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u/Evening_Bluejay_375 · May 2026
What am I doing wrong?
That was 9 months ago. In that time, I haven’t closed a single sale. I’ve only had around 3 serious enquiries, and they all eventually ghosted me.
The London digital marketing agency that does the lot.
SEO, websites, ads and social for London small businesses. Plans from £575 a month, every price published, every answer in plain English.
Tell us where to reach you and we reply within one working day. No call, no obligation.
don't stop nowwhen you step upso do we.
The companies and local authorities who trust us
Business and IP Centre London, Rice 'n' Spice, The British Library, Altar Construction, Enfield Council, SRK Delight Juicing, Waltham Forest Council, Highams Park Hub, London Sewing Courses
Heard on Reddit
You have read threads like these. So have we.
Three owners in r/smallbusinessuk, on what buying marketing feels like from the other side of the invoice. The page below is written to be the other kind of agency. Every card opens its own thread.
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u/PoseidonKnightT · April 2026
I need help about marketing, its quite expensive for a starter.
Marketing is really important for my business because im working on specialized requests so i need to have an active account on social media but i dont have time for it and hiring someone will climb my costs even higher.
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u/FitnessforHealthAnca · November 2025
I left the gym world to start my own mobile massage business in London it's been a wild ride so far
Running a one-person business in London means doing everything yourself: marketing, scheduling, admin, carrying your gear across town.
honestly done
What we do
Six internet marketing services, every price published.
Brand design & strategy
A voice and a look decided once, then used everywhere.
from £250→
Web design & development
Websites that read fast, say the price and take the enquiry.
from £450→
SEO
Showing up when people search for what you do, with a Google Ads campaign running from week one.
from £445/month→
AI search
Being the answer when the asking happens in a chat box.
from £490/month, or £195/month with SEO→
Google Ads
Campaigns with the fee and the ad budget always shown apart.
from £195/month→
Social media
Everything you already paid for, said again, everywhere.
from £245/month, added to a plan→
Why small businesses stay
Four reasons clients give, and none of them is a discount.
Everything is published
Prices, process, what a month contains. An internet marketing service that quotes only after a discovery call is quoting what the call suggested you could pay.
Plain English, always
Every plan reads in five minutes. Jargon is defined the first time it appears, and where a thing cannot honestly be measured we say so.
Local means local
The studio is in Walthamstow and local knowledge is worth something real when the buyer is local too. London is where we are, not what we sell.
Senior work only
The person who scopes the work does the work. You will not meet a different face in month two.
One month at a time
Plans renew monthly and leaving takes an email. A relationship that only works while the invoice grows is a subscription with a sales team attached.
What clients say when asked
“I have personally seen results with the work.”
“I haven't found any that can truly walk the walk and deliver real results like (pomegranate).”
“I recently started with (pomegranate), SEO marketing for my small Google business. They have helped me a lot: very helpful, professional, good communication skills and polite.”
“Working with (pomegranate) was amazing, not just because of the quality of work but because they genuinely cared about what they were doing and how they could help us.”
The work
Recent work
Real clients, shown as they are, with outcomes only where they can be cited. Drag through, or open one.
The prices
What it costs
One figure for the month, SEO and social together, about 16% under buying them apart. Ad spend is separate and always yours, paid direct to the platform and never a percentage: £250 a month is the floor a campaign will run on at all, £500 a month or more is what we suggest because that is where it starts performing, and £1,000 at Harvest.
StarterWas £690, now£575/month
£750/month with GEO (AI search) inside
The smallest month that still moves something.
- SEO, with a Google Ads campaign run for you
- Social posts drawn from the same work
- An always-on paid campaign
- A written plan every month
Our recommendation
GrowthWas £1,395, now£1,165/month
£1,475/month with GEO (AI search) inside
More pages, more posts, and the numbers looked at together each quarter.
- Everything in Starter, deeper and more often
- More pages, more posts, more campaigns
- Quarterly sit-down on the numbers
- Priority turnaround
HarvestWas £3,045+, now£2,560+/month
£3,140+/month with GEO (AI search) inside
For businesses moving faster than a monthly cycle. Scope agreed page by page, cadence weekly.
- Everything in Growth at full depth
- Content and digital PR programme
- Weekly working cadence
- Scope agreed page by page
Charities, nonprofits and community projects can have this work free. Here is what that covers.
Could you hire someone, or outsource it?
A hire costs a salary before pension, software and cover. An outsourced freelancer is cheaper by the hour, and the brief, the judgement and the joining up all stay with you. A plan is one figure, and everything on it comes included.
A junior marketing hire
£30,201
- Salary, before everything below it
- Pension on top, about £719 a year at the statutory minimum
- One skill set, learning on your time
- Holiday, sickness and notice periods
- Recruitment fees and ramp-up time
Average UK marketing executive salary, from 6,200 reported salaries. Indeed, August 2026. Pension at the statutory 3% employer minimum on qualifying earnings, The Pensions Regulator, 2026 to 2027.
An outsourced freelancer
$15 to $45 an hour
about £11 to £33 an hour in sterling
- Genuinely cheaper by the hour
- You write the brief, and you check the work
- One task at a time, in one discipline
- A different time zone, and no cover if they move on
Typical hourly range for digital marketers on Upwork, from historical contracts worldwide. Upwork, checked August 2026. Converted at $1.3466 to £1, the Bank of England spot rate for 6 August 2026. A rate that moves is part of what a dollar-priced hour costs a UK buyer.
A pomegranate plan
from £575 /month
Plus ad budgets, always separate and always yours, paid direct to the platform: £250/mo is the floor a campaign runs on, £500/mo or more is what we suggest, £1,000/mo at Harvest.
- SEO
- Websites
- Google Ads
- Social
- Brand
- Senior work from the first month
- Everything explained in plain English
- No recruitment, no notice period
- Scales up or down month by month
- 5.7m
- Private sector businesses in the UK you stand out from
- Source: Business Population Estimates, gov.uk, 2025
- 68%
- Of Google searches now end without a click on anything
- Source: SparkToro, 2026
- 0
- Days of notice to leave, at any point, on any plan
A written audit, free
Where you stand, what is holding you back, and what a sensible month of work looks like. In writing, within a working day, and no call required.
The process
How a digital agency London does the lot
The research
First
Your market, your buyers and their words, written down before anything is made.
The brand
Then
Voice, look and positioning nailed down once, so everything after says the same thing.
The website
Then
Built new or optimised as it stands, ready to earn the traffic before we buy any.
The ads
Then
Campaigns go live and get tweaked weekly or monthly, depending on how big they run.
The organic
Ongoing
SEO or AI search plus social content marketing. Weekly check-ins as standard, audits monthly.
Straight answers
How long does SEO actually take?
Three to nine months before organic results are fair to judge, and how competitive your market is decides where in that range you land. Technical fixes move sooner. Every SEO plan also runs a Google Ads campaign from week one, so there is a route to enquiries while the slower work compounds.
Am I locked into a contract?
No. Every plan renews one month at a time and the exit is an email. There is no notice period to serve and no minimum term to sit out. A month you have paid for is delivered in full; a month you have not is simply never started. Nothing is signed, nothing rolls over against your will, and that holds at any point on any plan.
I have been burned before. Why would this be different?
Because you can check it before you spend. The prices are published, the process is published, and what a month actually contains is published too. The plan is written before work starts, the audit costs nothing, and every plan reads in five minutes because jargon is defined the first time it appears. Where something cannot honestly be measured we say so, and leaving takes an email.
Do I need to worry about AI search?
Increasingly, yes, which is why GEO (AI search) exists as its own plan rather than a line inside a search one. It is stackable and separately priced, so you can decide rather than have it bundled in. Every plan on this page prints its own with-GEO figure, so the cost of adding it is visible before you ask. If you would rather leave it for now, nothing else changes.
Do I need someone separate for coverage and links?
Not usually. Earning coverage and links sits inside the search work at the deeper tiers, run off the same research, so it is one plan rather than a second retainer with its own account manager. At the top tier it is a content and digital PR programme rather than an add-on, and the person who scopes it is the person who does it. It sits inside the published monthly figure rather than a second invoice.
Who actually does the work?
The person who scopes it. Work is not passed to a junior after the sale, and you will not meet a different face in month two. This is a small studio rather than an agency with an account layer: where a job genuinely needs a specialist, one is brought in by name and you are told at the time. Senior work is the only kind sold here.
How much of what I pay is your fee and how much is ad spend?
They are separate lines and always will be. The ad budget is paid direct to Google or the platform on your own card rather than through us, so nothing is taken as a percentage of your spend and we never invoice you for it. There are two figures and they are different kinds of figure: £250 a month is the floor, the least a campaign will run on at all, and £500 a month or more is what we suggest across your campaigns, because that is where a campaign starts doing real work rather than merely existing. At Harvest we suggest £1,000. The fee is the figure printed on the plan.
What happens next
You send the form. Within one working day a written reply arrives, from a person.
A short audit follows, in plain English, with the price of fixing what it finds.
If it reads right, work starts inside a week. If not, keep the audit.