United Kingdom / Remote consulting and delivery

Paid search and social consulting for UK service firms

I help UK service firms make paid search and paid social more accountable to the customer journey. The project connects intent, the service promise, mobile page experience and sales response, so the team can distinguish useful demand from campaign activity that creates little commercial value.

Start with the customer and the commercial decision

A service firm's advertising should explain a specific reason to inquire, not send every potential customer to a general capabilities page. I review the intended work, customer fit and buying questions before proposing account changes. We define what the firm wants to acquire and how its approved service boundaries should appear in the message. The next step is to inspect the inquiry route on the devices and pages the campaign actually uses. A strong ad can still lead to an unclear form, an unrelated page or a slow handoff. I connect these findings with available campaign and inquiry evidence so the team can decide whether the first useful change belongs in targeting, messaging, the destination or internal response.

Priorities for this market

Match campaigns with real service intent

Distinguish high-intent search from broader consideration activity. Give each campaign a service purpose, destination and next action. The customer's geography matters where it changes eligibility or delivery; it should not be used to imply that the firm serves work it cannot accept.

Make mobile inquiries understandable

Check the continuity between ad promise, service information and form. Review the fields, error messages and confirmation experience as part of acquisition quality. A click-to-form ratio cannot explain the commercial journey if customers remain unsure what they are requesting or what happens after submission.

Bring reviewed quality into allocation

Compare reported conversions with the firm's inquiry statuses and follow-up evidence. Assign the person who resolves duplicates and marks unsuitable work. The next spend decision should reflect those commercial definitions rather than select a channel solely because its platform reports the lowest lead cost.

A clear scope and an accountable delivery process

I work remotely with the UK marketing and intake owners, with written decisions and agreed review windows. The scope can focus on one campaign route or a defined account area. Your team owns approvals for professional claims and service eligibility; the acquisition work carries those approved boundaries consistently into the customer journey.

Confirm the decision

Agree the customer, selling market and business question. Review the available source material with the responsible owner, and identify inputs that would change the recommendation. The project begins with a shared brief rather than an assumed list of channel or technology tasks.

Turn the brief into assigned work

Set the outputs, approval points and implementation responsibilities. Separate what can proceed from work that depends on another decision. Keep the scope and change record visible so your team can review progress without reconstructing the project from messages.

Review the result and the next action

Check the agreed deliverables against the original question, record the relevant findings and assign the next action. Where ongoing measurement is part of the scope, document the source, review window and owner before the project moves into the next cycle.

Relevant work, with its original project context

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A documented legal-services search acquisition project

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Questions before we define the project

Do you provide professional compliance approval?

The firm's authorized reviewer approves professional claims and the services it can offer. I use those approved inputs in the campaign and destination brief, with clear review ownership before material is activated.

How is the work delivered?

You work directly with me remotely, with written decisions, named review owners and agreed meeting windows. The proposal defines the outputs and implementation responsibilities around your team and the customer market being served.

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David Demid

Marketing & Growth Consultant