Making Marketing Pay

MAKING MARKETING PAY

Clear Thought Consulting works with small businesses to
equip them with the marketing strategies, skills, suppliers
and set-up that they need to become bigger businesses.

Clients who get the most from working with us tend to sell
products or services that require a little thought – usually,
but not always, in a business-to-business setting.

SMART THINKING STRAIGHT TALKING GETS RESULTS
t 0117 325 77 25 e info@clear-thought.co.uk w www.clear-thought.co.uk

What we do
A typical Clear Thought engagement involves the preparation of a marketing strategy
and a review and refresh of the marketing operation to deliver that strategy. This will
usually identify key investment projects in marketing enablers, such as brand, web
infrastructure and the appointment of key marketing suppliers to get the client equipped
to make marketing pay. From this point forward, our role is in maintaining momentum,
measuring effectiveness and driving continuous improvement.

MARKETING STRATEGY
Understanding the business objectives, the competition
and the market to configure an appropriate marketing
strategy. This would typically involve:
Quantitative and qualitative research.
Company vision workshopping.
Management team coaching.
Mapping marketing objectives to business goals.

MARKETING SET-UP
Making sure businesses have the tools they need to
make the strategy a reality. This would typically involve:
Skills reviews and development plans.
Role specification and recruitment advice.
Delivery of key marketing infrastructure.
Supplier selection, appointment and reviews.

MARKETING ACTIVITY
Overseeing the execution of an agreed activity plan to
meet marketing objectives. This would typically involve:
Lead generation campaigns.
Customer marketing programmes.
Affinity marketing relationships.
Detailed marketing measurement.


Who we are
Clear Thought is owned and run by Bryony Thomas; a proven and qualified marketing
professional with over a decade of hands-on experience in demanding client-side and
agency roles. Clear Thinkers are drawn from a variety of backgrounds to suit client
needs and operate on a retained associate model.

CLIENTS HAVE INCLUDED BRYONY THOMAS,
Client experience covers charity, consumer, CHIEF CLEAR THINKER
professional services and IT. The common theme, is A proven and qualified marketer with B2B
that in all cases the purchasing process is a thoughtful and B2C experience in senior client-side and
one, usually involving more than one person: agency positions over the last 12 years.
Tech: Microsoft, Dell, Oracle, Gradwell.
Services: ClarityBlue, Experian, Fraudscreen. CHERYL CRICHTON,
ASSOCIATE CLEAR THINKER
NFP: Westonbirt Arboretum, RUH Hospital.
A proven marketing delivery expert, with two
decades of experience and a real passion for
HIGHEST POSSIBLE STANDARDS delivering excellent standards at pace.
Maintaining core skills is an absolute passion, this
includes ongoing learning and formal qualifications:
MBA with distinction.
Award-winning MBA dissertation.
Chartered Institute of Marketing Diploma.

EFFECTIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Improving collaboration and communication
amongst remote teams.
Sophisticated client extranet.
Online brainstorming and document management.
Detailed marketing measurement.

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Gradwell is an internet services company, providing Fraudscreen provides a data solution to consumer-
telephony, hosting, broadband and email services to facing businesses that allows them to assess an
small and micro businesses in the UK. Established by individual’s payment intent. When our engagement
Peter Gradwell in his second year at university, the started, the products had been most heavily used in the
company has achieved year-on-year organic growth home-shopping industry, where ‘buy-once-and-return’
for the last 10 years amongst the technology enthusiast and similar low level first party frauds cost millions.
community. To enable continued growth, Gradwell
needed to appeal beyond this market, to a wider small As part of an aggressive growth strategy, Clear Thought
business community. worked with Fraudscreen to widen its appeal. The
project kicked off with investments in company website
Clear Thought devised and delivered a twelve-month and collateral to better explain the benefits across
marketing transformation programme for Gradwell business disciplines and industries. We’ve also worked
to enable them to move to the next level of business to deliver campaigns into new markets and to appoint
growth. This included detailed research to develop key marketing suppliers. The next step is to further
clear messaging, an extensive re-brand, phase one of refine the product positioning and key messages to
a website and web infrastructure improvement project, deliver more targeted appeal in key industries and to
appointment of key marketing suppliers and the establish a marketing function within the company to
delivery of core marketing materials. deliver a programme to support this.
“Working with Clear Thought has given us a platform “We needed to get the marketing basics right, which
for growth. I now understand our audience, and what Clear Thought has helped us with enormously. The
is needed from the organisation to make the step website was a major step forward and is now delivering
change in growth that is possible. In addition to the leads week-in, week-out. This year, we’ll be working
high standards of delivery on each programme element, with the Clear Thought team to provide more strategic
the Clear Thought project has given me the confidence direction and to help us to set-up what is needed
to know what I need from a functioning marketing internally to deliver against that strategy.”
operation going forward.”
Mark Arnold, Client Services Director, Fraudscreen
Peter Gradwell, MD

Free Marketing Audit
If you believe you should be getting more from your marketing effort, but you’re not
sure how, why not take us up on our offer of a FREE half-day marketing audit, from
which you’ll receive a report of our findings and a list of quick wins.

Visit: www.clear-thought.co.uk/audit_request
Or, call: 0117 325 77 25


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