About - Session Media

About us...

We’re a group of fast-moving digital marketers with a strong understanding of Inbound Marketing and its role in growing businesses.

Our ethos of Attention Seeking Inbound Marketing outlines our mission to get our clients to appear at the point in time prospects are looking for their product or service using creative concepts.

This approach not only creates brand exposure but allows us to create campaigns that continually drive profitable results.

We focus on just a handful of clients at a time. That way, we can dedicate the resource to strategically research, plan and execute a robust and creative concept that will smash through their business objectives.

If you’re a B2B or Ecommerce company looking to dominate your online prescience then see if we’re a fit. Grab your free proposal.

Meet Our Team

Ben Brown

Director

Ben Alfrey

Head Of SEO

Alex Bickerstaffe

Paid Media Manager

Bryony Samsom

Digital Project Manager

Grace Wei Hou

SEO Manager

Greg Smith

Senior SEO Executive

Jason Trillo

SEO Executive

Sarah Jordan

PPC Executive

Alida Ballard

Finance Director

Sadie Taylor

PPC Executive

Ben Brown

Director

Obsessed with digital marketing since 2012, Ben started Session Media to help companies get their message in front of buyers at the time it matters most.

Living off burritos & his Pret a Manger coffee card, Ben loves helping SMEs create strategies that drive business growth – almost as much as he likes referring to himself in 3rd person.

Ben Alfrey

Head Of SEO

Fuelled on a daily basis by black coffee and rarely seen without a notebook in hand, Ben has always been fascinated by the inner workings of Google’s search algorithm.

Heading up the SEO team at Session Media, Ben gets a kick out of delivering and executing strategic plans for clients that get results.

Alex Bickerstaffe

Paid Media Manager

Alex has been working in the Digital Marketing industry for 10+ years, and has extensive experience in managing both paid search and paid social campaigns.

He leads the PPC team at Session-media and works closely with the team to deliver top results for our clients.

Biggest life achievement: Turning 30 years old.

Favourite quote: ‘“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”.

Unpopular opinion: Elon musk is a supervillain (but that’s a good thing).

Well known phrase: ‘We need more data’

Bryony Samsom

Digital Project Manager

With a passion for lists, deadlines and colour-coded spreadsheets, Bryony heads up the project management at Session Media across SEO and PPC. When it comes to keeping everything running smoothly for our clients, a lifelong obsession with organisation is finally paying off.

Biggest life achievement: Having an office where her dog can come in every day

Favourite quote: ‘Cat in the wall. Now you’re talking my language.’

Unpopular opinion: Avocados are disgusting and have no place in society

Well-known phrase: ‘Can I have an update, please?’

Grace Wei Hou

SEO Manager

Grace’s digital marketing career started with SEO in 2014, she then expanded her skills to PPC, Affiliate, Email, Social Media.

Working at companies TopCashback and Farfetch she successfully helped brands acquire traffic and increase conversions. Prior to digital marketing, Grace spent 5 years in eCommerce.

Grace is passionate about SEO and she loves data.

Greg Smith

Senior SEO Executive

With a love of keywords, on-page optimisations and technical SEO, working as one of our Senior SEO Execs, Greg loves to find opportunities to increase our clients’ presence across Google.

Biggest life achievement: Being a proud dad to approximately 15 plants

Unpopular opinion: Phoebe and Ross ruin Friends

Well-known phrase: It depends

Jason Trillo

SEO Executive

Constantly daydreaming of new outreach campaigns ideas and getting high DR placements, Jason is our Senior SEO Executive and link-building extraordinaire.

Biggest life achievement: Getting a standing ovation after performing “Uptown Funk” at Karaoke

Favourite quote: “Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else

Unpopular opinion: There’s absolutely NOTHING WRONG with pineapple on pizza

Well-known phrase: Could you please make that a do-follow link

Sarah Jordan

PPC Executive

Working as a Senior PPC Exec, Sarah lives and breathes Google, LinkedIn and Bing Ad campaigns and, more importantly, can’t go 24 hours without checking Google Data Studio.

Well known phrase: ‘Can you see my screen ok’

Obsessed with: Anything flamingo related

Can be seen: Looking for love island spoilers

Favourite quote: ‘It’s a moo point. It’s like a cow’s opinion; it doesn’t matter. It’s moo.’ (if you know, you know)

Alida Ballard

Finance Director

Heading up the finance team, when she’s not ‘crunching the numbers’ you can find her researching the latest updates from her favourite software.. Xero.

Sadie Taylor

PPC Executive

Working as a PPC executive with a background in graphic design and marketing.

Biggest life achievement: Can play the first 30 seconds of stairway to heaven on guitar

Obsessed with: My dog Lola and anything cockapoo related

Unpopular opinion: Carrying an umbrella is more stressful than being rained on

More About Us

In The Heart of Guildford

Based less than a mile from Guildford Station, we’re easily accessible by both train and car. If you’re reading this and would appreciate a nice coffee or a game of ping pong whilst discussing Search Marketing, then get in touch!

Obsessed with Tangibility

Session Media was born out of the overdue need for tangibility in the Search Engine & Digital Marketing Space. Everything we do ties back into tangible business objectives which contributes to driving business success, however that may look.

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The volume of sales enquiries we receive via our website has increased significantly, the SM team is always on the lookout for new innovative ways to improve CoreStream’s... performance. We highly recommend them!

Sophie Lis

Head of Marketing, Corestream

Education and learning

At Session Media, we are obsessed with the Search Engine & Digital Marketing landscape and the role it plays in business profitability. Find out more through our:

Blog – discussing everything you need to know on inbound marketing.
Podcast – getting to the heart of common Search Engine Questions.
58-page monster Ebook, ideal for beginners and advanced level SEOs.

Completely Results driven

We have a strict policy of only working with clients that we truly believe we can help. We’ll never hesitate to tell you if it’s not the best channel to achieve your business goals. Find out more about the wonderful people we’re working with and some of the successes we have achieved for them below.

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Within a few months of working with Session Media, we were ranking for a range of competitive keywords that recovered the dip in organic traffic we’d experienced last year... We couldn't recommend them enough.

Simon Moss

Marketing Director, CommuniGator

Case Studies

43%

Increase In Demo Requests

Learn how Session Media completely restructured Corestream's Google Ads account to increase their Demo Requests by 43% & decrease CPA by 90%.

120%

Reduction In Cost-Per-Lead

Find out how Session Media helped GCC drastically reduce CPL, as well as creat one of the ‘Best B2B Landing Pages 2020’ according to Unbounce

400%

Increase In Inbound Leads

Learn how 4D used Session Media to increase the inbound lead generation by 400% YoY, and outperform some of the largest competitors in the world in Search Engines.

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