What Is Marketing Consultancy?

What Is Marketing Consultancy?

What is marketing consultancy all about?  A marketing consultancy company is specialist agency that will act as your marketing department.  

A marketing consultant works with businesses to develop and implement effective marketing strategies that help them reach their target audience and achieve their business goals.

By outsourcing to an expert agency, you can do away with staff issues, recruitment, they will handle it all.  This greatly reduces costs and the risk element of taking on new staff.

A marketing consultant is a professional who provides expert advice and guidance to businesses in developing and implementing effective marketing strategies.

Marketing consultants may work independently or as part of a consultancy firm, and they typically have expertise in a variety of areas such as market research, branding, advertising, digital marketing, and sales.

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Benefits Of Outsourcing

Marketing consultants are hired by businesses of all sizes and industries, including startups, small and medium size businesses, as well as large corporations.

They help their clients identify their target audience, develop marketing campaigns, and measure the effectiveness of their marketing efforts. Digital marketing is becoming increasingly more a focus.

Here are a few benefits of outsourcing to a marketing consultant:

• Reduced Risk – Hiring an established marketing consultant limits the risk of employing the wrong person or paying for a learning curve.  There is always a risk involved with marketing, but using someone with marketing experience reduces this risk somewhat.
• Reduced Cost – Hiring an established marketing consultant should reduce your costs.  Employing and training staff is an expensive business.  If they leave after 3-4 months for another job means that 3-4 months salary and training is wasted.
• Develop Your Marketing Plan – Sometimes having fresh eyes on your existing marketing plan may help steer it into a better direction.  A marketing expert should carry many years of experience that can be a benefit to bounce ideas off.

Outsource To An Expert

Why use a sales consultant?  

For many businesses, having a marketing department is an expensive thing.  

It will consist of someone to handle your website, your brochures, your mailings, your PR, any exhibitions you may attend and someone to manage all these roles.

This can add up to 4-5 people plus a manager to oversee and report. 

Combining salaries, bonuses, sickness, holidays the costs can run into hundreds of thousands.  This is without added costs of the campaign itself.

In order to bring these costs down, many companies will bring on an agency for a fraction of the cost. 

The agency can then handle all elements of your campaigns.  From looking after and updating your website to planning and organising your exhibition attendance.

The main advantage would be the cost saving (which in the above example could be well over £100,000) that you would face.  

But also an agency that is able to take control of your campaign from start to finish.

Control Of Your Budget

They will take control of your budget and allocate it as you require.  

They would also be looking for cost savings as well.

They would not actually do it themselves (this would be classed as a full service agency).  

They would manage your campaign and take responsibility for it running smoothly. One of the primary things an expert agency will do is to look at areas they can save you money on. 

This could be putting your web design out to tender, or finding a cheaper printer for example.

What Is Marketing Consultancy In The UK

Around the UK there are a large number of marketing consultancy companies many handling campaigns for a number of clients. 

Many have a broad mix of experience.  However it is advised to work with one that does have some background of your industry.  This would make them well placed to understanding your products/service and also the market you are targeting.  

Don’t just go onto google and go with the agency at the top of the search.

They come in different shapes and sizes.  Some are freelancers; ex staff that have decided to go it alone.  Others are large agencies that are well established.

What Is It Priced Like?

Choosing a marketing consultant does not just come down to price, although it is important.  As there are quite a few agencies in the UK, it is advised to shop around and get quotes.  Therefore choosing a marketing company is going to be a challenge.

All charge differently for their services, so it is advised to get 2-3 quotes from agencies that are of interest.  

Using someone local is wise, if you are in Scotland you would not use a marketing consultant in London.  

The next step would then be to shortlist 2-3 agencies you like the look of and then meet with them. 

Meeting the agencies will give you a feel for the agencies culture, their experience of your service and their competence in handling your budget.

Like any price comparison website, we want to help you find the right expert, for the right price.  

Shopping around for prices is wise, it could save you a small fortune.

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