WHAT WE DO
ELK Marketing delivers real-world marketing solutions to businesses large and small. Our strapline - 'Creative hearts, business heads' - underpins everything we do. We have creative hearts - and enjoy creating logos, websites and print design. But marketing isn't just about looking pretty, it's also about bottom-line results. So we have business heads as well - we want to design marketing solutions which achieve real results for you and your business.
You may be a startup up business wanting graphic design and branding. We have many years' experience designing logos, brochures, leaflets and stationery. We can also design and program an engaging website to gain you more business. Alternatively, you are an existing business which wishes to grow. We can help you put together a marketing strategy which delivers. We have a growing business to business telemarketing department and this, coupled with our direct mail and social media expertise, will help you to generate new customers.
Our other area of expertise is eLearning. We have designed and continue to manage elearning websites for global businesses. Please take a look at our portfolio or contact us for a chat. We're happy to talk through your requirements over a coffee, and if you're good we'll even offer you a biscuit.
Graphic Design
Let us design you a logo, design and print stationery, brochures and leaflets, or design digital graphics for use online. Read more
Telemarketing
Let us generate new B2B sales leads and administer your business development process. Read more
Websites
Let us design a mobile-friendly website to generate you more business or an eLearning system to train others online. Read more
Social Media
Let us help you communicate with your audience using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Youtube. Read more
Strategy
Let us help you plan your strategic marketing goals, identify new markets and develop engaging campaigns. Read more
eLearning
Let us create an engaging elearning website to train your staff, suppliers and clients. Read more
Photography
Let us create high quality photographs to complement your marketing materials and enhance your brand. Read more
Video
Let us create you a stunning video to enhance your company image. Read more
About Us
We’re a marketing agency based in Beverley, East Yorkshire (near Kingston upon Hull). We have clients across England and Scotland, as well as America, Europe and Africa. We have even been known to do work in Japanese and Thai!
We like to think we’re nice people, but we’re not afraid to speak our minds and tell it how it is. We have half a dozen good ideas before our mid-morning coffee break, but we're realistic enough to know that what matters isn't just the idea, but the implementation and the follow through.
Honesty and integrity are key to how we work with people, but at the same time we think it’s important to have a bit of fun along the way.
We have oodles of experience (not to say quite a few qualifications), but never stop learning and remain open minded to new ways of doing things.
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Why ELK?
It's not an acronym, we just like animals with antlers.
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ELK Fact No1
The scientific name for ELK is Cervus canadensis.
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ELK fact no 2
ELK's typically live for 10-13 years in the wild. We aim to live longer.
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ELK fact no 3
Adult males weigh 320–330 kg. We promise we are slimmer.
OUR TEAM
We are small but perfectly formed. We value creativity, but what really drives us is delivering bottom line results for our clients. Years of experience working with SMEs has taught us that marketing activity should have a return on investment. Go on, give us a call (you know you want to).
Eric Hartley
Lindsay Hartley
Polly Cutting
Caroline Stewart
Leif
Oscar
Portfolio
Some examples of the different types of work we do. Click here for a larger portfolio.
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A lovely walk in the countryside
We’ve just completed www.andrewswalks.co.uk – this is a walking diary for a local solicitor who is also an incredibly talented landscape and wildlife photographer. The challenge was that Andrew had been creating a completely static website, which over the years had grown to over 700 walks and over 25,000 pictures. Because it was ‘static’, each[…]
A ‘nice’ company!
We’ve really enjoyed creating a new brand, website and supporting materials for Simpatico Communications. After competing a branding wheel exercise, we identified one of the key words to describe their brand – ‘nice’. Some people might think this is an insipid word, but we often refer to people as ‘nice’ and mean something 100% positive:[…]
Mulberry Residential
We’ve recently completed a brand identity for a new estate agency, Mulberry Residential. Logo development can often be a fraught process when a group of people are involved with differing opinions as to what works and doesn’t work! Thankfully this was a more straightforward process – the colour was a relatively simple choice (we looked[…]
Elearning system for Hyundai UK
We have many years experience of developing elearning system using Moodle open source elearning software. We’ve just completed Phase 1 of a system to help develop Hyundai UK’s managers in the dealerships across the UK. Managers go to the portal to complete self-assessment exercises, complete activities as part of their face to face training programme,[…]
Looking back to WWI
We’ve done a number of book covers in the past for Harry Clacy, a local author who has branched out in a number of different military topics after starting with his own army service memoirs. This is his most recent publication – edited diaries from WWI. We used some of the classic WW1 recruitment posters[…]
5 surprising tricks to using video in Facebook advertising
Video repeatedly gets better engagement statistics in Facebook than text or photos – check out your own Insights on your Facebook business page to see if this is true for you. Facebook has been working hard behind the scenes to encourage people to use and engage with video – videos now run automatically, whether you[…]
It’s all about me, me, me…
Have you ever met somebody who doesn’t seem able to empathise with other people? They don’t ask questions about you, they just talk about themselves all the time. It’s exhausting, isn’t it? And have you come across companies who do the same? It’s usually smaller businesses who haven’t yet understood that marketing is about understanding[…]
Who does your company associate with?
And what does it say about you and your brand? We’ve all heard the mantra that it’s not what you say but what you do that’s important. In the world of sponsorship and business partnerships, the people and organisations with whom you associate says a lot more than what you have written down on the[…]
Advertising to the emotion
We recently did a series of small print adverts for a professional will writer. The challenges of this were: the adverts were very small, so copy needed to be kept to a minimum the adverts would appear in a local print magazine surrounded by other adverts, so they needed to catch the reader’s attention immediately[…]
What makes for a well designed website?
If you asked ten different people to list the five most important elements of a well designed website, you’d probably get ten different answers. My five would be: It needs to take account of your target market & drive engagement. It needs to take account of your target market & drive engagement. It needs to[…]