Few businesses need all of this. The first conversation is about where yours is going, and which of these will get it there.
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Strategy, positioning and senior counsel, with the business goal set first.
Every engagement starts with the business goal: where your business is working towards next. Growth works back from it. Who buys, why they choose you, and which work will move you closer.
The plan that follows is written down, priced and reported against every month, and the work in Innovation, Digital and Content is held to it.
Each can be engaged on its own. Most clients start with one and add others as the plan needs them.
A written plan, with your business goal on page one.
We look at where the business is, where it is going and what stands between the two: the market, the competition, the people who buy and the marketing already in place. The result is a plan with priorities, budgets and a timeline, written so your leadership team can hold everyone to it, us included.
Senior counsel at the table, for as long as it is useful.
For businesses with a plan and people to deliver it, who want a senior marketing view in the room. We sit with the leadership team, guide the people doing the work and say plainly when something is not worth doing.
What the business stands for, and how it looks and sounds.
Positioning comes first: who the business is for, what it does better and why that matters to the people who buy. The identity follows from it, then the guidelines that keep it consistent wherever it appears.
Reaching the buyers you can already name.
When the right buyers are known, waiting to be found is slow. We build the list, write plain outbound sequences, send them from properly prepared mailboxes and point them to a page made for that conversation. It is measured in replies and meetings booked.
The whole marketing function, run for you.
For businesses ready to hand the function over entirely. Strategy, digital, content and innovation, run by one team to one plan, with a named lead and the founder in the room.
A single marketing hire costs £45k to £55k a year before employer costs, and brings one set of skills. This brings all of them.
“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”
You tell us where the business is going and what is in the way. We tell you plainly whether we’re the right agency to get it there.
An independent look at your position for a fixed fee, ending in a written report and a recommendation. Sometimes the recommendation is not us.
A defined scope, a stated fee and a named lead, with your business goal on page one. Nothing starts until it is agreed in writing.
Your leadership team receives a report each month on the enquiries, sales or bookings the work has brought in, and the plan is adjusted against it.
“Alex and his team are the best I have ever worked with and are the only company who is as attentive as we are for success, customer satisfaction and providing outstanding results always.”
Strategy is a defined project: we assess the business, write the plan and hand it over. Consultancy is ongoing: we stay at the table and advise as the plan is put to work. Many clients start with one and move to the other.
Yes. We can guide an in-house marketer, oversee other suppliers or run the function outright. The plan stays the same either way. What changes is who does the work.
No. We act for one business per sector in any area, and we hold to it even when it costs us work.
That is your choice. Some clients run it themselves, some retain us for consultancy and some hand us the whole function. The plan is yours whichever you choose.
No. If a piece of work won’t make a measurable difference to the business, we’ll say so, and we won’t do it.
Yes. We present findings, join leadership meetings and help make the case internally, in person or on a call.
Every engagement has a defined scope and a stated fee, agreed in writing before any work begins. Tell us where you’re going and we’ll tell you what it would involve.
Tell us where you’re going. We’ll tell you, candidly, whether we’re the right agency to take you there.
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