Maya Mistry
6 months ago
Right then, so you’ve made your decision. S2F is the right agency for you. What are the next steps, I hear you ask? We’ve developed a very simple staged process to your marketing: the 4 Ds.
We will come to your offices and spend a few hours getting to know you, your business, and the products/services you offer. We’ll discuss your objectives, customers, potential customers, the industry, the message, the correct client personas, and of course, communication.
This discovery session allows us to develop, alongside you and your team, a marketing plan/strategy. This strategy will usually involve planning 6-12 months ahead to ensure we can agree timescales, responsibilities, and measurements.
Once the above are all agreed, we then get into the delivery stage. This could include marketing activities such as web development, email marketing, social media management, video, photography etc. The team will work with you to produce online and offline materials on brand and on message.
Following the marketing plan, we will then start to drive and distribute the marketing messaging through many mediums such as Google, YouTube, LinkedIn, Email, PR etc.
The intention? Drive lead generation, drive sales, and drive awareness. By having robust reporting on all activities, it allows you and S2F to identify key performing activities seeing first-hand what is working well and what can be improved. Ultimately, we want your marketing to achieve your goals.
And once DRIVE is underway, we then roll around to DISCOVER again. Discover activities working well, discover new markets, discover how the marketing has converted to sales.
Since 2005, we have worked successfully with this model for all our clients and hope to incorporate the 4 Ds into your marketing.
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If you’re interested in working with S2F on producing a marketing plan for the near or distant future, then give us a call, arrange a Teams meeting or we can simply visit.
We get to know your business first, way before we start looking at branding and the visuals. We usually start off with a strategy session at your location and really get to know you and your business.
We start off with understanding your business goals and targets, and what the effect on your business will be when achieving them. The target audience in our opinion is one of the most valuable areas of marketing and gets overlooked by many a small marketing agency. We want to know who they are, what they do now, and what do you want them to do?
Once we have these nailed, we then will move onto the message. What is your story? Why are you better than the competition? What is your ‘showstopper’?
Then we move onto the communication methods of branding, emails, website, social media, video etc. As we have an experienced inhouse team of marketers, whatever the marketing discipline you need, S2F has the person for the job, and if we don’t, we’ll find one.
S2F understand design and appreciate the overall strategy of sales and marketing. A group of OEMs such as us need a return on our investment. We need to make sure that all marketing is in line with our business objectives and reinforces the sales and marketing goals and deliverables.
Peter Davies Chairman, MAN Group
Working as an integral part of our business, Start 2 Finish has contributed massively to our fantastic growth over the last four years and continue to support our future business growth.
Martin Wardell Managing Director, MWA Technology
While working with S2F we have refocused our product offer, sales and marketing. Business is booming. I would recommend S2F to anyone looking to boost sales.
Stewart Coull Managing Director
I’ve been working with S2F for the past 4 years and found each team member to be professional, friendly, supportive, and people I would genuinely class as work friends. With support from Warren and Steve from the very top, to the daily support by Richard Hill, Luke and Sam, our account is always in safe hands.
Nikki Crook Marketing Manager, Photofab
S2F are innovative and proactive marketeers who take the time to really understand what our customer wants.
Chris Wood Managing Director, DWV
With 720% increase in online lead generation, S2F have contributed massively to our fantastic growth over the last 10 years.
Matthew Rose Sales Director, MWA Technology
We have been working with S2F for a number of years now and their professionalism and creative design has taken our brand to the next level. By creating a structured and proactive marketing strategy for our company we have seen a huge increase in sales over this period.
Ian Bytheway Managing Director, Conveyor Units
S2F’s support and marketing expertise has helped Mathieson establish its position as one of the leading providers of actuarial services for Pensions and Divorce. I would recommend S2F to anyone in need of a full marketing service.
George Mathieson Mathieson Consulting
I’ve worked with S2F for 8 years, their service has always been ‘spot on’.
Richard Wileman Managing Director, Wileman Fleet
Working closely with S2F has resulted in a 195% increase in sales leads.
Claire Irving New Business Sales Manager, Total Enterprise Solutions
S2F are by far the best marketing agency I’ve ever worked with.
Paul Faulkner CEO, Total Enterprise Solutions
Our new website is winning us new stainless steel stamping business. A visual show and tell! I can highly recommend the services of Start 2 Finish Marketing. Great to deal with and always deliver!
Rowan Crozier Managing Director, Brandauer
Since 2005, we have scoured the West Midlands and surrounding areas for people who understand and live by our ethos ‘look after the customer and success will look after itself’. We are all experienced, creative, and conscientious marketers with focused areas of expertise. Combined we are a force to be reckoned with; an ideal marketing team for any business looking to stand out from the crowd.
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If you’re looking to speak casually to an expert about a possible retainer or a specific marketing project, just fill in the form and we’ll come back to you that same working day.
