about us

We always work closely with our clients to fully understand their business and we give an honest appraisal of the issues.  We cover all the elements of the marketing mix from planning through to implementation and we are happy to work with clients on a retained or a project-by-project basis.

Founder, Ann Robb

Ann has over 20 years' marketing and business experience and started her career as a graduate trainee in marketing with Tennent Caledonian Breweries where she managed various brands before moving to United Distillers to market Bells and Dewar's whiskies.

In 1990 she moved into financial services with the Royal Bank specialising in marketing to high-net-worth customers and her last employed position was Head of Advertising at Scottish Widows with responsibility for all brand, advertising strategy and implementation.

In 2000 she set-up Scotland's first specialist marketing recruitment agency, followed by an e-commerce business in 2006 and through MarketingWorks provides marketing consultancy services to other businesses.  She is also a director of a business angels syndicate.

Ann has a broad range of experience in the marketing disciplines of brand management, strategy and planning, advertising, direct and internet marketing and more recently has specialised in PR.

Qualifications: BA Honours in Business Economics with Marketing and a Post Graduate Certificate in Journalism.

Our business model

Our business works on a virtual model where independent specialists are brought together to work with specific clients or projects depending on their skills.  This ensures our business overheads are kept low which is reflected in the fees to our clients. We only work with professionals who have a minimum of 10 years' experience with contacts which have been built-up over a number of years.

John Hamlin a specialist brand and design consultant has provided the corporate ID for many of Marketingworks' clients.  John formally trained as a graphic designer and has worked for a number of years as an designer, art director and writer on some of the UK's leading household names including BT, Seven Seas, Elastoplast and Dettol.  He played a key role in the development of the Scottish Widows brand whom he forged a close working relationship with for over a decade.

His growing reputation a highly skilled creative led him into many areas of design and advertising, including food packaging ranges for Jenners, Paterson Arran and Border Biscuits, design driven projects for NHS Health Scotland and advertising campaigns for many of Scotland's leading companies and organisations.

We also have relationships with a number of specialists which include market research, planning and analysis, direct and database marketing, advertising and media buying, internet development and online marketing (including search engine optimisation and cost-per click advertising), event management and PR.

On appointment we will issue a service level agreement so the client knows what to expect and our performance can be measured accordingly.  If we are appointed on a project basis, weekly timesheets are issued to the client so there is a transparency on the time spent on the client's work.  If we agree a fixed rate then this commitment will be honoured regardless of any additional time we spent on the project.