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Young & Shand is a Digital Marketing Agency based in Auckland, New Zealand. Founded by Ben Young & Duncan Shand we create and deliver remarkable marketing campaigns. With a word of mouth focus, we digitally leverage your marketing strategy to deliver customer engagement and business growth. Everything starts with a story so read ours.


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How House of Travel turns interest into sales

March 3, 2011 by

A digital marketing strategy that achieved results.

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Converting user interest into quantifiable sales is not easy. Young & Shand helped House of Travel provide a completely new experience for its online customers, increasing sales conversions.

The internet has trained us to extensively research our options — particularly when it comes to travel. But this often ends in consumers being well informed but so overwhelmed they fail to make a satisfactory purchase. House of Travel approached Young & Shand to help tackle the challenges it faced and to bring some clarity to its online strategy. Over the past few years, House of Travel has been a strong and innovative marketing force in the digital space, but it needed a supplier that could bring everything together and provide one-stop service across all aspects of its digital marketing. (more…)

Duncan's the Managing Director at Young & Shand. He's into strategy, design and simple old fashioned marketing. He has more Linkedin connections than Ben but his desk is way messier.

Mobile: 021 447 775   Email: duncan.shand@youngshand.com

How EndemicWorld used social media to smash it’s growth targets

December 19, 2010 by

A digital marketing strategy that achieved results.

Recently EndemicWorld asked us to help them with their online marketing. EndemicWorld is an online design store that features the best New Zealand designers and the products that they produce, with the requirement being they be a New Zealand company. They have a real passion about showcasing New Zealand designers and spend a lot of energy highlighting the designers and blogging about what is happening in the local design scene. (more…)

Duncan's the Managing Director at Young & Shand. He's into strategy, design and simple old fashioned marketing. He has more Linkedin connections than Ben but his desk is way messier.

Mobile: 021 447 775   Email: duncan.shand@youngshand.com

This Week in Digital Marketing 4-8 October: Google Googles, Forms on Landing Pages & Influence vs Popularity

October 6, 2010 by

It’s been a busy few weeks, Facebook Places is slowly rolling out (not to New Zealand yet though!), companies are preparing for christmas campaigns, and our latest podcast came out earlier this week. This week we’re talking about Google Goggles, using forms on landing pages and what does Twitter influence really mean? All that and more below. (more…)

Ben is the Marketing Director at Young & Shand.

Phone: 09 308 6214   Email: ben.young@youngshand.com

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