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Attract & Engage is an independent B2B marketing communications agency based in Billericay, helping ambitious industrial and professional service SMEs build authority, influence buyers earlier and sell better.
We act as a fractional marketing leadership and execution partner for B2B SMEs. For the cost of a junior hire, clients gain access to a senior, multidisciplinary team spanning strategy, PR, digital PR, creative, owned media, paid media and performance marketing. It feels like a perfectly assembled B2B marketing team – because it is.
Our approach is simple: join up brand and performance so every activity serves positioning and pipeline. We design, report and optimise marketing around commercial outcomes the Board cares about – contracts won, enquiries generated and reputation strengthened – not vanity metrics.
From our Billericay office, we deliver standout B2B marketing across every channel. Trusted by Essex Top 100 firms and ambitious SMEs, we help brands build reputation and power sales. Our philosophy is clear: Attract. Engage. Sell.
We are particularly known along the A13/A127 corridor and across Essex and East London for embedding with clients onsite – in their offices, warehouses and plants – rolling our sleeves up as an extension of their business. That proximity gives us sharper insight, faster decisions and more commercially grounded work.
2025 has been a landmark year.
We were crowned one of the UK’s top three boutique marketing agencies for the built environment at the Construction Marketing Awards – recognition of the commercial impact and creative standard of our work.
Our client portfolio deepened and widened. We delivered integrated B2B campaigns for firms including Ground Control, TP Group, Joseph Gallagher, Gerald McDonald, SMART DPK and Ortus Energy. From national press coverage and executive profiling, to LinkedIn Ads, SEO-driven knowledge platforms and owned video content engines, our programmes have been insight-led and outcome-focused.
For Kestrel Liner Agencies, we turned a King’s Award win into national reputation, securing CEO profiles in The Times and The Sunday Times alongside broadcast coverage. For SMART DPK, we built a scalable owned-media engine combining YouTube, LinkedIn organic and paid activation, supported by SEO knowledge content and a targeted LinkedIn campaign – driving above-benchmark engagement and measurable visibility in a niche SaaS market.
Beyond client work, we strengthened our role in the local business ecosystem. As Enterprise Advisor to Billericay School, we supported its careers programme and encouraged broader employer engagement. We continued to play an active role on the Executive Board of Basildon Business Leaders, helping drive growth across Basildon, Billericay, Laindon, Pitsea and Wickford helping reinvigorate member engagement.
We were also key partners to Essex Build 2025 supporting the delivery of a standout built environment expo. Alongside this, we aired 10 new Made in Essex podcast episodes and launched the Stories of Essex Ltd collaboration series with Birketts and Grant Thornton, documenting the journeys of leading Essex businesses.
Our team grew to eight in 2025 – with momentum firmly behind us.
2026 marks our eighth anniversary – and we’re continuing to grow.
We are finalising a new B2B digital media targeting approach, enabling brands to influence specific decision-makers earlier across the channels they actually use – digital display, LinkedIn (paid and owned), podcasts, digital audio, DOOH, PPC, email and remarketing. The goal is simple: less wasted spend, stronger awareness, warmer pipelines and clearer proof of marketing’s commercial impact.
We will continue to double down on our niche: fractional marketing leadership and execution for B2B SMEs who are serious about growth. That means deeper board-level alignment, sharper commercial reporting and even closer integration with client sales teams.
Our ambition for 2026 is not just growth in headcount, but growth in impact – helping more ambitious B2B firms stop wasting money on disjointed marketing and start standing out to sell better.
Absolutely. Essex is ambitious, well connected and bursting with entrepreneurs. You’ve got global brands, serious industrial capability and fast-growing SMEs all within 30–40 minutes of London. Private Equity firms are turning their attention to the county with increasing intensity, that’s got to be good.
That marketing is a set of activities, not a commercial system.
They often think, “We need LinkedIn” or “We need PR.” What they actually need is clarity on positioning, audience and commercial outcomes – then the right channels aligned to that.
Tactics without strategy just burn budget.
Yes – but only if it’s done with commercial intent.
Long-form content builds authority and trust in a way short posts simply can’t. It allows leaders to show thinking, depth and personality. And, in a world of AI, it shows humanity.
The mistake is treating a podcast as a vanity project. The smart move is building a content engine – one long-form asset that fuels video, social, PR, email and sales conversations.
It’s not about having a podcast. It’s about owning a platform.
Commercial thinking first. Channel skills second.
We value people who understand how marketing moves revenue – not just impressions.
Strategic clarity. Strong writing. Data literacy. Client confidence. The ability to challenge constructively.
And above all, pace with precision.
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