your outsourced marketing team
Feel confident about how you're showing up
Empower, up-skill & optimise your team
Get the most out of your marketing budget
your outsourced marketing team
Feel confident about how you're showing up
Empower, up-skill & optimise your team
Get the most out of your marketing budget
Why should you explore outsourced marketing?
Access to expertise
We live and breathe marketing, day-in and day-out, so we know what works and what doesn’t. That benefit of hindsight thing… it’s priceless.
Cost effective
How much would it cost you to recruit this amount of talent to your business? I can bet it would be significantly more than hiring The Design Grove.
Get back to your day job
If you’re considering outsourcing your marketing, the chances are it’s not your fortay. So you get back to doing what you love and we will take care of what we love!
Flexible and scalable support
You can dip in and out and use as much or as little support as you need. If you have a particular push or campaign we can ramp up as and when needed.
Tech and tools
Software is not cheap, but we have plentiful subscriptions that you indirectly benefit from.
A fresh pair of eyes
You might have been doing the same thing every year. But guess what, you’ll get the same results. Getting a fresh perspective on your marketing is great for your growth.
Your marketing – done for you
Do you want to carry out your marketing with the benefit of hindsight? Do you want to do this without having to break the bank with expensive agency fees?
Introducing, The Design Grove. Established in 2019, we have provided branding and content marketing support to over 100 brands.
We’re your Outsourced Marketing lifeline
We don’t see ourselves as an agency, The Design Grove is a resource that can come into your business and work with you as part of your team.
With over 20 years’ experience in a wide range of industries we can apply our unique knowledge to your marketing challenges.
Who we are and what we do
The Design Grove is owned by time-served marketeer Gillian Bardsley, bringing in trusted freelancers within the industry to support at peak times.
We can handle your marketing strategy, branding, design, copywriting, web design, social media and search engine optimisation, providing as little or as much support as you like, nothing is too much trouble!
Engineering niche
Gillian has worked in marketing roles in industry for more than two decades, prior to starting her own business. With companies such as Ferranti Technologies, Howorth Air Tech, APCOA Parking and Wolstenholme International to name a few.
With experience in engineering and manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, aerospace, automotive, IT, software, consutruction and defence, Gillian is adept at making the unsexy, sexy and the technical, simple.
Get your marketing sorted!
So if you want your marketing under control so that you can get on with running your business, you can trust The Design Grove to go above and beyond for you.
Your business-in-a-box
How it works
We usually find that our clients come to us for either a logo, a website or to manage their socials, what often ends up being the case is that they need a whole lot more than that.
What ever your trigger is for wanting to do more marketing, the likelyhood is that it needs to start with a strategy, the foundations of all successful marketing. So that’s where we start.
Brand Strategy
All core messaging written into workable content
SEO audit for up to 4 websites incl. Keyword suggestions
A marketing plan & content plan
Suggestions for evolution of your branding
Logo, and brand guidelines
Social media templates, banners & first month's content
Website Development
Planning meetings
Tech enablement
Copywriting and design of Home page, About Us, Product or Service landing page, 1 x Product or Service page, Blog landing page and article template, Contact Us page, Custom footer, Custom Header, Cookie policy pop up
Offer only available in conjunction with strategy package. Extra pages available for £200 per page.
Social Media Support
One-off Evergreen package
24 social media posts.
Three months of social media content written and designed ready for you to post.
We work in Canva and share the artwork with you after completed.
Use them time and time again at your own pace.
Strategic Socials package
2 posts per week for three months.
Buy yourself breathing room to work on your other marketing tasks.
We take the content plan we did during our strategy session and create your first three months of content.
Once you have signed off the content, we will schedule it to go live over the next quarter.
Hand-in-hand socials package
Perhaps you have someone in the office who's a dab hand on Canva and you'd like to let them have a swing at it. That's fine with us too.
We can work hand-in-hand with your employee as their marketing mentor, support them with any queries and help them stay on task.
They'll learn on the job and it's another task off your list. Win Win!
Content marketing support
Writing Content
Content includes blogs, email campaigns and newsletters, only as part of a strategic marketing plan.
Graphic Design
Rebranding existing collateral inline with your new brand. Not including any printing costs.
What you’ll get from better marketing
A first impression that converts to RFQs
With better visibility comes more opportunity to quote for jobs. We’ll look at your quote process too and optimise this.
Better content = better engagement
With refined messaging, you should see your audience start to engage with your content.
Make progress in the search engines
There are no promises in the wonderful world of Google, but many of our clients see massive improvements in their rankings.
More opportunities to do business
You’re out there, you’re making noise and you’re getting noticed, you will start to see opportunities everywhere.
Maximise your marketing budget
You’ll undoubtedly feel like the time, money and effort you’re spending is being put to better use.
A more engaged team
If we work with your team, we upskill and inspire them by showing them the impact of their work. And your wider team gain a sense of pride.
don’t just take our word for it
Shaun Sidebottom
After months of struggling I decided to ask Gillian for help and I wish I’d asked sooner. She has been amazing, patient and her knowledge is truly remarkable.
Fiona Norbury
I have never met a person more dedicated to making good things happen for her clients. Hugely talented, highly personable and very thoughtful, you won’t regret hiring Gillian for your outsourced marketing.
Kate Thorpe
Love The Design Grove, they did a fabulous job for me of marketing a new offering. The graphics were brilliant, the messaging on point and the whole look and feel was very professional.
Sarah Cardwell
The brand workshop I had with The Design Grove has honestly been one of the best investments for my business. If you’re looking for branding and don’t know where to start, start with Gillian.
Sarah Cooper
Branding and Canva experts! I decided to treat myself to a branding workshop and wow was I glad I did. Gillian is a genius at pulling out all your key messages and helping you find clarity in the fog.
Tommy Walsh
When it comes to communicating an idea or a vision, there is no one better than Gillian, period.
We are so glad we found you.
Sarah Edge, Rugged Data
