Alana

 

Gray

Senior Marketing Manager
Core Team

Alana has spent her career working primarily for iconic Kiwi nursery brands including Mokopuna Merino, Mountain Buggy and Phil&Teds in a range of sales and marketing roles.

Alana really enjoys digital and social media marketing as it’s so measurable and dynamic and allows you to test, review and refine. 

Nowadays, Alana loves working with small businesses to help them grow their profile and increase sales. In the last few years with Virtual Marketers, Alana has worked with our clients to develop their marketing strategies, launched new websites and online stores, executed digital campaigns and helped to manage their day-to-day marketing activities.

Outside of work she’s spending time renovating her home, hanging with her kids and binge-watching the latest Netflix release.

Alana currently works across clients including Europlan and Summer of Tech.

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What GA4 Has in Store
6
 minutes
Marketing 101

What is GA4? How is it different from GA? And how do you move over to it? We cover all of this and more in our round up of what's in store with GA4!

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Brown Bag Series with Rahul
22
 minutes
Marketing 101

In this episode of our Brown Bag Series, Fran chats with Rahul Watson-Govindan, Loomio CEO, Senior Executive, Director and Investor, about the purpose of a business strategy.

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Brown Bag Series with Emma
15
 minutes
Grow Your Business

Working from home? We've got some tips for you! Fran sat down to chat with Emma Bell-Norris, Brand and Marketing Manager for Europlan, one of New Zealand's leading suppliers of commercial furniture. They chat about how to set up a productive workspace at home and share work from home tips.

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Is Canva replacing Graphic Designers?
6
 minutes
Marketing 101

The graphic design tool Canva has revolutionised the marketing world, particularly for social media marketers, since it hit the mainstream a few years ago. It was founded by Australian Melanie Perkins who spotted a business opportunity when she realised how frustrating it was to learn how to use existing graphic design software.

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How to use Instagram Stories to market your business
8
 minutes
Templates

Want to expand your reach, engage your audience, and start generating a following on social media? Consider these 13 ways to start using Instagram Stories this year. These handy tips can help set your social media marketing strategy up for success.

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Is it better to invest in SEO or in running ads on Google?
8
 minutes
Marketing 101

The Internet has long been the most popular venue in the world for business. Especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, people are looking more and more to the digital world for the products and services that they want to buy.

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