Purplex
Purplex

Marketing strategy
& consultancy

Decide where the next marketing investment belongs. Test the opportunities against your customers, margins, capacity and current results, then agree priorities your team can deliver.

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Ed Frater of Purplex taking the British Blind and Shutter Association’s Managing Committee through the meeting agenda

Where the next stage of growth will come from

Andrew Scott’s growth wheel puts three questions side by side: how the business attracts suitable prospects, how it converts interest into customers and why existing customers stay. Reviewing all three helps a leadership team decide where more attention would be useful.

A business can be busy and still need to change the work it wins. Looking at customers, margins, capacity and current performance together shows what’s limiting progress, and that decides what we recommend first.

  1. Attracting customersA new product may need awareness and a clearer explanation before its sales team can develop demand.
  2. Converting enquiriesA company with plenty of enquiries may need to examine follow-up.
  3. Retaining businessAn established supplier may see more opportunity in its existing relationships.

A marketing review for the BBSA’s Managing Committee

The British Blind and Shutter Association appointed Purplex as its marketing partner in 2026. Since then, Purplex has delivered a full rebrand alongside search, social media and paid advertising. In July, Sam Cross and Ed Frater presented that work and the plan for the year ahead to the association’s Managing Committee.

The BBSA Managing Committee seated around a U-shaped table during the Purplex presentation

On the agenda

  1. Construction and shading industry data

    The committee heard the market context: the construction forecast and insight into the solar shading sector, including how AI-powered search is changing the way people find products and services online.

  2. Marketing review: activity so far

    Ed Frater took the committee through the work since the appointment. In Sam’s words, “the rebrand is landing well and we’re already seeing stronger engagement across social and search.”

  3. Future marketing plans

    The BBSA signed off a PR campaign timed around the summer heatwave, using public interest in overheating and solar shading to reach homeowners and journalists.

Purplex have been a breath of fresh air since coming on board. The new brand has been well received, and the results so far have been just as impressive.

Andrew ChalkDirector of Operations, British Blind and Shutter Association
Committee members following the presentation at the BBSA Managing Committee meeting

DEKS: a plan that develops with the business

DEKS first worked with Purplex on social media. As the relationship developed, the brief expanded into email, advertising and strategic advice, giving the business consistent marketing support rather than leaving it to a stretched managing director.

In the film, Ollie describes how that works in practice: when DEKS brings a new product on board, the conversation turns to what the marketing can do with it, and the next piece of work is already on the roadmap.

40%
business growth in the first year of the integrated Purplex partnership

What the consultancy covers

Bring the business priority and the information you already have: plans, performance reports, customer knowledge and sales feedback. We agree what the engagement must answer, then develop the review, recommendations and delivery plan. You can use the recommendations with your own team or continue with Purplex delivery.

The work can include

  • Marketing and business review
  • Growth priorities
  • Positioning and audience decisions
  • Investment and channel planning
  • Delivery roadmap and review

Reviewing your market and growth priorities

An installer may have plenty of enquiries but too few suitable projects. A manufacturer entering a new channel may need a stronger proposition for the partners who will sell its products. We look at customers, margins, capacity and current performance together. Understanding what’s limiting progress helps us recommend work that the business can benefit from and has the resources to support.

Marketing investment and priorities

There will usually be more worthwhile ideas than the team can fund or deliver at once. Our job is to help you choose. We examine the evidence and alternatives, then set out the customers to pursue, the proposition, the investment and the order of work. Some decisions may depend on research, product information or sales capacity. Making those dependencies explicit gives the plan a realistic starting point and helps everyone understand why one priority comes before another.

Putting the marketing plan into practice

A marketing director may want an independent challenge to an existing plan. An owner may need someone to organise a wider strategy. We establish what your team can retain and where advice or specialist delivery would help. Purplex’s designers, writers, PR, digital and production teams can contribute to the agreed work. A defined consultancy engagement can also finish with recommendations and a practical handover. The relationship should suit the decision and the people who will act on it.

Questions about marketing consultancy

If your question isn’t here, call 01934 808132 or email [email protected].

Can this be a standalone consultancy project?

Yes. We can agree a defined consultancy engagement with recommendations and a practical handover. You can use the plan with your own team and decide separately whether Purplex should help deliver any part of it.

What do you need from us at the start?

The business priority and the information you already have: plans, performance reports, customer knowledge and sales feedback. We agree what the engagement must answer before the review starts, so the recommendations deal with the decision in front of you.

How do we know if the strategy is working?

We agree the measures before the work starts and review them on a rhythm your team can keep. They should reflect the decision the strategy was meant to improve, such as the quality of enquiries, sales progress or a market’s response, and each review should end with what to repeat, improve or stop.

Find out where your enquiries are leaking.

Free marketing review

A specialist looks at how your marketing brings in enquiries and shows you where they’re leaking.

  • The route from your website to an enquiry, on mobile and desktop
  • How customers find you in search, and who they find instead
  • What your campaigns, social and email are bringing in
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Talk to a specialist

Tell us what you need and where it’s stuck. We’ll come back to you within one working day with the right person for the job.

01934 808132[email protected]

Sam Cross, Commercial DirectorSean Scott, Growth DirectorEd Frater, Sales Director

A specialist replies within one working day. You’ll hear from someone who knows construction, building products and home improvement.

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Tell us about your business priorities.

Bring the current plan, or the question preventing one. We can discuss an independent review, a defined strategy project or advice alongside delivery.

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Scope & practical questions

Consultancy scope

Bring the business priority and the information you already have: plans, performance reports, customer knowledge and sales feedback. We agree what the engagement must answer, then develop the review, recommendations and delivery plan. You can use the recommendations with your own team or continue with Purplex delivery.

  • Marketing and business review
  • Growth priorities
  • Positioning and audience decisions
  • Investment and channel planning
  • Delivery roadmap and review

Can this be a standalone consultancy project?

Yes. We can agree a defined consultancy engagement with recommendations and a practical handover. You can use the plan with your own team and decide separately whether Purplex should help deliver any part of it.

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