Cardiff · from £99/mo
marketing in cardiff, priced for small businesses.
Cardiff has more marketing agencies per square mile than anywhere else in Wales — and most of them price for corporate clients. If you run a small business in the city and every quote comes back at £2,000 a month on a twelve-month contract, you are not the customer they were built for.
the local picture
what cardiff businesses are up against.
As the Welsh capital, Cardiff carries a dense mix of professional services, financial and legal firms around the city centre, a substantial media and creative cluster, hospitality and retail, and a large student population across two universities. That means high competition for broad search terms, but genuinely thin competition once you get specific about a service and a district.
sectors we work with here
What does marketing in Cardiff actually cost?
City-centre agencies typically quote £2,000–£5,000 a month, and that is before any build work. For a business turning over a few hundred thousand, that is not a marketing budget — it is a hire.
Our plans start at £99 a month for a single discipline and stay modular. Take social media on its own, or a landing page, or an outbound sequence, and add more only when the first thing is paying for itself. Thirty-day rolling, so if it does not work you stop.
How competitive is search in Cardiff?
Broad terms like 'marketing Cardiff' or 'builder Cardiff' are genuinely competitive and expensive to chase. The opportunity sits one level down — service plus district, or service plus sector. 'Bathroom fitter Whitchurch' and 'accountant for hospitality Cardiff' are far cheaper to win and bring people much closer to buying.
Cardiff also splits into distinct areas that people search by name: the Bay, Roath, Canton, Llanishen, Whitchurch, Pontcanna. Building out pages by area is one of the highest-return local SEO moves available in the city, and most competitors have not bothered.
What works for Cardiff businesses specifically?
For consumer-facing businesses, Google Business Profile and reviews do the heaviest lifting — Cardiff customers research locally and read reviews before calling. For B2B, the addressable market is small enough to name: there are a finite number of firms in the city that fit your customer profile, which makes properly researched outbound far more efficient than broad advertising.
- Area-level service pages rather than one generic city page
- Google Business Profile kept current, with a real review habit
- Targeted outbound for B2B rather than broad paid campaigns
- Fast mobile site — a lot of local searching happens on the move
what we do for cardiff businesses.
take one discipline or the lot. thirty-day rolling, no setup fee.
demand — filling the pipeline
cold email outreach
from £149/mo
linkedin outreach
from £119/mo
tailored prospecting
from £99/mo
social media management
from £99/mo
paid ads
from £149/mo
email marketing & newsletters
from £99/mo
seo & local search
from £129/mo
build — what they land on
websites & landing pages
from £149/mo
custom crms
from £299/mo
web & mobile apps
from £449/mo
internal tools & automation
from £199/mo
ai integration
from £199/mo
reporting & dashboards
from £99/mo
creative — how it all looks and sounds
graphic design & brand
from £129/mo
content & copywriting
from £119/mo
video & motion
from £149/mo
questions from cardiff businesses
How much does a marketing agency cost in Cardiff?
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Cardiff agency retainers typically run £2,000–£5,000 per month, often on 6–12 month contracts. Modular alternatives start around £99 per month for a single discipline on a 30-day rolling basis.
Do you work with small businesses in Cardiff?
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Yes — small businesses and sole traders are who we built this for. You can start with one discipline from £99 a month and scale up only when it is working.
Which areas of Cardiff do you cover?
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All of it, including Cardiff Bay, Roath, Canton, Llanishen, Whitchurch and Pontcanna, plus Penarth, Barry and Caerphilly nearby.