What Makes Diana Richardson?

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What a guest we have on the show this week. Joining me is the awesome Diana Richardson who is the social media, and community manager at SEMrush.

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She loves wine, she’s a public speaker, she’s a thyroid cancer survivor, and she is into SEO, SEM, digital marketing, and you’ll more often than not find her being super helpful and helping curate the great #SEMRushChat over on Twitter.


We have a brilliant conversation about her extensive experience in the industry, the hundreds of people she named as inspirations to her, what her role involves now with SEMrush, what it’s like managing such a large community during a pandemic – and to top it all off – she takes over the show and basically interviews herself too!

A really enjoyable episode to record, as usual, please listen, like, rate, share and subscribe – and tell a friend to tell a friend about the show!

Diana’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dianarich013
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What Makes Owain Lloyd-Williams?

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My guest on the Azeem Digital Asks podcast this week is the awesome Owain Lloyd-Williams. He is an SEO consultant with a decade’s experience in the digital marketing industry.

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He initially cut his SEO teeth during a long stint working in China in a previous life. During his time in the industry, he has consulted for a large palette of brands in a variety of industries in both agency and in-house settings and has a particular focus in ecommerce SEO.

Outside of SEO he is a dab hand at guitar and Mandarin Chinese and still dreams of being Prime Minister when he grows up.

We have a great conversation about eCommerce SEO, international SEO, the challenges of working with different search engines, and so much more.

Owain’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/owain_lw

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What Makes Melanie Deziel?

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My guest on the Azeem Digital Asks podcast this week is the incredible Melanie Deziel. She is a keynote speaker, award-winning branded content creator, and lifelong storyteller, on a mission to share the power of compelling and credible content with others. 

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Melanie is the founder and Chief Content Officer of StoryFuel, which teaches marketers, creators and organizations how to tell better brand stories, and the author of bestselling Marketing and Business Communications book “The Content Fuel Framework: How to Generate Unlimited Story Ideas”. She has an incredible background, that covers various aspects of media and marketing, and we talk about:

  • Her journey into the industry
  • What advice she would give to her younger self
  • Who inspires her
  • Impostor syndrome, and digital burnout
  • Advice for people who want to start, or improve their speaking career
  • The impact COVID had on her business, and how she had to adapt
  • An insight into her Amazon bestselling book
  • Advice on how to improve your Digital PR, and outreach skills
  • Juggling parenthood alongside her work, during a pandemic

and so much more!!!


Her book maintains a 5-star rating, and has topped Amazon charts:

#1 Bestseller in Marketing
#1 Bestseller in Business Communications
#1 New Release in Creativity
#1 New Release in Communication Skills
#2 New Release in Web Marketing
#3 New Release in Marketing
#4 New Release in Marketing & Sales
#7 New Release in E-Commerce

This really is one episode you’ll come back to over and over again – you won’t want to miss this!

Useful links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mdeziel

Instagram: https://Instagram.com/meldeziel

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/melaniedeziel

Facebook: https://facebook.com/storyfuel

Coffitivity: coffitivity.com

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What Makes Rebekah Dunne?

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My guest on the Azeem Digital Asks podcast this week is the awesome Rebekah Dunne, content executive at Sweet Digital agency, based in the West Midlands. We have a great conversation about her background, how she’d survive a zombie apocalypse (you read that right), Gilmore Girls, her passion for writing, the need for a “tribe”, people who you can lift up and who lift you up too – and so much more. She was kind enough to really share some great insights into her journey in the industry, and useful marketing tips too – which made for another great episode.

Rebekah’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/RebekahDunne

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What Makes Joyann Boyce?

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My guest on the Azeem Digital Asks podcast this week is the fantastic Joyann Boyce. She is the founder of The Social Detail, co-founder of the BME Collective, and a Data Fellow with the South West Creative Technology Network. She’s also someone I have had the pleasure of sharing a webinar presentation with recently, and definitely worth following on social media as the content she shares really makes you think critically about inclusive marketing.

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Joyann is incredibly passionate about making inclusive marketing the industry standard, and we have a great conversation about that very subject. We also talk about where she has succeeded and failed within her career, and she was kind enough to give the podcast an exclusive announcement about an upcoming project she is working on – you won’t want to miss this episode.


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Joyann’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/joyannboyce

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Useful Links that Joyann would like to share:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBHJSuau8PQ

https://www.swctn.org.uk/data/fellows/joyann-boyce/

https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2019/02/inclusive-marketing-equality-trailhead.html

https://academy.hubspot.com/

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