Unlike the typical digital marketing agency we have a strong technology and asset focus and are usually little or no help when it comes to content,words and outreach. We have no content writers or social media marketing experts in house ! We instead focus our efforts to create a website or app that works for its purpose, to produce web design that converts, a logo that is remembered, social media adverts that get clicks and search engine optimisation strategies that work!

So in a nutshell of the typical digital marketing agency services we provide:

• Search engine optimization (SEO)
• Pay-per-click advertising (PPC)
• Email marketing
• Search engine marketing (SEM)
• Content marketing
• Social Media Marketing (SMM)
• Affiliate marketing

We take pride in our work and indeed your success is our success! We believe the most important foundation of any business relationship is honesty, so if we can’t do it in time, not by your desired deadline or we do not have the in-house expertise you’ll know this before we even send a formal proposal. As intuitive as this may sound, unfortunately we have heard far too many stories from our customers of their painful digital journeys of false promises, half finished projects and simply inexperienced providers burning through budgets. The caring doesn’t end there though! We believe our role is to listen but to also advise, not to silently nod just to start the project, as we have spent years learning the crafts we now practice so hopefully we can present another few options you hadn’t considered before 🙂

Broadly speaking there are 3 options available to a business in the United Kingdom for outsourcing the creation, maintenance and development of their digital presence (including services such as branding, web design, custom development, digital marketing or other outsourced digital services):

1. The international outsource option: This option of hiring a group of freelancers or agencies around the globe although is very tempting due the lower prices typically has its own shortcomings:

• Typically ranging between £10 – £20/hour
• Little control over disclosed information
• Time and cultural differences causing communication issues
• Quality control difficulties

So although this option is still a viable one it is very much like playing the roulette where you may get really lucky but also may not

2. The local freelancer option: Now this option is much more tempting, as many of the shortcomings of the international outsource option are overcome and a business can have services delivered quite quickly, still as with everything, there are disadvantages. So let’s consider the typical very highly rated design, development or digital marketing freelancer on a platform like people per hour:

• Typically ranging between £20 – £40/hour
• Willingness for calls and ongoing feedback
• Work overload and physical limitations
• Very specialised

So this a really good option especially for smaller tasks, yet the biggest shortcomings arrive when the project is large or multidimensional, as in that setting multiple freelancers will need to be hired, each specialising in one area with no guarantee that they will work well together and with a much higher quality control time investment on the business’ side.

3. The local agency option: Last but not least, the good old agency, which certainly is not for everyone. Benefiting from skill sharing from having professionals from multiple fields and with a much larger workforce capable of undertaking very large projects with in house specialists, the typical agencies still have their shortcomings!

• Greater strategic input from a broader set of expertise
• One stop solution capability even for large projects
• Typically ranging between £60 – £200/hour
• Bureaucratic and slow

So indeed this option is not for everyone, with many agencies only taking projects above £5,000 in value. That said though, the cost isn’t the greatest problem, it’s the bureaucracy and speed of delivery, at least in our opinion having worked in such agencies and the stories from our clients. Typically known for weeks of billed brainstorming with 37 in person meetings before even starting the project the typical agencies are truly a luxury for most businesses!

So which one is us?

None of them! With the above knowledge we have in fact from the beginning aimed to be in the golden middle 🙂 We are an agency, a team of 22 people in fact, but we don’t have an office that you can visit, we don’t hold meetings in person because we just don’t need to! Anything discussed in person can be discussed in a video or phone call, every concept can be reviewed digitally rather than on paper and truth be told we don’t need more than a few calls to create the specification for your project!

So you still get the attention to detail, the breadth of skills, very (VERY) fast turnaround but at a budget! We charge a flat hourly rate of £48/hour (exc. VAT) regardless of whether it’s web design, website development, user experience improvement or branding. In fact, unlike the typical agency which is custom quote only and doesn’t even show a price list, for many of our most popular services we have created fixed price bundles and packages which you can directly buy on our site, so you don’t need to wait for a quote – each offer will tell you exactly what’s included and what’s not for the price and when you can expect the results!