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Marketing Communications for ambitious businesses of all shapes and sizes.

Let's cut to the chase. Marketing is about your message and what it does to your bottom line. No more. No less.

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Our services

Some clients come to us for one specific thing. Others need the whole picture planned, created and taken care of. Either way, we will help you work out what you need and what you don't.

Web

Web

  • From brochure websites and eCommerce sites to larger corporate websites with plenty going on behind the scenes, we build clear, search-friendly websites with strong content, practical functionality and proper support.

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  • Product pages that do the selling, checkouts that don't lose people, and the connections to your stock and payment systems that keep it all running quietly in the background.

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  • Reliable managed hosting, updates and practical support for businesses that would rather not wrestle with the technical bits. Most agencies take days to answer an email. We don't.

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  • Practical organic SEO, content and website improvements that help search engines and humans understand what you do.

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  • When someone asks an AI assistant for a supplier, something decides whether your name comes up. We structure your content, your answers and the technical groundwork so that it does.

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  • Digital planning consultation tools, content and campaign support for projects that need clear public communication and detailed feedback.

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Content creation

Content creation

  • Short films, interviews, case studies, promotional videos and social content — planned, filmed and edited with proper marketing thinking behind it.

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  • People, places, products, projects, workplaces and behind-the-scenes content for websites, social media, brochures and campaigns.

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  • Website copy, blogs, articles, case studies, campaign copy and marketing content written for humans first — with search engines kept firmly in mind.

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  • Posts, captions, graphics, photos, videos and campaign content with a plan behind them, designed to engage the right people and send useful traffic back to your website.

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  • Member magazines, customer titles and corporate publications. We were making these for Royal Mail, Bank of Scotland and British Gas twenty years before the industry invented a name for it.

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Design

Design

  • It's the impression your business leaves on everyone who comes into contact with it. We create brand identities with a clear, consistent visual foundation — logos, colour palettes, typography, visual style and guidelines.

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  • Annual reports, impact reports and corporate publications that help organisations communicate clearly and credibly.

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  • Campaign concepts, advertising creative and marketing media designed to carry clear messages across print, digital and social channels.

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  • Stands, banners, signage and event graphics designed to read at a glance and still hold up when somebody walks over for a closer look.

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  • What you do, who for, how you sound, how you look and what you'd never say — written so your team, your suppliers and your AI tools all work from the same foundation.

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Marketing

Marketing

  • For businesses that want proper marketing support without building a full in-house team. We shape the strategy, create the core media and manage the campaigns designed to bring the right people to your door.

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  • Digital marketing works best when your website, content, SEO, social media, email and paid campaigns are pulling in the same direction. Joined-up, useful and measurable — not a collection of disconnected wee tactics sitting in separate silos.

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  • Great content is not just \u201cstuff to post\u201d. It helps people understand what makes your business different, gives them a reason to engage, and supports everything from your website and SEO to campaigns and sales conversations.

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  • If you don't know where you're going, you could end up somewhere you don't want to be. That could mean a full strategy, a practical action plan, campaign planning, content direction, supplier management or simply an experienced second opinion.

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  • Joined-up social content that supports your website, SEO, PR and wider marketing — not just posts for the sake of keeping the feed alive.

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  • We help plan, manage and optimise Google Ads campaigns so paid search works alongside your website, SEO, content and wider marketing.

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  • HTML campaigns, newsletters and customer communications that people actually open — planned alongside the rest of your marketing rather than bolted on at the end.

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Not sure which of these you need? Most people aren't, and that's fine. Tell us what you're trying to achieve and we'll tell you what would actually help.
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Discovery. Creativity. Realisation.

One team, from the first idea to the thing that ships

The strategy, the words, the pictures, the film and the build all come from the same people. Nothing gets lost in translation, because there's nobody to translate it to.

One

Discovery

What you're trying to achieve, who needs to hear it, and what's currently in the way.

Two

Creativity

The thinking, the design, the words, the photography and the film that carry it.

Three

Realisation

Built, launched, measured and looked after — by people who answer the phone.

Everyone can make things now.
We know what's worth making.

Thirty-five years of working out which idea will land, then going out and making it happen. That's the bit you're really buying.

We turn upTo your factory floor at seven in the morning, because that's when the light is right.
We have an opinionNot just options. We'll tell you what we'd do and why, then get on with it.
We know your businessAfter a while we remember what you told us last year, and the year before.
We use great toolsAI included, enthusiastically. It means more of your budget goes on thinking and shooting.

Work we're rather proud of

Blue-chip companies, ambitious SMEs, charities, hotels, schools, veterinary groups and engineering firms — and one or two we're still not allowed to name.

CPA membership website

CPA

Membership site with document management, member and event payments.

Websites · Development

Phoenix Drilling

Phoenix Drilling

A brochure that gives a technical business the presence its work deserves.

Print · Photography

Haymarket Hub Hotel

Haymarket Hub Hotel

Connect. Explore. Recharge. A campaign that gave guests a reason to book.

Campaign · Design

Scion Instruments

Scion Instruments

Brand and publication design for a global scientific instruments maker.

Branding · Print

NFU Scotland

NFU Scotland

Campaign and member communications for a national membership body.

Content · Campaign

More of our work

When it all needs sorting yesterday

Marketing emergency?

We can be with you shortly.

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Reddishpink Brand Brain

Everything your brand knows about itself, in one place

What you do, who for, why it matters, how you sound, how you look — and the things you'd never say.

Your team, your suppliers and your AI tools all work from the same foundation, so everything that gets made sounds like you. Build it once and every job after it is faster, sharper and more consistent.

PropositionAudiencesTone of voiceVisual identity Photography styleVideo styleApproved claimsTemplates AI instructions

No mystery pricing

Or keep us on the team

Monthly programmes for businesses that want marketing happening all year, not just when there's a project on.

Visibility

from £1,250per month

Getting found by the right people, month after month.

  • Content built around real questions
  • Technical setup and structured data
  • Google Business Profile and reviews
  • Search and AI answer monitoring

Content

from £2,500per month

One day inside your business. Months of content out of it.

  • Regular filming and photography days
  • Interviews, portraits, place and process
  • Films, social, case studies, web copy
  • The editorial thinking behind it

Partner

from £3,500per month

Your senior marketing team, without the payroll.

  • Strategy, planning and budget direction
  • Everything in Content
  • Supplier coordination and campaigns
  • A standing monthly meeting with Mark

Brand Brain

from £2,500one-off project

The foundation everything else works from.

  • Essentials, or the complete system
  • Built for your people and your tools
  • Yours to keep, whoever you work with
  • Kept current if we work together

The people who'd actually be doing it

Mark Ellison

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Thirty-five years, the first twenty in customer magazine publishing for Royal Mail, Bank of Scotland, RBS, Scottish Power and British Gas. Publisher, Account Director, twice a New Business Director.

He works out what your business should be saying — and he's also the one who turns up with the camera.

35 years

Fionna Ellison

CLIENT & CONTENT DIRECTOR

Twelve years here, and fifteen before it running international travel for blue-chip executives — a job where "it'll be fine" isn't an answer.

She holds several businesses' voices in her head at once and keeps every one sounding like itself.

27 years

Dave King

DESIGN

Design, layout, typography and finishing. Dave is the one who knows why it's four points out.

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Jeff Godek

DEVELOPMENT

Builds, integrations, functionality and the difficult bits. The person who's still there when it matters.

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Let's cut to the chase.

Tell us what you're trying to achieve, what's getting in the way, or what you already know needs sorted. We'll tell you straight what we'd do about it, and roughly what it would cost.

0330 004 0036 hello@reddishpinkmedia.com Livingston & Edinburgh