Cheshire-based agency working with York SMEs across tourism, hospitality, retail and professional services. Properly built sites, SEO that works, no long contracts.
A few of the many businesses we've worked with, big and small
York runs on visitors. The Minster, the walls and the Shambles bring millions of people a year, and a large share of them arrive from overseas. Alongside that sits a solid professional-services and retail base serving the city itself.
One of the most visited cities in the country, where a large share of customers are planning ahead from somewhere else entirely.
A big slice of the trade comes from overseas. English-language clarity, fast pages and a site that works on a phone abroad are the basics, not extras.
Bookings are made long before arrival. Being visible during the research phase matters more than being visible on the day.
Nobody books somewhere unfamiliar without reading reviews first. Generating and managing them is marketing work, not admin.
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 →Logos and brand systems that hold up everywhere they need to. Built once and built properly.
Find out more →For York businesses, the visitor economy is the defining fact. A big proportion of your customers are planning a trip weeks or months ahead, from somewhere else, often in another country.
That changes what marketing has to do. You need to be visible during the planning, not just when someone’s walking past, and the site has to convert a stranger who has never been to the city.
Reviews carry unusual weight here, because nobody books an unfamiliar restaurant or hotel without checking them first.
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.
A snapshot of the kinds of York 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 a couple of hours away. Most of the work is remote anyway, and our overheads stay lower than a firm with a York office. Clients tend to prefer that.
Yes. We know the local competition, the search patterns and what actually brings enquiries in York rather than what looks good in a pitch deck.
Yes, a lot. For hotels, restaurants and attractions it’s usually a fast site built to convert browsers into bookings, local and international SEO, and review generation. Getting found while people are still planning is the whole game.
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 be straight on the first call about whether it fits.
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 , Social media , Email
Free, no commitment. We'll listen, give you honest advice, and tell you whether we're a fit.
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