Brass Bee Marketing in numbers...
2019
The Year We
Started
914K
Our Clients Most Viral Video
100+
Business Owners Trained
4 Years
With Our Longest Standing Client
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Making your business the bee's knees! We love helping brands and small businesses stand out in a busy and challenging landscape. In addition to our years of marketing experience, we nurture close working relationships with our clients, who appreciate our positivity, honesty and encouragement. We're at our best when we're using creative thinking and authentic storytelling to elevate your brand and connect with your target audience.
Led by marketing expert Catherine Hills, the Brass Bee team consists of a collective network of outstanding and trusted freelancers whom Catherine has worked with during her Marketing career, including graphic designers, web designers, photographers and assistants. We also regularly welcome aspiring work-experience students from the local 6th-form college to lend a helping hand. Every client is different, so we're able to bring in the right team for each project while supporting the industry's best freelancers. This ensures our clients get the best of the best, without having to absorb huge agency overheads.
Who do we work for? Scroll along to see some of the brands we've had the pleasure of calling our clients, past and present:
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Helping businesses grow online since 2019
Catherine Hills (BA, CIM)
- Brass Bee Owner & Founder.
Brass Bee Marketing is led by Catherine Hills (CIM-qualified), who has over 10 years of experience in Marketing, Content Creation, and Social Media Management. Professional highlights include speaking at the Pro Landscaper Tech event held at the Google Headquarters in London, and managing high-profile social media campaigns at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Catherine founded Brass Bee Marketing in 2019 after working as a social media freelancer for two different employers. Although she had a successful first year, the pandemic suddenly caused both of her clients to disappear in early 2020. With no other clients on the horizon, she experienced firsthand the challenges of building a brand from scratch. She learned that promoting her own business was a very different experience from marketing someone else's brand. With a newfound appreciation for the struggles that small businesses face in self-promotion, along with a healthy dose of determination, she built a loyal client base that appreciated her supportive and
practical approach.
As the world came out of the pandemic, Catherine realised that many local businesses within the local community were still struggling to use social media to promote themselves, so she dedicated a few hours every week to run free, supportive social media workshops in Hastings Old Town, which established the Brass Bee Marketing brand as a trusted voice. In 2022, we were awarded a BRAINZ CREA Business Awards List for our work with the BRAINZ Business Magazine team in Sweden. As of April 2024, Brass Bee HQ moved to offices at Freedom Works, in the heart of Hastings Town Centre. As we've continued to grow, Brass Bee Marketing continues to build a reputation for honest advice, encouraging pep talks, and friendly support. To date, we've now offered training to over 100 business owners in the form of our 1-2-1 Coaching sessions, workshops and training sessions.
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Join Catherine Hills as she discusses with Content Cash Machine host Danielle Gagnon the importance of honesty, consistency, and authenticity in building your creative business online. Click the podcast preview video to listen to a brief snippet, or enjoy the full episode by clicking the link below: