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Built by an
in-house marketer
who left.

MM&Co. is the company Tahlia wishes she could have hired when she was running marketing for small businesses. It does the job an agency promises but rarely delivers, and the job a freelancer can’t do alone — strategic, accountable, with the team to follow through.

Tahlia. Maidstone. May 2026.

The story, short version

Nine years in-house. Since 2012, inside other people’s businesses.

Tahlia spent nine years inside marketing teams — agencies, in-house roles, leadership. She saw the same pattern repeated in every SME she met after going independent: the founder doing the marketing themselves, exhausted; expensive freelancers producing decoupled tactics; no one keeping score.

MM&Co. is the answer she built. A marketing management company that delivers what most SMEs actually need — a senior brain, a delivery team, and a monthly scorecard that tells the truth about what’s working. Based in Maidstone. Working with a small, deliberate book of clients across the UK.

From Tahlia

I built MM&Co. because I kept getting the same call: “I don’t need an agency, but I can’t do this alone.” Same call, different founder. So this is for you.

— Tahlia

What we believe

Five things, said plainly.

Most marketing plans aren’t strategies. They’re lists of tactics dressed up as goals.

A strategy says no to things. A tactics list says yes to everything.
Busy isn’t the same as effective.

If your marketing has a calendar but not a scorecard, you’re measuring activity, not progress.
SMEs don’t need an agency. They need a marketing manager.

Agencies sell deliverables. Managers own outcomes. Most owner-founders need the second one.
Consistency beats brilliance over twelve months.

A monthly rhythm of decision, delivery, and review will out-perform any one-off rebrand or campaign.
Saying it clearly is most of the work.

If you can’t describe what you do in a sentence, no marketing channel will save you.

Credentials

Qualified to do the job.

Years in-house, then independent since 2012

FCIM

Chartered Institute of Marketing

Active SME clients (May 2026)

Partners & platforms

Certified where it matters.

We’re officially recognised by the platforms our clients live on — so the strategic work translates straight to delivery without translation overhead.

Built by an in-house marketer who left.

Nine years in-house. Since 2012, inside other people’s businesses.

Five things, said plainly.

Most marketing plans aren’t strategies. They’re lists of tactics dressed up as goals.

Busy isn’t the same as effective.

SMEs don’t need an agency. They need a marketing manager.

Consistency beats brilliance over twelve months.

Saying it clearly is most of the work.

Qualified to do the job.

Certified where it matters.

Want the same brain in your business?

Built by an
in-house marketer
who left.