— Professional Services marketing agency

Marketing for professional services firms, including our own world.

Professional services firms – from consultancies to agencies, legal, financial and specialist advisors – sell expertise and trust, usually in crowded markets, and several face regulation and competition from large, established names. As a professional services marketing agency this is our world too, so we completely understand the challenge of standing out when what you sell is judgement and credibility.

Consultancies, agencies, legal, financial and specialist advisors. This is a world we share, so we know what it takes to stand out when what you sell is judgement and credibility.

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── Why it is different

We understand selling expertise and trust

We know that selling expertise is different from selling a product, and most marketing for this sector – whether you’re a law firm or financial services provider – misses this key point. We approach professional services with genuine empathy, because we live the same challenge.

You are selling trust, not a product

Buyers can’t inspect expertise in advance and choose on credibility, reputation and confidence, which marketing has to build.

Crowded markets, similar promises

Many firms claim the same things, so communicating a genuine, specific difference is what separates the firms that grow from the ones that blend in.

Some of you face regulation too

Legal, financial and advisory firms market under strict rules and professional standards, so everything has to be credible and compliant.

Competing with the big names

In search and reputation, you’re often up against large, well-known firms. This means being seen and chosen takes a sharper, more focused approach.

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Recognise any of these? A 30 minute call with a senior specialist is the fastest way to see where to start.

── Sub-sectors

The professional services sectors we work with

Our professional services work covers law firm marketing, financial services marketing, and marketing for other sub-sectors of this challenging industry. Each niche has its own clients, rules and version of selling trust. Here’s how we think about yours.

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Consultancies & Specialist Advisors

The challenge

Selling intangible expertise in a market full of firms making similar claims. Your difference has to be made clear and credible.

Their buyers

Senior decision-makers choosing a partner they’ll trust with something important. They buy on reputation, proof and confidence, often after careful consideration.

How we help

We help you articulate a genuine difference, build authority and visibility that reinforces your credibility, and turn deep expertise into something prospective clients can quickly understand and trust.

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Agencies We Partner With

The challenge

Agencies are brilliant at what they specialise in, but no agency is strong at everything, and gaps in capability can hold back the results they deliver.

Their buyers

Agency leaders who need a trusted partner to deliver the specialist work outside their core strength, white-label or collaboratively, without competing with them.

How we help

We partner with agencies as a senior specialist extension of their team, delivering the channels they’re less strong in – SEO, GEO, digital PR and more – so they can offer more to their clients without overstretching. This is genuine collaboration, not competition.

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Legal, Financial & Insurance

The challenge

Strict regulation, cautious buyers, saturated markets and competition from large, authoritative firms. Marketing must therefore be sharp, credible and compliant all at once.

Their buyers

Clients making high-stakes, trust-critical decisions, often risk-averse, who choose on credibility, track record and reassurance, and who research carefully first.

How we help

We build trust and visibility within the rules, helping you stand out against bigger names through genuine authority and clarity, and reach the right clients when they’re deciding who to trust.

The challenge

Selling intangible expertise in a market full of firms making similar claims. Your difference has to be made clear and credible.

Their buyers

Senior decision-makers choosing a partner they’ll trust with something important. They buy on reputation, proof and confidence, often after careful consideration.

How we help

We help you articulate a genuine difference, build authority and visibility that reinforces your credibility, and turn deep expertise into something prospective clients can quickly understand and trust.

The challenge

Agencies are brilliant at what they specialise in, but no agency is strong at everything, and gaps in capability can hold back the results they deliver.

Their buyers

Agency leaders who need a trusted partner to deliver the specialist work outside their core strength, white-label or collaboratively, without competing with them.

How we help

We partner with agencies as a senior specialist extension of their team, delivering the channels they’re less strong in – SEO, GEO, digital PR and more – so they can offer more to their clients without overstretching. This is genuine collaboration, not competition.

The challenge

Strict regulation, cautious buyers, saturated markets and competition from large, authoritative firms. Marketing must therefore be sharp, credible and compliant all at once.

Their buyers

Clients making high-stakes, trust-critical decisions, often risk-averse, who choose on credibility, track record and reassurance, and who research carefully first.

How we help

We build trust and visibility within the rules, helping you stand out against bigger names through genuine authority and clarity, and reach the right clients when they’re deciding who to trust.

── How we help

The channels we help professional services firms with

These are the services that matter most when you’re selling expertise and trust, and why each one earns its place here.

Running more than one channel?

Most of our clients combine several of these under one integrated programme. One team, one strategy, one set of numbers.

Integrated Growth

SEO

Be found by the clients researching their options. In professional services, organic visibility for the questions your buyers actually ask is one of the most credible signals you can build.

GEO

Show up when buyers ask AI tools to help shortlist firms. Senior buyers increasingly use AI in early research, and being cited as an answer is a new and growing source of qualified demand.

ABM

Go after the specific high-value clients you want to win, with bespoke campaigns aimed at the small group of senior decision-makers who actually matter.

Digital PR

Credibility and reputation, evidenced. Coverage in the publications your clients respect builds the authority that makes a difficult, trust-led choice feel safer.

Websites

A site built for considered, trust-led decisions. Clear positioning, credentials in the right places, and a journey that helps a careful buyer reach the point of getting in touch.

Workshops

Pressure-test what makes you genuinely different before you spend. We help you sharpen positioning so every channel leads with a real difference.

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Not sure which mix is right for you? We will tell you straight on a 30 minute call.

── Selected Work

Results across specialist sectors

  • 500%

    Foundations for a finance broker

    For a regulated finance brokerage we are deep in a CRM and marketing-foundations project, with the wider marketing strategy on the table next.

  • 25%

    The partner behind other agencies

    We deliver SEO, consultancy and senior overflow support for a number of agencies, white-label or openly collaborative, and never compete for their clients.

  • 3years

    Training for agency teams

    Live training and ongoing support for agency teams who want senior specialists levelling up their own people rather than replacing them.

  • No1

    Our own world

    We sell expertise and trust for a living too. The challenge of marketing a professional services firm is one we live every day, on our own site and our own pipeline.

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We’re not able to share all details publicly, but we‘re happy to share specific case studies on request.

── Selected work

Professional services work we have done

Here’s a selection of recent work in and around the professional services sector. You can find more on our case studies page.

  • Interior of a large industrial steel mill with overhead crane hooks, catwalks and glowing amber lights

    Client: US agency specialising in industrial brands (name on request)

    Result: The senior SEO partner behind a US industrial agency

    The senior SEO partner behind a US industrial agency
    How we became the white-label SEO team behind a US agency specialising in industrial brands, delivering senior organic search across
  • Team meeting with whiteboard planning session, laptops, and sticky notes in modern office

    Client: Digital agency for SaaS and ecommerce brands (name on request)

    Result: White-label SEO across a global SaaS and ecommerce client base

    White-label SEO behind an agency’s global client base
    The challenge This digital agency already offered their clients a full spread of services, from ABM to sales enablement, and
  • Creative agency team collaborating on UX wireframes and colorful sticky notes around a laptop during a strategy workshop

    Client: Creative agency (name on request)

    Result: A new service a creative agency could offer, white-label

    Giving a creative agency a white-label SEO offering
    Becoming the white-label SEO team behind a creative agency, letting it offer organic search to long-standing clients without building the

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── Why Fortitude

Why professional services firms work with us

Because this is our world too. We’re a senior-led collective, and the people who do your work are senior specialists who understand selling expertise because we do it ourselves. We also cap our client list so your account gets the attention a trust-led firm needs, and we partner with other agencies as readily as we serve end clients. This means you get peers, not vendors, and professional services marketing that reflects how your kind of firm actually wins work.

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Get straight to a senior specialist on a 30 minute call. No account managers in between.

── The team

The specialists behind your marketing

Senior strategists work across every channel we run, all hands-on with your account. There are never any layers between you and the people doing the work.

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    Matt kohli
    Managing Director

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    SAM BUTTERWORTH
    Senior Content Marketer

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    MATT HEARNDEN
    Senior BizOps Specialist

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    SABBIR AHMED
    Senior Web Developer

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    SUKH SINGH
    Senior Organic Growth Specialist

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    RIYAD REDA
    Senior Web Developer

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    RALPH DU PLESSIS
    Senior Organic Growth Specialist

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    Miranda Clare-Antony
    Senior Graphic Designer

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    JOHN ROONEY
    Senior Content Marketer

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    JOseph barlow
    Senior CRO Specialist

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    Jemma Pentney
    Senior Graphic Designer

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    HOLLIE HINES
    Senior Organic Growth Specialist

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    HEIDI VOIGTLANDER-MAINGOT
    Senior Events Coordinator

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    EMMA WALLOND
    Senior Digital Strategist

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    DREW LUCAS
    Senior BizOps Specialist

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    DHRUV DIXIT
    Organic Growth Specialist

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    BRAD REESON
    Senior Paid Media Specialist

  • Smiling female B2B marketing agency team member with long hair, black and white professional headshot portrait

    BETHANY WEATHERHEAD
    Senior Organic Growth Specialist

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    Andy Frobisher
    Senior Organic Growth Specialist

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    André Fairweather
    Senior Web Developer

── Testimonials

  • “They led the complete migration of our company website, handling the transition seamlessly, to the point where my own team were unaware it had happened. The team’s creativity and strategic thinking has inspired my own team.”

    Kelly Govier, Director, MD Govier

  • “Fortitude Marketing’s work on our marketing has been excellent. The team is organised, efficient, and always comes up with new, interesting ideas. They keep track of new trends and techniques and make sure our strategy is always up to date and as effective as possible.”

    James Rein, Chief Customer Officer, Montala

  • “Matt and Seb were great to work with on technical SEO throughout our website migration. They caught things that our development agency did not… and we improved site speed by 50%! They were highly organized, communicative, and responsive.”

    Marcela Heywood, VP of Marketing, Replicant

── FAQs

Common questions about working with a professional services marketing agency

Here are the questions professional services firms ask us most often. If you have your own, please feel free to ask us on your discovery call.

Yes, regularly. A meaningful part of our work is partnering with agencies as a senior specialist extension of their team, delivering the channels they’re less strong in. We’re happy to work white-label or collaboratively, depending on what suits the relationship.

No. When we partner with an agency we’re an extension of your team, not a competitor in disguise. The clients are yours, the relationship is yours, and we focus on doing the specialist work that strengthens what you offer.

Yes. We’ve work with regulated firms and treat compliance as a starting point rather than something to argue with. We work within professional standards and sector rules from the first piece of copy, and push back where ideas wouldn’t pass review.

By being sharper and more focused. The big names rely on brand recognition and lean on generic positioning, but smaller, specialist firms win by being specific, credible and easier to choose for the work they actually do best.

Some things move quickly, such as sharper positioning, conversion fixes and targeted account work. SEO, GEO and digital PR build over months and compound into the kind of authority this sector lives on. We’re honest about timelines from the first call.

Most start with a workshop to sharpen positioning, then a website or messaging refresh so the difference lands clearly, then SEO, digital PR and ABM to build visibility and authority among the specific clients they want to win.

── Get in touch

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