Growing company moves office
A company which has successfully been marketing other businesses during the recession is expanding and moving to new premises.
The Marketing Eye has been based in a converted barn at East Hoathly for the past two years, but can now be found in the heart of Uckfield at
Nelson House on the High Street.
At the same time a new client director, Maxine Davenport, has been recruited to help grow the business, and a new marketing executive will shortly be sought to support the team.
Managing Director, Neil Edwards, is looking forward to the future. The company has been growing steadily since it was launched in his Nutley home four years ago.
In the early days, clients were predominantly one and two-man businesses, but now clients tend to turnover between £1 million and £20 million.
They are committed to marketing their businesses, but either don’t have a marketing department or, if there is one, look to The Marketing Eye for additional resources and expertise.
Neil said: ‘We can become their outsource marketing department and act as the equivalent of a Marketing Director or just augment an existing team. What we do is entirely up to the client, we can be flexible.’
Maxine has joined the team of six to help win new business and look after a portfolio of clients. She will help clients establish their marketing requirements and then organise the implementation.
She has worked with blue chip clients such as Hewlett Packard, Cisco, Virgin, Siemens and Sony and planned and implemented a number of award-winning campaigns.
Clients of The Marketing Eye are spread across London and the South East, but the management team has chosen Uckfield as its new base because of its active business community and good communication links.
Travel from Uckfield to Eastbourne, Brighton, Tunbridge Wells, Haywards Heath, Crawley and London is easy. Neil said: ‘Some might question the wisdom of committing to new premises and a larger team when the economic climate remains so uncertain.
'At The Marketing Eye we believe dealing with the recession is a state of mind: we can let it crush us and demoralise us, or we can accept it and work hard to overcome it. We prefer the latter option. There is business out there for those willing to go out and find it.’
A story about The Marketing Eye's move appeared in the Sussex Express, p12, on Friday, November 27, 2009, and in The Courier on p38 on December 18, 2009.