Based at the heart of the UK in Warwick, The Marketing Smith is a Marketing and Branding consultancy working with clients locally and nationally across a range of sectors.
We provide SME’s and individuals with creative, yet affordable marketing solutions to help brands tell their story to new and existing audiences, growing revenues and businesses. By becoming your marketing team valuable time can be freed up allowing you to focus on your areas of expertise.
We have walked in the clients’ shoes for many miles, been in the agency’s shoes and the big boots of sales too – seeing it from all sides allows us to work with clients closely and honestly to achieve great results.
The Marketing Smith was founded by Laura Dryhurst in 2019, a CIM accredited marketer with over 12 years of marketing expertise. Laura has a diverse range of experience across the private, public sector and not-for-profit sector at both in-house and agency level.
Beginning her career in market research, she developed insight for a not-for-profit and global FMCG giant Unilever. Her next stop was the Higher Education sector at one of the fastest growing UK universities, Coventry University where she directed marketing strategies and campaigns for commercial entities to support regional business growth alongside managing multi-million-pound marketing and advertising campaigns to drive student recruitment.
Turning to a specialist advertising agency as Account Director, Laura has provided consultative strategic services to international brands including the University of York, Warwick Business School and the New York Institute of Photography, helping them to reach a wide global audience.
Laura also has experience in training, providing online and face to face training for the Financial Services sector and in the recruitment sector coaching candidates for assessment centres.
I would recommend The Marketing Smith to any organisation big or small as I know from experience you don’t often find a sensible directional plan so expertly communicated.
Dr Karen Woodhall
Aston Institute of Health & Neurodevelopment
The creativity and dynamism The Marketing Smith injected into both projects was brilliant and key to ensuring we delivered against our success criteria.
Ed Colman
Business & Market Engagement Officer – Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority