Tag Archives: start-up business

5 Years in Business: 5 Key Learnings

672,893 new businesses were started in 2018/2019 – an incredible 1,843.5 per day! Out of all of the new businesses started in 2013, 57.6% of them had closed down within the 5 years to 2019. In the time that The Marketing Associates has been in business there have been, as with any business, highs and […]

Getting back in business again after the coronavirus pandemic

back in business again after the coronavirus pandemic

I know that the UK is still very much in lockdown but now is the time to start thinking about how to re-open your business and what that will look like

How to make it as a Consultant

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Having launched ‘The Marketing Associates’ just over two years ago, I am often contacted for advice by others looking to do the same thing within their field of business – an email that I am always rather flattered to receive. I made a promise to myself when I was a student trying to get work, […]

Tales of a Kitchen Table Start-up: 9 FREE Marketing tips for business

Marketing is often left at the bottom of a business owners ‘To do’ lists because they think it will cost them lots of money. The truth is that it can cost lots and lots and lots of money but it doesn’t necessarily have to! How would any business ever get past start-up stage if they […]

Tales of a Kitchen Table Start-up Part 2: ‘How to start a Start-up’

Want to know how to start a start-up? The Marketing Associates shares how they started from a kitchen table to become a successful marketing agency.

Why I started The Marketing Associates

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If you are currently sat at your kitchen table thinking ‘what am I going to do for a job’ then this blog is to cheer you, support you and hopefully help you in your start-up!… The Marketing Associates’ is a flexible, marketing resource concept launched, like many other modern day start-ups, from a kitchen table […]