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Raise your marketing game

Get the expert help you need now. For as long as you need it. At a price you can afford. Freelance. Interim. Fractional.

Strengthen your go-to-market strategy. Grow revenue. Create a more compelling story or market positioning. Improve brand awareness. Raise funding. Build a high performing team.

Raise Communications Ltd is a straight-talking, commercially-minded marketing consultancy for technology businesses in the B2B sector based in the UK and working internationally.

I founded Raise and have years of experience working with world-leading, fast growing and early-stage technology firms looking to build their marketing function.

I work with founders, leadership teams, and investors on a freelance, interim or fractional basis. I give them affordable and flexible access to experienced professionals that are also happy to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in. This drives growth without the risk and cost of hiring or having to compromise on someone less experienced.

You can find out more about my background here.

Photograph of Stuart Handley the founder Raise Communications Ltd
Stuart Handley – founder Raise Communications Ltd

Freelance marketing leadership

I can help you by stepping in to run marketing on a short-term or part-time basis. Learn more.

Marketing audits and improvement plans

I’ll review existing strategy, plans and teams then build improvement plans. Learn more.

Go-to-market (GTM) strategy

I’ll review your current strategy working with sales, customer service and product then make recommendations for improvement. Don’t have one – no problem I can help you create your strategy too. Learn more.

Marketing and communication plans

When your GTM strategy is agreed I turn that into an effective marketing communications plan. This can include brand strategy; narrative and messaging; communications and content marketing, and spokesperson training. Learn more.

Demand and lead generation

I’ll help you build marketing campaigns that drive demand from new and existing customers. Learn more.

Marketing team or agency management

Build a high performing team. Skills audits. Organisation design. Development plans and coaching. Hiring, agency selection and onboarding. Learn more.

I’ve worked with many companies and agencies to create great teams, strategies, plans and campaigns. So picking just a couple of quotes of support is tough but here are a few kind things said about me recently.

“I had the pleasure of working closely with Stuart as we prepared for our IPO and subsequently as we operated as a successful public company. I will honestly say that I don’t know how we would have done it without him. His role in shaping a successful pitch deck, driving the drafting of the S-1, coordinating with Nasdaq and helping us prepare for the roadshow was critical. He was instrumental in almost every part of the process and in our success that followed.”

CFO

Nasdaq-listed cyber security company

“Stuart is a unique combination of a strong and creative marketing and communication strategist, and a dependable executor… His creativity is practical and purposeful; he provides good ideas that drive demand or advance the brand reputation. He played a key part in helping us find and tell our brand and technology story not just to customers and prospects but critically to investors.”

COO

Leading global B2B SaaS company

“Stuart has a wealth of marketing experience and success. Articulate, creative and results focused. He is a master of marketing from strategy and content through to managing stakeholders and leading teams. But perhaps most importantly for me, Stuart is considered, demonstrates integrity and is generous with his time but he is also someone who makes working with him fun.”

Head of Marketing

B2B SaaS company

There’s no time to waste.