A marketing agency for Derbyshire that's actually one person: strategy, social media, content, web and video handled by someone you can meet - from £350/month, no contracts. Your part-time marketing department, covering the whole county.
Most Derbyshire small businesses don't need a big agency - they need one accountable person who plans the marketing and then actually does it. Strategy, content, social, web and video, month in, month out.
A clear monthly plan for what to focus on, when to do it, and how to tell whether it is working. Direction first - the doing follows.
Strategy, content creation, scheduling and community management across Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn - consistent, local, and actually engaging.
Blogs, emails, ads and website copy written to rank on Google and sound like you - not like a marketing agency wrote them.
Custom, hand-coded websites and the search work that gets them found - built and maintained by the same person who runs your marketing.
Real photos and video of your business, shot on location across Derbyshire - the content that makes everything else perform better.
A monthly report that says what happened, what it cost, what it brought in, and what we are doing next. No vanity metrics, no jargon.
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Anywhere in Derbyshire or on a call - your business, your customers, your goals, and what has and has not worked before. Facts first, no assumptions.
A clear, prioritised marketing plan matched to your budget - what we do monthly, what it costs, and what it is meant to achieve.
Then I do the work - content, social, web, video, strategy - as your part-time marketing department. One person, accountable, on first-name terms.
Monthly reporting in plain English, a rolling plan that adapts, and marketing that keeps happening when you get busy - because that is the whole point.
You don't need to tick every box. But if a couple of these sound familiar, we should have a conversation.
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Marketing a Derby B2B firm, a Ripley trades business and a Dales visitor-facing independent are three different jobs - different audiences, different channels, different measures of success. Covering Derbyshire properly means knowing which is which: what works in the city gets ignored in the market towns, and what works for locals misses the tourists entirely.
I run it all from Belper, near enough the centre of the county to make monthly face-to-face meetings normal anywhere from Derby to Matlock. One person plans and delivers the lot - so the strategy, the content and the reporting all come from someone who has actually visited your business, not a dashboard.
Local pages for the towns I serve most - each with its own detail on working there.
My plans start at £350 a month, month to month, with no contracts. For comparison, typical agency retainers in the East Midlands run anywhere from £1,000 to £3,000+ a month, and a junior in-house marketer costs £2,000+ a month before you train them. You get a plan and the delivery - strategy, content, social, web or video - scaled to your budget.
At a bigger agency you get an account manager, a junior doing the work, and a monthly report written for renewal time. With me you get the same person for everything - the one who plans it, does it, and answers the phone. Fewer layers, faster decisions, and nothing lost in translation.
A plan plus the doing. Every month has an agreed mix - it might be social content and a blog, a website improvement, a video shoot, or ad management - matched to your priorities and budget. You'll always know what's being done and why, and it flexes as your business changes.
No - I'm based in Belper but work with businesses across Derbyshire: Derby, Matlock, Ilkeston, Ripley, Heanor, Alfreton, Duffield and beyond. Most of the county is under 40 minutes away, so face-to-face meetings are normal, not an annual event.
Depends on the channel, and I'll be straight about it: social presence and ads can show movement in weeks; SEO typically takes three to six months to build; brand and reputation compound over years. The monthly report shows the trajectory honestly - I'd rather set real expectations and beat them.
Monthly marketing is the core of what I do. Here's the rest.
Blog posts, email campaigns, ad copy and social captions. SEO-optimised content that sounds like you.
Professional headshots, product photography and brand imagery for businesses across Belper and Derbyshire.
Brand films, interviews, testimonials and promotional content. Professional video across Derbyshire.
Monthly marketing direction. What to focus on, when to do it, and how to measure it.
Logo design, brand identities, marketing materials and print design for businesses in Belper.
Custom websites for Belper and Derbyshire businesses. Fast, modern, mobile-first sites that convert.
Practical AI tools for your business. ChatGPT, Claude, workflow automation and custom AI solutions.
No commitment. No pressure. Just a straightforward chat about your business and what steady marketing would look like.
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