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Digital marketing · strategy and delivery

Digital marketing that behaves like one journey.

Advertising, SEO, website, social, email and content planned together as a single route from stranger to loyal customer — not six channels reporting six separate wins.

Agreed targets · engagements scoped by outcome, not by hours

Steve Ward, founder of Epitomise

A sample of Epitomise customers

  • Pastest
  • Foundation IT
  • Control Technologies UK
  • APP Technology
  • Versinetic
  • ByteSnap Design
  • CyberGuard Technologies
  • OGL
  • Alliance Health Group
  • Bambooth
  • NKD Learning
  • Digital AV
  • SpirIT UK
  • Wider Fit Shoes
  • Prakash Astrologer

The situation

The channel is rarely the thing that is broken.

When digital marketing underperforms, the instinct is to change the channel: new agency for ads, another go at SEO, a website rebuild. Occasionally that is right. More often the ads, the search traffic and the site are all doing roughly what they were asked to do, and the problem is that nobody decided what the visitor was supposed to do next.

Epitomise starts with the journey. Who the buyer is, what they are trying to work out at each stage, what the business needs them to do, and which channel is genuinely best placed to move them one step. Only then does the channel work get planned — and at that point it is much easier to say what to stop paying for.

The same applies to the newer question of how AI assistants summarise and cite your business. It is answered with structure and substance on your own site, not with a separate campaign. There is a practical guide to that in the blog.

How we can help

Three ways in, and they combine.

Clients engage Epitomise in three complementary ways, choosing one service or combining them as their needs evolve.

01

Strategic marketing planning and advice

Clear strategic recommendations, practical plans and senior challenge to help you choose the right direction and priorities.

Strategy & plans →
02

Mentoring, coaching and training

Hands-on support that builds confidence, capability and best-practice ways of working across owners, leaders and teams.

Mentoring & training →
03

Campaign delivery and implementation

Agreed marketing campaigns and execution support delivered within the scope, budgets and approvals we set together.

Campaign delivery →

The Transform Accelerator

One framework, four stages, run as a quarterly rhythm.

Discover new opportunities in your business and sustainably increase revenue by following a trusted plan — manageable growth that respects today’s challenges and cash-flow constraints.

  1. 01 · Review

    Get a new perspective on your business. Discover its value to guide the transform strategy.

  2. 02 · Focus

    Identify and prioritise new ideas to design a manageable plan of action to transform your business.

  3. 03 · Implement

    Empower your team, build new processes, create assets and deliver through the most effective channels.

  4. 04 · Optimise

    Test and measure performance, optimising often to grow results and improve return on investment.

Learn more about the framework

The digital mix

Six areas, sequenced rather than switched on at once.

  • Strategy and plans — the digital plan that the rest of this list answers to, and the measurement that tells you whether it worked.
  • Advertising and SEO — paid and organic search treated as one demand picture, so they stop competing for the same click and the same budget.
  • Website and apps — the pages a buyer actually converts on, built to be found, read and acted upon.
  • Social and social selling — presence used to start conversations your sales people can continue, rather than to publish into silence.
  • Email and nurture — automated tracks that follow up properly on interest you have already paid to create.
  • Content — the evidence, answers and proof that make every one of the above worth clicking.

Most engagements begin with two of the six. Doing all six badly is how digital budgets disappear.

What clients say

Three clients, in their own words.

Have worked with Epitomise for over six years and very happy with the level of service they provide. Our marketing campaigns are providing more enquiries than we can handle. Luckily, they are always available to help tailor the marketing to suit our budget and month to month requirements. Anton Van Der WattDirector · Digital AV · quoted in 2021
Steve is a pleasure to work with. His extensive knowledge of marketing, and specifically in our sector, is impressive, and his structured and inclusive style worked well in getting us all to focus on what really makes the difference. I’d recommend him to anyone who is looking for real strategic advice and guidance that comes with practical and clear deliverables. Cindy PhillipsHead of Marketing · OGL
Steve clearly knows his stuff – his expertise, enthusiasm, fresh ideas and detailed research have helped take our strategic marketing to the next level. Very happy with the fantastic service from Epitomise. Michelle RobinsonMarketing Manager · Versinetic
16
client engagements published in full, with the work shown
Four
sectors, from EV charging design to domiciliary care
11
guides written and published
2017
the year Epitomise was founded

Selected work

Three businesses that started with a plan, not a campaign.

A sample of engagements across IT services, audio-visual technology and architectural design.

APP Technology campaign creative

IT services · Windows migration

APP Technology

A joint marketing plan, then successive campaign waves — website content, collateral, webinars, search and display — introducing APPtechnology’s new offerings and building a pipeline of new client opportunities.

Read the case study →
Digital AV case study

Audio, visual and data technology

Digital AV

A three-year business and marketing strategy, two websites — one commercial, one consumer — and a continuing campaign programme: 40 leads in the two months after the November 2018 launch.

Read the case study →
Escape Design case study

Architectural design

Escape Design

A strategic marketing plan, then website messaging and campaigns targeted service by service and place by place — 148 enquiries in a three-month snapshot.

Read the case study →
All client work

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Hints, tips and best practices, including the strategies, approaches and tools Epitomise uses with clients.

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