The Marketing Spaces
Make Space For Marketing That Works
We give you the space and tools to calmly think about your strategic marketing plan in a structured, logical way so you can design and deliver marketing plans and solutions that work.
No gimmicks, no fluff - end marketing fog and get more clarity
Know what to do, when and why
Designed for Marketers and Business Owners who want to find out how to plan and deliver marketing that works for their business.
With The Marketing Spaces you can find guidance and create networking opportunities to gain more marketing confidence and know-how.
Insights
Our weekly bite-sized marketing insights provide expert advice that you can apply immediately to make your marketing even more effective.
Events
Join our live online events, so you can untangle those marketing knots, be inspired, and know what you need to do next to get the results you want.
Community
Are you a lonely marketer or business owner? Connect with like-minded people joining us for regular networking events and webinars.
Courses
Learn how to plan and deliver marketing that works. Gain more confidence and the know-how on when to apply different marketing techniques.
Weekly Marketing Insights
Subscribe to The Marketing Spaces newsletter and get our weekly videos and articles delivered directly to your inbox. Read our marketing blog to find practical tips that you can apply to make your marketing even more effective.
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Who are we for?
Perhaps you’re a Director of a growing business with responsibility for marketing and sales. You need to design an effective marketing and sales funnel full of marketing and sales activities that work, but you don’t have the time to figure this out on your own.
You could be a Lonely Marketer, with no one available in your organisation to learn marketing strategy from or discuss marketing at a strategic level.

What do we do
- We show you, step by step, how to design an effective marketing and sales pipeline
- We support you as you build a sound marketing and sales structure
- We help you organise all your marketing ideas and plans
- We show you how to find marketing clarity, confidence and know-how
- We give you the space to hone your strategic marketing knowledge and skills, so you can keep progressing as a marketer
Short Marketing Courses Online
Boost your marketing with one of our short online courses. With 20+ years of experience and CIM accreditation, Kara Stanford is your course tutor, passing on her practical knowledge and marketing approach so you can start improving your marketing immediately.
Who can benefit from our growing range of short marketing courses?
✓ Directors in growing small to medium-sized businesses with responsibility for marketing and sales
✓ Business Owners who plan and do the marketing by themselves
✓ Lonely marketers in small to medium-sized businesses who are planning and doing the marketing
Scale Sales Programme
Our next 5-week course starts in January 2024!
Do you want to know what marketing to do, when and why?
Would you like your marketing to be more organised, focused and structured?
Do you want to know how to design marketing activities that work?
Then hop on our ‘Scale Sales’ Programme. This fully supported 5-week marketing course is for you if you are ready to create a fully tailored marketing and sales pipeline, with us as your guides.
About the founder
Kara Stanford is a successful Strategic Marketing Consultant, Marketing Mentor and Marketing Tutor with over 20 years of experience.
She blends practical marketing experience with sound marketing theory, enabling clients and students to truly understand marketing.
Kara is working with marketers, business owners and leaders, showing them how to take a structured, focussed approach to reviewing, planning and implementing marketing.
They need a Marketer who can equip them to use marketing for long-term success – Kara is that Marketer.

What our members say
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