The journal

Plain English
about digital marketing.

Field notes, playbooks and opinion. Written by the people doing the work, for the people doing the work. No content marketing fluff.

  1. APR 04
    AI search · 9 min

    How to get your business mentioned by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini

    A plain-English guide to AI search visibility in 2026 — what it is, why it matters, and five things any business can start doing this month.

  2. MAR 28
    Google Ads · 7 min

    Performance Max in 2026: what's changed, and what we actually do now

    A practical walkthrough of the seven Performance Max settings we change first on every new client account.

  3. MAR 20
    Analytics · 11 min

    A no-jargon guide to setting up marketing tracking properly

    Why most dashboards lie a little, where the discrepancy usually comes from, and how to get tracking right so the numbers match your bank account.

  4. MAR 12
    Paid social · 8 min

    Meta says creative is 56% of performance. Here's how to actually ship that much creative.

    A weekly creative production system that runs without burning your designers out — and the templates we use to scale it.

  5. MAR 06
    Local SEO · 6 min

    How to win Google Ads when your customers live in Mallorca and your competitors live abroad

    Geo-targeting, language signals, local conversion tracking and the small settings that make a big difference for Balearic businesses.

  6. FEB 26
    SEO · 10 min

    Shopify SEO in 2026: the eight changes worth making this quarter

    Most Shopify stores leak SEO value by default. The handful of theme and structure fixes that move organic traffic the most.

  7. FEB 18
    LinkedIn · 9 min

    The B2B LinkedIn playbook we ship to every new SaaS client

    Conversation ads, lead scoring, CRM-fed offline conversions, and the cadence of creative that actually keeps a B2B account fresh.

  8. FEB 10
    Privacy · 12 min

    Cookieless tracking is here. Most marketers are not ready.

    What Consent Mode v2, server-side tagging and the end of third-party cookies mean for your conversion data — and what to do about it.

  9. FEB 02
    Hospitality · 7 min

    How a Mallorca hotel grew direct bookings 52% in 11 weeks

    A short case-style write-up on what Mar y Roca did to break their dependence on Booking.com, and how much it actually saved them.

  10. JAN 26
    Real estate · 8 min

    Real estate lead generation in 2026: why your form is the problem

    Most real estate websites lose 80% of motivated buyers at the form. Five fixes that work for Mallorca agencies — and ten others.

  11. JAN 18
    Paid social · 6 min

    TikTok's organic-paid loop: what's actually working in 2026

    The three TikTok content patterns that earn impressions and the paid setup we layer on top to compound them into revenue.

  12. JAN 10
    Renewables · 9 min

    Solar marketing in Spain: the unsexy work that moves the needle

    Why most solar installers lose money on Meta — and the funnel structure that turns a €40 click into a €6,000 install.

  13. DEC 18
    Creative · 8 min

    A creative testing framework that actually compounds

    How to test ad creative so you build a library of winners — not just a graveyard of one-off launches.

  14. DEC 08
    AI search · 7 min

    What "ChatGPT shopping" means for e-commerce brands in 2026

    OpenAI is quietly building a shopping interface inside ChatGPT. Here's how to make sure your products show up.

  15. NOV 28
    Analytics · 10 min

    The seven GA4 setups we fix on every new client

    GA4 is fine. Most GA4 installations are not. The seven specific things we change in week one, every time.

  16. NOV 18
    Analytics · 9 min

    Stop optimising for form fills. Start optimising for revenue.

    Why importing offline conversions from your CRM is the single highest-leverage thing a B2B marketing team can do this year.

  17. NOV 04
    Boating · 8 min

    Marketing a yacht charter business: an eight-language, twelve-month problem

    How we plan media for a seasonal business with a six-figure average booking value and customers in three time zones.

  18. OCT 20
    Op-ed · 5 min

    Why we charge flat fees, not a percentage of media spend

    A short note on the perverse incentives most agencies operate under — and why we don't.

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