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Templates

Practical templates so you don't start from a blank page.

Marketing plans, budgets, checklists and scripts you can adapt in fifteen minutes. Some are free to preview. The rest are part of Membership.

Marketing PlansFree preview
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Small Business Marketing Plan Template

A one-page plan that covers your audience, offer, channels and 90-day priorities. Fill it in once, revisit it each quarter.

Best for: Owners who want a working plan, not a strategy deck.

What's inside
  • A one-page layout that fits on a single screen.
  • Five short sections: goal, customer, offer, channels, follow-up.
  • A 90-day focus block with weekly priorities.
  • Worked examples from a freelancer, a local service and an online seller.
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Spreadsheet

Marketing Budget Planner

A simple spreadsheet for splitting a small marketing budget across channels, tools and tests without overcommitting.

Best for: Anyone with a marketing budget under £2,000 a month.

What's inside
  • A monthly and quarterly view.
  • Pre-built categories for tools, channels, content and experiments.
  • A built-in safety buffer so you don't overspend.
  • A simple ROI tracker per channel.
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Websites & ConversionFree preview
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Website Audit Checklist

Forty practical checks across structure, copy, conversion, speed and trust signals. Run it on your site in under an hour.

Best for: Owners about to spend money driving traffic.

What's inside
  • Forty checks grouped into clarity, trust, conversion and basics.
  • A scoring sheet so you can compare versions over time.
  • Plain-English fix suggestions for every check.
  • A 'fix these three first' shortlist.
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Local MarketingMembers
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Local SEO Checklist

Everything a local business should fix on Google, on its website and across local directories before paying for ads.

Best for: Local services, food businesses and franchise locations.

What's inside
  • Google Business Profile optimisation steps.
  • On-site local SEO checks (titles, headings, schema, NAP consistency).
  • Citation and directory list with priorities.
  • Review generation and reply checklist.
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Sales Follow-UpMembers
Email pack

Lead Follow-Up Email Sequence

A six-email sequence with subject lines and copy you can adapt in fifteen minutes. Designed for warm, recent enquiries.

Best for: Service businesses fielding enquiries that take days or weeks to convert.

What's inside
  • Six emails over 60 days with subject lines.
  • Two tone variants: warm and direct.
  • Personalisation slots that take a minute to fill in.
  • A short 'before I close your enquiry' email that often gets the reply.
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Customer Persona Worksheet

A focused worksheet that helps you describe your best customer in plain language, not consultancy jargon.

Best for: Anyone whose marketing keeps trying to talk to everyone.

What's inside
  • Eight short prompts to describe a real best customer.
  • A 'who this isn't for' section to sharpen focus.
  • A one-paragraph summary you can paste straight into your homepage.
  • Examples for service, product and local businesses.
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Referral Request Scripts

Short, natural scripts for asking customers, partners and past clients for a referral without sounding awkward.

Best for: Owners who hate asking for referrals but know they should.

What's inside
  • Six scripts: post-project, post-purchase, partner intro, quiet-month nudge, anniversary and 'one quick favour'.
  • Email and message versions of each.
  • A monthly 'referral round' workflow.
  • Polite ways to follow up if there's no reply.
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ContentMembers
Spreadsheet

Social Media Content Calendar

A monthly content planner with prompts, formats and posting cadence ideas that suit a small business.

Best for: Owners doing their own social with no content team.

What's inside
  • A four-week rolling planner with cadence presets.
  • A bank of fifty content prompts for service, product and local businesses.
  • Format mix recommendations (text, image, short video, story).
  • A post-mortem column to track what actually worked.
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AI & AutomationMembers
Doc

AI Marketing Prompt Pack

Forty practical prompts for emails, ads, social posts, landing pages and customer research, written for non-technical owners.

Best for: Owners using ChatGPT or Claude as a junior copywriter.

What's inside
  • Forty prompts grouped by job: emails, social, ads, landing pages, research.
  • Voice-matching prompt template you can fill in once and reuse.
  • Editing rules to keep AI output sounding human.
  • A starter library of subject lines, hooks and headlines.
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Sales Follow-UpFree preview
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Lead Tracking Template

A no-CRM way to track enquiries, conversations and follow-up dates so leads stop slipping through the cracks.

Best for: Solo operators and small teams without a CRM.

What's inside
  • Columns for source, last contact, next action and date.
  • A status pipeline (new, in progress, waiting, won, lost).
  • A simple weekly view of who needs a nudge.
  • An archive sheet for closed leads with notes for next time.
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Google Business Profile Checklist

A focused checklist for setting up, optimising and maintaining a Google Business Profile that actually drives enquiries.

Best for: Any business with a postcode customers care about.

What's inside
  • Setup steps in the right order.
  • An optimisation pass for categories, services, photos and FAQ.
  • A monthly maintenance checklist (posts, photos, replies).
  • Common policy mistakes to avoid.
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Spreadsheet

Small Business Content Calendar

A simple twelve-week content plan you can run across email, blog and social without burning out.

Best for: Owners committing to one quarter of consistent content.

What's inside
  • A twelve-week rolling plan across email, blog and social.
  • A theme-per-week structure so ideas come faster.
  • A repurposing column so each piece works on three channels.
  • A short 'minimum viable week' fallback for busy weeks.
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