Marketing support services

Help with your marketing

Do you love marketing? Probably not. You run your business because that’s what you’re good at.

But – marketing is a necessity to maintain and essential to grow your business.

We love marketing – but that’s our day job and why we still do it after all of these years. We also get a kick out of helping other businesses – we understand the stress of running a business and we love the feeling of taking problems away and making people feel good about being successful.

When you work with us, you’ll get

• Access to a team of marketing professionals
• Ideas, direction and hands-on help
• Coaching in areas that you’re unsure of
• Peace of mind – and some of your sanity back
• A feel good feeling that another company wants to understand where you’re coming from – and contribute towards your success
• Help creating your marketing team
• Marketing and management mentorship

Want to get in touch quickly?

Send us a WhatsApp message or voice-note outlining how we can help and we’ll get right back to you.

Mentoring

Many businesses, excitingly, reach the point of needing to bring marketing skills in-house. But investing in an experienced marketing manager right from the start isn’t always an option. There are ways you can make the most of existing team members or build you team from the ground up. We have experience of building and coaching teams and we can do the same for you.

The mentoring service helps you if…

• You want to bring your marketing in-house and need to recruit
• Someone in your business is taking on the marketing responsibility but they need some help
• You want to upskill a marketing assistant or executive to take more of a lead on your marketing

Ideas and inspiration

Sometimes it can be tricky to keep coming up with new ideas for your marketing – especially when it comes to content creation. You want to stand out and you won’t do that by creating the same thing as before, or by creating the same thing as your competitors. Creating content takes creative thought and is a marketing discipline in its own right.

We have experienced content marketing experts who have worked at a local and international level – and they can be at your disposal if you want!

You can get ideas for concepts, themes, specific content and design for your

• Multitouch campaigns
• Sales enablement material
• Thought leadership content
• Customer engagement
• Print content
• Website content
• Social media content
  

Direction

There are several layers of marketing direction that are helpful to every business. Your strategic and general marketing direction being one, but also the appropriate and helpful direction for the activities you do. Marketing is a broad area that in many businesses is fulfilled by teams with different areas of expertise – this is hard to replicate in small and medium sized businesses and even the large businesses ask for external help with tactical direction.

We can help you execute your marketing activities like a pro. If you don’t have the person-power of a whole marketing team of experts in their fields then we can provide that expertise. We’ve got a team who are experienced at local and international levels and can provide direction in specifics such as

• Coming up with content ideas
• Customer engagement
• Planning great website content
• Turning research into more consumable and engaging content for use in marketing
• Creating text for web and print
• Design
• Blogging

Content creation

It’s like making toast. You can make a slice of toast – but you want it just right. You don’t want your toast under-toasted and you don’t want it burnt – you just want it perfectly toasty. And we know how to make good toast. Knowing how to get your marketing just right takes education, skill, practice and experience (as opposed to a toaster with a timer setting). This is where we can help you.

We can help you create great marketing content including

• Blog creation
• Transforming research or other ‘dull’ content into something beautiful and interesting
• Print and website content – text and design
• Sales support material
• Customer engagement material

If you’d rather do this yourself then we also offer training courses to help boost your content creation pizzazz.

Outgoing support

Plans always changing? Not enough time in the day to run AND promote your business? Need marketing support but don’t want to hire someone? Want access to decades of sales and marketing experience? Stay on track with a retainer package where we’re your partners – we help you create and make the most of your opportunities.

We help you build your business by getting the word out there, helping you retain customers and build your company reputation – plus help you save your own sanity!

When you work with us in a partnership, you get

Work in the trades?

• More people to get in touch with you? Different types of work to the work you’re attracting?
• To save money on advertising that you’ve signed up to?
• More customer reviews to help build trust in your services?
• A more professional look so you stand up against the competition?

Check out our specific marketing help for trades people.

What our customers say

Alison Champken-Woods, Chair of Trustees, Thame Senior Friendship Centre

“I initially needed a logo, some branding, a website and a few other bits but now get support each month so I don’t have to worry about my marketing. I know I need to do marketing but I just don’t have time to do it myself. I get given ideas then they help my by doing the things we agree each month. It’s ideal really as I wouldn’t think of the stuff they suggest and don’t have time do to do any of it anyway. “ read more

Chris at Thame Thatch

“I contacted Hamsterlips with an urgent need to launch an online shop, direct retailing our range of Covid-19 signage. We needed help around the structure, content presentation and also the technical implementation of the site. I was recommended to Hamsterlips having received inadequate support from our existing provider. I spoke to Laura who quickly understood our needs, the urgency and the limited time window within which we were needing for us to gain position. We were offered creative improvements and technical support to get to market quickly. We have a number marketing challenges going forward and I look forward to working with Laura and her team again in the near future.”
Steve @ Sign Projects Ltd