Portsmouth's marketing agency alternative. One marketer, all of it.

Independent marketing consultants in the UK typically charge £250–£500 a day. I charge £350 a day, published on this website, and most clients retain between one and eight days a month depending on how much of the doing they want taken off their plate. Agencies for the same scope usually run £1,500–£6,000 a month on retainer, with no breakdown of what the hours bought.

For most established SMEs, yes — if they've genuinely done all of it before. I've spent sixteen years across strategy, brand, websites, content, SEO, paid ads, email and design, built and sold an agency, and run marketing as a Head of Marketing growing revenue to £3.7m. For specialist overflow such as heavy video production, I direct a small trusted network, but you deal with me.

Outsourced marketing means handing your marketing to an experienced marketer outside your business instead of hiring a department or an agency. You get senior strategy and someone who actually runs it — website, content, social, email, ads — on a monthly retainer sized to your budget. For a Portsmouth or Hampshire SME it typically costs a fraction of one full-time hire.

You retain a set number of dedicated days each month — from one to eight — at £350 a day, booked in the calendar in advance. On your day I work only on your business, you get a note at the start saying what I'm doing and one at the end saying what got done. Engagements start with a six-month initial term, then roll monthly.

It depends on how many marketing disciplines you need firing at once. One or two, clearly defined: a freelancer. Five or six at high intensity with real budget: an agency. Enough work to fill a full-time role plus someone to manage them: hire. Five or six disciplines at moderate intensity with nobody internal to hold it together — the most common position for a £500k–£5m business — is where an outsourced marketer fits.

Paid search can produce enquiries the week it goes live if the landing page is good. Fixing a website that isn't converting usually shows within a month. SEO and content are a three-to-six-month build that then keeps paying. Any marketing arrangement should be judged over at least six months, which is why my initial term is six months.

You have direct access — no gatekeepers, no account manager. Genuinely urgent things get handled on the day. Everything else goes on the plan for your next dedicated day, where you'll see it listed and ticked off. Because the days are in the calendar in advance, you always know when the next one is.

Yes. Plenty of the work happens remotely and the model travels, so I have clients across the UK. But I'm built for the South Coast: face-to-face days, local market knowledge and actually turning up. Most clients are within about fifty miles of Portsmouth — Southampton, Fareham, Gosport, Havant, Chichester, Winchester and across Hampshire and West Sussex.

Fewer things than most lists suggest. Almost every business needs a website that sells rather than describes, a way to be found when people search locally, and one channel it shows up on consistently. Everything else earns its place when there's a reason for it. The Deep Dive at the start of every engagement is where we work out which of those your business actually needs.