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Where we are

  • 13-14 The Schoolhouse
  • Second Avenue, The Village
  • Manchester, M171DZ

Services

Our core product will always be based around words and pictures. But we have no preconceptions about how those words and pictures will be delivered over time.

Social media could deliver the ROI promise right now, digital media could permanently decimate print by the end of the year. Google+ could out innovate Facebook, web 3.0 could massively change the rules of the b2b SEO game.

The truth is, we just don't know what our service offer will be in six months time, let alone two years time. Times they are a changing, and it's our job to ride the wave with you, whilst making sure we continue to deliver on our core promise - "Outstanding ideas, commercial creativity and savvy strategy focused on achieving results that matter".

Our service offer naturally gets blurred for good reason, but for now we've split this down into four core areas:

Creative

Relying on 'what you say' won't cut it anymore. Because everyone else is saying the same thing.

'How you say it' is pretty much the only real option for b2b businesses stuck in the commodity trap. That includes pretty much all of us...

So forget USPs. Welcome to the world of transformative brand ideas. Long term brand equity built around unique brand propositions that define and transcend everything you do.

  • Brand strategy
  • Creative strategy
  • Messaging, persona profiling and content strategy

Then we work out the most effective ROI model for delivery. And guess what? It isn't always necessarily digital. Sometimes pre 1.0 can outperform 2.0. Heresy we know, but trust us, we've seen the results for ourselves. So don't believe all of the the hype all of the time.

THINGS WE'RE RATHER GOOD AT

  • Branding, logo and corporate identity development
  • Advertising (across media and platforms)
  • Brand promotion campaign planning
  • Shareholder brand communications and annual report production
  • Collateral and brochureware creation
  • Motion graphics & video creation
  • Case studies & white paper design and writing
  • Newsletter dessign, build and print
  • RFP and ITT support
  • Exhibition support
  • Event and conference support
  • Presentation support (PowerPoint and Keynote primarily)

Digital

b2b business is digital business. Get used to it.

Google has made your customers digitally native. 2.0 has made them digitally promiscuous.

Now for the good news. Digital footprints left by your web visitors open up new analytical treasure chests of ROI and marketing performance measurement. We never forget that digital is a subset of direct marketing, so old school principles rule - whatever the latest killer application.

We can help you realise the place for digital experimentation in your b2b marketing world. It is your world.

THINGS WE'RE RATHER GOOD AT

  • User-centric design, accessibility & usability
  • User experience (UX), wireframing, information design and information architecture
  • Corporate, ecommerce, extranets, intranets, microsites and  channel portals
  • Campaign microsites
  • Mobile applications and websites
  • Marketing automation integration
  • Personalised URL campaigns (pURLs)
  • Rich applications
  • Email marketing & eCRM
  • Content Management Systems (CMS)
  • Search (SEO and PPC)
  • Analytics analysis, multi-variant testing and conversion optimisation
  • Web 2.0 campaign planning

Strategy

Consultancy is a banned word at Marketecture.

Having said this, everything we do is wrapped in strategy; we just don't always call it this or point it out. Sometimes you just need an agency to offer a genuinely independent perspective on your marketing challenges, to help you work through a problem, or to bring new independent insight. Some call it strategy, others call it common sense. Either way we won't hit you with an invoice for up-front thinking time - unless you ask us to employ some real 'brainware' to tackle a specific marketing challenge.

THINGS WE'RE RATHER GOOD AT

  • Brand strategy & brand evolution
  • Digital communications strategy
  • Messaging & brand proposition development
  • New product/service marketing strategy
  • Marketing communications strategy and planning
  • Marketing automation execution (comms matrices and lead scoring)
  • Customer research (Mystery Shop and Voice of Customer research)
  • Market research - quantitative and qualitative
  • Brand perception research and audits
  • Corporate identity development
  • Brand name development
  • CRM & data strategy

Public relations and social conversation marketing

Killer PR content. Killer PR tools. It's time to share your conversation.  We don't do fluff. But we can do Serious PR and content marketing focused on keeping you at the heart of the b2b conversation.

So you've managed to become a social b2b butterfly, but do you know what next? Do you have a plan or defined content marketing strategy? Do you have an intimate disciple of followers on Twitter, or a merry band of stalkers? What can Google+ offer over Facebook?  Where does old school media relations fit within this brave new mediaverse?

Following PR's extreme makeover in recent years with the introduction of new content and social publishing platforms, the face of Public Relations has never been so public. But one thing never changes. Quality counts above quantity. Yes the world and his dog can churn out endless content reams to get noticed. But to develop the right brand profile, good PR and content activity needs to be underpinned by clear objectives, issue insight, genuine news, intuitive timing and genius writing ability.

THINGS WE'RE RATHER GOOD AT

  • Expert b2b focused media relations and editorial placement
  • Web 2.0 conversation marketing, content strategy & development
  • Virtual Press Office service
  • Issues-based PR / Thought leadership
  • Event planning and management
  • Internal communications strategy and comms
  • Media training
  • Crisis and reputation management
  • Community relations
  • Newsletters
  • Speech writing
  • Awards entries
  • Copywriting support
  • Networking and sponsorship opportunity identification