Cheshire-based agency working with Preston SMEs across professional services, education, retail and trades. 40 minutes up the M6. Properly built sites, SEO that works, 30 days notice.
A few of the many businesses we've worked with, big and small
Preston’s Lancashire’s administrative hub – county council, a big university in UCLan, a busy professional-services and retail core, and a strong trades base around the edges. We work with Preston clients across B2B and services, and we’re about 40 minutes down the M6 in Northwich, so we know the patch.
Preston punches above its weight. City status, a large student population, the county’s public sector on its doorstep and a retail centre that pulls in the whole of central Lancashire. It’s a market where getting found locally matters, because the competition for “near me” searches is real and most of it is winnable with the basics done properly.
We’re a small team that does the technical work properly. Properly built websites that load fast and rank. Local SEO that gets your Google Business Profile showing in the map pack. Ad campaigns built around enquiries, not clicks. No account managers in the way – your senior contact stays with you start to finish.
Preston is Lancashire's administrative hub: county council, a large university, a busy retail centre and a strong professional-services and trades base.
The council and the institutions around it mean a lot of B2B and tendering. Credibility online is part of qualifying, not just marketing.
UCLan brings tens of thousands of students into the city. For consumer businesses that's a distinct audience reached on mobile and social.
Preston pulls shoppers and clients from across central Lancashire. Local SEO should reach the surrounding towns, not stop at the city boundary.
For Preston service businesses, local SEO is the highest-return thing you can do. “Accountant Preston” or “electrician Fulwood” – the Google Maps pack takes most of the clicks, and missing it makes you invisible to the people ready to call.
Ranking there means the basics done well: a complete, active Google Business Profile, accurate citations, location pages that say something real rather than swapping the town name, and a steady flow of genuine reviews.
With the county council, UCLan and a dense professional-services core, Preston has high local search intent across B2B and consumer. Nail the fundamentals and you catch it.
Your main point of contact stays with you throughout - a senior team member who works directly on your project.
39 Google reviews. 15 Facebook recommendations. 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 build properly, refuse to use page builders on principle, and chase 0.2-second LCP improvements. The boring nerdy work pays off.
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.
A snapshot of the kinds of Preston businesses we've helped grow online.
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.
Technical SEO, content, local search, link building. The slow honest kind that compounds over years.
Campaigns built around what actually converts. Daily monitoring, monthly reports, no vanity metrics.
Posting, replying, knowing when your audience is online. Real engagement, not bots and stock posts.
Newsletters, welcome flows, abandoned cart sequences. The highest-ROI channel of the lot when it's done right.
Blog posts and landing pages written by UK-based writers who get your business.
Logos and brand systems that hold up everywhere they need to. Built once and built properly.
Turn up in the map pack when someone nearby searches. Profile, citations, reviews, local pages.
The whole lot for a smaller business: no long contracts, no jargon, and the work done properly.
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
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.
No. We’re in Northwich, about 40 minutes down the M6. Close enough to know the area properly, far enough that our overheads stay sensible. Most Preston clients care more about that than about us having a Preston office.
Yes. We’ve worked with Lancashire clients across professional services, trades and B2B. We know the local competition, the search patterns and how the university and public sector shape the audience.
Yes, a lot. Accountants, solicitors, consultants and agencies are a big part of what we do. For them it’s usually SEO, a fast credible website and content that earns trust before the first call.
As often as the work needs it. A regular reporting call as standard, plus whatever else crops up in between. All over video, so booking a slot takes a minute and nobody loses a morning to travel.
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.
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!
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