Marketing advice and training
Marketing planning and strategy
As a small business owner, are you:
Worried your marketing isn't as effective as expected?
Seeking relief from marketing exhaustion?
Struggling with influencing your existing clients to buy from you again and to attract new ones?
If you answered “yes“ to any or all of the above, I can help you create your own marketing plan that solves these problems and more!
A marketing plan is crucial for several reasons.
Why? A good marketing plan:
Clearly defines the marketing you should be doing
Applies a structured and consistent approach to your marketing
Provides you with confidence in your marketing decision-making
Ultimately, your marketing plan contributes to the growth and success of your business. Without a good marketing plan you risk investing time and money in activities that may be ineffective or irrelevant to your business.
And yes, of course, I have my own marketing plan!
My training will provide you with the essential knowledge and practical skills you need to develop a marketing plan that is realistic, sensible and unique to your business. My pragmatic approach ensures you will understand how to bring together the fundamentals of a marketing plan - one that, most importantly, works for you.
The training I offer follows the official Chartered Institute of Marketing qualification with practical techniques on how to:
Distinguish yourself from the competition and produce your Unique Selling Points
Define your target audience and how best to reach and engage with them
Manage relationships with your clients for repeat business and referrals
Set marketing objectives and develop a marketing strategy
Produce branding, content and key messages
Consider the right marketing tactics to implement
Measure the effectiveness of your marketing
If you prefer, I can also provide marketing planning and strategy training without creating a full plan.
Bespoke marketing advice
As a small business owner, do you need specific and actionable marketing advice?
Then I can help you.
All business owners have unique marketing challenges. I help small businesses find the right solutions.
Don’t worry if you’re not sure what you need right now. Clients often come to me for help but aren’t sure what with - and I love it when they do! I see it as my job to advise them, providing clear direction on their marketing focus.
My marketing services include:
Launching a new business
Launching a new product or service
Defining your offer and what to say to clients
Defining your target audience and ideal client
Producing a Client Relationship Management (CRM) strategy
Producing a communications and branding strategy
Preparing for an upcoming event, a conference or exhibition
From chaos to clarity.
It could be that you just need an initial brainstorming session for us to explore ideas together. This is always lots of fun. I love encouraging creativity with my clients… plus I get a chance to use my white board and Post-it notes!
Let's work together
I offer two hour one-to-one marketing advice sessions or training workshops, currently priced at £65 per person or £180 per person for a series of three on weekdays Monday to Thursday from: 11am to 1pm; 1pm to 3pm; and 4pm to 6pm.
These take place in my consultancy room at my home in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, which provides an informal and relaxed setting for you to feel comfortable.
For two or more people, we can agree a suitable venue, which might be at your office or an alternative business location.
Once booked in, you will receive a confirmation email with questions you will be required to answer for my preparation. You will receive an invoice for payment in advance.
I would also be happy to discuss the option of a regular monthly or quarterly marketing consultancy service. Prices vary depending on your requirements.