Visibility gets you noticed. It doesn’t get you chosen. That gap is where most B2B marketing budgets quietly disappear For the second year running, Attract & Engage was invited to speak, and BizzFest 2.0 was bigger and busier than the first. Co-founder Richard Willis took the stage to deliver our talk, ‘Stop Marketing, Start Being…
DetailsWe’ll be delivering three major business events across Essex through to 2027 Attract & Engage has been appointed flagship events partner to Essex Growth Agency (EGA). We will deliver three major business events across the county, running through to 2027. For a Billericay-based agency of our size, this is a significant appointment. It also follows…
DetailsLinkedIn’s Quietly Changed the Rules. Have You Met 360Brew? By Richard Willis, Co-Founder, Attract & Engage Richard leads digital delivery, working across SEO, PPC and paid LinkedIn for industrial and infrastructure clients across Essex and East London. If your LinkedIn posts have been getting less traction lately, it’s probably not you. LinkedIn’s got a lot…
DetailsInvesting in the Next Generation of Marketing Talent Marketing agencies talk a lot about growth. Client growth, campaign growth, business growth. We think there’s a growth story that gets talked about far less: the pipeline of talent coming into our own industry, and whether agencies like ours are actually doing anything to build it. We’ve…
DetailsSerious subject, unexpected venue – Workforce 2026 The June 2026 briefing tackled something every business leader needs a handle on right now. The Employment Rights Act 2025. Palmers Law walked the room through the legal detail, then a live panel of senior HR and recruitment professionals took it further, debating what it actually means day-to-day…
DetailsFrom Braintree to Buckingham Palace: Why KOcycle Represents the Next Generation of Essex Growth Businesses Essex enjoyed a bumper year at the 2026 King’s Awards for Enterprise. Thirteen businesses from the county secured the prestigious accolade, the highest number Essex has ever achieved and enough to place it second only to Greater London nationally. It’s…
DetailsAttract & Engage Named in Essex Tech 50 – 2026 We’re proud to share that Attract & Engage has been named in the Essex Tech 50 2026 – a county-wide initiative recognising the most innovative, ambitious and high-growth tech related businesses. Selected from hundreds of companies, the Tech 50 celebrates organisations that are driving growth,…
DetailsOmnichannel marketing isn’t jargon. It’s smart business. Heard the term omnichannel marketing and thought, “…what does that actually mean?” You’re not alone. In plain English, it’s about making sure your business shows up in the right places, with the right message, at the right time and that all those touchpoints feel joined up. Most buyers…
DetailsThe Bank of England arrive in Basildon Not something you expect on a Friday morning in Essex: a senior Bank of England representative standing up and walking 150+ business leaders through the latest Monetary Policy Report. Attract & Engage orchestrated the whole thing and paired it with something practically useful too. Real world…
DetailsHere’s why you shouldn’t cut your marketing budget Marketing is often one of the first budgets on the hit list when businesses are looking to weather economic challenges. You would of course expect us to be bias, but with 25+ years’ experience working across startups and global brands, we know what it takes for sustained…
DetailsFrom Writtle to the South of England: How Crawford’s Group Became a Farming Force What does it take to grow a family business from a single trailer in Essex into a multi-division, multi-million-pound powerhouse serving thousands across the South of England? For Wes Crawford, Managing Director of Crawford’s Group, the answer lies in legacy,…
DetailsDoing the Opposite: How Jeff Dewing Rebuilt from Rock Bottom to a £70m Culture-First Success If you’ve ever walked into a business and felt the energy dip, you’ll get the problem Jeff Dewing set out to fix. In this episode of Made in Essex, Jill Willis meets Jeff Dewing, CEO of Cloud, the Colchester-based…
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