We offer simple and effective marketing solutions that take the load from you and your team, helping you connect with the people who matter the most to your business.
At Fforest Marketing, we’ll get to know you and your business - no matter how small you are, no matter how locally you operate. By understanding what you want to achieve and who your customers are, we can design and create content that is targeted, effective and consistent.
We’ll take the hassle out of your marketing and be partners you can rely on to get stuff done.
Small Business Marketing
Social media marketing
Social media is an easy way to reach out to your customers with news, offers and updates but it’s important to be consistent and use your social channels regularly. This is often the biggest hurdle for small business owners.
We offer several social media management packages where we design, write and post all of your social media content.
Intro social media package
1x social media post a week - prices start at £100pm
Regular social media package
3x social media post a week - prices start at £250pm
How does this work?
We’ll find out what you’re trying to achieve with your socials, talk about your audience and who you’ want to reach and look at your current brand and how that can be best adapted to social media content.
You’ll tell us all about your business, what makes you different and special and who else operates in your space.
We’ll plan a way of working so you can share ideas and photographs and any technical knowledge and we’ll take care of the rest.
We’ll check in with you each week so you can approve what we’ve got planned.
After a three-month trial, we’ll review and plan our next steps together.
Email marketing
Regular communication with your customers - past and present - ensures you stay front of mind and keeps them up to date with what is going on in your business. But finding the time to write, design and send out a monthly newsletter can be difficult and pushed to the bottom of your to-do list.
We design, draft and publish your regular email newsletter to clients and prospects.
Monthly newsletter package
1x newsletter per month - prices start at £150 pm (depending on size and complexity)
*Initial newsletter templating may be subject to an additional charge
How does this work?
We’ll discuss what you want your newsletter to achieve and who it’s aimed at - you may need several different versions for different audiences.
You can supply the content and we can turn this into a newsletter, or we can help to draft the content for you.
You supply an up-to-date database of contacts (or you may want us to use your existing system) and we will design and manage the newsletter for you.
If you want to send your newsletters at different intervals - whether that’s quarterly, fortnightly or even weekly, we can build a package to take care of that.
Content writing
Have you built a website with a blog section that never gets updated?
Articles, case studies and blog posts are great ways to connect to your customers. They show off your expertise and demonstrate brilliant work you’ve been doing for other clients.
But where are you going to get time to sit down and write an article or put together a case study on a recent project?
We can write any manner of blog post or article as well as helping to promote it on your social media and through your website.
Blog post and article writing
Up to 500 words - from prices start at £250 (longer pieces depend on complexity of subject and length of article)
How does this work?
You let us know what you want to write about. If it’s your area of expertise then we can do a short interview which we will then write up. Or, we can do some research and send you an outline of what we propose.
When you’ve signed off the content, we can either deliver it as a document or as a designed pdf
We can also help to promote the piece on your social media channels as part of our regular social media work or as a one off piece of content (to be priced separately)
Everything else
Our areas of expertise are broad so do get in touch if you have a project you think we could work on together.
We’re particularly good at these things:
Overall marketing strategy and planning for your business to put a framework around all the activities you want to try out
Collateral and sales material - content, design and production
Writing and mapping out websites
Paid social media campaigns
Product development and design
Event management
And we’ve got loads of experience working with web developers and agencies to project manage and deliver you a first class website.
Any other work is charged at our regular small business rate of £40ph.
“Helen has created a social media community for Lindfield Juniors Football Club and done a fantastic job in bringing together the coaches, parents, players and sponsors.
She really understands the best way to make connections between these different groups and our social media has become a hugely popular and now invaluable part of the club.”
Tim Robinson, Chair - Lindfield Juniors Football Club
