All About Deve
Deve is a full service marketing and business development agency.
Our senior executives are experienced, qualified, highly skilled professionals with a wide knowledge of many business sectors and types of organisation. They have worked as managers in multi-nationals, SMEs, agencies, professional firms, and been involved in several start-ups.
There is a great deal of free marketing advice available, particularly on the internet. Business Link are serious about the level of support they offer. Basically, marketing is common sense. And if you have the time, the objectivity, the problem solving skills and can write, you may not need us.
Free advice, implementing it with working knowledge, creativity, objectivity and flair is how we can make a difference.
The main people are:
Chris Edwards is an experienced marketing professional and chartered management accountant. His formative years were spent in Cadbury Schweppes. He has worked for 20 years in agencies and consultancies supplying marketing services to multinationals and SMEs. He has been involved with start ups and fund raising projects. He owned a successful freehouse pub and restaurant.
Timothy Jones is a chartered accountant. He has ten years' experience in commercial financial roles in business and fifteen years delivering professional services to SME businesses. He specialises in interim management for the SME sector and providing guidance to start-ups and early stage companies.
Pippa Foureigh is our direct marketing executive. She is a customer database expert and manages complete projects from data capture, list purchase, de-duplication, postcoding, list cleaning and mailing. She organises telemarketing - a vital DM element.
Steve Gledhill has extensive international, technical sales and marketing experience primarily as a senior manager with GEC-Marconi and Racal. His copywriting skills make sense of complex technical issues either as press releases, newsletters or product leaflets. See his web site for more of Steve's skills
Nick Heaps builds web sites. He has a degree in Software Engineering and spent several years with Which? He has a caring approach to supporting our clients making 'gobbledegook' relatively easy to understand.
Other strategic alliances and jobbing suppliers are introduced as the need arises.
To discuss ways of developing your sales, improving your bottom line or launching a new business idea call 0870 240 3139 complete our reply form or email chris.edwards@deve.co.uk.
It will cost you nothing to have a meeting, agree an outline brief and prepare proposals. The proposals will show how you can benefit from hiring us.
