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What an Oxford business actually gets

Most digital marketing agency websites describe a process. This one starts with a number, because that is the only part you can check.

What follows is what a digital marketing agency Oxford businesses hire should be able to show you: proven results with the period they cover, the services behind them, and how the numbers are reported. We are a full service agency, which here means SEO, Google Ads and paid social, social media, web design and development, video and photography, graphic design, email and CRM automation, all delivered by the same team.

Cotswold Gloss: 157 leads at £4.59 each

Cotswold Gloss is a mobile valeter in Carterton and has been a client since July 2026. We run the website, the booking calendar, the Meta Ads and the CRM behind them. The first two months produced 157 leads at £4.59 each.

For a business selling appointments that is a useful comparison. The question was never whether an advert gets clicks. It was whether the right audience could understand the offer, enquire, and end up with a booking in the diary.

157 leads is not 157 confirmed jobs and we would not present it as one. What happens after the enquiry is the next thing worth measuring, and it sits in the reporting.

Digital marketing services, all in one team

You do not need all eight. We deliver every one of them in house, and we would rather fix the part holding the business back than sell you a bundle, and we work closely enough with you to know which part that is.

• Video production and photography. The products, people and actual work an Oxford customer is choosing between, filmed and photographed properly.
• Social media management. Strategy, content and community, planned a month at a time rather than posted when somebody remembers.
• Google Ads and paid social. Paid advertising built around what people search and buy, not around impressions. We are a Google Partner and a Meta Partner.
• Web design and development. WordPress, Shopify or Framer, built to load fast on a phone and make the next step obvious. Shopify Partner too.
• SEO. Technical, on page and local search work aimed at organic traffic that converts rather than at rankings for their own sake.
• Graphic design. Brand identity, print and the digital assets that keep everything looking related.
• Email marketing and CRM automation. The follow up that turns interest into sales while your team is busy.

Content marketing, brand strategy and reporting sit inside that rather than being sold as separate line items by separate suppliers.

What Oxford businesses are actually competing for

Oxford is not one market. There is the university and the research spinouts, the science parks at Begbroke and Harwell, the tourism and hospitality industry across Oxford city centre, and the trades and professional services serving a county of expensive housing stock.

Those four buy in completely different ways, and the most common mistake we see is an Oxford marketing agency running the same plan for all of them.

A research spinout selling to procurement teams needs search engines to find it for a specific capability, plus credibility that survives a technical review. A hospitality business in the city centre needs to be found on a phone within half a mile. A trade serving Oxfordshire needs filmed proof of the work and a reply within minutes. Same county, three different plans.

How we build the strategy

The free audit comes first. What people search when they want what you sell, what your competitors rank for, where your web presence loses people, and what your marketing activity has actually earned so far.

Out of that comes a plan with a small number of moves rather than a long list. Most Oxford businesses do not need more marketing. They need three things done properly and measured, which is a different job from doing eight things thinly.

Delivery follows, by the same in house team throughout: no brief handed to a freelancer you will never speak to. Our marketing team includes videographers, designers, developers, a search specialist and the people running the ad accounts, and they sit together.

Then reporting. Every figure comes from your own ad accounts, analytics and CRM through MyContentLab, our own platform, on complete months only.

What we measure, and what we ignore

Enquiries, appointments, sales and the revenue behind them, plus the cost of each. Website traffic, online visibility and rankings matter only where they feed those, which is why our reporting leads with the commercial goals rather than with a chart of impressions.

Marketing strategies live or die on that distinction. Two agencies can run the same channels and report completely different things, and only one of them is telling you whether the work paid.

Vanity metrics are the easiest thing in the world for an agency to sell. Follower counts, reach, impressions and page one rankings for terms nobody searches all look like progress and none of them pay wages.

What we want to show you at the end of month three is measurable results in the only form that matters: more leads and more qualified enquiries, traceable to the work that produced them, at a cost you would happily pay again. That is what real growth looks like on a monthly report. Consistent results over a quarter tell you far more than one good month, and both are duller and more useful than a dashboard of green arrows.

Search and social work better together

Search catches people who already want what you sell. Social builds awareness with people who do not know you yet. Run either one alone and you either wait for demand that never grows or generate interest that lands nowhere.

Run search and social campaigns from one plan and the same filmed content feeds both, the advertising warms the audience that later searches your name, and the SEO work tells you which questions the social content should answer. That is the practical argument for a full service digital agency rather than three specialists.

The content does a second job while it waits. Thought leadership is an overused phrase for something simple: being the business that already answered the question when somebody finally searches it.

It is also cheaper. One production day feeds a quarter of social posts, a set of adverts and the images on the website, because the setup cost is identical whether you shoot one film or twelve.

Choosing between Oxford agencies

Every agency in Oxford will tell you their marketing experts are the best in the county. Four questions separate them faster than any portfolio does, and you should ask us the same ones.

• Who does the work? Which parts are delivered by the agency’s own experienced specialists and which go to freelancers. Both are fine. The price should reflect which.
• Who owns the output? The footage, the website, the ad account and the customer data. If any of it stays with the agency you are renting your own marketing.
• Where do the numbers come from? A report built in the agency’s spreadsheet is not the same as one pulled from your accounts. Clear reporting means you can check it yourself.
• What is the notice period? Long contracts protect the agency from its own performance. Ours run month to month with 30 days’ notice.

We are a Google Partner, a Meta Business Partner and a Shopify Partner, with a 5.0 rating from 30 Google reviews. Those are checkable, which is the point of mentioning them. Our clients stay because the reporting shows what the work earned, not because a contract stops them leaving.

What it costs

A fixed monthly fee built from published line items: how many production days, how many channels and how much is being built. One off projects such as a website or a brand identity are priced as projects, and those figures are published too.

A single film and a full programme of advertising, search and web are not the same purchase, so the proposal adds up the items you actually need and lists exactly what is included, what it costs, and what we expect it to do for your business goals. Where branding is part of the work, it also sets out how the creative connects to your brand values rather than treating them as a slide nobody reads.

The Oxfordshire catchment runs out through Kidlington, Abingdon, Witney and Bicester, and the search competition thins quickly once you leave the city. Deciding which of those towns is worth a page of its own is part of the audit.

Our prices are on the website, not behind a form. The rate card starts at £99 for a logo and reaches £4,999 for an ecommerce build, and you can total up your own shortlist on the page.

Start with the audit

Send your website, your social accounts and your ad accounts if you run them. You will get an honest read on what is working, what is not, and what we would do first to move the business forward.

No obligation. If the honest answer is that you do not need an agency yet, that is what you will hear.