Some clients come to us for one specific thing. Others need the whole picture planned, created and taken care of. Either way, we will help you work out what you need and what you don't.
The whole picture
When you'd rather just have someone handle it.
Most businesses know roughly what their marketing should be doing. Far fewer have the time or the people to do it, because running the business comes first — and quite right too.
Full service marketing is the answer to that. An outsourced marketing department, run by the people who actually do the work.
Where the business is going, who needs to hear about it, what is currently in the way, and what the marketing actually has to move. Nothing gets made until that part is settled.
Then we make the things — the website, the brand, the words, the photography, the film. Whatever the strategy asks for, built once and built properly, so everything after it has something to work with.
Once the core media is right, something has to bring people to it. Campaigns, search, social, email and advertising — planned, run and reported on, month after month, rather than posted and hoped for.
What we learn in the first three months is usually worth more than anything agreed in the first week. The plan changes because the evidence does, and you are told why.
Working out what the marketing has to do, before anyone makes anything.
Strategy, content, social and campaigns working together rather than as a collection of disconnected wee tactics sitting in separate silos.
If you don't know where you're going, you could end up somewhere you don't want to be. That could mean a full strategy, a practical action plan, campaign planning, content direction, supplier management or simply an experienced second opinion.
Explore marketing consultancy →Senior marketing leadership on a day or two a month — setting the direction, holding the plan together and keeping everyone honest about what is working. For businesses that need the thinking more than another pair of hands.
Explore fractional marketing director →Before anything gets designed, someone has to decide what the brand is for, who it is talking to and what it will never say. That is a different job from making the logo, and it is the one that makes the making straightforward.
Explore brand consultancy →Your brand is more than a logo.
It's the impression your business leaves on everyone who comes into contact with it — on screen, in print, at an exhibition, and in the documents your sales team sends out.
It's the impression your business leaves on everyone who comes into contact with it. We create brand identities with a clear, consistent visual foundation — logos, colour palettes, typography, visual style and guidelines.
Explore graphic design and branding →What you do, who for, how you sound, how you look and what you'd never say — written so your team, your suppliers and your AI tools all work from the same foundation.
Explore Brand Brain →Annual reports, impact reports and corporate publications that help organisations communicate clearly and credibly.
Explore annual report design →Campaign concepts, advertising creative and marketing media designed to carry clear messages across print, digital and social channels.
Explore advertising and campaign creative →Stands, banners, signage and event graphics designed to read at a glance and still hold up when somebody walks over for a closer look.
Explore exhibition and display →Words, pictures and film worth putting your name to.
The raw material your marketing runs on, captured inside your actual business with your actual people. Not bought from a stock library and hoped for the best.
Short films, interviews, case studies, promotional videos and social content — planned, filmed and edited with proper marketing thinking behind it.
Explore video production →People, places, products, projects, workplaces and behind-the-scenes content for websites, social media, brochures and campaigns.
Explore photography →Website copy, blogs, articles, case studies, campaign copy and marketing content written for humans first — with search engines kept firmly in mind.
Explore editorial and writing →Member magazines, customer titles and corporate publications. We were making these for Royal Mail, Bank of Scotland and British Gas twenty years before the industry invented a name for it.
Explore customer magazines and publications →Great content is not just “stuff to post”. It helps people understand what makes your business different, gives them a reason to engage, and supports everything from your website and SEO to campaigns and sales conversations.
Explore content marketing →Everything that lives on a screen and has to work.
Brochure sites, online shops and platforms with memberships and payments — plus the hosting and support that keeps them running long after launch.
From brochure websites and eCommerce sites to larger corporate websites with plenty going on behind the scenes, we build clear, search-friendly websites with strong content, practical functionality and proper support.
Explore web design and development →Product pages that do the selling, checkouts that don't lose people, and the connections to your stock and payment systems that keep it all running quietly in the background.
Explore ecommerce websites →Reliable managed hosting, updates and practical support for businesses that would rather not wrestle with the technical bits. Most agencies take days to answer an email. We don't.
Explore hosting and support →Driving people to everything you have just built.
Campaigns, social and email that bring people to the website, the film and the words — planned, run and reported on, rather than posted and hoped for.
Digital marketing works best when your website, content, SEO, social media, email and paid campaigns are pulling in the same direction. Joined-up, useful and measurable — not a collection of disconnected wee tactics sitting in separate silos.
Explore digital marketing →Joined-up social content that supports your website, SEO, PR and wider marketing — not just posts for the sake of keeping the feed alive.
Explore social media marketing →HTML campaigns, newsletters and customer communications that people actually open — planned alongside the rest of your marketing rather than bolted on at the end.
Explore email marketing →Being found, and being recommended.
Search is changing. People still type into Google, but they also ask an assistant for a supplier — and something decides whether your name comes up. We work on both.
Practical organic SEO, content and website improvements that help search engines and humans understand what you do.
Explore search engine optimisation →When someone asks an AI assistant for a supplier, something decides whether your name comes up. We structure your content, your answers and the technical groundwork so that it does.
Explore AI search and visibility →We help plan, manage and optimise Google Ads campaigns so paid search works alongside your website, SEO, content and wider marketing.
Explore Google Ads and PPC management →The less usual things we get asked for.
Work that does not fit a standard brief — built for a particular audience, a particular process, or a particular kind of scrutiny.
Digital planning consultation tools, content and campaign support for projects that need clear public communication and detailed feedback.
Explore virtual planning consultations →Some clients come to us with an idea rather than a brief — something they can picture but have not seen done before. We work out what it would actually take, what it should look like, and whether it is worth doing. Then we make it.
Tell us what you have in mind →Discovery. Creativity. Realisation.
The strategy, the words, the pictures, the film and the build all come from the same people. Nothing gets lost in translation, because there's nobody to translate it to.
What you're trying to achieve, who needs to hear it, and what's currently in the way.
The thinking, the design, the words, the photography and the film that carry it.
Built, launched, measured and looked after — by people who answer the phone.
Thirty-five years of working out which idea will land, then going out and making it happen. That's the bit you're really buying.
Blue-chip companies, ambitious SMEs, charities, hotels, schools, veterinary groups and engineering firms — and one or two we're still not allowed to name.
Membership site with document management, member and event payments.
Websites · Development
A brochure that gives a technical business the presence its work deserves.
Print · Photography
Connect. Explore. Recharge. A campaign that gave guests a reason to book.
Campaign · Design
Brand and publication design for a global scientific instruments maker.
Branding · Print
Campaign and member communications for a national membership body.
Content · Campaign
When it all needs sorting yesterday
We can be with you shortly.
Reddishpink Brand Brain
What you do, who for, why it matters, how you sound, how you look — and the things you'd never say.
Your team, your suppliers and your AI tools all work from the same foundation, so everything that gets made sounds like you. Build it once and every job after it is faster, sharper and more consistent.
Ways to work together
Monthly programmes for businesses that want marketing happening all year, not just when there's a project on.
Getting found by the right people, month after month.
One day inside your business. Months of content out of it.
Your senior marketing team, without the payroll.
The foundation everything else works from.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Thirty-five years, the first twenty in customer magazine publishing for Royal Mail, Bank of Scotland, RBS, Scottish Power and British Gas. Publisher, Account Director, twice a New Business Director.
He works out what your business should be saying — and he's also the one who turns up with the camera.
35 yearsCLIENT & CONTENT DIRECTOR
Twelve years here, and fifteen before it running international travel for blue-chip executives — a job where "it'll be fine" isn't an answer.
She holds several businesses' voices in her head at once and keeps every one sounding like itself.
27 yearsDESIGN
Design, layout, typography and finishing. Dave is the one who knows why it's four points out.
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— yearsDEVELOPMENT
Builds, integrations, functionality and the difficult bits. The person who's still there when it matters.
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— yearsTell us what you're trying to achieve, what's getting in the way, or what you already know needs sorted. We'll tell you straight what we'd do about it, and roughly what it would cost.