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
The secret to winning a week back every month? You’re looking at it.
One proven model. 45 hours back every month. And a business that actually scales.
Your Agency, Backed by a Team
Running a marketing business, doesn’t have to feel like a one-person juggling act.
At activ, we help ambitious marketers, career changers and freelancers looking to scale. We give you a business in a box to build a thriving agency without the overwhelm. You stay in the driver’s seat, but gain the power of a full-service team, proven systems, and a supportive community behind you.
We’re the UK’s original marketing agency franchise, and we’ve reimagined the model to fit the way you want to work today. Whether you’re done with feast-or-famine freelancing, tired of going it alone, or ready to scale without hiring a team, we’re here to back your vision.
With activ, you get more than a brand name. You get:
A full marketing business-in-a-box (with the tech, templates, and tools to match)
A team of experts ready to deliver for your clients
Done for you lead generation campaigns, training, and mentoring
A network of like-minded pros who get it
This is self-employment, redefined. Less stress, more clients, and real income growth.
Hear From Our Team
Become a Franchise Partner
Online and Consultant Models Launched in 2024!
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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
Why join us?
70% of SMEs outsource marketing, and most want one trusted provider - but solo marketers can’t deliver it all. activ gives you the team and tools to meet that demand and scale with confidence.
We’re revolutionising how solo marketers trade.
Our franchisees earn substantial self-employed income running their own flexible, profitable marketing businesses, offering services such as websites, social media, marketing strategy, SEO, and design.
Our expert team provide all the resource needed, full business video manual, on-going training, your own CRM, pricing and pitch training, and total back office system.
It’s all part of the power of franchising – a proven model that helps you grow in business for yourself, but not by yourself.
Franchise Partner Accelerator Programme
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 150 results-driven services available to sell into their clients, with profitability on every transaction.
To ensure confidence and growth from day one, all our franchisees join a comprehensive accelerator programme from induction.
And this doesn’t end once you’ve launched. Development is ongoing, each and every month. Because things change in our industry, and we must stay on top of our game.
From Franchise Partner to CEO
Our CEO, Katie Bullon, hasn’t just led the activ network, she’s lived it.
Over 6 years, she built a thriving marketing business as an activ franchise partner. Following acquisition in 2021, she now leads activ to support ambitious consultants.
Named one of The Telegraph’s Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch, WIM Best Leader In Marketing 2022 and a GBEA Finalist 24 & 25, Katie knows what it takes to grow a successful agency.
She’s reimagined activ into the kind of franchise she wished existed when she started in 2014 after leaving a corporate marketing career.
Here Katie shares how our Accelerator Programme sets every franchise partner up for success from day one.
No Rodeo
Just Results
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