Smart Sprout is a one-man digital agency focused on making digital support accessible to all businesses. My time is spent mentoring business owners/marketing teams on best practice and routinely carrying out market research, optimising websites and managing paid campaigns.
I also collaborate with a number of professionals who provide quality work at good value — such as design & illustration, website development, copy writing and printing (you are welcome to source these services elsewhere if preferred).
Working in digital marketing over the last decade, I have become disheartened witnessing average businesses unable to access professional digital marketing support.
Until now, unless a business had a sizable marketing budget, digital marketing support was out of reach. Smart Sprout is a digital agency that promises to keep marketing costs affordable for everyone.
There is no office and no employees. That means no heating, lighting, water and no salaries to pay. Instead, when I feel a business would benefit from other services, I reach out to trusted freelancers who offer great services at reasonable costs and I manage the process, working closely with them to provide a solid and seamless package.
In addition to low overheads, I further reduce costs by mentoring business owners and their teams. This allows me to focus my time on the more complex parts of digital marketing while the business improves its online processes moving forward.
I will teach you and your team how to produce magnetic content and together we will build a results driven content marketing strategy and outreach plan. I will demonstrate a variety of on-page and off-page best practice which will place you well ahead of your competitors and in Google's good books.
This includes properly optimising your images, making the website more accessible for those with disabilities, correcting security vulnerabilities to avoid malicious attacks, and preparing each page so it is easily indexed by search engines and usable to visitors. It is essentially your choice how much time you want to put in and how much you want me to manage.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!
What a lovely, friendly and helpful chap. I now have lots of ideas and tips to put in to practice and get my business going stronger than ever!
I can 100% recommend Mike to anyone needing advice or support. Thank you Mike for all your help."
Emma, Animal behaviourist and trainer
"Mike's mentoring has been invaluable in helping me with my business: Silver Bamboo.
He has truly gone that extra mile in everything that he has helped me
with so far. I feel motivated by his genuine dedication to give his time
and effort for small and start up vegan businesses to blossom and
thrive. Knowing that he is able to provide relevant ongoing support is just incredible."
Joshna, Silver Bamboo (online store)
"Thank you Mike for spending time to talk to me about my fledgling vegan
business. Your inputs have really helped me frame how to think about
taking things forward and your advice was usefully practical. I also
greatly appreciated your encouragement!"
Naomi, Facial Therapist
"I had a great time with Michael. He gave me advice on my web-shop and
website and content and digital marketing strategy, and explained
things I didn't really understand in a way that made sense. He also made it
easy for me to implement his advice."
Steve, Friendship Shoes (online store)
"Polite, knowledgeable and easy to talk to. I received lots of useful
recommendations which I'll be putting into practice - would definitely
recommend."
Hassan, Veganubi (online store)
"Mike is very knowledgeable, helpful and supportive. I would highly
recommend him in helping to grow your business. He gave me loads of
ideas which I Iook forward to implementing. Really kind and generous
with his time, knowledge and expertise."
Vikki, Animal behaviourist