Ideal MarketingSolutions

Customer acquisition and commercial partnerships

We make the introduction between businesses that need customers and the partners who can reach them.

Ideal Marketing Solutions connects businesses with customer acquisition opportunities, marketing delivery partners and routes to market. Lead generation is where we started. Commercial partnerships are where we are heading.

How IMS sits between the people we work with and what we connect them to Businesses and professional firms, marketers and call centres, and product providers on the left. IMS in the centre. Customer enquiries, campaign delivery and routes to market on the right. Who we work with What we connect them to Businesses and professional firms Digital marketers and call centres Product providers and brokers IMS Customer enquiries to agreed criteria Campaign delivery through partners Routes to market and distribution Based in Newport, South Wales

What we do

Three things, agreed individually.

Current Developing Planned
Current

Lead generation

The customer enquiries your business needs, with the campaign requirements, qualification criteria and delivery arrangements agreed first.

Lead generation
Current

Campaign partnerships

Campaign delivery through digital marketing companies, call centres and specialist partners, coordinated by IMS.

Campaign partnerships
Current

Routes to market

Introductions, distribution relationships and new propositions for your customers or your audience.

Routes to market

How we work

Requirements first. Then the approach. Then the review.

Nothing is promised before it is agreed. Each campaign is set up on its own terms, with responsibilities, reporting and outcomes written down at the start.

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  1. Understand your requirements

    We discuss your audience, your objectives and what a suitable enquiry or commercial outcome looks like for you.

  2. Agree the approach

    We identify suitable delivery options and agree responsibilities, reporting and commercial terms before anything starts.

  3. Review performance

    We review the agreed campaign outcomes together and use the results to decide the next step.

Wider opportunities

Planned, and clearly marked as such.

We are developing further ways for businesses and affinity partners to connect their customers with useful services. These are partnership conversations, not live products.

All planned opportunities
Planned

Insurance partnerships

Potential partner-supplied breakdown, gadget, travel and commercial insurance.

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Planned

Energy and utilities

Potential business and consumer switching referrals through specialist partners.

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Planned

Affinity memberships

Potential white-label or co-branded membership schemes for law firms, claims businesses and other groups.

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Newport, South Wales

About IMS

A relationship business, led by two people who have spent their careers building them.

Ideal Marketing Solutions is led by Stephen Jenkins and Neil MacInnes. Stephen's background spans more than 35 years across legal services, insurance and commercial business development. The business brings that sector knowledge together with relationships across digital marketing, call centres and specialist service providers.

About the business and its directors