Too many amazing businesses fail because they get their marketing wrong.Even with great business owners and leaders, it's too easy to fall into the trap of 'do, do, doing' marketing but when you know you're not 'doing' marketing effectively, you can't figure out why. So you can't change it. So it never really improves and drives the success you want.That's where I step in. I show you how to figure out what marketing to do, when and why. I run The Marketing Spaces and you can get marketing clarity with us. We offer you these options: online marketing training the 5-week 'Design a Successful Marketing Pipeline' course and 1-1 Marketing Coaching.I sometimes have space to work with just your business via our strategic marketing consultancy division.If you want your marketing to be effective and get the results you need, then take a look!🔸Follow our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-marketing-spaces🔸Subscribe to our newsletter: https://marketingspaces.co.uk/newsletter/🔸Check out our marketing Insights videos and articles: https://marketingspaces.co.uk/spaces/marketing-insights/Be a marketing success story. Let us give you the marketing know-how and skills to always know what marketing to do, when, and why.

I've been working with the CEO at this exciting SAAS firm for a few years now, helping him determine, set and execute their marketing strategy as they grow in the UK.

I set up, ran and grew a successful business as a Strategic Marketing Consultant before merging it with another business.I worked with over 50 ambitious, growing SMEs, so they understood how to structure and run their marketing so it was a key part of their business success. I provided a range of consultancy services which included:1. Taking my clients through a structured marketing process, helping them determine and really nail down what they offer (market proposition), whom to (markets and segments), and how well they are actually doing their marketing (marketing assessment).2. Creating realistic Marketing Improvement Plans ready to create Marketing Campaign Plans that work.3. Either supporting them and their marketing people to deliver the Plans or recruiting the right marketing people to make it happen.4. Being a Strategic Sounding Board or Interim Marketing Director, working with the Board and Senior Marketers to provide that crucial, objective sanity check on your marketing and how it’s performing.5. Ongoing Consultancy on Projects – you know what you need, eg Product Launch, but you have no capacity internally to think about it and lay out the key steps; that’s where I helped.My client portfolio moved with me to The Marketing Spaces when I merged these two companies in late 2023.

I was a Tutor for marketing professionals studying for the CIM* Certificate in Professional Marketing. Teaching virtually via Zoom, I tutored the part-time evening course.Oxford College of Marketing is one of the leading marketing colleges with 14 Study Centres across the UK and Distance Learning students who come to us from across the world.*Chartered Institute of Marketing

I was engaged by Novatia to undertake a marketing audit. Following this, I then developed Novatia's strategic and tactical marketing plans. Novatia then invited me to implement those plans, in the role of Interim Marketing Director.Novatia is a leading independent specialist in ICT and Education. Founded in 2003, they are a team of experienced, passionate ICT consultants and specialists who work solely in the UK Education market.From initial advice all the way through to maintaining ICT excellence, Novatia provide solutions for their clients at every step of their ICT journey. Novatia's clients include Ofsted, the Department of Education, multi-academy trusts (MATs), secondary schools, FE colleges, University Technical Colleges (UTCs), studio schools, free schools and universities, and large UK construction firms who build our Educational facilities within both the Priority Schools Building Programme (PSBP) and the EFA Regional Framework.

I was an accredited and licensed member of the Watertight Marketing Accredited Consultant network. This means that I was trained by Bryony Thomas in using her award-winning Watertight Marketing Methodology with my clients. I was delighted to be named the ‘Watertight Marketing Accredited Consultant of the Year 2017'. This award recognises the strategic marketing consultant within the Watertight Marketing Expert Community who has most embodied the shared values in the preceding year. In announcing the award, creator and founder of Watertight Marketing, Bryony Thomas, commented: “One of the main reasons Kara stood out for me amongst a community of true experts, was the way that she has consciously designed a business and network that fits with personal definition of success. There’s a lot that many entrepreneurs could learn from Kara about how to find purpose and contentment in their work, not least what she knows about marketing!”

Voluntary position held in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Chartered Institute of Marketing branch committee. Organised CIM (Hants & IoW) attendance at local events as well as CIM (Hampshire and IoW) events for regional members and the local business community.Part of a team committed to supporting marketing professionals.

Was Director at MountainBug, an independent holiday company, based in the French Pyrenees.In under a year, working with the three other Directors, I designed and implemented a complete marketing strategy which saw a 16% increase in turnover and customers at a time when all other local competitors saw an approximately 15% reduction in theirs.

Freelance management consultant. Track record of working with businesses who want to move to the next level but are unsure how to. Helps them structure their thoughts and ideas into a plan, putting processes in place to ensure they achieve their vision.Key areas of work include:- marketing and communications- business consulting- training, learning and developmentEnjoys working with people who genuinely want to move forwards and upwards. Expert at helping them channel their visions to make it happen and patient enough to understand what drives these people and that they need a detail person like her to "make it happen".

I took a one year sabbatical travelling the world.

I helped shape, design and bring to life the strategy and processes that are helping Alexander grow. The company's aim is to treble in size by 2010 and my role was to provide the business with the structures to make that growth happen.I was also a managing consultant in Alexander, managing and working with several clients in the fields of: - developing and delivering training to create a performance management culture- setting up and running social marketing projects.

I set up and ran my own consultancy business, helping SMEs and public sector organisations achieve success in a variety of ways:- marketing- communications- performance management- process improvement

I was the Fire Service's first Marketing and Communications manager, with responsibility for developing and executing an internal communications programme as well as social marketing projects.I introduced and embedded marketing and communication concepts into a challenging environment.Key successes include establishing an internal communication structure, which measurably improved staff’s knowledge, understanding and trust in the organisation after an industrial dispute.As a result marketing and communications was praised as a key strength in the organisation’s 2005 Comprehensive Performance Assessment audit (undertaken by the Audit Commission).A project I led on, Community TV, won a national award for Most Innovative Use of Technology in 2006.