Your email marketing should support growth, not distract from it
A calmer, more strategic way to use email marketing in your consultancy
When you run an indie consultancy, client work comes first. Your own marketing usually happens in the gaps — which is when email becomes inconsistent, reactive, or quietly ignored.
You know email could support enquiries, nurture relationships, and keep you visible between projects. But without clarity, it often feels like effort without momentum.
This isn’t a motivation problem. It’s a strategy one.
Why email often feels harder than it should
For many consultancies, email ends up doing a bit of everything without a clear role.
Newsletters go out when there’s time. Nurture sequences grow in bits. Data exists, but it’s rarely used to guide decisions. And email becomes something you “should probably sort”, rather than a system that actively supports your pipeline.
Email isn’t meant to feel like this.
WHAT CHANGES
WHAT CHANGES
Consultancies we’ve worked with have:
Turned circular marketing debates into a 13-week newsletter campaign that generated consistent leads.
Pivoted their messaging to a new audience with confidence, using email to bridge the transition.
Stopped “throwing things at the wall” and built seasonal strategies that sustain visibility.
The biggest shift? Teams who once second-guessed every send now feel confident — and even love using email.
Ways we work with consultancies
We work with consultancies who want email to feel purposeful, manageable, and aligned with how their business actually grows.
The services are the same for everyone we work with. What changes is how we apply them to your context — your offers, your sales cycle, and your capacity.
Below are the most common starting points for consultancy teams
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For when you need clarity before you make changes
This is the right starting point when email feels underpowered, messy, or hard to explain internally.
We review your email platform, audiences, tagging, automations and journeys, and bring it together into a clear picture of what’s happening and where value is being lost. You’ll get a prioritised roadmap that shows what’s worth fixing now, what can wait, and what isn’t worth touching.
This is a diagnostic specifically designed to reduce risk before you invest more time, budget or energy.
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For when teams need alignment and a shared view.
When different teams have different ideas about what email is for, progress stalls.In this facilitated workshop, we map how people move from first contact to becoming a client — and what role email should play at each stage.
For consultancies, this helps clarify:
how email supports enquiry, nurture and follow-up
what needs to happen between “interested” and “ready to talk”
where email is adding friction rather than momentum
The outcome is a practical journey map that makes planning easier and keeps email aligned with how you actually sell.
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For when email assumptions need replacing with evidence.
This four-month programme helps consultancies move beyond surface-level metrics and start learning from email behaviour.
We work with you to test assumptions, interpret engagement, and use evidence to guide decisions about content, nurture and timing.
For consultancies, this is particularly useful when:
email feels “busy” but not impactful
you want clearer signals about what’s driving enquiries
you need confidence in what to double down on
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Our training sessions are practical, focused and grounded in your reality.
For consultancy teams, training often covers areas like:
planning newsletters that support pipeline, not noise
understanding what your data is really telling you
using Mailchimp with more intention and less admin
making confident decisions about cadence and content
The aim is to help email feel like a capability you own — not a task you avoid.
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Some consultancies choose to keep us involved once the foundations are in place.
This looks like light-touch, clearly scoped support to sense-check plans, prioritise next steps, support decision-making, or build confidence across the team.
It’s designed to maintain momentum without creating dependency.
Consultancies often come to us feeling unsure whether their email is really pulling its weight.
What changes isn’t just output. Teams gain clarity about what email is for, confidence in their decisions, and a shared understanding of how email supports growth.
Email stops feeling like admin, and starts working as part of a joined-up sales and relationship-building system.
Why us ✨
Ready to make email marketing something you and your team actually love?
Start with a quick, no-pressure chat.
We’ll ask what’s working, what’s not, and what you’re trying to change — and if it’s a fit, we’ll shape a plan together.
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We have clients in the UK, Europe and Canada, and love working across the globe, virtual or in-person.
What’s next?
Common FAQs
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A good consultancy newsletter isn’t about cramming in everything you’ve been working on. It should position your expertise, share useful insights, and show prospective non-profit clients that you understand their world.
The best newsletters have a clear content strategy: one focused theme per send, a mix of practical value and thought leadership, and a call to action that makes the next step obvious. Done right, your newsletter becomes a steady pipeline builder, not just a “nice-to-have.”
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Not at all. A small, engaged list will always outperform a big, messy one. We’ve helped teams cut 30+ fragmented lists down to one master list and re-engage a few thousand dormant subscribers — which instantly generated more money and improved results.
Whether you have 300 contacts or 30,000, what matters most is the quality of your list and the journeys you build to nurture them.
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Success depends on your goals — and that’s where many teams go wrong. Too often, email marketing gets judged only on open rates or click rates. Those numbers are useful, but they don’t tell the whole story.
For consultancies, success could look like:
More demo bookings or client calls
Stronger engagement with newsletters
Shorter sales cycles and higher conversion rates
We start every project by asking what does success look like for you? Then we track the right mix of metrics: list health, engagement, income, and team confidence. Because at the end of the day, the real measure of success is simple: are your emails helping you raise more money, win more clients, and feel more confident pressing send?
“We’ve got this amazing journey now. But the biggest thing is… we feel confident. We think before we send. We plan ahead. We own it.”
- client love 🥹
That’s what we want for every client.