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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.

Marketing for businesses in Oldham

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.

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.

Marketing work for Oldham businesses

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.

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.

Sectors we work with

A snapshot of the kinds of Oldham businesses we've helped grow online.

  • Manufacturing
  • Engineering
  • Trades & construction
  • Retail
  • Hospitality
  • Automotive
  • B2B services
  • Health & wellness
  • Property
  • Professional services
  • Logistics
  • Charities

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 in Oldham

    Properly built WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify and Magento. No page builders. Properly fast. The kind of site Core Web Vitals actually likes.

  • SEO in Oldham

    Technical SEO, content, local search, link building. The slow honest kind that compounds over years.

  • Google Ads & PPC in Oldham

    Campaigns built around what actually converts. Daily monitoring, monthly reports, no vanity metrics.

  • Social media in Oldham

    Posting, replying, knowing when your audience is online. Real engagement, not bots and stock posts.

  • Email marketing in Oldham

    Newsletters, welcome flows, abandoned cart sequences. The highest-ROI channel of the lot when it's done right.

  • Content marketing in Oldham

    Blog posts and landing pages written by UK-based writers who get your business.

  • Branding in Oldham

    Logos and brand systems that hold up everywhere they need to. Built once and built properly.

  • Local SEO in Oldham

    Turn up in the map pack when someone nearby searches. Profile, citations, reviews, local pages.

  • Small business marketing in Oldham

    The whole lot for a smaller business: no long contracts, no jargon, and the work done properly.

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

Rhiannon and Darren Birch, founders of Cheshire Cat Marketing

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 57 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.
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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.

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.

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57 five-star reviews
Shanel Nwosu
Shanel Nwosu 2 months ago

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!

Megan Lawrence
Megan Lawrence 4 months ago

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.

Emma Radcliffe
Emma Radcliffe a year ago

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!

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