Before I get too serious let me tell you about a few things that, until I wrote them here, most people didn’t know about me.
Firstly, in the early part of my career I was a “milk sniffer” for a large manufacturing dairy. You might have bought their creamed rice.
Secondly, I was in Berlin the night the Wall came down. It wasn’t my fault, honest. But I phoned my local BBC station back in the U.K. and was soon being interviewed, live on air, whilst in a phone box in Berlin.
Lastly, I’m an ex-commercial grower and also write a gardening blog.
If you are reading this you are probably more curious about marketing and how, if it is done well, it will generate more leads and make you more profit.
I’m often asked about this when I’m interviewed by the BBC, national newspapers or international media. They invariably introduce me as The Marketing Magician and we talk about the magic that marketing can achieve.
One of the things that surprises them most is your insistence that most business marketing doesn’t work. No one expects a marketing guy to say this. But I believe in being straight with people and the truth is most business marketing doesn’t work.
It isn’t that all marketing doesn’t work. Done well it gives superb returns. It’s just that most people don’t understand marketing as well as they should and make basic mistakes. Like the large company that ran an expensive advert without any contact details. 99.9% of people didn’t know how to contact them and the advert was just wasted time and money.
My job is to help businesses to make sure their marketing does work. It’s what I specialise in and the BBC and others think I’m good at it.
My customers range from sole traders to architects, retailers, colleges, membership organisations, restaurants, environmental consultancies and international zoological charities.
I’ve helped so many businesses achieve marketing magic. For example SEC saw their bookings rise by 33% … and that was after I cut their budget by £180k.
Another client, Helen, followed my advice and made a few phone calls. The result was £150k worth of extra orders for the cost of a few phone calls. In a morning she virtually doubled her turnover.
In some cases a simple tweak to a website or other process can increase sales by 10% or more in a matter of days.
The thing is marketing needn’t cost a fortune. A lot of marketing agencies will try to persuade you to spend, spend, spend. Not us. We want you to get good results for minimal outlay. It can be done and that’s why the BBC call me the Marketing Magician.
I could probably help you. Why not contact me? Let’s see if we’d enjoy working together. It costs nothing to chat. Contact Stefan
And in case you are still wondering if I’m any good
….. have a look at my best selling books and at what people say about me on Google.
Three of my books have been Amazon best sellers with the rest rising high in my charts. You can see my full book list by following this link to Stefan Drew’s Amazon Page.
I have had the pleasure of interviewing Stefan on our business show on Dublin South FM. Stefan has amazing knowledge and experience when it comes to marketing.
Joe Dalton 8/03/2019
Stefan has such a depth of knowledge on all things marketing and shares an incredible amount of practical advice and tips. 5 well-earned stars.
Hazel Jarrett 7/31/2019
Stefan has such a depth of knowledge on all things marketing and shares an incredible amount of practical advice and tips. 5 well-earned stars.
Hazel Jarrett 7/31/2019
Stefan is rightly known as “The Marketing Magician”. He has an uncanny ability to conjure effective marketing seemingly ‘out of thin air’. But unlike most magicians he’s only too happy to reveal the secrets behind his magic. His enthusiasm is infectious and he’s generous with his time and attention. So if you want to get to grips with the tricks of the marketing trade, Stefan’s your man.
Geoff Marlow 4/28/2019
Stefan is chock full of ideas - but more than that, they are GOOD ideas. In the space of one hour he gave me what is probably a year's-worth of implementation. Yet, it's all stuff I can do myself if I wish - no voodoo to be contracted to consultants I cannot manage and whose results I cannot reliably measure.
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Sarah King – Sky4Pilots Working with Mark has been a fantastic experience. He’s transformed Sk4Pilots completely, including re-branding the company, new logos, marketing and website design. His work was thorough, proactive and responsive throughout the whole process and our outstanding website says it all. I found it difficult finding the right designer to help me, but once I spoke with Mark, I could already see a positive change in its direction. The nature of my business (aircraft covers), makes designing and creating a website an extremely complex and extensive task, which Mark has not only tackled, but overcome. His work has exceeded expectations in all areas. As well as designing a whole new website, he’s come up with new ideas and adapted rapidly and conscientiously to my requests. Without doubt, I’d recommend Studio Mitchell Ltd to anyone, and am extremely grateful for all his hard work and achievements.
Jo Hughes, JHughes-Accounts I have worked closely with Mark at Studio Mitchell Ltd who has created an amazing website to promote my Accountancy business along with creating my Logo. He has been very patient with me as this is not my field of expertise and once he broke the process down into bite size pieces it stopped it being so daunting. Mark listened very carefully to what my needs were and then injected his brilliant creativity to make it all come to life. He has brought me right up to date, showcasing my business in a way that stands out from any of my competitors. The project turnaround was very quick and responsive. I highly recommend Studio Mitchell Ltd for any Design & Marketing projects and I will definitely be using them again. Thankyou Mark
Mark has done a fantastic job of our website, he is creative and has come up with a solution for our aviation sale and flight training web presences. Highly recommended :-)
I asked Mark whether he might be able to do a drawing of my 13 year old Springer Spaniel, from a photo I took of him last year. He created this beautiful, larger than life charcoal drawing, which I am absolutely thrilled with and has taken pride of place in my sitting room. It will be a wonderful memory of him for years to come. I was very impressed with Mark’s professional, friendly approach, he is clearly a very talented artist and I would have no hesitation in recommending him.
Working with Mark has been a fantastic experience - he very quickly understood my vision for my website and translated it into an extremely professional site, considering SEO, security and all the other things I would never have thought of. He has also offered ongoing support which is invaluable. Thank you Mark!
Would highly recommend Mark! He has been a huge help throughout the whole developing process, and is always an email or call away, happy to help anytime. Ensured we had all of our content added and helped with redirecting our old website to our new website. He really is a genuine guy, who has the customers interest at heart.
We've had a very positive experience working with Studio Mitchell. We needed an animation that concisely showed how a product worked and also explained the technical knowledge behind its design. Studio Mitchell came up with a fresh and current look for the animation and then worked extremely hard to create a 3D version of our product that moved as accurately as possible. Studio Mitchell recommended a local copywriter as we were struggling to condense text, who was excellent, and Studio Mitchell was also happy for us to find and create the audio for the animation. Completing this project has taken a long time, but we are really pleased with the result and fully appreciate Studio Mitchell's patience with the many tweaks we made to get the result and level of realism that we wanted. Studio Mitchell's work is of a very high quality and Mark's knowledge and ideas are on point. We wouldn't hesitate to use Studio Mitchell again.
Mark is a font of all digital web and animation knowledge. Then when he finishes amazing with his knowledge he implements the ideas and makes everything work perfectly
Studio Mitchell created a series of 3D illustrations and animations for my business. I was very impressed with his work, and have had several clients comment on it. What’s more, as well as being extremely talented, Mark is a genuinely lovely guy, who’s a real pleasure to do business with. Whether you need a new logo, a video, an illustration to promote products that don’t yet exist, or a new website, Mark is your guy.
Studio Mitchell was recommended to me by a colleague as I needed help updating my old website. I found Mark, the Director of the company to be very friendly, approachable and he knew exactly what I needed. He instantly put me at ease and explained technical jargon in layman’s terms. He was always available to answer my emails and was able to offer ideas for future improvements. I was so impressed, he has created a whole new website for me, which better suits my business moving forward. I would not hesitate to recommend Studio Mitchell to anyone for high quality service at an affordable price.
