About Contacts4Business

Joined Up Marketing To Grow Your Business

Contacts4Business was started in by Julia Brooks 2006 when she realised that many small business owners and directors have trouble finding the time for marketing.

After running a number of successful telemarketing campaigns for SME owners, she was able to recruit her first members of staff the following year and expanded the service portfolio to include email marketing and email newsletters.

Contacts4Business is now an integrated marketing agency that helps businesses generate demand for their products and services, build and grow their presence on the web, generate leads and grow their sales pipeline.

Our professional marketing experience comes from blue chip companies including BT, Reed Elsevier and WorldPay/Royal Bank of Scotland, and from smaller businesses including Equisys and Metadigm.

Want to grow your sales?

Use our marketing expertise in 3 main areas:

New Business Lead Generation: email and telemarketing campaigns to new sales prospects
Repeat Business Generation: email newsletter campaigns to existing customers
Market Visibility Generation: content development services for increased visibility on the web

Most of our clients ask us to help them with one or more of the following:

Prospect data: Acquire, build or cleanse your database of target contacts
Strategy and proposition development: Define your marketing message and offers
E-brochures: Design and write your brochure as a PDF or for print to send to prospects
Email marketing: Create and run your personalised email lead generation campaigns
Telemarketing: Perform your highly targeted telemarketing campaigns
Web & social media content: Create or refresh your website content, LinkedIn profile, blog or white papers and other forms of authoritative articles
E-newsletters: Write, design and send email newsletters for your clients

Find out more about these services

Why work with Contacts4Business?

What sets contacts4business apart is our practical experience of integrated B2B marketing techniques to drive results.

Our knowledge comes from years working at the “sharp end” of sales and marketing for blue chip employers and from our own successful business that we have started, grown and sold.

We can put our knowledge and experience to work for your business, so you get tangible results that will drive your sales growth through marketing.

What is joined up marketing?

Every type of B2B marketing activity – whether telemarketing, advertising, or direct mail – plays a different role in the marketing mix.

But real marketing success comes from a planned, integrated approach that combines more than one type of activity in a sustained and consistent campaign. We see marketing as a process of “engagement” with prospects and customers, not just a “one-off” splash.

Marketing campaigns not only yield prospects who are ready to buy now, but also others who are considering a future purchase. It’s all about timing. Read our blog post about the importance of timing in B2B Marketing.

Recognising that a prospect will only buy when the time is right for them, not necessarily when you want them to, the key is to keep those prospects ‘engaged’ with you until they are ready to make their purchase decision.

Keeping prospects engaged, even if they don’t have a requirement today, is critically important to building your pipeline of leads and opportunities that will eventually convert into sales.

Contacts4Business can help you develop and nurture your pipeline of leads by keeping your business ‘on the radar’.

Who do we work with?

Serious about growing your business? So are we.

Our clients are small to medium size businesses that want sales growth. We have worked across more than 20 market sectors including:

Recruitment	Document Management	IT Services
Restaurants	Logistics	Manufacturing
Consulting	Public Sector	Software
Tax Consultants	Accounting	eCommerce
Healthcare	Security Services	Executive Coaching
Construction	Scientific Instrumentation	Training
HR Services	Photography	Publishing
Membership Organisations	Property Services	Marketing & Design
Advertising	Contract Catering	Financial Services

Read what our customers say

“Julia’s professional approach and helpful support was very important to me when I was starting my business. What I found particularly good about working with contacts4business, was their ongoing advice and the suggestions they gave me about going into new areas of business that I had not thought of entering before.”

Philip B

“The first benefit of using contacts4business was their simple day to day contract basis, which allowed us to use them as and when needed. This is not only an excellent arrangement for a small business like us, but also speaks of a company that has trust in their own abilities! Within the first 2 weeks, contacts4business developed a pipeline of solid leads.”

Claude Peters, Managing Director, ProntoPak

“We decided to use contacts4business initially because we could turn to them on an ad hoc basis, whenever we needed to do a sales and marketing push. Lately we have been using them on a monthly basis to target leads for us and set up appointments. It suits us perfectly to work this way, and contacts4business certainly delivers quality. They just get on with the job.”

Paul Weber, Managing Director, UK Branding

“The great thing about contacts4business is that after the initial briefing meeting, they were able to get on with the job without our involvement. They kept us informed of progress, and after the first day we had some great sales leads. Within a week they’d even made a sale for us. We will certainly use contacts4business again.”

Cath Boughton, Managing Editor, The Listing

“Julia and her team have done a great job. They’re very professional and act as great representatives for our business. The feedback from Julia and the results produced have been first class.”

Ian Clemson, Owner, The Best of Cambridge

“contacts4business have provided a fantastic service calling prospective customers and securing presentation opportunities which we have been able to convert into weekly orders for our frozen food business. I find cold calling prospective customers an arduous task, and it needs a special kind of skill to get it right – including subtle persuasion and polite persistence, neither of which are my greatest assets. contacts4business have these skills in abundance. I regularly make use of their services and would recommend them to anyone.”

David Pettingale, Managing Director, Menu3 Ltd

“Truly exceptional is not a phrase I use lightly. Instinctively wary of telemarketing, the biggest complement I can pay to Julia and her team is that I am proud to have them represent my business. In fact I would be very uncomfortable using anyone else. And as for the results – it has proved one of the best investments I’ve made.”

Rupert Matthews, Managing Director, Fourways Accountants

“contacts4business has provided iTEXS with an integrated marketing programme involving targeted emails and telemarketing follow up. From the outset we have been extremely impressed with Julia and the team’s knowledge, experience and ability to involve us in the planning. At every step, from identifying the profile of our target contacts, through developing the email campaign to the follow up calls, Julia took on board that she was not only doing the work for us, but helping us understand how to get the most from the campaign. Her team are friendly and get the job done in a very efficient manner – we have no hesitation in recommending anyone to use contacts4business.”

David Kilpatrick, Sales and Marketing Director, iTEXS

“I would thoroughly recommend contacts4business as an effective telemarketing company. Julia and her team are professional, well-organised and a pleasure to work with. Their systems are easy to use and informative, and I have been pleased with the results. I look forward to working with them again’

Sue Nugent, Managing Editor, Echo Publications

“At QSS UK we needed to see sales improvement borne out of increased enquiry levels. Contacts4Business quickly understood what was wanted in a campaign and delivered it. The result was more enquiries and sales! ”

David Oldroyd, Managing Director, QSS UK

Find out about our marketing services, call us on 01223 750236 or email info@contacts4business.com