The essence of marketing: To continuously seek profitable opportunities for new business and maintain close contact with customers. This requires on-going information analysis, research, planning and implementation. Above all, it needs management. In an ideal world you would employ someone at Director level, who can develop strategy, pro-actively manage business generation programmes and oversee the fulfilment of media relations, produce marketing materials and create new ways to get your business messages across. M+ Team can do this for you. On a time-varying basis you can retain M+ to provide a 'managed-marketing' service. Drawing on the resources of the company, M+ will work alongside your team, adding the expertise and capabilities you need to maximise return-on-investment in your marketing and PR. Key benefits: Your whole market communications programme will be integrated and co-ordinated. You will have access to many years combined experience in marketing, PR and communications production. More cost-effective than employing people in-house You will not experience the disruption and damage to your sales and marketing effort that often follows when a key member of your team leaves An ongoing consultancy relationship includes: Continuous liaison with your staff - to ensure in-depth understanding of the issues Tracking of competitor marketing activity Strategic consultancy advice, to pro-actively evolve and add value to your marketing programme supporting business objectives Processing calls and information relating to marketing opportunities Co-ordination of suppliers in the marketing process Ongoing evolution of your market communications Monitoring, evaluation, analysis Management, administration and reporting, including a monthly meeting for which M+ will develop an agenda and, thereafter, a contact report to detail action requirements