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Your presence doesn't match your reputation
Good clients, solid work. But the website and social channels don't back it up.
I fix the digital side of small businesses. The systems underneath, and the website on top.
The spreadsheet only one person understands. Tools that don't talk to each other, data you're sitting on and never use, decisions made on instinct because nothing tells you any better. That's what I fix.
Owner-led businesses, two to fifteen people. Turning over good money. The digital presence doesn't reflect it, and no one has fixed it properly.
The website is usually the most visible problem. But underneath it: a booking system nobody fully understands, tools that don't connect, data that isn't being used. That gap costs you work.
Good clients, solid work. But the website and social channels don't back it up.
Six subscriptions doing the work of two. Nothing's joined up. Information lives in someone's head.
Squarespace, Canva, Mailchimp. It got you this far. It's now actively slowing you down.
£20k from a London studio. £200 on Fiverr. You keep deferring the decision.
No one to think it through with. Default mode is to defer, or go with the cheapest option available.
You've just identified the signs. Now get a personalised score across six areas of your digital presence, and a clear recommendation for what to fix first.
Get my scorecard→Your tools, data, and workflows built as a joined-up system. So you can see what's actually happening in your business and make decisions based on that, not instinct.
A clear picture of where your digital presence is underperforming and why, with a prioritised plan for what to fix first. Diagnosis before solution, every time.
Design that reflects how good you actually are, copy that reads like you wrote it, and a site that does a job instead of just sitting there.
A person who knows your business and isn't going anywhere. One call a month, recommendations in writing, and someone to think things through with before you commit to anything.
"The results have been remarkable, and the community noticed. Members regularly commented on how professional and vibrant we now appear online."
All fixed-price. No hourly rates, no scope creep, and a written quote before anything starts.
A full review of your website, social channels, and digital tools. Not a checklist. A proper look at what's underperforming and why, with clear recommendations for what to fix and in what order.
For businesses where the back end is the bottleneck. Your tools configured to work together, a CRM or project management system set up around how you operate, and documentation so it doesn't fall apart when something changes.
A five-page site built to do a job. Clear message, obvious next step. Designed to reflect your quality, written to sound like you.
Systems, presence, and website done together. The back end fixed, the front end rebuilt, by one person who understands how they connect. No handoff. No inconsistency. Just the work, done properly.
A decade across demanding commercial environments: luxury retail at Harrods, international sales at Peter Reed across Hong Kong, Seoul, Moscow and Milan, and senior project management at SGK for a global FMCG client.
In each role I did the same thing. Found where the organisation was flying blind and built something to fix it. Not commissioned. Not delegated. Built. Data tools, digital systems, frameworks that turned instinct into repeatable process.
I work with owner-led businesses who have outgrown DIY but can't justify a full agency. Most digital problems aren't website problems. They're strategy and infrastructure problems that show up as a bad website. I fix the root, not the symptom.
Fixed-price, always. Named, accountable, and genuinely invested in the outcome.
I'm Ismail. I started margin practice because I kept watching good small businesses lose Tuesday afternoons to software that was supposed to save them time. That's the margin. Get it back and the business stops feeling fragile.
One person, one phone line, no junior account handler. You get me on the call, on the build, and on the email at half past nine on a Wednesday.
"A short engagement, run like a pit stop. Quick, deliberate, clean."
First meeting is a conversation. You talk, I take notes, we figure out whether we should work together. Free. Honest if we shouldn't.
I sit with the systems you actually use, watch them in motion, talk to the people pressing the buttons. Then I write you a short, plain document.
Fixed-price, agreed before we start. I work in short blocks, send a Friday update that's two paragraphs and a list. You always know what's happening. No status meetings.
Everything is in your accounts, your name, your domain. I write a one-page runbook so the next person can pick it up. Then I step back.
Come and find out what's holding it back. No pitch. Just a proper look at where you are.
Or reach out generally:
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