk and vendomemayfair.com.

Increased online sales and traffic for high street fashion retailers.

Ba (Hons), Marketing

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