Merry Christmas from Team activ! Thank you for your valued business in 2023. Wishing you an enjoyable break and a prosperous 2024.

The

Marketing Agency
Franchise

Launch or scale a solo marketing business with our proven award-winning models.

The Marketing Agency Franchise™️

It can be hard as a solo business owner. You could be missing out on revenue from projects you can’t fulfil on your own, or simply miss the back up of a community and a team. With activ, you’re in full control of your business, but you’re not on your own.

Skip the (sometimes rodeo-like) chaos and join the evolution in how solo marketers operate with the UK’s longest-running marketing franchise.

Our award-winning, marketing business-in-a-box franchise model offers proven expertise, unmatched support, and a cutting-edge growth strategy. It’s designed to mould around you and your business dreams, elevating you further than you ever could alone.

From day one, you’re set for success—with a community, training, back office and a full service team behind you. Take the leap and see if you should be the next activ Marketing franchise partner!

Meet the Team at our Recent Annual Franchise Forum

James in office

Become a Franchise Partner

Online and Consultant Models Launched in 2024!

Location Franchise

Build a thriving local business in your community.

  • Access activ’s full resources
    and 200+ services
  • A bespoke, branded local
    business
  • 1-2-1 support
  • In-person training
  • Lead a locally impactful
    agency, backed by activ

Consultant Franchise

Ideal for marketing pros going
self-employed.

  • A branded business without
    building from scratch
  • Have a full agency team at your
    fingertips
  • Leverage activ’s resources and
    200+ services
  • Build a national presence with
    activ’s support

Online Franchise

Elevate your freelance
business.

  • Go beyond billable hours and revenue caps
  • Gain control with activ’s 200+ services
  • Remove outsourcing
    struggles
  • Operate anywhere with full
    business support
  • Scale your business with
    activ’s resources

Introductory launch price, valid in 2024

Who are we?

We’re the marketing team you need to make your self-employed marketing business a success. You won't be alone, but it's your gig.

Since 2008, our franchise partners have earned substantial self-employed income running their own profitable marketing agencies, offering services such as websites, social media, marketing strategy, SEO, and design.

Our expert team provide all the resource you could ever need, a full business manual, on-going training and total back office system.

Buying an activ franchise means joining a supportive and experienced team, and benefit from just a 1% commercial failure rate*.

*Source The BFA.

Franchise Partner Accelerator Programme

We’ve grown as a business since 2008. We know that when a franchise partner joins us, it’s because they know they are stronger with us than without us.

Our proven model elevates individuals with over 200 results-driven services our franchise partners can sell into their clients, with profitability on every transaction.

In addition as a UK leading franchise we run a comprehensive accelerator programme to ensure partners achieve their personal and professional goals with our training and support.

From Franchise Partner to CEO: Meet Katie Bullon

Katie Bullon knows the journey because she’s walked it. After building a successful marketing business as a franchise partner in Cardiff from 2014 to 2021, Katie went on to acquire activ and transform it into a successful, BFA accredited marketing franchise. It’s now designed to support ambitious consultants just like you.

An award winning entrepreneur (GBEA Finalist, Women in Marketing Best Leader, and one of The Telegraph’s Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch), Katie is passionate about giving others the tools, structure and support to thrive. She’s reshaped activ around what she wished existed when she started: a powerful network, a proven model, and a full service team behind you so you can focus on doing what you do best.

In this video, Katie shares how the activ Accelerator Programme sets every franchise partner up for success from day one.

Connect with Katie on LinkedIn or Instagram.

No Rodeo
Just Results

What's new?

Looking for a fresh way to grow your network and boost your wellbeing? activ Marketing is launching something a little different, and we’re inviting you to be part of it. On Monday 14 July 2025...

Today marks World Franchise Day, a global spotlight on one of the most dynamic and supportive ways to run your own business. Here in the UK, the numbers speak volumes....
We’re thrilled to share that Katie Bullon, our CEO, has been shortlisted once again for Creative Entrepreneur of the Year – Wales at the prestigious 2025 Great British Entrepreneur Awards (GBEA)....