Strengthsfluence book cover Strengthsfluence logo
Now available
Redefine your strengths. Exert your influence.
A practical framework for turning self-awareness into something that looks commercially useful.
Vaguely Strategic™ | Our Work | Case Studies, Campaigns & Selective Triumphs
  Campaign outcomes: favourable when framed correctly  •  Brand awareness elevated to a level difficult to verify  •  Digital momentum now visible in selected charts  •  Attribution model under gentle review  •  Client delight: documented verbally  •  Strategy deck still circulating upstairs  •  Campaign outcomes: favourable when framed correctly  •  Brand awareness elevated to a level difficult to verify  •  Digital momentum now visible in selected charts  •  Attribution model under gentle review  •  Client delight: documented verbally  •  Strategy deck still circulating upstairs   
Our Work  •  Brand, Digital, Content  •  Since 1873

Work that generated results, attention, and in one case a carefully managed apology.

This is a representative selection of projects across strategy, campaigns, content, digital growth, and commercial activity that looked increasingly sensible once the numbers arrived and the decks were tidied up.

Not every metric shown here is straightforward. Some required context. Some required interpretation. One required a workshop and a revised definition of success, which we remain proud of.
Selected Results

A modest overview of impact, uplift, momentum, and other commercially flattering shapes.

Across campaigns, rebrands, launch activity, and ongoing growth programmes, we focus on work that moves something in a useful direction, whether that is awareness, conversion, stakeholder alignment, or the general mood of a monthly board meeting.

143+
Projects delivered to a satisfactory, near-satisfactory, or narratively recoverable standard
3.2M
Impressions generated on one notable campaign before anyone asked additional questions
400%
CTR uplift cited repeatedly in pitches despite a degree of definitional looseness
~89%
Client retention, depending on how long one counts “staying in touch” as a relationship
All work Brand Digital Content Growth Workshop-led
Case Study Archive

More examples of sensible work wrapped around improbable briefs.

Below is a broader selection of project types across sectors, channels, and levels of strategic cleanliness. Some were elegant from the outset. Others improved dramatically once we took the wording away from internal committees.

Content & Launch

Fearless Flow™: Influencer Campaign for a Product That Should Have Been Stopped Earlier

We developed launch messaging, social concepts, creator tone guidance, and reactive brand responses for a menstrual product campaign that was visually polished, deeply ill-advised, and somehow impossible to ignore.

1.1M Social views across launch content, replies, reposts, and horrified quote tweets
83% Increase in comment volume, admittedly not all favourable
View project
Website & Messaging

Novex Solutions: Rebuilding a Website Last Updated During a More Hopeful Management Era

We restructured site navigation, rewrote core pages, clarified service messaging, and replaced seven paragraphs of intangible business language with copy that appeared to describe actual things.

+38% Increase in time on site, interpreted here as interest rather than confusion
+24% Lead form improvement following page simplification and calmer CTAs
View project
Strategy & Workshop

The Gregor Collective: Aligning a Senior Team Through Facilitated Candour and Biscuit-Based Diplomacy

A series of leadership workshops designed to clarify priorities, tighten messaging, and reduce the number of conflicting strategic narratives being presented as complementary viewpoints.

4 Business priorities retained after the workshop, down from twenty-one
1 Shared narrative produced and still being used six months later
View project
Email & CRM

Brinsworth & Mule: Turning a Neglected Mailing List into a Revenue-Adjacent Asset

We built a newsletter structure, automated welcome flow, campaign calendar, and segmentation logic for a list that had previously been used only in moments of panic and quarter-end enthusiasm.

+47% Open rate uplift after clearer subject lines and fewer desperate exclamation marks
3x Click activity compared with the previous “send to everyone” approach
View project
Digital & Performance

North Channel Retail Group: Paid Search Recovery After Months of Keyword Folklore

We reworked campaign structure, tightened targeting, introduced landing page logic, and gently explained that broad match was not a personality trait.

-29% Reduction in wasted spend after account clean-up and less adventurous targeting
+31% Increase in lead quality, according to both the sales team and their facial expressions
View project
Thought Leadership

Mercury Lane Advisory: Making Expertise Sound Human Without Losing the Invoice Rate

We developed a content series, article structure, executive tone guide, and LinkedIn thought leadership plan for a consultancy that knew a great deal but was currently writing like a legal side effect warning.

12 Long-form articles published without once using the phrase “in today’s fast-paced world”
+58% Increase in content engagement among people willing to read beyond the headline
View project
How The Work Gets Better

Behind every successful outcome sits a process, a spreadsheet, and a period of controlled doubt.

We are at our best when the brief is promising but uneven, the stakeholders are intelligent but tired, and the current materials have acquired several generations of wording without anyone fully noticing.

01

We clarify the actual problem

Projects often arrive disguised as “a website refresh” or “some campaign support” when the real issue is weak positioning, muddled priorities, or a homepage that sounds like it was negotiated live in a corridor.

02

We build something the market can read

Whether the output is a campaign, a proposition, a page structure, or a set of emails, the goal is the same: reduce friction, sharpen meaning, and stop burying the useful part under ornamental language.

03

We report without insulting your intelligence

Results are measured honestly where possible and contextually where necessary. We avoid metric theatre, except on occasions where the theatre is genuinely very good and the client explicitly enjoys it.

What Clients Said

Feedback from people who paid us and, crucially, came back.

We do ask for testimonials. We do not always receive them in a legally displayable form. The following selection struck the right balance between praise, specificity, and accidental honesty.

They took a launch concept that felt slightly absurd and made it look inevitable. By week three our internal team were using their campaign line as if it had always been company doctrine.
Head of Brand
Consumer Product Client
We hired them for website copy and ended up with a clearer proposition, a cleaner structure, and a deeply uncomfortable awareness of how long we had been saying nothing in three paragraphs.
Managing Director
B2B Services Client
The workshop was unnervingly useful. Several disagreements we had been dignifying as “healthy challenge” were resolved before lunch, which frankly justified the fee on its own.
Operations Lead
Financial Services Client
The Archive

Additional project categories, adjacent successes, and work of unusual character.

Not every assignment becomes a flagship case study. Some are quieter. Some are stranger. Some live on as internal legends, framed decks, or cautionary tales that still converted surprisingly well.

Work we do regularly

These are the dependable engagements that keep the lights on and the strategic language circulating.

  • Website rewritesPositioning, page structure, UX content, and service copy for businesses ready to sound more coherent.
  • Email programmesLaunch sequences, newsletters, nurture flows, re-engagement campaigns, and CRM tidy-ups.
  • Campaign messagingLaunch lines, landing page copy, digital content, ad messaging, and narrative consistency support.
  • Leadership workshopsStakeholder alignment, messaging decisions, priority setting, and diplomatic use of flipcharts.

Work we are oddly proud of

These projects were either unexpectedly effective or effective in a way that still feels slightly improbable.

  • Rebranding a potatoStill discussed. Not always mockingly.
  • Serialised email nurture sequenceEventually had recurring characters and a measurable click uplift.
  • Emergency tone-of-voice interventionPrevented a website from describing itself as “disruptively empathetic” on eight separate pages.
  • Campaign recovery under pressureTurned an apology cycle into a performance case study with suspicious grace.

Got a project that needs sharper thinking, stronger words, or a better outcome than the one currently forming?

Send over the brief, the messy notes, or the half-finished deck. We will turn it into something clearer, more useful, and easier to defend in front of other adults.

No obligation. No jargon surcharge. Some strategic tidying almost guaranteed.