That's the gap we exist to fill — a complete marketing team for the businesses everyone else overlooks, without the cost or commitment of building one in-house.
They write the plan. They sit on the monthly call. They make sure the work happens. Behind them, a production team of specialists who execute, properly and on time.
You only ever deal with us. No hand-offs. No junior account manager learning on your account. No agency theatre.
Every Nine Stones engagement starts on Bedrock — the stable platform everything else sits on. It keeps your website running; Fieldstone, Cornerstone and Keystone build on top of it, adding strategy, content and campaigns as you're ready for them.
You're somewhere between £2m and £30m turnover. You make things, distribute things, or do work that other businesses depend on.
You've tried freelancers who disappeared. A junior in-house hire who left after eighteen months. An agency that pitched well and then sent invoices for things you didn't ask for.
You don't need another vendor. You need a team.
Not sure? Six questions will tell you.
If all you need today is someone to keep the site alive, start with Bedrock. When you're ready to grow, the rest is waiting.
Marketing sits at the bottom of the list because the business runs without it. It has done for years, and it will for a while yet — which is exactly how another year disappears, and then another. "A while" has a price. Here's what it actually looks like.
The referrals and relationships that carried you for twenty years are still there — just quieter. The people who sent you work are retiring, and nobody new is replacing them, because nobody new knows you exist. It isn't a crisis. It's a slow leak, and slow leaks are the ones you notice too late.
There's a growth target — yours, the board's, or the next generation's. Look at it honestly and the maths doesn't quite work: word of mouth got you here, but it won't get you there. The gap doesn't close on its own. Every quarter you wait is a quarter you have to make up later — faster, and at more cost.
You've tried before. The freelancer, the junior hire, the agency — you know how those went. The real cost wasn't the money; it was the year, and the quiet conclusion that marketing just doesn't work for a business like yours. It does. It needs to be owned by someone senior who's still here in three years' time.
It's quieter than that — another year where the right customers never found you, and a competitor with a worse product got the call instead.
An honest plan, written in plain English, that we actually follow.
Built well, or rebuilt when yours is finally past its useful life.
The boring kind that keeps paying off, not the agency kind that bills monthly forever.
Things your customers actually want to read. Written by people who can write.
Spend that's accountable to leads and revenue, not impressions.
Identity, positioning, and the campaigns that bring it to life.
We bring in specialists and manage them. You only ever deal with us.
A global data centre operator with disparate regional teams needed unified brand guidelines, a social strategy and on-retainer support across multiple channels.
Digital product engineers Future Platforms lacked the bandwidth for holistic marketing, so we built whitepapers, blogs, social, SEO and senior-leader personal branding.
Cloud and IT infrastructure consultancy Opticore wanted to lead with thought leadership, so we built a survey-led campaign covering articles, a webinar, social and landing pages.
Every account is led by someone who's run marketing for a real business before.
No jargon, no decks full of frameworks, no pretending things are more complicated than they are.
Our average client engagement runs for years, not months. That's the entire business model.
We'll tell you honestly whether we can help. If we can't, we usually know someone who can.
What the thirty minutes covers: what you're trying to grow, what's worked so far and what hasn't, and an honest view on whether we're the right team to own it.