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Introducing SharpEdge Marketing

Experienced, high-calibre, commercially-minded marketing.

Founded in 2010, SharpEdge Marketing provides expert marketing advice, marketing coaching and mentoring, marketing training and outsourced marketing support.

Based in Newton Abbot in Devon, freelance marketing consultant Annette Harpham works with clients across the South West, nationally and internationally too.

Annette specialises in business-to-business marketing, with strong experience in manufacturing, construction and engineering.

Annette is supported by a network of fantastic associates and suppliers, who bring specialist skills and expertise when needed.

“I’m still using a lot of the tools you suggested. Your support with building the brand was second to none and I actually recommended you to someone not long ago.”

Marketing Executive, Employment Agency
“Thanks for the marketing workshop that you did for us. It was excellent and really useful.”

Public Sector Adviser
“Working with Annette, was a really positive experience. She did a lot of background work and was very professional, knowledgeable and had lots of great ideas – both short and long term, so I could immediately start putting them into practice.”

Proprietor, Accommodation Provider
“Annette has worked with our company for nearly eighteen months and in that time, she has become one of the team and provided us with invaluable vision and expertise which have transformed our marketing strategy and pushed the company to the next level. We couldn’t have done it without her!”

Marketing Co-ordinator, Manufacturer
“I must just write and say how impressed I am with the work you’ve done with our presentation. Without wishing to be in any way OTT with platitudes, this is seriously professional and deeply impressive stuff. Well done and thank you so much.”

Financial Adviser
“This is quite wonderful. Thank you. It is such a joy to be working with someone who gets who we are and what we do…”

MD, Property Services Company
“Annette is different from other consultants. She doesn’t just tell us what to do and leave us to it – she works with us to help us achieve it, becoming part of our team. She’s helped develop our corporate messages and branding; supported new product launches; extended our communications and enabled us to reach a wider audience – all of which have played a key part in the company’s development.”

MD, Manufacturer
“We’d commissioned a new website, but progress was slow, and we were unhappy with the content the web company had provided. When Annette came on board she rewrote the copy for us, and liaised with the web company, pushing the entire project through to completion. The site really reflects our company and values, and we have had several compliments about it.”

MD, Financial Adviser

Annette Harpham

DipM FCIM MCMI Chartered Marketer - Owner

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Qualifications and Memberships

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing
Chartered Institute of Marketing Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing
Chartered Marketer (held since 2009)
Member of the Chartered Management Institute
Chartered Management Institute Diploma in Management and Leadership (Level 5)
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Professional Trainer Certificate (with Credit)
Trained ISO14001 internal auditor
Google Analytics Individual Qualification

Sector experience includes:

Construction products & services
Bespoke manufacturing
Engineering services
Concrete construction
Renewable energy
Property services
Heritage construction
Logistics
Marine
Financial services
IT services
Fire containment

What can SharpEdge Marketing offer you?

Advice from a Chartered Marketer. The highest professional status for a marketer, Chartered Marketer is the sign of a qualified, experienced, up-to-date marketing professional.
Wide-ranging experience. Including work with manufacturers, building products companies, renewable energies, professional services, and many more.
Plain speaking. Plain speaking. No baffling marketing jargon; just straightforward language.
Practical help. Everything you’d expect an in-house marketing manager to do – coupled with a trusted network of experienced associates and specialist marketing providers.
An extension of your team. The closer we work, the better I can help you.
Versatility. Unlike some marketing agencies, SharpEdge Marketing doesn’t have a standard set of services we need to sell. Everything is tailored to your needs.
Complete impartiality. SharpEdge Marketing has no vested interests and accepts no agency commission payments or introducer’s fees from third parties.

Marketing services:

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Consultancy

Find the opportunities. Sharpen your ideas and plans. Focus your team.

If you’re feeling your marketing is losing its way, or you’re not sure which customers to reach or how, this is for you. Marketing troubleshooting ‘health checks’ and workshops will get you thinking and put you on the right track.

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Marketing Coach, Marketing Mentor - SharpEdge Marketing

Coaching & Mentoring

Get better at marketing, with expert guidance and support.

If you’re a director in need of marketing coaching and training… or a marketing exec or PA who needs a mentor and guide… this is for you. Grow your skills, and develop your thinking and confidence.

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Communications

Get the right message to the right people, in the right way, at the right time.

If you want to promote your business, launch a new product, or communicate better with your staff and customers, this is for you. Website writing, SEO, Google Ads, emailers, newsletters, PR, social media… it’s all here.

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