Deepak Shukla

Deepak Shukla
Deepak Shukla
Born	August 18, 1986 (1986-08-18) (age 37) Hillingdon, London, England
Nationality	British-Indian
Other names	Dee
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Known for	CEO (Pearl Lemon Group)

Deepak Shukla (born on 18 August 1986 in Hillingdon, London) is an award- winning British-Indian entrepreneur, author, and 3x TEDx speaker, who founded London-based Pearl Lemon Group.^[1] He has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and the Huffington Post for his expertise in SEO, digital marketing, and business growth. He is known for his leadership skills, creativity, and problem-solving abilities, and is dedicated to helping businesses achieve their full potential. He has built his digital marketing business to over 100 international employees, providing services to a global clientele, and generating millions of pounds of revenue a year.

Deepak expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. Before founding Pearl Lemon SEO Agency in 2016 he had been involved in various business startups within the music industry which involved a studiobooking platform called Studiobookers and soon after founded a recording studio (Deep Impakt Recordings).

Early life and education

Deepak was born on 18 August 1986 in Hillingdon, London. He attended St Matthews Primary School and Evelyn's Secondary School and College in London. He graduated in English literature from the University of Warwick.^[2]

Academic Awards

"John Miles Award" for Best A Level Results
"Hawkins Memorial English Literature Prize"

Career

Deepak started his career as a digital marketer and SEO expert. In 2016, he founded the Pearl Lemon Group, a marketing agency in London.^[3]

In 2020, he co-founded SERPWizz, an SEO auditing tool.^[4] He also opened Pearl Lemon Café in Fulham, London.^[5]^[6]

Shukla has been a TEDx speaker three times.^[7]^[8]^[9] He has been featured in SEMrush,^[10] Woorank, The Search Engine Journal, Digital Olympus and more.^[11]

To date the Pearl Lemon Group has expanded its business service and product offerings into various commercial sectors that include financial services, legal services, event management, visa services, aviation, sales training, recruitment, web development and content related services, video game development, tattoos, restaurant, and food and beverage.

Enterprise Awards

Innovative business award (won)
British Indian Young Entrepreneur Award 2018 (nominated)
Top Marketing Agency 2019 by Agency Spotter
Best SEO Agencies in London 2019 by Clutch
Best E-commerce and Marketing Agency 2018 by DesignRush
SEO Services Company of the year - 2019 Manchester Prestige Award
Top 10 providers in the Best Local SEO Companies category for August 2019
SEO Agency of the Year 2019
IOD Director of the Year - Startup 2019 Finalist
Top 75 SEO Companies & Services in the World" 2020 - by Pouted

Ventures

Following are the subsidiaries of Deepak's conglomerate Pearl Lemon Group.

Pearl Lemon

Pearl Lemon is an award-winning SEO digital marketing agency which falls part of the Pearl Lemon Group. With years of experience in the field , its founder Deepak Shukla assembled a team of seasoned experts who came together to create a company that by 2018 saw the likes of Clutch, Design Rush and Agency Spotter all rank Pearl Lemon SEO amongst the best SEO agencies in the UK.

Pearl Lemon Leads

Pearl Lemon Leads is a dynamic lead generation agency that makes use of both time tested lead generation strategies like cold email, cold calling and appointment setting and new tactics like LinkedIn lead generation and podcast and webinar outreach.

Pearl Lemon Properties

Pearl Lemon Properties helps investors better understand the concept of buying below market value properties, source the right investment opportunities and find the right experts to make it all work – from builders to lawyers to financial advisors and more.

Pearl Lemon Accountants

Pearl Lemon Accountants provides a comprehensive range of accounting services that include Corporate tax services, HMRC tax investigations advice, Accountants for forex traders, International tax planning, payroll services, personal tax services, R&D tax relief, Tax planning services, VAT accounting services.

Pearl Lemon Legal

Pearl Lemon Legal is a premier boutique law firm and legal service provider which provides an extensive range of legal services that include alternative dispute resolution, contract disputes , employee contracts, HMRC alternative dispute resolution, small claims and will writing services.

Pearl Lemon Recruitment

Pearl Lemon Recruitment is a digital marketing and sales recruitment agency which sources qualified specialists in the digital marketing and sales fields which range from remote hiring, temporary placements and permanent placements.

Pearl Lemon Placements

Pearl Lemon Placements is the specialty career advancement branch of the businesses. The placement programme was looking for individuals to join the digital workforce or pivot outside of their industry and spend 6 months with the company doing intense learning and career growth and development.

Pearl Lemon Games

Pearl Lemon Games was founded in 2022 and is the Pearl Lemon Group's game development and design branch. Currently they work mostly with Roadblocks games using both Roblox and unity as game development platforms. This branch of the business also works on mobile App development and optimization. Outside of client work, Pearl Lemon Games has five self made owned games Obby Pearl , Serial Survivor , Midnight Madness , Rules of Logic Escape Room, Medieval Clash which can be found on Roblox.

Pearl Lemon Experiences

Pearl Lemon Experiences is a sub brand of the Pearl Lemon Group which focuses on experiential marketing which helps elevate brands and brand experiences for companies.

Pearl Lemon Sales

Pearl Lemon Sales is a sales training organization which offers a wide range of training programmes that include advanced sales training, cold calling sales training, corporate sales training, presales training, SAAS sales training, Sales phone training, sales leadership and management training.

Pearl Lemon PR

Pearl Lemon PR is the public relations side of the Pearl Lemon Group. Having managed to secure its founder Shukla multiple TEDx talks (three to date), BBC features, Forbes, Inc and Huffington Post mentions, features and more – it's been an incredible asset to Pearl Lemon Group business. With this in mind the company rolled out the service to their clients and work to manage reputation, negative press removal as well as major media PR.

Pearl Lemon Web

Pearl Lemon Web is a speedy, expert web design and development company that grew out of the challenges which Pearl Lemon SEO business faced when working with development and design teams. Having built 30+ websites even before its formal launch, it now offers full-stack design and web development for businesses looking to grow.

Pearl Lemon Consulting

Pearl Lemon Consulting is the consulting arm of Pearl Lemon Group business which works with fast growth and enterprise-level companies on a whole range of challenges they might face. Having had incredible exposure to different industries and businesses through their marketing efforts Pearl Lemon Group combined this together with bringing in-house an expert team to work across an incredible range of business challenges.

Pearl Lemon Content

Pearl Lemon Content is the content arm and hub of the Pearl Lemon Group which offers bespoke and SEO optimized content for businesses.

Pearl Lemon Interviews

Pearl Lemon Interviews is the go-to destination for the best in info-tainment about business figures from every niche and all over the world.

Pearl Lemon Visa

Pearl Lemon Visa was founded by a team of global professionals in the field of immigration, lawyers, real estate sales professionals, and entrepreneurs. The company has a goal of helping wealthy individuals and families obtain golden visas and invest in real estate in the country as needed.

Pearl Lemon Café

Pearl Lemon Café is a pet project born of its founder Deepak Shukla for his love of working from coffee shops up and down Chelsea, London – where the business was born with the aim of building a local hub for entrepreneurs and business owners to come, drink coffee and talk shop.

Howmatcha Café

Howmatcha is an exclusive matcha themed matcha cafe situated in Marylebone which is housed under Pearl Lemon Café and situated in Marylebone.

Pearl Lemon Catering

Pearl Lemon Catering was founded with Pearl Lemon Cafe by getting coffee catering enquiries. This started as coffee service and has expanded to Matcha, Tea, Buffets, Bar Service, Lemonade Service, Boba Carts and more.

Pearl Lemon Invest

Pearl Lemon Invest is an investment led software technology company, providing AI for adventurous investors. With a specialization in Forex & Equities Algorithms, Pearl Lemon Invest allows investors to generate an immediate income on the Forex and Stock market.

Pearl Lemon Ventures

Pearl Lemon Ventures is the startup side of the Pearl Lemon Group and where you’ll find the full range of our tools being developed. From A.I content generation, SEO Audit Tools, Chrome Plugins to CRMs. The company has a growing collection of tools under development. Below is a list of chrome extension productivity tools which fall under Pearl Lemon Ventures.

LemApp is a Google Chrome extension productivity tool which enables you to sort your chats into tabs on WhatsApp. Whether you're a business, an organisation, or an individual, you can easily manage your WhatsApp accounts and keep track of all of your messages, contacts, media, and more.

Lemverse is a Google Chrome extension productivity tool which enables you to reverse your Gmail conversations, add labels in a better way, organise emails under labels, sort your inbox to find all emails and domains which you have emailed.

Lemtel is a Google Chrome extension productivity tool for Telegram power users. Lemtel sorts your unread messages into custom tabs on your browser.

Lemicons is a Google Chrome extension productivity tool which enables you to quickly identify the sender of email messages in Gmail without opening the message.

Lemjobs is a job search and tracker Google Chrome extension tool which enables you to accelerate the job searching process and help you grow your career.

Lemlinks was designed to help identify every link on a web page and have the option to save or open them as well. Features include a link highlighter, Link Typer, Link Checker, Link Opener and provides history of your links seen, stores data of shared links and saves links. Users can share links from the extension directly also.

Investments

Following are the investment businesses of the Pearl Lemon Group.

SERPWizz

Founded in 2020, SERPWizz is an auditing tool fresh from the innovative think-tank of award-winning SEO agency creators. SERPwizz allows companies to create white label reports that fully capture what needs to be improved in terms of SEO on a website.

Plant Sumo

Plant Sumo is a UK vegan meal prep service. By delivering innovative, exciting, and flavorsome plant-based meals, Plant Sumo celebrates nutritious and delicious plant-based food with all people no matter what they eat.

References

↑ Palii, Ivan (30 September 2020). "Interview with Deepak Shukla, CEO at Pearl Lemon" (in en). Sitechecker. https://sitechecker.pro/interview-deepak-shukla/.
↑ "Deepak Shukla - Managing Director @ Pearl Lemon - Crunchbase Person Profile" (in en). https://www.crunchbase.com/person/deepak-shukla.
↑ Liu, David (24 March 2021). "Deepak Shukla of Pearl Lemon: How To Communicate With Your Team Effectively Even If You Are Rarely…" (in en). Authority Magazine. https://medium.com/authority-magazine/deepak-shukla-of-pearl-lemon-how-to-communicate-with-your-team-effectively-even-if-you-are-rarely-abef4bccaf99.
↑ "Meet Our Team". https://serpwizz.com/meet-the-team/.
↑ "Catering for 2022’s consumers in hospitality | Food & Drink" (in en). Speciality Food Magazine. 16 September 2022. https://www.specialityfoodmagazine.com/food-and-drink/catering-for-2022s-consumers-in-hospitality.
↑ Young, Helena (9 August 2022). "10 Budgeting Tips to Survive a Recession". Startups.co.uk. https://startups.co.uk/news/money-saving-tips-to-survive-a-recession/.
↑ "Deepak Shukla - TEDxHultLondon". https://tedxhultlondon.com/speaker/deepak-shukla.
↑ Shukla, Deepak (7 January 2022). "The Secret to Recruiting for Long-term Success". https://www.ted.com/talks/deepak_shukla_the_secret_to_recruiting_for_long_term_success.
↑ "Pearl Lemon’s Deepak Shukla Tackles Recruitment in His Second TEDx Talk" (in en). GlobeNewswire. 19 January 2022. https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/01/19/2369442/0/en/Pearl-Lemon-s-Deepak-Shukla-Tackles-Recruitment-in-His-Second-TEDx-Talk.html.
↑ "Building A Freelancing Consultant Career As A Woman In India And Beyond" (in en). Webinars. 17 June 2020. https://www.semrush.com/webinars/building-a-freelancing-consultant-career-as-a-woman-in-india-and-beyond/.
↑ "Deepak Shukla Discusses the Challenges His SEO Agency, Pearl Lemon, has Overcome During COVID-19" (in en). www.prnewswire.com. 23 December 2020. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deepak-shukla-discusses-the-challenges-his-seo-agency-pearl-lemon-has-overcome-during-covid-19-301197963.html.

External links

[1] Palii, Ivan (30 September 2020). "Interview with Deepak Shukla, CEO at Pearl Lemon" (in en). Sitechecker. https://sitechecker.pro/interview-deepak-shukla/.

[2] "Deepak Shukla - Managing Director @ Pearl Lemon - Crunchbase Person Profile" (in en). https://www.crunchbase.com/person/deepak-shukla.

[3] Liu, David (24 March 2021). "Deepak Shukla of Pearl Lemon: How To Communicate With Your Team Effectively Even If You Are Rarely…" (in en). Authority Magazine. https://medium.com/authority-magazine/deepak-shukla-of-pearl-lemon-how-to-communicate-with-your-team-effectively-even-if-you-are-rarely-abef4bccaf99.

[4] "Meet Our Team". https://serpwizz.com/meet-the-team/.

[5] "Catering for 2022’s consumers in hospitality | Food & Drink" (in en). Speciality Food Magazine. 16 September 2022. https://www.specialityfoodmagazine.com/food-and-drink/catering-for-2022s-consumers-in-hospitality.

[6] Young, Helena (9 August 2022). "10 Budgeting Tips to Survive a Recession". Startups.co.uk. https://startups.co.uk/news/money-saving-tips-to-survive-a-recession/.

[7] "Deepak Shukla - TEDxHultLondon". https://tedxhultlondon.com/speaker/deepak-shukla.

[8] Shukla, Deepak (7 January 2022). "The Secret to Recruiting for Long-term Success". https://www.ted.com/talks/deepak_shukla_the_secret_to_recruiting_for_long_term_success.

[9] "Pearl Lemon’s Deepak Shukla Tackles Recruitment in His Second TEDx Talk" (in en). GlobeNewswire. 19 January 2022. https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/01/19/2369442/0/en/Pearl-Lemon-s-Deepak-Shukla-Tackles-Recruitment-in-His-Second-TEDx-Talk.html.

[10] "Building A Freelancing Consultant Career As A Woman In India And Beyond" (in en). Webinars. 17 June 2020. https://www.semrush.com/webinars/building-a-freelancing-consultant-career-as-a-woman-in-india-and-beyond/.

[11] "Deepak Shukla Discusses the Challenges His SEO Agency, Pearl Lemon, has Overcome During COVID-19" (in en). www.prnewswire.com. 23 December 2020. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deepak-shukla-discusses-the-challenges-his-seo-agency-pearl-lemon-has-overcome-during-covid-19-301197963.html.

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