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!
Marketing agency for Oldham businesses
Cheshire-based agency working with Oldham SMEs across manufacturing, trades, retail and services. About an hour away. Properly built sites, SEO that works, 30 days notice.
A few of the many businesses we've worked with, big and small
What we do for businesses in Oldham
Oldham built its name on textiles and still has a solid manufacturing and engineering base, alongside a busy retail centre and the Saddleworth villages on its doorstep. We work with Oldham clients across trades and B2B, and we’re about an hour away.
What Oldham businesses are working with
Textile heritage turned into a broad manufacturing and trades economy, with Saddleworth's villages giving the borough a very different second market.
Manufacturing and engineering
Firms here sell on capability to buyers who research online first. Technical SEO for what you actually make beats generic brand content every time.
Saddleworth is a different market
The villages have a more affluent, tourism-flavoured trade. Businesses serving both Oldham town and Saddleworth often need to say different things to each.
Trades and local services
For builders, garages and installers the map pack is the whole game. Reviews and an active Google profile bring in more work than anything else.
Marketing services across Oldham
Pick what you need or hand the whole thing over. Most local businesses we work with use two or three services together.
Web Design
Properly built WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify and Magento. No page builders. Properly fast. The kind of site Core Web Vitals actually likes.
Find out more →SEO
Technical SEO, content, local search, link building. The slow honest kind that compounds over years.
Find out more →Google Ads & PPC
Campaigns built around what actually converts. Daily monitoring, monthly reports, no vanity metrics.
Find out more →Social Media
Posting, replying, knowing when your audience is online. Real engagement, not bots and stock posts.
Find out more →Email Marketing
Newsletters, welcome flows, abandoned cart sequences. The highest-ROI channel of the lot when it's done right.
Find out more →Content Marketing
Blog posts and landing pages written by humans who get your business. UK-based writers, no AI slop.
Find out more →Branding
Logos and brand systems that hold up everywhere they need to. Built once and built properly.
Find out more →Why marketing matters for Oldham businesses
For Oldham businesses, local search is where the enquiries are. “Builder Oldham” or “garage Saddleworth” and the map pack takes most of the clicks. Missing it means the work goes to whoever did show up.
Getting in there is unglamorous but effective: a complete, active Google Business Profile, accurate citations, real location pages and a steady drip of genuine reviews.
With a dense trades and manufacturing base and a big local population, Oldham runs high on local intent. Do the fundamentals properly and you catch it.
Why Oldham businesses choose us
No account managers in the way
Your main point of contact stays with you throughout - a senior team member who works directly on your project.
Five-star rated since 2016
39 Google reviews. 15 Facebook recommendations. 100% positive. Read them - they're real.
No long tie-ins
Rolling monthly retainers. If we're not delivering, you can leave. We retain clients by doing the work properly.
Weirdly into the technical bits
We build properly, refuse to use page builders on principle, and chase 0.2-second LCP improvements. The boring nerdy work pays off.
Sectors we work with
A snapshot of the kinds of Oldham businesses we've helped grow online.
How we work
Same process for every project. Boring, predictable, no surprises.
Free chat
Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll tell you straight whether we can help.
Proposal
Honest scope. Clear pricing. No fluff.
Build
We do the work. You see progress weekly.
Launch & iterate
Go live, then keep improving. Regular reporting with actual numbers.
Other areas we cover
We work with SMEs across the UK. If your town's not listed, get in touch anyway.
Frequently asked questions
Are you actually based in Oldham?
No. We’re in Northwich, Cheshire, about an hour away. Close enough to know the patch, far enough that our overheads stay sensible. Most clients prefer that trade to paying for a local office.
Do you understand the Oldham market?
Yes. We work across the North West and know the local competition, the search patterns and what actually brings enquiries in a place like Oldham.
Do you work with manufacturers and trades?
Yes, a lot. For manufacturers it’s usually a credible B2B site and technical SEO for the products you want to be found for. For trades it’s local SEO, the Google profile and review generation.
How does the day-to-day work?
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.
What's the smallest budget you'll work with?
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 what you’re after.

Who you'll actually be working with
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, every review 54 reviews across Google and Facebook. Not one of them below five stars.
- Award-winning Shortlisted more times than we can neatly list, and we've taken a good few home.
- Everything done in-house No freelancers, no white-label, nobody you've never met touching your account.
- Outspoken, honest support We'll tell you when something won't work, even when it'd be easier to take the money.
What our clients say about us
Five-star rated on Google and Facebook. No filtering, no pay-to-play, just honest reviews from real clients.
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!
What it costs
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 , Social media , Email
Talk to a real person about your marketing
Free, no commitment. We'll listen, give you honest advice, and tell you whether we're a fit.
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