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Brendan Tully
Brendan Tully

I build and run small internet businesses that make WordPress sites fast, hosted and found.

Founder of WP Speed Fix, WP Alpha and The Search Engine Shop. We have optimised more than 5,000 WordPress sites and host small businesses in Australia, the UK and the US. I write about what we learn doing it.

Building businesses since 1998. Australian, with a fully distributed team across three time zones and now our new "digital workforce". Mountain bikes, surfing & yoga and chasing flow when not at a keyboard.

Monk mode: pivoting the brands for the AI era.What I'm doing now

Now October 2026

Deep in monk mode, working behind the scenes on our brands, pivoting them to be relevant in the new AI era and helping our clients do the same. For years I have said "Google is a paid search engine with some free results" and in 2026 that is truly the case. If you are a small business operating online, chances are you will not survive without paid search traffic. Working hands-on with our entire customer base helping them make the shift to the new AI era too and going deep on squeezing as much as possible out of paid traffic sources for them.

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The Business Marketing Show All 102 episodes

The small-business marketing podcast I co-hosted with Ed Keay-Smith from 2014 to 2019, archived here in full.

What I run

  • WP Speed Fix. WordPress speed optimisation, Core Web Vitals work and ongoing maintenance plans, on any host. Since 2016. wpspeedfix.com

  • WP Alpha. Managed WordPress hosting built from what we learned fixing slow sites. Servers in Australia, the UK and the US. Since 2010. wpalpha.com

  • The Search Engine Shop. Search marketing for Australian small businesses. Since 2008. thesearchengineshop.com

  • SiteSpeedBot. Free WordPress speed test with actionable fixes in under 60 seconds. Since 2019. wpspeedfix.com/wordpress-speed-test Run a speed test

  • Didgeridoo Dojo. Online didgeridoo lessons, from first breath to circular breathing and beyond. Since 2011. didgeridoodojo.com

  • Didgeridoo Beeswax. 100% Australian beeswax mouthpiece kits for didgeridoos, shipped worldwide. Since 2014. didgeridoobeeswax.com Buy on Amazon

  • Vital Signs Tracker. Privacy-friendly analytics with Core Web Vitals tracking built in. Since 2022. vitalsignstracker.com

  • Simple Uptime. Uptime monitoring without the enterprise price tag. Since 2022. simpleuptime.co

  • RobotMedia Pty Ltd. The company behind all of the above. robotmediaonline.com

Archived projects and businesses

  • Achieve More Online. 2010 to 2013. Small business workshops and an online training portal across Australia, covering websites, SEO, Google AdWords and social media, presented with six other small business and online marketing specialists.

  • The Business Marketing Show. 2014 to 2019. The small business marketing podcast I co-hosted with Ed Keay-Smith. 102 episodes, all archived on this site. More

  • Nintek Online Computer Store. 2003 to 2007. A spectacular success and then a spectacular failure. The business grew from 4 to 25 staff in two years, outgrew what we could manage, ran into cashflow problems caused by that growth and folded in 2007.

  • Zoom ITG. 1999 to 2007. IT support, hardware and networking for small businesses. The first business.

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