Boutique Cheshire-based marketing agency working with Manchester SMEs across the city centre, Northern Quarter, Ancoats, Salford and MediaCity. Same standard of work, sensible overheads.
A few of the many businesses we've worked with, big and small
Manchester clients have made up a steady chunk of our work for years. Most are scattered across the Northern Quarter, Ancoats and the city centre, with a cluster around MediaCity and Salford. We’re not down the road from you, but we’re closer than you think and most of the work happens digitally anyway.
We’re not pretending to be a Manchester agency. There’s no Northern Quarter postcode in our footer. What we are is a Cheshire agency that’s done a lot of Manchester work over the years, mostly remotely, occasionally on-site, always with the same senior contact you started with.
Most clients work out the maths quickly: same calibre of work as a city-centre agency, fraction of the overhead, no central Manchester pricing markup.
Manchester is the North's business capital: media, tech, finance and professional services, with the search competition that comes with it.
Dozens of firms chase the same keywords here. Technical SEO, site speed and genuine content matter more in Manchester than anywhere else in the region.
Arenas, conferences and a constant events calendar drive real spikes in demand. Hospitality and retail should plan visibility around the calendar rather than react to it.
Manchester agency rates reflect city-centre offices. The work itself doesn't have to cost that, which is most of why our Manchester clients came to us.
Pick what you need or hand the whole thing over. Most local businesses we work with use two or three services together.
Properly built WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify and Magento. No page builders. Properly fast. The kind of site Core Web Vitals actually likes.
Find out more →Technical SEO, content, local search, link building. The slow honest kind that compounds over years.
Find out more →Campaigns built around what actually converts. Daily monitoring, monthly reports, no vanity metrics.
Find out more →Posting, replying, knowing when your audience is online. Real engagement, not bots and stock posts.
Find out more →Newsletters, welcome flows, abandoned cart sequences. The highest-ROI channel of the lot when it's done right.
Find out more →Blog posts and landing pages written by humans who get your business. UK-based writers, no AI slop.
Find out more →Manchester is one of the most competitive SME markets in the UK now. Bigger budgets, more agencies, more noise than ever. Standing out doesn’t come from just putting together some cleverer marketing – it comes from also doing the basics properly while everyone else cuts corners.
The fundamentals win. A fast website. Properly structured content. A Google Business Profile that actually gets attention. Consistent social media content designed for your audience rather than for everybody. Ad spend measured against return rather than impressions. A steady drip of fresh five-star reviews. None of it is super glamorous, all of it works.
Manchester is one of the fastest-growing city economies in the UK, which means high intent but a lot of noise. The businesses that win are the ones doing the basics properly and consistently. We tell you what we’ll do, do it, and report back monthly with the data to back it up.
Your main point of contact stays with you throughout - a senior team member who works directly on your project.
We've been around for over 10 years and never had a negative review. 100% positive. Read them - they're real.
Rolling monthly retainers. If we're not delivering, you can leave. We retain clients by doing the work properly.
We obsess over data, crawl social analytics constantly, refuse to use page builders on principle, and chase 0.2-second LCP improvements. The boring nerdy work pays off.
A snapshot of the kinds of Manchester businesses we've helped grow online.
Same process for every project. Boring, predictable, no surprises.
Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll tell you straight whether we can help.
Honest scope. Clear pricing. No fluff.
We do the work. You see progress weekly.
Go live, then keep improving. Regular reporting with actual numbers.
We work with SMEs across the UK. If your town's not listed, get in touch anyway.
No, and we don’t pretend to be. We’re fully remote with team members across the UK, including one in Salford. Our founder lives in a sleepy village near Northwich, Cheshire. We work with Manchester businesses regularly and visit when it helps. Most clients prefer the lower overhead more than they miss the in-person meetings.
Lower overheads, same standard of work. City-centre agency rates pay for office space, account managers, and senior leadership margins on top of the actual work. We’re a tight-knit, fully remote team that does the work directly. The maths usually works out considerably cheaper for similar quality.
Yes. We’ve worked – and still work – with multiple Manchester clients across hospitality, professional services, B2B SaaS, retail, legal and trades. The market dynamics, the local competition, the audience expectations – it’s familiar territory.
Zoom or Teams for anything that needs talking through, email for anything that doesn't. It keeps the hours you're paying for on the actual work. And you'll know exactly who your contact is, because it'll be the same person next month and the month after.
Web design starts in the low thousands. Ongoing retainers start at a few hundred a month. We’ll tell you straight on the first call whether your budget fits or whether we should point you somewhere better suited.
We founded Cheshire Cat Marketing in 2016 after watching too many small businesses burn through agency budgets and end up with a slow site and a stack of invoices.
We work with businesses across the UK and into Finland and Sweden, and every bit of it is done in-house. Whoever you speak to first is the person doing the work, and they stay with you. Nobody is passing your messages to a separate team.
Five-star rated on Google and Facebook. No filtering, no pay-to-play, just honest reviews from real clients.
I just want to say, the guys over at Cheshire Cat Marketing are amazing! I couldn’t have asked for a better bunch of people to constantly be in contact with. Whether it was checking up on me and my business or being open to listening to my ever changing ideas! Everything in between too! I would recommend them to anyone wanting, social media or anything marketing wise for your business!
I’ve just phoned and spoken to Rhi, who has been absolutely incredible! I phoned to cheekily ask for some advice, as I am fundraising for a charity event. She was incredible, offering advice, guidance and ideas. The support was truly incredible and has allowed me now to hopefully generate more publicity and support for the event I am supporting.I am in awe of her friendly disposition and her generosity of her experience.Her entire demeanour was approachable and supportive and offered a true unique perspective, whilst being situational and economically aware.So pleased, and touched to have had such a wonderful and postive interaction and would encourage anyone to use their services again.
The Cheshire Cat team are fantastic. They really care about understanding your business and doing a great job. Each time they send me some posts to approve I'm always thrilled with the results - and with 20+ years marketing experience, I'm not an easy person to please! We've seen our followers steadily grow whilst we've been working with them - recommended!
Same prices wherever you are. We don't charge more because of your postcode.
Priced per account, because ad budgets differ too much for a menu: Google Ads , Email Marketing , Branding
Every service below is available in Manchester. Same team, same pricing, wherever you are.
Free, no commitment. We'll listen, give you honest advice, and tell you whether we're a fit.
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