business development & marketing
client testimonials
“Simone has great people, writing and marketing skills. She is excellent with potential customers, especially on the phone. She has helped the Mentor team to exceed our sales target this year. Simone has created weekly LinkedIn posts and grown our LinkedIn presence and connections. She has revamped our website and tailored our offering to different target markets. Simone is reliable, professional and an asset to a growing company.”
Danny Palmer, Managing Director, Mentor Dealer Management Systems
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“Simone has helped us to reposition EDIFACE to different markets. Working across both our website and our LinkedIn profiles, she has created a coherent set of messages to support our business development activities. Her strong writing skills combined with her LinkedIn outreach work has proved successful, and in a short space of time we have successfully developed new leads – more than we expected! As a growing tech company, it has been very valuable to have someone onboard who works part-time but is flexible and can help us throughout the marketing and sales journey.”
Pete Phillips, Managing Director, EDIFACE
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“For a growing company it was very valuable to have someone with such a diverse skill set. Simone helped us to plan and move forward with our marketing and sales activities. She has excellent strategy, project management and writing skills. Her coaching and communication skills helped us with sales and end user software training, and to translate complex tech speak to plain English. Her positive, solution focused mindset helped the whole team to remove obstacles and get so much done!"
Iain Cameron, Managing Director, Mirasys UK Ltd
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"Simone stepped in to help us with a short-term business development project. Her strategy, people skills and LinkedIn knowledge resulted in a very high number of client meetings – which far exceeded my expectations. She forms quality client relationships quickly, and my team really enjoyed working with her."
Janice Kaye, Managing Director, Thrive4Life
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"Simone is a great writer and project manager. She has taken the company to a new professional level. She did a great job at delivering our e-commerce site and customer web portals. She also helped with our business development and sales; creating detailed sales proposals, presentation decks, e-marketing and sales material support. She is a real asset to a growing business as she has so many complimentary skills, and get things delivered."
Paul Jory, Managing Director, Brandz Ltd
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"Simone has strong strategy, project management and writing skills. Simone helped us to improve our social media engagement through a new content and design strategy. This resulted in us bringing our social media in-house. She was a pleasure to work with."
Shyam Mistry, Partner, Axiom Stone Solicitors
"Simone took charge of project managing our new website, writing copy and liaising with our website designer to give the updated site a sleek, modern, sophisticated look. I was delighted with the results and all of Simone's efforts. Our email marketing also benefited from Simone's creativity and guidance, and I have always found her professional, enthusiastic and a joy to work with."
Jill Keating, Manging Director, Cousin Jill's Karaoke Lounge
"I am pleased to confirm that Simone worked with our charity for the last 8 months as a PR consultant. Throughout that time she has worked tirelessly towards her targets with some considerable successes. We have achieved far more press coverage than we did previously which was her main target. Simone is dedicated, unfailingly professional, friendly and always solution focused. She is a great addition to any team and I would have no hesitation in recommending her."
Neville Goldschneider, Chief Executive, Camp Simcha
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"Simone helped out with business goal setting, marketing strategy, copywriting and marketing consulting for my business. She is delightful to work with and has moved my business forward quickly."
Ginny Bradley, Founder and Owner of Creative Movement
"Simone helped us identify our different target markets and worked with a designer to create a new branding. She refreshed our website and kept it up to date with new editorial aimed at each target market. She created brochures, case studies, leaflets, editorials and press releases. She developed content for our training program and management workshops. Her model for consulting programs and project management was used across the US by affiliates."
Amy Kweskin, Director of Arts & Business Partnerships of Business Arts Council
"Simone worked at Lombard Network Services as Marketing Executive. Simone managed a large number of varying marketing projects, often under pressure. Through these activities Simone has demonstrated that she has good copy writing skills, a high level of creativity and has excellent attention to detail. Above all I have always enjoyed Simone's easy going personality, her sense of humour, together with her high work ethics."
Sunil Solanki, Marketing and Portfolio Director, Lombard Network Services
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