we are the business tea
An expert and data-backed digital marketing agency tailored for your business.
Marketing works better when you start with the business problem, not the marketing channel. We are a digital marketing agency and strategic marketing partner helping businesses make better marketing decisions and turn them into action.
From senior strategy to hands-on delivery, we provide the expertise you need – whether that means solving a specific challenge, supporting your existing team or becoming your ongoing marketing partner.
I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend you…
I was very overwhelmed and confused about what to do next with my business…
Sarah and Ross made the process so easy, they took the time to really understand my business, and went through all the information clearly to help me work on my action plan.
I was very overwhelmed and confused about what to do next with my business, and they provided clarity and actionable steps.
I have learnt so much from the info you have provided so far!
The two of you are very personable and hugely experienced – both of which I appreciated as a rookie! I trust your experience and recommendations – partly because you are using data to drive decisions. The level of detail you provided in your original proposal was amazing (e.g. what you were going to provide and when), as well as the level of detail you gave within the deliverables – again, this gave me confidence to trust your guidance, as well as learning a lot about my own market, competitor and customer preferences.
Very positive experience overall. I would love to work with you again!
MORE CAPABILITY, LESS COMPLEXITY
Senior marketing expertise, without having to build the whole team yourself.
As businesses grow, marketing tends to become more complicated. You might have an internal marketing team alongside an SEO specialist, paid media agency, web developer, designer or freelancer. Or perhaps one person internally has somehow become responsible for all of it.
Either way, somebody still has to connect the dots.
The Business Tea gives you access to experienced, cross-channel marketing capability through one joined-up partnership. We can work directly with your business, strengthen an existing marketing team or collaborate with the agencies and specialists you already trust. You get senior strategic thinking alongside the practical expertise needed to get things done - without having to recruit a specialist for every marketing challenge that comes along.
Less managing marketing. More knowing it's being managed.
Digital Marketing Support Built Around Your Business
How The Business Tea can support your business
There isn't one right way to work with us. The level of support should reflect the problem you're trying to solve, the expertise you already have and how much additional capacity you actually need.
Marketing Consultancy
Sometimes you don't need another agency doing more activity. You need experienced people to help you understand the problem, challenge your thinking and work out what to do next.
Our marketing consultancy includes strategic consultancy, growth support, strategy sessions, internal workshops, training and ongoing marketing advisory.
Digital Marketing Services
When you know where support is needed, we can provide specialist strategy and delivery across SEO, paid media, social media, content, websites, tracking and analytics.
Rather than treating each channel as an isolated activity, we consider how they work together across the customer journey and contribute to your wider commercial objectives.
Marketing Retainers
For businesses that need ongoing support, our marketing retainers give you consistent access to senior expertise and specialist capability without building every function internally.
Choose focused retained support for areas such as SEO, paid media or social media, or work with us more broadly as an outsourced or fractional marketing team.
Marketing Packages & Audits
Our defined marketing packages and audits are designed for businesses with a particular question, challenge or outcome in mind - from understanding what's holding you back.
You get a clear scope, clear outputs and practical recommendations you can actually use.
Business first, channels second
We don't need a particular marketing channel to be the answer.
An SEO agency understandably sees problems through an SEO lens. A paid media agency specialises in paid media, and a social agency focuses on social. Specialisms matter. But your business doesn't operate in separate marketing boxes.
A drop in enquiries could be caused by your targeting, website, tracking, proposition, search visibility, advertising, sales process - or a combination of several things.
As The Business Tea works across marketing disciplines, we can look at the wider picture before deciding where your time and budget should go. If SEO is the priority, we'll tell you. If paid media is wasting money, we'll tell you. If the real problem sits somewhere else entirely, we'll tell you that too.
Our job isn't to find more marketing activity for you to buy. It's to help you make better decisions about the marketing your business actually needs.
Built around your business
Senior expertise, whatever stage your marketing is at.
You don't have to fit neatly into an agency package to work with The Business Tea. You might be growing your marketing from the ground up, adding specialist expertise to an established team or trying to bring clarity to a growing collection of agencies, freelancers and internal resource.
Wherever you're starting from, you work directly with senior marketing practitioners who understand the reality behind the marketing plan - budgets, targets, internal stakeholders, sales teams, competing priorities and the pressure to demonstrate what marketing is actually contributing.
Our experience includes managing more than £1 million in annual paid media investment, delivering sustained organic growth, working across international and EMEA markets and reporting marketing performance to senior leadership.
And that experience doesn't disappear once the sales conversation is over. The senior people you meet are the people who stay involved in the work.
We build the support around your business, your existing team and the capability you actually need - not the other way around.
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