Bristol based company helps boost local economy with free marketing advice
Local marketing company, Clear Thought Consulting, are giving away free 90-Day Marketing Action Plan to help boost local businesses recovering from the recession.
Clear Thought Consulting Ltd, a Bristol based marketing consultancy have launched a campaign to help support SMEs in the South West. Local businesses are invited to sign-up for a completely free 90 Day Marketing Action Plan to help beat the battle of the recession. Devised by managing director, Bryony Thomas, the step-by-step plan is a daily tip delivered by email.
As the UK pulls through the recession, some companies are fairing better than others. Whilst large companies are once again beginning to flex their financial muscles, SMEs are often left on the outside looking in. What is often underestimated is the sheer value of small and medium sized enterprises to the British economy. The latest government figures show that together, SMEs account for 99.9% of all enterprises and generate 50.1% of private sector turnover.
The South West alone has over 1,7m people employed in 456,000 private sector enterprises, that’s 9.2% of the UK total. The figures demonstrate the importance of SMEs to the UK economy. And, an absolute necessity for providing employment for the local population.
Asked why she’s giving her services away for free, Bryony Thomas, Managing Director of Clear Thought commented, “SMEs are the backbone of the British economy, but most simply aren’t making the most of modern marketing techniques. We want to prove that anyone can roll up their sleeves and improve their marketing at little or no extra cost. It just takes a little thought – which we’ve started for you!”
The action plan is made up of 90 simple, but highly effective, tips that can be implemented by anyone who is willing to take a pro-active approach to their marketing. Delivered daily to your inbox, the free advice focuses primarily on digital marketing and social media. Clear Thought has brought together those techniques that can be implemented on no or low cost, to help small businesses with the most modest of budgets. Over the 90 days, the tips cover areas such as using Twitter, getting the most from LinkedIn, and using a blog to promote your business.
Bristol-based entrepreneur Carolyn Park has been following the action plan for her new travel business, ‘C The World’. She commented, “Clear Thought’s 90 Day Action Plan has been invaluable. I’ve been amazed at the marketing potential of social media for small businesses like mine. It’s a daily nudge that keeps me on track and lets me master each technique as part of a structured approach. It has helped me enormously, and I would recommend it to any small business.”
Clear Thought specialises in working with small businesses, equipping them with the marketing strategies, suppliers, skills and set-up that they need to become bigger businesses. The consultancy delivers one-off strategic projects, hands-on training, marketing support, and out-sourced marketing departments. Client in the South West have included the Bath-based ISP, Gradwell, Bristol web company cxpartners, and Cardiff based charity helpline provider Connect Assist.
Clear Thought is an example of their own advice in practice. Through the intelligent marketing and smart social media techniques that are detailed in the free action plan, they have generated over £350,000 of business for their network of marketing providers in the last 18 months alone.
For more details, and to sign-up for the Free 90 Day Marketing Action Plan, go to: www.clear-thought.co.uk/free_marketing_advice/
