A strategic marketing agency to help you scale.
Grow your business with EV, a global marketing agency for accelerating B2B brands. With our startup package, we’ll give you the tools to develop your brand, enter the market successfully, and evolve with purpose.
“The way we present EarSwitch™ is something I couldn’t have imagined. We started with bootstrap marketing – where I designed my own logo – and now have a brand that the entire team is proud of. It’s fantastic.”
Nick Gompertz, Founder and CEO of EarSwitch
Why you should invest in marketing early.
Launching a business is a juggling act. You’re trying to gain audience traction, build market evidence, and grow your business operations. That’s all while trying to raise enough money to stay afloat.
Marketing can feel low down on the list of budgeting priorities. Nevertheless, it’s an essential cog in the machine of ‘scaling up’. It can be the edge you need to spark an investor’s interest or earn newsworthy engagement. It’s your chance to showcase who you are and why people should care.
“For your business to survive, it needs marketing, and the stronger it is the healthier your business will be. Without marketing, your business could have ground-breaking, industry-transforming products and services that satisfy your customers’ needs, but never have the chance to reach your target audience.” – British Business Bank.
A marketing package designed for new businesses.
We’ll help you build the foundation on which to scale your marketing.
This package is a budget-friendly collection of essential marketing services that gives you a toolkit for entering the market successfully. We’ll help you to solidify your differentiated brand strategy and initiate market engagement with purpose-led marketing activity.
1. Strategy
We’ll work with you to build a 360-degree marketing strategy that assesses where you are now and where you want to be, using our tried-and-tested growth model. With a startup marketing strategy aligned with your ambitions, you’ll have a roadmap to success.
2. Brand
Evolve your brand with a creative strategy that defines, elevates and encompasses your strategic positioning. A powerful brand identity will help you engage your target audience consistently, so that you can foster trust and advocacy.
3. Retained
We’ll provide our team’s full suite of specialisms to set up your marketing infrastructure and kickstart audience engagement. We’re experts in a range of strategic digital marketing services, from content creation to social media marketing.
How we’ll help you meet your goals.
After decades of working with B2B businesses, we have pinpointed some of the most common goals that founders and CEOs experience and created best practice solutions to match.
| Standing out from competitors or other startups | Every marketing asset we create ties back to purpose. We start by getting to the heart of who you are and turning this into a story that people can get behind. |
| Communicating your niche | We turn complex concepts into tangible and understandable commercial propositions, supported by a narrative of digital content. |
| Creating a consistent proposition to pitch | We conduct in-depth marketing, audience, and stakeholder research to create an integrated marketing strategy with design and messaging. |
| Speaking to investors and prospects | We take your multiple audiences into account and create overarching messaging that works for everyone, alongside more tailored audience personas. |
| Building brand awareness and credibility | Our strategies position you as a thought leader – demonstrating to your different audiences that you have the credentials to be trusted. |
| Finding time and budget for marketing | Our outsourced startup packages are budget-friendly, giving you a starter pack made by a team of specialists to kickstart your marketing. |
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Startups we’ve grown with.
“EV has found a really happy place for us. Yes, we’re still talking about complex technology and telling medical stories, but we’ve also grown to be a consumer-facing brand. I think it’s been achieved really well.”
Garry Pratt, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of EarSwitch
“When EV and CameraForensics were both in their start-up phase, Tanya and I met by chance in a Bristol co-working space. She quickly grasped what we did and didn’t have capacity for internally, and went on to create a truly bespoke strategy which really suits us.”
Dave Ranner, Commercial Director of CameraForensics
“EV understood the importance of what we wanted to achieve as a company and turned our big picture ambitions into a reality with the brand and marketing strategy they created. They took our vision, our purpose and our offerings and made them compelling at an international level.”
Cain Blythe, Founder and CEO of Ecosulis
“We really valued the importance of a strategic overview – and this blueprint has enabled us to attract more interest while creating an image that we’re proud to represent.”
Alister Jones, Managing Director of DataShapa
Go to market with a strong brand strategy.
Download our Startup Marketing Package brochure for more information about what services are included.