Better Things: content marketing, email and DM, website design, online marketing, branding and identity, social media

About

Better Things is a creative business. We’re interested in coming up with ideas and making things that will help your business to do what it does, but better. That’s why we’re called Better Things.

We primarily work in branding and marketing for a whole range of clients and sectors.

Our brand work involves running in-depth workshops with our clients to explore and build a brand platform, which we use as the basis for developing brand identities and communications planning.

Our campaign work is media neutral, which means that we can put together integrated campaigns across multiple channels. We use a mixture of new and old media, running campaigns across traditional print advertising and DM, though websites, email and social media. This means our solutions are the right ones for you: we won’t try to get you to buy into a channel that won’t work for you just because it’s the only thing we know how to do.

You can see a list of the things we do to the right, and if you click on them you’ll be able to see an example of our work in that area.

In no particular order, the
things we're good at include:

Direct Mail and Email

Website design

Integrated campaigns

Social media

Brand development and identities

Content marketing

Schools marketing

Video

Who?

Richard Parker is a thinker and strategist who has worked across web design and build, eCRM, online marketing, email marketing, social media, search, customer magazines and sales promotions. He believes in telling stories about brands and using content through multiple channels to drive business objectives. He also believes in making his clients look good, and having a good time.

Rich has worked with a large number of businesses including ASOS.com, Coca-Cola, Coutts, Direct Line, Duchy Originals, Estée Lauder, Fortnum & Mason, Johnson & Johnson, Links of London, Norwich Union, Nottingham City Council, The Open University, RAC, Vision Express and Waterstone’s.

Contact Rich: LinkedIn / Twitter

Chris Harris is one of those rare things: a creative with an interest in making beautiful things, but an equally great interest in making things that do a commercial job. His work across branding, DM, customer magazines and multiple digital formats is evidence that he will look for the best, most original solution to get people interacting with your business, regardless of channel - and he'll make it look gorgeous.

Chris has worked with the great and the good, brands like Auto Trader, BBC Worldwide, BT, Direct Line, ING, Macmillan, NSPCC, Sony, Sport England, Superbrands, UKTV and Vodafone.

Contact Chris: LinkedIn

Clients

We're so excited about what we do that we update our blog on the homepage with our latest work as soon as it's live. Clicking through on the logos above will take you to some case studies of work we've done in the past.