Act I Everyone else is in the wings
Look like the
only option.
You keep losing work to firms that are worse than you. Not in the meeting. Before it, while the buyer is deciding who is worth a meeting at all.
We build the website and the wider footprint a smaller firm needs to compete: the positioning, the pages buyers actually look for, and the evidence that makes you worth a call. Then we keep it current and run the marketing around it. Same senior team for the thinking and the building.
Book a 15-minute callI am Ricky Wheeler. Twenty-three years of this, and you deal with me. There is no account manager here, so you talk to whoever is holding the work.
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Act II Why you keep losing
Your market is a photocopier.
Every B2B website says the same four things in the same three colours, so the buyer picks the safest name on the list. Usually the biggest one.
Open five competitor sites in five tabs. Cover the logos. You cannot tell which is which, and neither can the person about to spend money.
So they fall back on the safe answer. The familiar name, the one that looks most established, the one they can find the most about. Not the best one on the list.
That is the loss you never hear about. Nobody emails to say they shortlisted somebody else.
Sameness is not a brand problem, it is a revenue problem. A six-person firm that is easy to find, easy to understand and obviously good at the job does not need to be the biggest name on the list.
Twelve homepages. Same nav, same headline block, same three boxes. The further down the machine they go the fainter they get, which is roughly what happens to the attention span of your potential customers.
Act III The promise
We are a marketing agency. We just take the keys first.
- 01
Revive
We take the estate on and make it work: domains, page structure, content model, speed, mobile-first, forms, tracking, search optimisation. Rebuilt where it needs rebuilding, extended where the market has shape: cities, industries, disciplines, roles.
- 02
Keep
Hosting, backups, patches, SSL, uptime, the form that quietly stops emailing you. Somebody is responsible. That somebody has a name and a response time.
- 03
Fill
New pages every month. Search Console watched rather than installed. Lead magnets that qualify before the call. The enquiries counted at the end of it.
Marketing is the job. Campaigns, content, search, outbound, the pipeline at the end of it. The reason we take the estate on first is that go-to-market lands a great deal harder when the thing underneath it works, and we would rather own that than argue with whoever does.
It is common for the campaign and the site to sit with different people. When that happens, nobody is accountable for the part where the pipeline is actually generated.
What you are actually hiring
A marketing department, without hiring one.
The industry word for this is a fractional CMO. The version people are wary of arrives with a plan and no hands, so you go and find somebody to build it and the plan dies in the gap.
This one arrives with the people. Twenty-three years of running marketing in B2B and recruitment technology, and behind it a small senior bench: design, copy, strategy, film and development. The strategy and the build are the same conversation, because they are the same team.
See what a day and a programme cost →Act IV The ledger
Six clients. Real numbers.
Checked on 23 August 2026.
- 343 pages across five domainsWas: one generalist site, four markets blurred into it The Consultancy Group
Six people now. 234 article URLs, two gated salary guides, an invite-only CFO roundtable series. Still running a year after handover.
See the build → - 270 existing website pages mapped and re-engineered, one at a timeWas: two or three consultations a month Synel UK
Ten years of WordPress moved without losing the rankings. Then buyer pages, two calculators and a site in French. 25 consultation requests since March, from a site that produced almost none.
See the build → - 176 quote requests in twelve monthsWas: four pages, and £500 a month on blogs nobody read Horsley's Sameday
86 locations times 8 industries is 688 combination pages, each answering on its own regional number. An enquiry in 49 weeks out of 53, and never two quiet weeks running.
See the build → - 23 pages, from nothing at allWas: no website at all, in the fifteenth year of trading Keybridge IT
Incorporated in 2010, 200 clients, no website. Now five industries, two lead magnets and a nine-field form that sorts the referral before the call.
See the build → - 94 company boards, read every morningWas: the best market knowledge in space, and no way to prove it AstroTalent
A 53-position scarcity taxonomy that can say how few people in North America could actually fill a given seat. Three months in, and the most ambitious thing we have built.
See the build → - 46 vetted suppliers, every price publicWas: a WhatsApp group with nothing to sell RecConnect
A WhatsApp group with 200 recruitment leaders in it and no way to charge anyone. Now three revenue lines.
See the build →
Act V What you can buy
Five steps, in the order they happen.
Each one is bought on its own and each one ends somewhere you can see from here. Nobody runs all five at once, and plenty of people never leave step two.
- 01
The website
Because everything after it runs through the site
From £1,750
- 02
Looking after it
So it does not quietly rot the way the last one did
From £150 a month
- 03
One channel, ninety days
Taken from nothing to working, then handed over
£1,500 a month, three months
- 04
Keeping that channel fed
Once it exists and there is something to manage
From £1,500 a month
- 05
Assets, when you want them
A report, a guide, a sales kit. One at a time
From £3,000
Curtain Who does it
We have already made the expensive mistakes.
A small senior team, brought in for the thing each of them is good at: design, copy, strategy, film, development. Twenty-three years of it, mostly in recruitment technology, three companies that were eventually acquired.
Four thousand red fedoras, delivered to San Francisco four weeks after the event they were for. A 1950s cocktail van forklifted onto a first-floor terrace, on the morning a national rail strike began. Nine thousand pages that Google read as spam. £2,500 a month on blogs that were four paragraphs long. £800 a month for SEO on a site with no analytics and no tracking installed.
Some of those are ours. You get the conclusions without the year it took to reach them.
About →Fifteen minutes. No deck.
Tell me what your marketing is supposed to be doing and what it is actually doing. If those two things match, I will say so and you can have your afternoon back.
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