Carrie set up Marketing with Zest in 2008 to provide small to medium sized companies with a flexible marketing service to help release their potential and take them into new areas.

  • Business strategy
  • Design and development
  • Delivery
  • Ongoing marketing support

Whether you’re looking for a one-off session to define your business objectives or to retain comprehensive marketing services, or something in between we can provide it.

Our first briefing meeting is free and normally takes at least two hours. If you would like to know more please get in touch.

About Carrie

With over 24 years marketing experience, my career began in 1984 when I was recruited to set up the London arm of a regional PR agency. I moved client-side in 1986 to join Logica plc. In 1989 I became European PR Manager for Unisys and in 1995 I became European Communications Director at Wang (now Getronics). My last in-house role was Marketing Director at Lorien plc.

Moving from London to East Anglia in 2001, I now provide marketing consultancy to a number of clients across sectors as diverse as curtain poles and stone tiles; water and wine; logistics and retail design.

Whether it’s a one off ideas session or full marketing support that’s needed, I can provide skills across the marketing spectrum: research, strategic thinking and planning, the development of key messages, branding, traditional and digital communication, media relations and copy writing.

I’m also a stickler for focusing on what will benefit the bottom line. If it’s not going to get you more sales or revenue … don’t do it!

About Jayne

I am a fully endorsed Marketing with Zest associate and started to collaborate with Carrie in 2010.  I’m based in Surrey and I work with small to medium sized companies (SMEs) who are either struggling with the concept of marketing or who know what they should be doing but don’t have the time or expertise to execute it properly.   I look at their current marketing activity objectively, analyse what is and isn’t working and advise on how to proceed.  What businesses get is marketing with zest and the freedom to concentrate on what they do best.

I have been providing internal and external marketing services since 1995 to a wide range of businesses and industries: IT services, training, market research, digital printing, financial services, construction, IT recruitment and automotive.

I can help with all aspects of marketing: if you need to go back to basics then let’s start there because if the overall strategy isn’t right then nothing else will be.  Alternatively, if everything is in place but you don’t have the marketing pack written and designed yet then let’s get things moving.  I also have access to some very talented graphic designers and web designers.

What I won’t do is sell you something you don’t need or tell you how to run your business.  You are the experts in your field and I’m an expert in mine.  My flexibility means that I can fit seamlessly with your current activities and resources, ensuring that your communications are targeted – the right messages to the right people at the right time using the right media. 

Clear, concise, cogent, compelling, consistent, distinctive and differentiating – need I say more?