From operations director
to your marketing department.
I'm Norton Hunt, and I run North Bear Media from Belper, in the heart of Derbyshire. Before this, I was an operations director for a logistics business - which is an unusual route into marketing, and exactly why my clients like working with me.
Running operations teaches you things an agency career doesn't: what a marketing invoice looks like from the paying side, why "brand awareness" doesn't pay wages, and how little time a business owner actually has for meetings about meetings. So that's the agency I built - one person, plain English, and marketing measured by whether the phone rings.
Today I design and hand-code websites, run social media, film and photograph businesses, and act as a part-time marketing department for companies across the Amber Valley and Derbyshire - from £350 a month, with no contracts, because the work should be what keeps you.