Growth Marketing for Startups and Small to Medium Businesses
Trusted by well over 100 startups, Rise is a collective of senior UK channel specialists, deployed under one strategic lead.
No retainers, no account managers, no juniors learning on your budget. The transparent, flexible alternative to a Growth Marketing Agency.
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The collective
We're a collective of London and UK-based growth marketing experts, hand-picked and coordinated by experienced growth marketer Barri Coen.
We’re the alternative to a growth marketing agency or a growth hacking agency. We’re a hands-on, tactical consultancy and outsourced marketing team - offering strategic and executional resource.
All the benefits of growth marketing agencies or hiring specialist freelancers, but with none of the downsides.
 Barri CoenLead Growth Marketing Consultant |
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 Olga PopovychBusiness Development / Sales |
 Tom Leigh |
 Lukasz |
 Stephane |
 Amy |
 Anthony |
 Dave Jarvis |
 Dave-Cox-LI |
 Jason |
 Ross Mitchell |
 30+ freelance channel specialists |
How we work
We'll help you to dedicate resource and budget only where it's best utilised, so no need for expensive marketing agencies or mismatched marketing personnel.
If you pivot, so do we.
And we’re not typical consultants. We’ll provide full strategic and tactical marketing support, including a comprehensive, 100% bespoke, actionable growth marketing strategy.
We don't just focus on the top of the funnel either. We work closely with your tech & dev teams to optimise the full customer journey, whilst managing creative, data-driven marketing campaigns.
 Strategy2 |
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 Paid-Media |
 CRM |
 SEO |
 Automation |
 CRO |
 Analytics |
 Content-Service |
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Start with a call
Thirty minutes with a Growth Marketing expert, not a sales team. Tell us what you're trying to grow and how fast; we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people to get you there — and if we're not, we'll say so.
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Plan before spend
Most engagements start with a planning phase, shaped to where you are — pre-launch or scaling. We work out what each channel can realistically deliver for you and what to do first, as a small fixed-price project. Already know exactly what you need — say, someone senior on Meta Ads? We skip straight to step three.
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Specialists deployed
The plan decides the channels; the channels decide the team. Senior specialists — only the ones you actually need — working under one strategic lead. No account managers, no juniors, no bench you're paying for but not using.
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Flexible Growth
Transparent reporting against what we said we'd deliver, and specialists scaled up or down as the data comes in. No fixed retainers, so we're kept on because it's working, not because you're locked in. Our longest-running client is in year five.
Specialised channels, run by channel specialists
Google Ads, Microsoft Ads and OpenAI Ads built around your unit economics, not vanity metrics. Managed by senior PPC specialists.
Technical fixes, content that ranks for commercial terms, and a roadmap you can hold us to.
Email and CRM
Lifecycle campaigns and CRM setup that turn one-off buyers into repeat revenue.
More revenue from the traffic you already have. Research-led testing, not guesswork.
Your customers are asking ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews who to use. We find out what those answers currently say about you, which competitors get named instead, and change it.
Go-to-market plans, roadmaps, forecasting, channel prioritisation and budget allocation, matched to your stage — pre-launch, launching or scaling. The thinking that decides where every pound goes and what to do first.
Social media ads
Paid social across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest and Snap. Creative tested at pace, spend held to the same unit economics as every other channel.
Publisher and partner programmes that pay on results, not promises. Sourced, negotiated and managed end to end.
Business development
Signal-based outbound that lands with the right buyers at the right moment. Built, run and refined by senior specialists, not sent from a template.
AI put to work in your marketing rather than talked about. Automated reporting, faster analysis of what's actually working, and more creative produced and tested than a small team could manage by hand.
Data and measurement
Analytics, attribution and reporting you can trust before you spend another pound on ads.
THE PROOF
Queue-Fair
From near-zero to market challenger, against funded incumbents.
Virtual waiting room SaaS
Five years as their growth engine — paid search and SEO at the core, with outbound, CRO, review platforms and marketplace launches built around them.
Monthly conversions up 5x since 2023 · Monthly traffic up 8x since 2021
SELECTED WORK
Real clients, real numbers
Home Management | PropTech | App
We stopped buying installs and started buying users who stay.
A brand-new app, no marketing team, three ad channels with no history. Installs were cheap and worthless — so we rebuilt the funnel around people who actually set up their household, and let the cost per install rise.
Some numbers:
30% → 69% install-to-account · Cost per account down 40%
Membership Body | Education | Web
From incremental growth to applications tripling in a year.
The World Experience Organization's membership was stagnating. We audited the function, rebuilt the roadmap, and stripped the friction out of the application funnel.
Some numbers:
Membership applications up 200% YoY · Revenue up 60% YoY
Driving Lessons | Marketplace | Web
Compounding 10–18% growth, every month, into the next funding round.
We led growth in-house: cross-channel acquisition against aggressive targets, with CPA falling and unit economics improving as volume scaled — through to acquisition by The AA.
Some numbers:
10–18% monthly growth in users and revenue · 300,000+ learners across products
What our clients say
A growth marketing agency for startups, without the agency model
Most startups hit the same wall. The freelancer who got you this far can't cover every channel, but a traditional growth marketing agency means retainers, account managers and junior staff doing the actual work. Rise sits in the gap: a growth marketing collective of senior UK specialists, each expert in one channel, deployed only where your growth plan needs them.
How the collective works
Every engagement is led by one strategist who has taken startups from near-zero to seven figures. Behind that lead sits a bench of channel specialists in paid search, SEO, CRO, email and analytics. You get the coordination of an agency and the seniority of hand-picked freelancers, without paying for either's overheads.
Built for startups and scale-ups
We work with UK startups, scale-ups and SMEs that need measurable growth on a budget that has to justify itself. There are no fixed retainers. Most engagements begin with a planning phase — an audit, a marketing forecast and a growth roadmap — so spend goes to the channels most likely to move revenue, not to whatever an agency happens to sell.
A growth marketing consultant with a full team behind them
If you've been searching for a growth marketing consultant, a digital marketing consultancy, a fractional head of growth or a growth marketing agency for startups, the honest answer is that you probably need parts of all of them.
That's the model Rise was built around. Based in London and Hertfordshire, working with clients across London, the UK and around the world.
Channel-agnostic, by design
Marketing channels don't stay still. Something new becomes worth your budget every couple of years, and the businesses that get there early tend to get in cheaply. An agency can only offer what it's staffed for, so it either sells you the channels it already runs or spends a year building a team in the new one. Neither is your problem to pay for.
A collective of thirty-plus specialists doesn't have that constraint. Whatever the channel, someone in it is already working in that channel for other clients — so we can bring them in when it's genuinely worth your while, and leave it alone when it isn't.
AI is the current example. Some of your buyers still start on Google; a growing number now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or an AI Overview who to use and get back a shortlist rather than a page of links. That's why AI search visibility and AI inside your marketing operation are part of what we run — not because AI is what everyone's selling this year, but because it's where some of your buyers now are.
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