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Stefan Carrington

Stefan Carrington works on B2B eCommerce marketing, including paid-search targeting and ways to use event data to support advertising and sales follow-up. Carrington's posts also explore using postcode and property data to find locations associated with stronger Google Ads customers.

1.6K followersGoogle AdsEvent marketingB2B marketingBased on 13 posts · latest Sep 2026
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At a glance

Stefan Carrington is most useful for B2B eCommerce paid-search and event-data marketing questions, especially Google Ads location targeting.

Best for

A B2B eCommerce or adtech vendor selling geographic targeting for Google Ads to UK PPC specialists.

Not for

An event-data vendor competing with the Events PPC Plug-In, or a consumer automotive aftermarket retailer buying on reach.

Key takeaways

  • They tested Google Ads performance against UK postcode and property data for micro-locations.
  • They launched the Events PPC Plug-In to turn event data into ad targeting.
  • They wrote up a 2019 growth-hacking conference talk as an article.

Check first: Confirm recent results and audience data for comparable Google Ads and location-intelligence posts.

Main ideas
Geography is an underused signal in paid search · Event budgets should keep working after the event · Publishing the question, not just the answer
Audience
1,603 LinkedIn followers
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Testing Google Ads against UK postcode and property data
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What they are known for

Stefan Carrington’s LinkedIn posts focus on B2B eCommerce marketing, especially paid-search targeting and using event data to support advertising and sales follow-up.

  • A recurring question is whether marketers can improve Google Ads by looking beyond keywords and bidding to where their best customers live.
  • In one post, they describe analysing ad performance alongside UK postcode and property data to look for promising micro-locations.
  • They also write about aftersales eCommerce and share sector research and event information.

Stefan Carrington makes practical marketing questions concrete.

  • A location-intelligence post contrasts familiar targeting habits—broad radii, known towns and postcodes, or historical choices—with a testable alternative: compare campaign performance with postcode and property characteristics to find places resembling those that produce strong customers.
  • They present this as research in progress and ask whether others are using similar methods, rather than claiming a proven result.
  • The Events PPC Plug-In post offers a second, more applied example: it describes turning event attendee and exhibitor data into advertising audiences and sales follow-up.
  • Other posts add range: a 2019 growth-hacking article and conference talk, an eCommerce event list, an aftermarket growth statistic, and an MOT-reminder prompt.
  • Together, they show a mix of hands-on marketing questions, product communication, and peer discussion.
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Ideas and priorities

Stefan Carrington writes about B2B eCommerce marketing, with one argument running through most of their work: businesses use data they already hold — postcodes, event attendee lists, service dates — more narrowly than they could.

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Recurring questions include where demand comes from geographically, whether event spending stops when the stand is packed away, and whether routine triggers like an MOT reminder count as marketing actions.

  • Carrington also tends to publish a question or working list and invite peers to correct or add to it, rather than present a finished finding.
  • Because the posts are short LinkedIn posts, ask for the underlying research results when assessing the claims.

Geography is an underused signal in paid search

Carrington argues that PPC work obsesses over keywords, ad copy, landing pages, audiences and bidding, while rarely asking where the best customers live.

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Location targeting, the post says, often relies on broad radius targeting, familiar towns and postcodes, or simply wherever a business has always advertised.

  • Geography may affect performance more than advertisers assume.
  • If you can describe the characteristics of the micro-locations producing the best customers, you can look for more areas like them.

Carrington describes analysing Google Ads performance alongside UK postcode and property data to find patterns in where the best customers come from.

  • They end by asking whether anyone is already using a similar technique in eCommerce ads.
  • The post sets out a question and method, not a result.

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Event budgets should keep working after the event

Rather than treating a trade show as a few days of conversations, Carrington argues that its attendee and exhibitor data should fuel ongoing advertising and sales activity.

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The aim is to keep event spend working for months rather than days by feeding the same audience into advertising, outreach and nurture.

Announcing the Events PPC Plug-In, Carrington lists its capabilities: turning event attendee and exhibitor data into targeting signals; building retargeting audiences for Google, Microsoft Bing, LinkedIn and paid social; creating company lists for company-targeting campaigns; and flagging accounts for outreach.

  • It also connects to outreach tools and supports newsletter nurturing for long B2B sales cycles.
  • A follow-up post thanks people they met at the Southern Manufacturing and Electronics show and notes many conversations to follow up.
  • Ask for independent performance data before assessing the product's results.

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Publishing the question, not just the answer

Across the posts, Carrington puts a partially formed list or line of enquiry in public and asks peers to fill the gaps.

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They offer the framing and collection, and invite the community to contribute. This makes the posts conversation-starters, but several stop at the question rather than reporting what came back.

Carrington shares an autumn 2019 London eCommerce events list and asks for recommendations and personal favourites; shares an aftermarket growth forecast and asks whether anyone has similar statistics for other aftermarket industries; announces an article summarising a SEMPL2019 conference talk and asks readers to comment with their thoughts; and invites comments or messages from anyone already using a similar approach to the postcode-data method.

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Routine service triggers belong in eCommerce strategy

Carrington treats predictable aftersales moments — a reminder that a service or test is due — as marketing triggers, not admin.

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The argument is conditional and practical: if reminders drive sales, build them deliberately into the aftersales eCommerce plan.

One post says that if MOT reminders are key to sales, they should be part of aftersales eCommerce strategies, and links to a reminder resource. A companion post shares a report claim that the global e-commerce automotive aftermarket was set to grow strongly and asks whether similar figures exist for other aftermarket industries, putting category data and a specific tactic side by side.

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Conference talks get written up and turned into content

For Carrington, speaking and writing connect: a conference presentation becomes a published article, then a LinkedIn discussion.

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It is a way to test ideas with a specialist audience and keep the material in circulation after the event.

Carrington announced that an article on eCommerce growth hacking techniques was live, noting that it summarised a presentation given at the SEMPL2019 conference and inviting comments and feedback on the ideas.

The earliest posts date from 2019. Later posts shift from general eCommerce growth and event roundups towards specific targeting techniques: location intelligence in Google Ads and a product that turns event attendance into ad audiences and outreach lists.

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Start with their work

Testing Google Ads against UK postcode and property data

Explains what remains to test after keywords, bidding, audiences and landing pages, and presents the question Carrington is researching rather than a settled claim.

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Newcomers can start here for the clearest account of their current work.

Carrington lists the usual PPC campaign priorities—keywords, ad copy, landing pages, audiences and bidding—and asks why so few marketers consider where their best customers live or how to use that data.

  • Location targeting, they argue, often relies on broad radius targeting, familiar towns and postcodes, or simply the areas where a business has always advertised.
  • They have been analysing Google Ads performance alongside UK postcode and property data to find patterns in where the best customers come from.
  • The post suggests geography may affect performance more than commonly assumed and asks whether anyone is using a similar technique in eCommerce ads.

For brands planning a campaign

A webinar invitation can lead with the research question: how postcode and property data can pinpoint micro-locations that resemble a brand’s best customers. The post asks practitioners who have tried this to share their experience, making a working session on the approach a better fit than a general PPC talk.

Launching the Events PPC Plug-In and turning event data into ad targeting

A named, concrete product and a clear account of how an event budget can keep working after the event—the strongest example of commercial work in these posts.

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Carrington announces the Events PPC Plug-In and describes how it turns event attendee and exhibitor data into targeting signals; builds retargeting audiences for Google, Microsoft (Bing), LinkedIn and paid social; creates company lists for company-targeting campaigns; and flags accounts for outreach, which the post says sales teams value.

  • The plug-in also connects to outreach tools for follow-up, supports AI newsletter nurturing for long B2B sales cycles, and keeps event spend working for months rather than days.
  • The post invites attendees at the Southern Manufacturing and Electronics show to talk.

For brands planning a campaign

For an events or B2B targeting brief, build a conversation around turning attendee and exhibitor lists into ad audiences and sales follow-up. Confirm the live feature set before repeating the author’s description in campaign copy.

Writing up growth hacking techniques from a conference talk

Shows Carrington writes longer-form pieces and speaks at conferences, as well as posting short updates.

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Useful when assessing a potential content or event collaboration.

Carrington announces that an article on eCommerce growth hacking techniques is live.

  • It summarises a presentation given at the SEMPL2019 conference, and they invite readers to comment.
  • Ask for the article before assessing its techniques.

For brands planning a campaign

A content or event brief could pair a conference talk with a written follow-up, a format Carrington already uses. Ask for the article before quoting or summarising its techniques.

Building a working list of London eCommerce events

Shows Carrington working in public: assembling a practical list and asking peers to contribute.

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It gives marketers a sense of how they engage a community beyond publishing their own views.

Carrington shares a dated list of autumn 2019 eCommerce events in London—eCommerce Expo 25 September, Tech-Festival 2 October, Retail HR Summit and PayExpo Conference 8 October, InternetRetailing Conference IRC 10 October, Ecommerce Live UK 15 October, Ai In Retail Conference 16 October, and White Label World Expo London 27 November—and asks for recommendations and personal favourites.

For brands planning a campaign

Event-adjacent marketing looks like a natural fit, as do roundups and shared calendars. The list dates to 2019, so ask for a current events guide before using it for planning.

Sharing an aftermarket eCommerce growth forecast

Shows which sector Carrington follows and how they use research to open a conversation rather than present a finished argument.

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Carrington shares a research report’s claim that the global e-commerce automotive aftermarket would register a compound annual growth rate of more than 24 percent over the forecast period to 2025. They frame it as good news for online aftermarket retailers and ask whether anyone has similar figures for other aftermarket industries.

For brands planning a campaign

For an aftermarket or automotive-adjacent brief, a stat-led hook and an open question to peers fit the pattern. Check the original report before reusing the figure.

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Topics and approach

Location intelligence for Google Ads

Stefan Carrington questions the usual PPC focus on keywords, ad copy, landing pages, audiences and bidding, arguing that more advertisers should ask where their best customers live.

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The post describes analysing Google Ads performance alongside UK postcode and property data to find micro-location patterns associated with stronger customers, identify the characteristics of high-performing areas and find more places like them.

The post frames the work as ongoing research: it identifies a gap in standard PPC practice, describes the analysis approach and invites comments or messages from eCommerce advertisers already using similar techniques.

The post is a research inquiry, not a results case study. Treat performance impact as a hypothesis to test, and ask for results before making outcome claims.

For brands planning a campaign

A B2B eCommerce marketing platform targeting PPC specialists exploring location intelligence could invite Stefan Carrington to present the postcode-data analysis, the questions it tests and the practical steps advertisers can take to examine geographic performance.

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Event attendee and exhibitor data as advertising and sales signals

Stefan Carrington announced the Events PPC Plug-In by WRD and attended the Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Show to promote it.

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The post says the product turns event attendee and exhibitor data into targeting signals, builds retargeting audiences for Google, Microsoft Bing, LinkedIn and paid social, creates company lists for company-targeting campaigns, flags hot accounts for outreach, connects to outreach tools and supports AI newsletter nurturing for long B2B sales cycles. A follow-up post thanks people met at the show and describes many conversations to follow up.

The approach combines trade-show attendance with a product launch, using the event as both a source of targeting data and a place to demonstrate the offer to prospects.

The product capabilities come from the launch post. Ask for independent performance data, client results and deployment details before making claims about outcomes.

For brands planning a campaign

For a B2B event or paid-media brief, Stefan Carrington can speak about extending event spend beyond the show through audience building, account targeting, sales follow-up and nurture. A webinar could focus on turning attendee and exhibitor lists into measurable campaigns after the event.

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eCommerce growth hacking and conference speaking

Stefan Carrington published an article on eCommerce growth hacking techniques and notes that it also summarises a presentation at the SEMPL2019 conference.

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The post invites comments and feedback on the ideas around growth hacking and eCommerce.

The post pairs written content with a conference presentation, then uses LinkedIn to open a feedback loop with readers and attendees.

The article and presentation content are not included in the provided material, so the specific techniques are a research gap. The topic is known, but the detailed methods should not be reconstructed from the summary alone.

For brands planning a campaign

A brand looking for accessible growth experiments could use this topic to discuss which eCommerce growth tactics are worth testing and how to present them to a specialist audience. A webinar or content collaboration could explore the practical techniques behind the article and conference talk.

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Aftermarket eCommerce and aftersales lifecycle marketing

Stefan Carrington shared a report claim that the global e-commerce automotive aftermarket was likely to register strong growth, and asked whether similar statistics exist for other aftermarket industries.

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A separate post argues that if MOT reminders are key to sales, they should be used in aftersales eCommerce strategies, with a link to a reminder resource.

The posts combine third-party market data with a practical aftersales use case, moving from category growth to a specific reminder tactic.

The growth figure comes from a third-party report; ask for the report methodology and the linked MOT-reminder resource before using either as evidence.

For brands planning a campaign

For an automotive aftermarket, retention or repeat-purchase brief, Stefan Carrington can discuss how aftermarket demand data and lifecycle reminders fit into eCommerce strategy. A campaign could focus on turning service triggers into timely marketing actions.

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eCommerce event discovery and community recommendations

Stefan Carrington built and shared a list of autumn eCommerce events in London, including eCommerce Expo, Tech-Festival, Retail HR Summit, PayExpo, InternetRetailing Conference, Ecommerce Live UK, Ai In Retail Conference and White Label World Expo London.

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The post asks for other recommendations and personal favourites.

The approach combines list-building with an open call for recommendations, using LinkedIn as a community-sourcing channel.

The list is dated 2019 and the provided material does not show whether it was maintained or updated. It should not be presented as current event guidance without newer evidence.

For brands planning a campaign

An event organiser or B2B media brand could work with Stefan Carrington on event discovery content, community sourcing and practical guides for eCommerce marketers deciding where to spend their time. The topic supports a webinar or roundtable on selecting events with clear commercial relevance.

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Brands and businesses

The posts document one commercial relationship: WRD, the business behind the Events PPC Plug-In, a tool Stefan Carrington promotes for turning event attendee and exhibitor data into ad targeting, retargeting audiences and outreach lists.

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They use "we" when announcing the product and represented it at the Southern Manufacturing & Electronics show.

  • The posts describe a disclosed partnership but do not specify whether Carrington owns WRD, works for it or partners with it; ask them to clarify the relationship.
  • Southern Manufacturing & Electronics is an event they attended, and ReportConsultant is the source of a cited automotive aftermarket e-commerce forecast; both are mentions only.

WRD

Disclosed partnership

WRD is named as the maker of the Events PPC Plug-In, which Stefan Carrington says turns event attendee and exhibitor data into targeting signals, builds retargeting audiences for Google, Microsoft (Bing), LinkedIn and paid social, creates company lists for company-targeting campaigns, and flags accounts for sales outreach.

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They announced the launch in the first person plural ("We're launching the Events PPC Plug-In this week") and pitched it at the Southern Manufacturing & Electronics show. The posts describe a disclosed partnership but do not specify whether Carrington owns WRD, works for it or partners with it; ask them to clarify the relationship.

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Southern Manufacturing & Electronics

Mention

Stefan Carrington attended the Southern Manufacturing & Electronics show and used it to discuss the Events PPC Plug-In with exhibitors and attendees, thanking those who spoke with them and describing follow-up conversations.

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The show is an event they attended and referenced, not a documented client or sponsor.

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ReportConsultant

Mention

Stefan Carrington cites a ReportConsultant research report claiming the global e-commerce automotive aftermarket would grow at roughly 24% CAGR over 2019 to 2025, and asks whether similar figures exist for other aftermarket industries.

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The post cites published research, not a stated commercial relationship.

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Topics and similar creators

Stefan Carrington's posts are easiest to follow through two threads.

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One is practical paid search: where a business's best customers actually live, how postcode and property data can be read alongside Google Ads performance, and how event attendee and exhibitor lists can become targeting audiences, company lists and follow-up.

  • The other is aftermarket and aftersales eCommerce: category growth figures, service reminders as marketing triggers, and event roundups for eCommerce marketers.
  • The posts are short LinkedIn updates, several of which pose a question or share a working list in public and invite peers to add to it.
  • Dates matter: the eCommerce growth-hacking and events material is from 2019, while the location-intelligence and event-data advertising work is recent.
  • Ask for full articles, presentation slides or product documentation if you need to assess claims beyond what the posts state.
eCommerce marketing PPC and paid search Google Ads Location intelligence Event marketing Aftersales and lifecycle marketing Automotive aftermarket B2B marketing Short-form LinkedIn posts Performance marketing teams

Martin Davies

Davies writes about fixing Google Ads accounts for eCommerce sites, working in the same account-diagnostics territory as Carrington.

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One post explains how to tell whether a sales dip comes from lower market demand or competitor pressure by running an impression share report by day, and what to change depending on the result; another covers whether brand should be excluded from Performance Max campaigns and points to a script that shows brand versus non-brand clicks, conversions and share of revenue. Both write short, method-focused advice for advertisers who manage paid search budgets themselves.

Davies tends to hand over a finished diagnostic procedure or a named tool, while Carrington's recent Google Ads post poses an open research question about geographic patterns and asks other advertisers what they use. Davies stays inside account structure and reporting, whereas Carrington connects paid search to event data and a specific product.

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Aman Jabeen

Jabeen analyses eCommerce performance data and asks what actually makes a visitor buy.

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One post works through a Google Merchant Center dashboard, arguing that a strong store-quality score comes from product data, shipping settings, return policies, site speed, mobile experience and store ratings rather than uploading more products.

  • Another takes a makeup brand's numbers and asks which doubts stop shoppers, listing swatches, shade guides, customer reviews and checkout as the fixes.
  • Both read like practitioners explaining what the numbers do and do not tell you.

Jabeen's subject is retail and beauty eCommerce, with Merchant Center feeds and on-site conversion as the main levers; Carrington's is B2B paid search and event data. Jabeen also uses a recurring dashboard-explanation format, framing each post around a set of client metrics, whereas Carrington often presents an unfinished line of research and invites replies.

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Carly Macmeikan

The overlap with Carrington is format and approach rather than subject: Macmeikan posts practitioner commentary on applying new technology in industry sectors, using events and trade shows as a hook.

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One post points to Accenture research on generative AI in supply chain processes; another describes the company's presence at the Farnborough International Airshow, where demos showed generative AI in supply chain resilience, engineering and manufacturing. Both write short posts that translate a technical or vendor topic for a working professional audience.

Macmeikan's terrain is supply chain, engineering, manufacturing and defence for large enterprise audiences.

  • Carrington's is eCommerce advertising: Google Ads geography, event attendee data and aftermarket lifecycle marketing.
  • Their teaching styles also differ: Macmeikan's posts carry outward-facing company announcements and links to research, while Carrington's often end with a question to the community.

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Audience

For a campaign seeking a narrow practitioner placement on LinkedIn rather than a broad-reach buy, the available audience information supports that approach.

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Stefan Carrington's LinkedIn profile showed 1,603 followers when observed on 11 October 2026.

  • Their posts cover eCommerce, PPC, Google Ads location targeting, event advertising, and aftersales.
  • They do not report impressions, engagement rates, or follower demographics.
  • Before booking, ask for recent results from comparable Google Ads and location-intelligence posts, including impressions, engagement, follower geography, job function, and seniority, or an audience survey.
  • If professional composition is material, ask whether an audience survey or platform demographic information is available for comparable eCommerce PPC content.

LinkedIn followers

1,603

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Partnership options

The posts here do not describe a partnership or sponsorship offering.

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Carrington's posts include no rate card, media kit, audience guarantees, sponsored-format description, or inquiry page for working with Carrington, so readers cannot quote terms from these posts.

  • What the posts do show is vendor-side work: he announces and promotes the Events PPC Plug-In, a product associated with WRD that turns event attendee and exhibitor data into advertising targeting, outreach lists, and follow-up campaigns, and he posts from trade shows to publicise it.
  • He also uses his feed to ask peers for input, including a request for examples of Google Ads campaigns optimised with location intelligence and a query about other aftermarket industries with comparable growth figures.
  • Those are products Carrington markets and questions Carrington researches, not documented terms a brand can book Carrington on.
  • A buyer should therefore treat partnership formats, availability, deliverables, and disclosure expectations as unconfirmed and seek them directly from Carrington or Carrington's business rather than assuming terms from these posts.
  • If Carrington has published a sponsor page elsewhere, it is not shown in the posts here.
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Campaign fit

A campaign to shortlist

Need: a B2B eCommerce or adtech vendor selling geographic targeting for Google Ads wants to reach UK PPC specialists and in-house eCommerce marketers.

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Decision: a good fit, with the scope of the claim kept narrow.

  • Why: the location-intelligence post is the closest match to this audience.
  • Stefan Carrington lists the standard PPC obsessions - keywords, ad copy, landing pages, audiences, bidding - then asks the question most campaigns skip: where do your best customers actually live, and how can that data be used?
  • They describe analysing Google Ads performance alongside UK postcode and property data to find micro-locations that produce the best customers, and treat location targeting that defaults to broad radiuses, familiar towns or where a business has always advertised as the gap worth closing.
  • That is the buyer's product category described from the practitioner's side of the table, and the post ends by asking eCommerce advertisers who have tried something similar to comment or message.
  • They are asking for exactly the conversation this campaign wants to buy.
  • Supporting signals: speaking and writing longer-form are established habits - a conference talk at SEMPL2019 that was written up as an article - so a webinar or working session is a format they already use rather than one they would have to learn.
  • Appearing at trade shows and posting from them is also part of the pattern.
  • Boundaries to respect: the location work was published without results, a client case or methodology.
  • Ask for a worked example and methodology, and frame the session as testing an approach rather than presenting a proven lift.

When to choose a specialist

Need: an event-data or event-marketing vendor - specifically a company competing with the Events PPC Plug-In - wants a paid endorsement of its attendee-and-exhibitor targeting product.

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Decision: a poor fit.

  • Why: Stefan Carrington is on the other side of this market.
  • Their posts announce the launch of the Events PPC Plug-In, describe what it does - turning event attendee and exhibitor data into targeting signals, building retargeting audiences for Google, Microsoft Bing, LinkedIn and paid social, creating company lists for company-targeting campaigns, and flagging accounts for outreach - and show attendance at the Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Show to promote it.
  • A paid placement for a competing product would create a direct commercial conflict.
  • Another need worth declining on the same grounds: a consumer automotive aftermarket retailer buying on reach.
  • Strong growth figures for the online automotive aftermarket do appear in the posts, but they are quoted from a third-party report and used as an opening question to peers, not as evidence of retail performance.
  • The only audience figure available is 1,603 LinkedIn followers observed on 11 October 2026, with no impressions, engagement, follower geography, job function or seniority.
  • A volume-led reach buy cannot be justified from these posts.
A worked campaign example

For the brief in hand - a B2B eCommerce marketing platform that wants to reach PPC specialists exploring location intelligence, with a webinar invitation built on the postcode analysis.

Angle: run it as a working session on a live question, not a keynote.

  • Title: 'Where do your best customers actually live?
  • Testing Google Ads against UK postcode data.' Thirty to forty minutes, one presenter, one short open segment.

Running order: open with the list Stefan Carrington already uses - keywords, ad copy, landing pages, audiences, bidding - and the question it leaves out.

  • Move to the analysis: Google Ads performance read alongside UK postcode and property data, looking for patterns in where the best customers come from and what it would take to find more areas like them.
  • Close with the part that makes it a session rather than a pitch: ask attendees to bring one geographic targeting decision they are unsure about, and work through how postcode-level data would change it.

Asks to make of Carrington and to put in the invitation: bring one anonymised account example if it can be shared; describe how a micro-location is identified and how it is tested; say plainly which parts are proven and which are still being worked out. If no example can be shared, keep the framing as 'the question we are testing' - the published post contains no results, so the invitation should not promise a performance case study.

Invitation copy, short form: 'Most Google Ads accounts are optimised on keywords, copy and bidding.

  • Almost none are optimised on where the best customers actually live.
  • Stefan Carrington is analysing Google Ads performance against UK postcode and property data to find the micro-locations that produce the strongest customers - and to repeat them.
  • Join a 40-minute working session: how the analysis is set up, where it has changed targeting decisions, and an open segment on the accounts you are unsure about.
  • Bring one geo decision.'

Logistics fit: Carrington mixes conference speaking with written follow-ups and posts from trade shows, so a mid-sized practitioner webinar with a follow-up article suits the demonstrated format.

  • Audience caveat to plan around: 1,603 LinkedIn followers observed 11 October 2026 and no published engagement or demographic data, so treat this as a narrow practitioner placement.
  • Promote through eCommerce and PPC communities rather than expecting reach from the profile alone.

Next step: ask whether they will bring a worked example or run it as a live teardown, and confirm the webinar date before writing the invitation copy into a campaign brief.

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Who else to consider

Martin Davies

Choose Martin Davies over Stefan Carrington when the value on offer is diagnostic work on accounts a prospect already runs, not a new targeting idea.

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Davies' posts show him auditing Google Ads accounts for eCommerce sites and investigating why sales have slowed: he checks whether the cause is weaker market demand or competitor aggression by running an impression-share report by day over the past 30 days, then recommends a different response for each result.

  • Another post walks through whether brand should be excluded from Performance Max campaigns, using a script that shows brand versus non-brand clicks, conversions and share of brand revenue over time.
  • It accepts that ROAS may drop in the short term for the sake of overall growth.
  • For a webinar aimed at PPC specialists, that is a finished, immediately usable technique drawn from account work rather than an open research question.

Carrington is the better choice when the hook is the location-intelligence idea itself.

  • The postcode-and-property analysis is a specific, unresolved line of inquiry that an audience can help investigate, making for a genuine working session.
  • Davies' material is advice drawn from completed audits: the audience gets a method to apply, but the session becomes a teaching slot rather than a live question.
  • Carrington's posts say nothing about UK postcode or property-data work, so ask for evidence of that experience before building a geographic targeting premise around the account-diagnostic angle.

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Aman Jabeen

Choose Aman Jabeen when the audience shifts from PPC specialists to eCommerce store owners and marketing managers working on product feeds and store quality, and the platform's product touches Merchant Center rather than location targeting.

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Jabeen's posts break down a Merchant Center dashboard scoring store quality as great and performance as well above average.

  • They list what drags that score down - missing return information, slow mobile pages, weak product data, unclear shipping details, poor store ratings - and argue that the real question is not how many products are uploaded but whether Google reads the store as a strong shopping experience.
  • The second post takes the same approach with a beauty brand, reading 15,022 visitors, 992 orders, 626 new customers and over $60K net revenue as a question about trust: swatches, shade guides, user-generated content, reviews, product pages and checkout.

The swap narrows the campaign.

  • Carrington's posts do not cover Google Ads location targeting, postcode or property data, or account-level paid search structure, so the geographic premise behind a campaign aimed at PPC practitioners would not carry.
  • Ask for evidence of relevant experience before using that premise.
  • The audience also changes from PPC practitioners to beauty and direct-to-consumer eCommerce operators, which means rebuilding the invitation and promotion rather than reusing the PPC-specialist one.
  • Compared with Carrington's open research inquiry, these posts comment on dashboards that are already producing results, so the session would need to be framed as instruction rather than a shared problem.

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Carly Macmeikan

Choose Carly Macmeikan only if the campaign changes audience, not just speaker.

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Macmeikan's posts focus on enterprise supply chain and defence, aerospace and manufacturing.

  • One cites Accenture research that generative AI could automate or augment 58% of supply chain processes across design, planning, sourcing, production and fulfilment, tied to a longer article.
  • The other previews an Accenture presence at the Farnborough International Airshow with live demonstrations of generative AI for supply chain resilience, engineering, manufacturing and aftermarket operations.
  • That is a fit for a vendor selling transformation work to large industrial and defence buyers.

For a campaign aimed at PPC specialists, the tradeoff is severe: Carrington's posts contain no paid search, Google Ads, eCommerce or geographic targeting material, leaving PPC specialists with no relevant content. Choosing Macmeikan means buying a different campaign - an enterprise supply chain and GenAI message - not a variation of this one.

Examples: Source 1 · Source 2

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Completed brief: location-intelligence webinar with Stefan Carrington

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Research methodology

  • Stefan Carrington's seven LinkedIn posts dated 2019 to 2026 cover Google Ads location targeting against UK postcode and property data, the Events PPC Plug-In launch and a Southern Manufacturing & Electronics show follow-up, an eCommerce growth-hacking article summarising a SEMPL2019 conference talk, a 2019 London eCommerce events list, an automotive aftermarket growth forecast, and MOT reminders in aftersales strategy.
  • Comparisons with other creators cover six LinkedIn posts from Martin Davies (Google Ads audits and Performance Max), Aman Jabeen (Merchant Center quality and beauty eCommerce conversion) and Carly Macmeikan (generative AI in supply chain and the Farnborough airshow).
  • A LinkedIn follower count of 1,603 was observed on 11 October 2026; this was the only audience figure available.
  • The posts mention but do not include the growth-hacking article, the postcode-data analysis, the MOT reminder resource, the plug-in documentation, and any conference slides.
  • No signature book, show, or wider career history appears in the posts here; that remains a gap worth filling in future research.

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