PML’s Associates
We have a great team here, all experienced in their respective areas and at hand to help guide you through the maze of digital marketing processes. Our associates have an extensive range of skills to offer, from strategic PR, marketing communication, followup marketing planning, lead generation, copywriting, social media marketing and management, search marketing and, for those who need that little extra boost, we have teamed up with some great business coaches to help move you into a better position in your business.
Mike Lowndes
Mike Lowndes is the CEO of PML Media Limited and has over 10 year experiences of digital marketing, with over 6 years hands on experience in email marketing and through the last two years has extended that knowledge to incorporate social media marketing and management.
Realising the need to incorporate additional skill sets in order to join up the services PML offers, he’s enlisted the help of some of the country’s best digital marketing professionals and coaches to form PML’s Associates, to focus on helping businesses get a better understanding of digital marketing and get the very best from their on-line marketing and communication efforts. By bringing together this handpicked team of professionals with varying skills he’s created the ideal partnership for any business to succeed.
This collective experience now speaks for itself with the testimonials (freely given) from PML’s clients. You can read what they have to say on the Testimonial page.
Amanda Burton
Amanda Burton is the founding director of Green Shoots Communications and has 17 years’ communications, marketing and publishing experience, primarily in the financial services and technology sectors.
Amanda delivers strategic PR and marketing communications to a wide range of clients including DIMA, FINEOS, HSBC Insurance, Paladin, Russell Group, Price Forbes and RiIG.
Amanda has also worked in a business development capacity for Business Process Outsourcer, Xchanging and as a PR consultant to a number of financial services and technology companies. She started her career in the publishing sector where she worked for The Independent and leading trade publications including Lloyd’s List; Insurance Day and Global Reinsurance.
Amanda is a skilled facilitator and workshop leader, a graduate of the University of Lincoln, BA Honours and holds a Diploma in Administrative Management.
Janet Barnes
Having started out in PR nearly 20 years ago and over the past 9 years having held marketing managerial positions for businesses in the Voice & Data industry with annual turnovers from £3M to £50M, Janet’s core expertise centres around telephone sales, team recruitment and management, she also has experience in CRM for users in the Customer Care, Marketing and Sales Departments equipping her with improved knowledge and capability in sound business process.
Additionally, Janet has experience in Exhibition planning and deployment at large venues in London, such as Earl’s Court and Olympia enabling her project planning and management skills to come to the fore. Janet focuses on results-driven marketing activities, whether the activity focuses on customer service, marketing or sales enhanced performance.
Since creating Profit Development Ltd in March 2010, the business has catered for all sized businesses in the private and public sector and has supported various telemarketing campaigns for clients based in London and South East.
Janet believes the key attributes necessary to succeed, whether you are a Manager of a department, business owner or telemarketer, is the willingness to learn, make mistakes along the way, perfect and learn some more. You’re not beat until you give up!
Having recently jointed PML Associates, Janet brings her varied skills to a team already possessing a vast array of valuable marketing and management skills, and as such, is eagerly looking forwards to adding more value and increasing opportunities to help businesses thrive.
Claire Jarrett
Claire Jarrett is an AdWords Professional and author of “Successful Google Adwords Strategies”, published in 2009. She is the owner of PPC and SEO agency MarketingByWeb. Claire is passionate about helping small businesses succeed using PPC and works with clients from budgets of £15 to £1000 per day. She has a variety of clients throughout the UK, Europe and the rest of the world in market sectors from accounting to pet supplies! Claire is also the number one “AdWords Trainer” in Google worldwide and runs both AdWords and SEO courses in Bristol, London and onsite anywhere in the world.
Mitch Smith
Mitch has a passion for making development and change happen, often within multi-functional and multi-cultural environments, supported by thirty years experience in managing, designing and implementing award winning change and business improvement solutions. Success has been achieved by combining real business management experience with the application of appropriate techniques such as Six Sigma, Business Process Reengineering and Employee Engagement as well as a hands-on in approach to coaching, training and mentoring.
An MA in Change Management and qualifications in Business Research, NLP, Programme/Project Management and coaching have underpinned a desire to help both individuals and organisations change and develop and ultimately meet their goals and objectives.
Nicky Murray
Nicky currently helps organisations improve business performance, drawing upon her 15 year+ expertise and experience in Brand, PR and Marketing, Business Strategy Communication and buy-in, Change Management, and Engagement. She has notably supported companies in effectively communicating the business strategy message with a clarity that promotes a depth of understanding to enable an alignment of behaviours with it for real and lasting change. Nicky takes a customer focused approach and is practiced at ensuring clients differentiate from the competition in a rapidly changing market by refinement of their proposition, whilst utilising their budget to ‘smartly’ achieve more with less, resulting in increased performance and new revenue streams.
Nicky revels in the variety of working across a spectrum of industries, for small, medium and renowned Blue Chip organisations, with sponsors at all levels of the business, be it marketing, HR or board level. Nicky’s breadth of experience also includes event and communication materials content design, facilitation, project management, and research, ROI measurement reporting and corporate video.
Whether the solution is a PR and profile raising campaign or designing and planning a complex pan-European learning programme for cross-functional teams, Nicky is thorough and tenacious in her approach and recommendations to ensure her clients are motivated and can clearly visualise and follow the road-map to success.
Kent Austin
Kent is one of the UK’s leading business to business copywriters. With over twenty years’ hands-on professional writing experience, he has been personally instrumental in generating multi-million pound revenues in businesses across all key market sectors, and is the preferred copywriter for some of the UK’s most successful PR, design and marketing agencies.
Recent assignments have included the rebranding of Russia’s premier cultural city, Saint Petersburg, and high-profile campaigns for clients in the international film production and distribution industry, including Nigel Marven’s Pole to Pole and the US hit TV series the Martha Stewart Show and The Janice Dickinson Modelling Agency.
Kent’s writing features regularly in the business media on both sides of the Atlantic, including numerous pieces for Marketing Week, B2B Magazine and Campaign.
Together with a loyal following of B2B clients across all key corporate sectors, he works regularly with many of the UK’s leading creative agencies. Whatever the size of your business; whatever your ultimate need, you can depend on his personal attention at all times.
Kent also holds a BA Honours degree in English from the University of Sussex.
Kent is also the author of our free e-book “How to write great sales copy that works” and if you haven’t got yourself a copy yet go and grab one today.
