Freelance Marketing Manager Service

The one-day-a-week marketing manager

Senior Marketing Leadership, One-Day Commitment

So many businesses could speed up their growth by working with a freelance marketing manager like myself on a one-day-a-week basis. 

I’m an ideal option for businesses that want professional marketing support, but feel that hiring a full-time senior marketing manager is prohibitively expensive.

Instead of adding a large overhead, I can step in as a fractional marketing manager, working just one day a week. I’ll take on full responsibility for managing and delivering your business’s marketing activity. 

I focus on three key areas:

Lead generation & conversion
Improving positioning & messaging
Building reputation and credibility

I’ll bring 24+ years of strategic leadership and hands-on tactical delivery experience to your business. This means you’ll get the marketing results you want, without the massive commitment of a permanent senior hire. 

Think a one-day-a-week marketing manager relationship might be for you? Book a discovery call to find out more about my services.

Emma is a true marketing professional. She took on a huge task with our business and transformed it in terms of its understanding and appreciation of brand, sales and marketing. She is a pleasure to work with, works hard, is diligent, challenges our thinking and stands by her principles, she's also a great person to have around.

Tom Davies

CEO, XpertRule

How my freelance marketing manager service works

My one-day-a-week freelance marketing manager service is designed to help you with both strategy and execution. Whether you have a clear plan or are simply struggling to manage your current activity, I can help.

Path 1:

Competitive advantage consultancy and follow-on fractional marketing support

I’ll take you through my competitive strategy consultancy, then work with you to deliver the plan on an ongoing basis as a fractional marketing manager. This means that the plan we create won’t gather dust or be diluted by inconsistent execution. I’ll know the plan inside-out, and can make sure every action taken is aligned with your competitive advantage message. 

Path 2:

Flexible freelance marketing support

If you already have a strategy but need an experienced extra pair of hands in delivering it, I can help take the pressure off by helping you get more marketing activity done in less time. 

If you haven’t defined your marketing strategy yet, there’s a good chance you’re doing marketing activity that’s uncoordinated (or what some people call ‘random acts of marketing’). I can step in to sharpen up the activity you’re doing and bring lots of experience to your digital and traditional marketing activity, which in turn will deliver better results. 

I offer fixed pricing, so there are no surprises, and you can find tips on how to make one-day-a-week marketing work for your business here

My one-day-a-week freelance marketing manager services

My role as your freelance marketing manager is to ensure your marketing is cost-effective and delivers the short and long-term results you want. I’ll do that by using the following digital and traditional marketing tactics.

Content Marketing
  • Collateral
  • Blogs
  • White papers
  • Case studies
PR
  • Media relations
  • Social media
  • Internal comms & crisis comms
  • Award submissions
Marketing Strategy
  • Competitive advantage
  • Marketing audits
  • SOSTAC campaign planning
Brand
  • Positioning
  • Brand strategy
  • Brand development
SEO
  • On-page SEO
  • Link-building
  • Local SEO
PPC
  • Google Ads
  • Campaign optimisation

Is your business attractive to customers?

Get a free business attractiveness audit to find out

When you’re busy running a business, it can be hard to see the wood for the trees. What looks ‘okay’ to you, might be turning away your ideal clients. I offer a free business attractiveness audit to help you see your business through your target customers’ eyes.

Once you have clarity on how successful your marketing is, you’ll know if you need help and what with.

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Marketing strategy

Even the best execution needs a roadmap. As your freelance marketing manager, I’ll make sure we’re always focused on the bigger picture.

Content marketing

I’ll help you communicate your expertise and nurture valuable leads by making sure your content is genuinely useful and persuasive.

Brand

Your brand needs to look and sound professional and consistent everywhere. I’ll ensure every touchpoint reinforces your competitive edge.

SEO & PPC

We need to make sure the right clients find you, and quickly. I’ll manage these channels to be laser-focused on your goals, not just chasing vanity metrics.

PR

Credibility is currency. As your freelance marketing manager, I’ll use smart, low-cost methods to raise your brand profile and earn third-party recognition.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a freelance marketing manager?

A freelance marketing manager is an experienced professional who, like an in-house marketing manager, manages a business’s marketing function on an ongoing basis. They take responsibility for both the strategy and the tactical delivery.They do marketing activity work themselves, and appoint professionals to do jobs that they can’t (or shouldn’t) do themselves (e.g. a graphic designer, web design).  This is different to a marketing consultant who typically provides advice and leaves the implementation to the client. 

Why should I hire a freelance marketing manager instead of a full/part-time employee?

Experienced marketers are expensive to employ. Junior marketers need a lot of support and guidance. By working with a freelance marketing manager like myself, you get someone with senior level expertise, and don’t have to pay for salary, benefits, national insurance, pension. You also get a lot of flexibility, so you may initially want support with one type of marketing, but I can help in other areas as and when needed.

We already have an in-house marketer/s. Can you work with them?

This can be an ideal situation. If your in-house marketing team is struggling to do as much activity as they’d like, I can be an additional pair of hands and turn marketing outputs around quickly. There may be some areas of marketing that your in-house marketers are less confident in. If that’s the case, I can act as a mentor whilst also delivering a freelance marketing manager service which will help them to improve their skillset for the future, whilst simultaneously getting lots of marketing activity done. 

Do you just delegate tasks or do you do the work yourself?

There’s a good reason I call myself a freelance marketing manager rather than a fractional CMO. Unlike most fractional CMOs/marketing directors, I will do the activity myself, in addition to giving strategic direction. The only tasks I’ll outsource are technical tasks (e.g. technical SEO) because I want to be confident that the work is done to the highest possible standard and I’m not confident enough in my technical abilities to be able to do that.

How quickly can I expect to see results?

Every business and industry is different. The results I can help you achieve will depend on a number of factors: how competitive your industry is, how sophisticated your marketing is at the moment, how much activity you’ve done in the past, plus a number of other things. That being the case, it’s impossible to be able to give an accurate timeline, but I would hope to have some positive results to show you in the first 3-6 months.