With Caroline’s help, we developed a clear strategy for a priority area and a strong tactical plan for the first few months. This gave us the jump start we needed, and over the past year we’ve continued to build on the work we started together. It’s helped us be braver — doing things like cleaning our email lists and becoming more focused, rather than trying to do everything at once. We now think more clearly about creating and serving defined target audiences.
Caroline was great to work with: a clear communicator (including being honest when the odd timeline slipped), a strong presenter of ideas, and, most importantly, someone who understands the reality of working with limited resources. Her recommendations were practical and achievable, while still offering stretch ideas to aspire to. If we had the budget, we wouldn’t hesitate to work with her again.
Working with Caroline has been genuinely transformative for us at Quickgrind. Before we started, our marketing felt fragmented. Lots of small, tactical activities but without an overarching strategy or clear direction. Caroline brought the structure, accountability, and creative thinking we needed to pull everything together into a cohesive plan that now drives measurable results.
Since partnering with her, we’ve designed, developed, and launched a completely new website that not only looks fantastic but performs exceptionally well. Caroline has also provided ongoing SEO support and content creation, which has significantly increased our visibility within the industry and improved our web traffic.
She’s a great communicator and always responsive (even outside of normal working hours when deadlines were tight), and her support has spanned across everything from strategy to implementation.
The biggest benefit of working with Caroline has been having a clear, consistent marketing direction backed by real data and accountability. We now have confidence in what we’re doing and why.
I’d absolutely recommend Caroline to any business looking to bring clarity, creativity, and results to their marketing. She becomes an integral part of the team and makes a tangible difference from day one.
We have had tremendous growth in the year that we have been working with Caroline.
Since partnering with Caroline, we’ve experienced tremendous growth in just one year. Our social media views have increased, our website receives more traffic, and we’re booking more initial consulting appointments than ever before.
Before working with Caroline, we struggled with SEO issues, LinkedIn challenges, and converting leads into appointments. Her expertise has helped us achieve measurable improvements across all of these areas.
The process has been organized, seamless, and incredibly easy—a refreshing change from our previous experiences with other partners. Caroline’s communication and support are exceptional, making it feel less like a task and more like a true partnership.
We would absolutely recommend Caroline to others. Her ability to deliver results while keeping the process simple and effective truly sets her apart.
Before working with Caroline I was flailing in the dark—trying to do SEO and unsure how to reach people—but through her 121 marketing coaching I’ve gained absolute clarity on how to push content (rather than pull), and I’m no longer afraid to post on LinkedIn and Instagram.
In the past 90 days my LinkedIn impressions rose 85%, engagements soared 214%, and followers grew by 17%.
There wasn’t a question I asked she couldn’t answer with real, actionable, tactical advice—never just ‘spend more money’ or ‘use AI.’ I used to dread marketing; now I look forward to our calls.
Caroline gives you the framework and understanding—but you have to show up and do the work. This has transformed it from being just an idea into a real business (to say nothing of those results).
We didn't have a marketing function until Caroline and Anil gave us one. We now have a Brand, a positioning and website we're proud of. A fully working CRM with a social and content plan. The business is growing rapidly and we're really excited about where the marketing will take us over the next 12 months.
Caroline’s work on our general marketing has made a significant difference to our business. We’ve managed to complete tasks that we have been putting off for years and we have most certainly seen an increase in business since we started working with Caroline Sumners. I would make no hesitation in recommending her services.
Caroline is great to work with – she just gets stuff done. She is also very creative and we love the look and feel of all the promotional stuff Caroline created for us. Would recommend unreservedly.
It was a really productive & informative session. Caroline was expertly prepared gave lots of advice, hints, tips, shortcuts & recommendations. She was so personable it was a real pleasure spending time with her. I came away very motivated, positive and best of all educated.
Caroline has recently started working with us here at Living Your Learning - The People Development Experts on our marketing strategy and I can only say that she is just AMAZING! Her knowledge, expertise and approach is world class, straightforward and a complete breath of fresh air. And more than this, she just totally gets us, our business and what our customers need and we are so excited to see what the next few months brings, so watch out for an exciting and fresh new approach from LYL!
Before working with Caroline, our marketing was essentially non-existent. She helped us build a solid foundation from scratch - SEO, blogs, articles, a knowledge base, an email newsletter, and a library of resources we still use and share. One thing I really valued was that you work with Caroline directly, not a revolving door of account managers, which made the whole process feel genuinely collaborative. The biggest benefit has been going from absolutely zero to a marketing engine that actually works. I'd happily recommend her to anyone who needs to get their marketing off the ground and working
Caroline has marketing mojo. She is strategic and is the architect of our marketing and social engagement plan. Even better, she takes charge of the plan and executes, and then measures and reports on her success! Having worked with others in marketing roles before, she is a complete revelation and demonstrates what brilliant is really like. In truth, I would prefer to keep her our secret but, if you are lucky enough to work with Caroline, then your business will be transformed and you'll have a positive, can-do force for good on your team.
Caroline worked with us for six months to develop and test messaging and configure our digital channels and analytics. Pragmatic and efficient with a test-first-then-scale mindset, Caroline always focussed on the things that actually mattered when it comes to moving the needle. Highly recommended if you need a marketing swiss-army knife, and great to work with!