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Danny cuts through the mystique and explains in plain language how businesses can make the best return on their online marketing activity whether this be through their website or through Linkedin and other Social networking sites.

I would recommend him to anyone seeking an honest provider of sound advice.

Steve Forey

Who we are

Brainstorm Digital was founded in 2000 by Danny Bermant, and has expanded from a one-man web design agency to an internet consultancy of eight, which specialises in growing businesses online. We focus on all the ways in which the internet can help you attract new clients and increase revenue, whether through better design, social media, search engine optimisation, pay-per-click advertising or perhaps even an iphone app.

our clients include

Danny Bermant, Founder and Director

Danny founded Brainstorm Digital in 2000. His background is in website design and he continues to act as managing director within the business. Over the past 10+ years, Danny has focused the company on ways in which the internet can be used to convert website visitors into customers. In addition to designing websites, usability testing, e-commerce development, e-learning, content management systems, search engine optimisation, social media marketing, pay-per-click advertising and iphone development are all integral to Danny's vision.

Danny's main roles are new business development, running our social media training courses, and ensuring that all work is carried out on time and on budget.

Paul Freedman, Lead Developer

Paul Freedman has 17 years' experience in IT, including the last 14 working in the web environment. Following university, he worked for the Halifax for seven years and was involved in the development of the Halifax online Banking website (https://www.halifax-online.co.uk/). For the following six years he worked for GAME on their ecommerce website (http://www.game.co.uk/) and on their stock and order management systems. Since 2006, he has been working full time on creating and managing websites for SMEs. He currently manages our content management systems as well as our ecommerce sites, and has experience with setting up systems for WorldPay, PayPal and Sagepay.

Richard Herman, Lead Designer

Richard Herman has been with our team since our inception. He has been designing for over 20 years and his experience goes way beyond the web. Richard can also work on branding, brochures, flyers and packaging. He even designs board games!

Josh Whiten, SEO Consultant

Josh is an experienced online marketing consultant specialising in using SEO to improve traffic numbers to your website. His areas of expertise include keyword analysis and search trend research, followed by on page SEO work, including content generation and optimisation. He also handles SEO link building to improve the visibility of websites in search engine results using ethical and proven techniques.

He has worked across a range of both b2b and b2c sectors from niche markets to highly competitive natural search environments. These include the travel sector where he has helped develop market leading sites such as www.frenchconnections.co.uk and niche travel sites such as www.samuiislandvillas.com. He has also worked across other competitive b2c environments including ecommerce for sites like www.fudgekitchen.co.uk and high status organisations such as www.treloar.org.uk.

Lydia Drukarz, PR Consultant

Lydia Drukarz has over 25 years’ experience in the PR industry, working with top brands and clients across the corporate, financial, entertainment, literary and not-for-profit sectors including:Accurist, BMI, the Metropolitan Police, Imperial War Museum, The Nelson Mandela Foundation, EMI music publishers, the BBC, BDO accountants and Harper Collins.

She has also managed PR campaigns for high profile celebrities, including Brian May, Kim Cattrall, Lorraine Kelly, singers Will Young and Mick Hucknall, Sir Patrick Moore and historian Sir Martin Gilbert.

Her PR services can help grow your business, whether as part of a short-term project or on retainer. Her specialities include:

Product launches and branding
Consumer media relations
Trade/business media relations
Event management
Crisis management
Copywriting (including web copy and e-newsletters)

Jeremy Freeman, Social Media / Pay Per Click Consultant

Jeremy is a leading social media marketing and website marketing expert. Jeremy focuses on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn marketing. His Twitter strategies focus on Twitter search engine optimisation, effective Twitter messages that deliver high click-through rates, increasing Twitter followers, and creating engaging Twitter backgrounds. His Facebook marketing strategy focuses on Facebook Fan Page design, increasing Facebook fans, increasing Facebook friends, Facebook SEO, and effective Facebook status updates. His LinkedIn strategy focuses on how to expose your LinkedIn profile to a wider audience and raising its credibility so that you receive a higher number of business referrals.

As well as social media, Jeremy also manages our clients' Pay Per Click (PPC) marketing campaigns. Jeremy is an authority on Pay Per Click, with several years experience in this field. Jeremy will work proactively with you to ensure that your advertising spend, however big or small, leads to results.

Miriam Shaviv, Copy Writer

Miriam has more than a decade of experience as a journalist and editor in national newspapers. Between 2000-2004 she worked for The Jerusalem Post, Israel's premier English-language newspaper, which has a wide readership in the US and UK. Starting off as a reporter on the business desk, she was soon promoted to senior features writer and then editor of the literary section. After moving to the UK on marriage, she spent five years working for The Jewish Chronicle, where she was chief sub-editor, editor of the letters and comments section, and editor of the foreign section. Between October 2010 and April 2011, she was features editor at the Times Higher Education magazine. She still writes a regular column for the Jewish Chronicle and the Forward newspaper in New York.

As a professional journalist, Miriam offers Brainstorm Design's clients a superb copy-writing service, helping businesses improve the copy on their websites, write engaging and relevant blog posts, and implement their social media strategy.