Social media handled. Your email list working. Advice from a team that runs marketing for national brands — without the London price tag, because every retainer funds a training place for a young person in Hastings.
Book your free chatYou started the year with good intentions. Then you got busy, the inbox filled up, and the Instagram account went quiet for six weeks. Every quiet week costs you customers who've forgotten you exist.
Those addresses you've collected at the till or through your website are the most valuable marketing asset you own — and they're sitting there doing nothing.
You've been meaning to set up a proper online shop for years. We build affordable Shopify stores that actually sell, and then we drive people to them.
Summer looks after itself. Then half term ends, the visitors go home, and you're staring down a quiet Tuesday in November wondering where everyone went. The businesses that stay busy year-round are the ones that stay visible year-round — to locals, and to the weekend visitors deciding where to go before they've even left home.
We're a London agency, now based at St Andrews Mews in Hastings' creative quarter. We spend most of our week running marketing for national brands — work that's put us in the world's top 100 for performance marketing three years running.
This retainer gives your business that same team — the senior strategy, the content and the results — at a price built for the town we live in and love.
Micro Business £400/month (incl. VAT) | Growing Business £1,000/month +VAT | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Owner-run and micro businesses that need consistent marketing without losing hours every week | Businesses that need marketing actively driving growth every week |
| Social | Post every other day | Daily posting |
| Monthly | Weekly | |
| Bespoke photo/video | ||
| Senior marketing support | ||
| Meta ad management* | ||
| Strategy/planning | ||
| Monthly campaign planning | — | |
| Strategic growth planning | — | |
| This sounds like us | We're ready to grow |
Ad spend not included.
Fair question. Agencies charge four figures a month for less than this, and cheap marketing usually means bad marketing. So here's the honest answer.
We're a London agency that moved to Hastings and built our studio at St Andrews Mews, in the creative quarter. Alongside our national client work, we train T Level students — young people from this town learning marketing the way we learned it, on real accounts, without having to leave for London to get their start.
These retainers are how we fund that programme. Your account is delivered by our students working under our direct supervision — every post planned with us, every email reviewed by us, every strategy set by us.
You get senior-agency thinking at a price that works for a local business, and a young person from Hastings gets a real career in return — and every pound of it stays in the town, building the kind of local economy where businesses like yours can thrive.
The Studio Hastings is run by Sian Conway-Wood and Dr Andrew Lumsden-Groom. Between us: national brand clients, a regular column in The Drum (one of the UK's biggest marketing publications), and a place on Performance Marketing World's Power 100 — the top 100 people in performance marketing in the world — three years running.
Read our story£400 — Marketing Support
For micro businesses that need to stay visible and bring in customers without doing all their marketing themselves.
£1,000 +VAT — Growth Marketing
For established local businesses ready to make marketing a proper part of how they grow.
Online or come to The Studio for a coffee. We'll talk about your business and what would actually move the needle.
Content, email, and ads if you want them — mapped to what you're trying to achieve.
You approve, we deliver, you get your evenings back.
No long contracts. 60 days rolling. If it isn't working for you, walk away.
60 day rolling contract. Cancel anytime.
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