Turner & Bagel
Marketing and Communications Consulting
Hello! I’m Sophie Turner, a strategic marketing consultant with over a decade of experience working with charities and small businesses like yours. And I’m joined by Bagel, a rescue cat with over 4 years of experience screaming on video calls and generally getting in the way.
Together we’re here to solve your marketing and communications conundrums, lay strategic marketing foundations for your small business, and stare longingly out of the window at pigeons.
As a strategic marketing consultant, I’m like a communications coach for your business. I can look at your marketing with fresh eyes, helping you figure out where it needs to go and how to get there. Whether you need a short term fix or longer term support, I can create a tailor-made consultancy package that works for you and your budget.
I’ve worked for organisations of all sizes, but I’m particularly passionate about helping small businesses and charities do great things with their limited resources.
After working in senior marketing roles at small charities for many years, I understand the challenges of tiny budgets and limited capacity. I’ve also felt the frustration of being sold expensive and complicated solutions when you just need something simple that does the job.
I’ll work with you to create realistic bespoke solutions to your actual marketing needs. And it might even be a bit fun.
What can I do for you?
If you’re sick of spending hours posting on social media with limited results, want to try a new approach but don’t know where to start, or just need a marketing MOT to make sure you’re on the right track - let’s talk.
My services
I offer a variety of services, all tailored to your specific requirements. They include:
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A 20 minute call to chat about your requirements and discuss how we could work together. I’ll follow-up with some options for next steps, but there’s no obligation to take it any further.
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Have you got a specific marketing and comms issue you want help solving? Or maybe you have literally no idea where to start and just need to untangle it? Let's talk. We’ll book an initial one or two hour meeting, and can take it from there if you still need some extra help.
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Want a realistic overview of your current marketing and some actionable points for improvement? I'll provide a topline audit of your current marketing channels with a simple traffic light system indicating what needs changing, as well as a list of suggested improvements.
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Need to hire for a marketing or comms role? I can work with you at any stage of the recruitment process, from helping you decide what you need, writing job descriptions and adverts, sitting on the interview panel, and helping to make a final decision.
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I have a large network of marketing and communications professionals, and a lot of experience hiring for self-contained projects like marketing campaigns and website redevelopment. If you need help pitching a project, finding the right company to work on it, and even project managing, I can support you with that.
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If you want to take your marketing to the next level and start seeing transformative results, let’s work together to nail your strategy. We'll work within the realistic parameters of your budget and capacity to truly understand your business' goals and work out how to get there.
I’m based in Nottingham, so if you’re local I’m happy to meet you at your business or over a coffee. But I do most of my work remotely, so I can work with clients all over the UK and beyond.
About me
I have over a decade of experience across the marketing spectrum, racked up through many years of in-house and freelance roles. I have held Head of Marketing and Communications positions in the charity and education sectors, and have worked on projects with a variety of different organisations. I’ve also run my own small business, so I understand the opportunities and challenges that presents.
Over the course of my career I have built marketing strategies that have produced record-breaking results, as well as running a campaign that was shortlisted for a Marketing Award for Effective Brand Communication. But I’ve also done lots of stealthier work in the background too, untangling business’ marketing problems, improving processes, and teaching people how to run their own marketing self-sufficiently.
My priority is helping business owners understand where their marketing needs to go and how to get there - providing simple solutions without fluff and upselling. If this feels like something you’d benefit from, get in touch.
About him
Bagel is an orange rescue cat who joined my family during the pandemic. His previous owners decided that they didn’t want him any more, and left him to fend for himself on the streets. I adopted him from Cats Protection in 2020 and he’s been my best friend ever since. Despite being treated so badly in his early years he’s an incredibly loving cat - to me, anyway. He’s very rude to everyone else.
Bagel makes an appearance on most of my work calls - if you don’t see him you’ll probably hear him. He thinks he’s my business partner anyway, so I thought I’d make it official through Turner & Bagel. He takes his payment in Dreamies.
