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Content Marketing for St Ives Businesses
A St Ives trades business gets asked the same handful of questions every week. Call out charges, how quickly someone can come out, and whether they cover the wider catchment. Those are the questions worth a proper page, not a blog post written for a keyword tool. We work from Hills Road in Cambridge, about twenty five minutes away, and plan content around what your sales team actually gets asked.

About us
Clickscope is a small content team based in Cambridge, about twenty five minutes from St Ives. We write fewer, better pages for local trades, retail and leisure businesses, measured on what each one earns. We're a Cambridge digital marketing agency about 25 minutes away, close enough that content decisions get made in person, not over email chains.
Our MISSION
Answer the real question, then measure the page on results
We start with the questions a St Ives customer actually asks your team, whether that's a call out charge or how far you'll travel. Each piece is tracked for enquiries and conversions, not just rankings.

Judged on enquiries, per page
Every piece of content is tracked for its enquiries, sales and assisted conversions, and after ninety days it's kept, updated, expanded or deleted.
How we run content marketing for St Ives businesses
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The pages competitors won't write
Honest pricing and service area pages, including where you don't cover, convert unusually well and almost nobody in a low competition market like St Ives writes them.

Pricing pages, answered honestly
St Ives buyers search for cost constantly, and refusing to answer just sends them to a competitor willing to.

Copyright is yours from invoice
Copyright belongs to you from invoicing, briefs, drafts and interview transcripts included, and none of it's pulled if you stop working with us.
Client Results
A single blog post about SEO brought Clickscope its own first client. That was one outcome, in one market, at one moment, so we'd not promise the same for a St Ives business. We'd still rather write a few pages that hold someone's attention than a pile written mainly to exist.
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Revenue increase, year on year
For a building brand we grew year-on-year revenue by 132%. SEO up 363%, PPC up 55%. That's £239,000 more every month, and not a seasonal product.
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We've provided training and consulting to over 60 other digital marketing agencies and freelancers. A number of them now refer their own SEO clients to us.
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Years on Google Ads
Nearly two decades of combined Google Ads experience, and over ten years running SEO campaigns, including work alongside brands like Costa Coffee.
FAQ
The questions you actually want answered
Is it possible to meet before agreeing the content plan?
Yes. Our office is at 9 Hills Road, Cambridge, about twenty five minutes from St Ives, and interviews for content pieces often happen there or on your own premises.
How many pieces of content do we receive monthly?
Two to four substantial pieces monthly is typical rather than eight thin ones, the format determines it. A pricing page or comparison piece takes far longer to produce than a news post.
Do we need to sign a content marketing contract?
No. It's a rolling monthly arrangement, so 30 days' notice lets you leave and you keep every page you commissioned.
Do we sign off content before publication?
Yes. We won't publish without your approval, and we'd much rather you picked holes in the technical detail than let it slide.
St Ives is a small market. Is there really enough to write about?
More than most people expect. Between trades questions, market town retail and riverside leisure, there's a genuine range of real buying questions, and almost none of them are answered properly online yet here.
Which St Ives sectors do you write content for?
Trades and home services, construction and professional services are sectors we write for regularly here, where a clear service area and pricing page tends to convert quickly.
Do you only write content for St Ives businesses?
No. We're based in Cambridge and also write for clients in Royston, Bishop's Stortford and Saffron Walden. Being close to St Ives is about how we interview your team, not who reads the pages.
Will you build the pages the articles sit on?
Yes. Web design and development sit in-house alongside content marketing, so a pricing or service area page can be built to convert as well as written to inform.
What happens across the first 90 days of a content programme?
We turn the questions your team hears every week into a page plan, agreed quarterly, and interview someone in your business before any drafting starts.
What tells you content marketing is doing its job?
Rather than looking at aggregate figures, we track enquiries page by page, with rankings as a secondary indicator. After ninety days we decide whether to keep, update, expand or delete it.
St Ives has very little existing content competing for local search terms. How much difference does that make?
A significant one. With competition genuinely low here, a handful of well written pages can do the work that would take far more volume in a busier market like Cambridge.
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