The Team

The obligatory “get to know the team” page – full of witty banter, quotes and general stuff about us.

The Grand Pageview Competition

We’ll check the stats to see who’s the most popular and award prizes based on page views since the new website was launched – get voting now (unique visitors only please)!
>> Latest results available below.

Tim Barlow, Managing Director & SEO Manager

The founder and MD. 11 years in the game. Doing PPC before Google were, SEO before AltaVista died and Social Media when it was called ‘talking’.

• Specialisms: PPC | SEO | Website Thinking | The Bigger Picture | Social Media | Google Analytics | Childcare
• Experience: Property | Accommodation | E-Commerce | Water Coolers | Tyres | Travel | Toys | Scottish Products

Ben Rogers, Operations & Business Development Director

Ben has a passion for everything digital – a cliché I know but it’s just true. He brings a great mix to Attacat with a background in tech, training and marketing.

• Specialisms: PPC | SEO | Website Thinking | The Bigger Picture | Social Media | Google Analytics | Training | Talking to Techies
• Experience: Accommodation | Diets | Property | E-Commerce | Hospitality | Legal Services | Alcohol Brands

Christie McMonagle, Business Development Assistant

 Christie joined the Attacats in spring 2012, from a business development background in the hospitality industry.   She’ll be responsible for making sure Ben is doing his job, along with preparing tender & proposal documents for prospective clients. She likes cats, drinking, bacon and boxing…

• Specialisms: Business Development | Event Planning & Management | Social Media
• Experience: Hospitality | Student Politics | Events Management | Sales | Alcohol Brands | Accommodation

Steve Hope, PPC Account Manager

Looking for better ROI from your PPC? Want to improve the CPA of your paid advertising? Want to know what any of this means? Steve’s your man!

• Specialisms: PPC | Social Media | Google Analytics | Display Advertising | Bad Music (moronic hardcore apparently)
• Experience: Travel & Tourism | E-Commerce | Charity | Retail

Jon McKean-Dow, PPC Account Manager

Jon…what can we say about Jon? Good looking, slick, always wearing his marketing hat – an all-round great guy. Don’t believe us? Call him and find out yourself!

• Specialisms: PPC | Social Media | Website Thinking
• Experience: Sports | E-Commerce | Artists | Motor Trade | Music

Colleen McCaskell, PPC Executive

Colleen is the one of the newer additions to the Attacat team and brings with her an American sense of humour and a scary natural ability to do PPC!

More about Colleen >>

• Specialisms: PPC | Training | Traditional Marketing | Bad Music (same as Steve!)
• Experience: Recruitment | Customer Service | Theatre | Health Care | Education

Joel Lumsden, SEO Consultant

“I’m going to ask you a bunch of questions…” 6’4″ of online-based enthusiasm who loves alerting clients to the possibilities of search and internet marketing.

• Specialisms: PPC | SEO | Website Thinking | Social Media | Redundant football knowledge
• Experience: Holiday accommodation | Sports | Water Coolers | Charity | Homewares

Jane Somerville, SEO Executive

Jane has been with us for a little while now and moved into the SEO team to support Tim and Joel. Branded as the Attacat Hipster, with the nickname JaneFace™

• Specialisms: Social Media | Good Food
• Experience: Recruitment | Customer Service | Theatre | Health Care

David Clark, Account Manager

David is no longer the ‘new boy’ at Attacat – he started in the summer of 2010 and has got all the stats wrapped around his little finger!

• Specialisms:  PPC | Social Media | Conversion Rate Optimisation | Email Marketing
• Experience: Retail | Furniture | Property | FMCG | Flower Retail | Project Management

Kiril Bunin, Website Analyst & SEO Specialist

A fixation with website conversion rate optimisation, usability and accessibility makes Kiril a vital part of the team. We’ve still not heard him say anything positive about a website yet though…  He also loves being called a ‘guru’ *joke*

• Specialisms: Conversion Rate Optimisation | SEO | Google Analytics
• Experience: E-commerce | Finance | GUI design

Unique Page Views by Team Member – August 2011 Update (last 6 months)

Some interesting data here – I’ve taken it over the past 6 months in order to give the newbies a better chance of doing well.  Tim has fallen back into second place behind Rachel who appears to be VERY popular – perhaps we should look into the demographics of these visitors…  Some search terms for a visit to Rachel’s page include: attacat rachel, rachel bielinska web design – but my personal favourite is shopaholic “she has” vintage clothing uk

Additional Information – Exit Rate by Page

You could argue that people have found what they were looking for – or that they saw the profile, didn’t like it and left the site. We’ll let you make your own mind up!

On this iteration of the Exit Rate analysis we can see a more even spread of similar exit rates with Jon & David showing low exit rates – Joel letting the side down a little with an above average exit rate.