Cheshire-based agency working with Southport SMEs across hospitality, retail, healthcare and trades. Properly built websites, SEO that works, 30 days notice.
A few of the many businesses we've worked with, big and small
Southport’s a particular kind of market. Strong tourism and hospitality, growing professional services, a healthcare sector that punches above its weight, and the local trades and retail that quietly keep the town running. We work with clients across all of it. From hotels and restaurants to retail and trades, we understand the challenges and the opportunities in the area.
Tourism towns need particular kinds of digital marketing. Seasonal peaks that need preparing for months in advance. Booking flows that don’t drop people on mobile. Social media profiles that need fresh photos and posts year-round, not just during peak season. Reviews that drive trust faster than ads ever will. SEO that keeps you moving up the rankings. Strategic PPC that actually works.
We’re a boutique marketing agency that does the technical bits properly, focuses on standing out in crowded markets and has never had less than a five-star review. Southport is one of our hometowns – we know the area, we know the audience, and we are straight-talkers who aren’t afraid of saying when something won’t work.
Southport is a classic seaside resort with an unusually affluent catchment: Lord Street retail, championship golf, big annual events and a strong day-visitor trade.
The flower show, the air show and the golf bring big crowds on specific dates. Visibility needs building weeks ahead of each, not only during.
Events brings high-spending visitors from well outside the region, plenty of them from abroad. That audience searches in English and books ahead.
Outside the events, Southport and the surrounding area is a well-off year-round market. Strategic marketing keeps the tills going between the peaks.
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 →For Southport hospitality and retail, getting found locally is the whole game. “Hotel Southport” or “restaurant Lord Street” – those Google Maps pack results take most of the clicks. Miss them, and you’re invisible to the people most likely to actually book.
Tourism marketing also rewards consistency. The clients who do well are the ones running their marketing properly all year round, not just before the season. Steady reviews. Regular social posts with current photos. Accurate opening hours through the off-season. Engaging monthly emails. Southport’s one of the North West’s classic seaside resorts, and with the Annual Southport Air Show and Royal Birkdale hosting golf’s Open Championship there in 2026, there’s a serious visitor spike. The businesses that get their local visibility sorted now are the ones that win the bookings.
We don't want to be boring or blend in. We know your area is competitive and we create marketing content that will stand out.
We pride ourselves on our incredible feedback and strong client relationships. 100% positive. Read our reviews - 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.
A snapshot of the kinds of Southport 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. We’re in Northwich, Cheshire – about 75 minutes up the road – but it is also one of our hometowns. Our founder’s dad lives in the area, and she has spent a lot of time there, so we really know the audience. We work with Southport clients regularly and visit when it helps. Most prefer the lower overhead to regular in-person meetings.
Yes. The off-season prep is where most of the work happens for tourism businesses. We’ve helped Southport hospitality clients get their booking flows, SEO, email marketing, print marketing, and ad strategies ready before the season, then maintained them through it.
Yes. Most hospitality clients need a mix of website, booking integration, local SEO, paid advertising, and social media work. We do all of it in-house.
Unfortunately, we hear this a lot. Marketing agencies aren’t all the same, and many of our clients have had negative experiences with other agencies. It’s part of the reason we only have a 30-day notice period – to reassure those who’ve been let down before. Communication is a big deal for us, and we can talk as often as you need. Some clients have a monthly reporting call as standard, plus whatever else crops up in between, while others have WhatsApp groups where they can catch up and share pictures with the team in real-time. We also have a client portal and a social media portal where you can easily speak directly with your main contacts. For us, it’s all about being easy to reach and there when you need us. Need a quick chat? We can simply send over a Zoom, and nobody loses a morning to travel.
Web design starts in the low hundreds when paid in a single payment, but we also offer pay-monthly website options. Our ongoing retainer packages, such as social media support or SEO, typically start at a few hundred a month, but we can customise a package to fit your budget. You tell us your budget, and we can craft something that will fit perfectly.
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 , Branding , Email Marketing
Every service below is available in Southport. 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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