Annual Business Membership is our most popular membership option and suits many local businesses. It's especially good value if you run or host events, occasionally need to recruit new staff, and would appreciate being included in our local feature articles where relevant – there are so many benefits to membership!  Annual membership includes one bespoke cross-channel promotion annually.

Set up for all types of Membership is £150 plus VAT
Annual Membership subscription is then £150 plus VAT

So first year's Annual Membership is £300 plus VAT, renewal £150 plus VAT

Membership can be tailored for more frequent, regular, multi-channel promotion of your business news, product features and events, on a monthly, twice monthly or weekly basis.  It's great for businesses that have a lot to say and advertise, on a regular basis, for example:

• New and existing businesses wishing to reach out further with their messages and to spread word of their offering
• Local places to stay and places to eat, for example advertising and promoting  different aspects of the business either monthly or more frequently
• Local places to visit and seasonal events to promote their events and offers
• Larger businesses which have several different areas of their business, which can use our channels to deliver specific, targeted, local messages to the local marketplace

To get the best from Regular Promotion Membership we ask members to complete a Communications Plan in a spreadsheet we provide.  This details the planned messages, content, images and other elements and provides the initial framework for regular promotion - it can of course be subsequently varied and/or updated.

To discuss a bespoke Regular Membership Package please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For an additional charge new articles and blogs about your business can be created and published on Lymington.com, which can in turn be the subject for cross-channel promotion.

This is great for: 

• Businesses which want to grow awareness of their products and services and to build their Google presence – all new content on Lymington.com is picked up very quickly by Google
• Businesses which would like to take advantage of our copywriting skills to craft articles combining fact with recommendation and endorsement of their product and services
• Professional services and similar, possibly not themselves using social media, which can take advantage of our communications channels to reach out with “soft PR” style communication

“Content” which we publish on Lymington.com on behalf of your business can be anything from a short announcement or news item based on content you supply to a full length feature article which we will originate and copywrite for you from scratch.

To discuss a bespoke Content based Membership Package for your needs please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A full length review or feature article on Lymington.com provides additional detail and publicity, and can be promoted by members via their own websites and social media as third party endorsement. We take considerable time to research the article usually via a visit/meeting and discussion which if required can include on the spot photography, then to copywrite 800-1,000 words and publish with 3-4 images included in the text.

The article will be published in the relevant category of the Lymington Life magazine section, plus also on the News page and for a period of time will also feature as one of the news article links on our Home page. We use our expertise and trustworthy website to ensure our feature articles and promotional reviews perform well on search engines and are picked up by Google Alerts.

This kind of article can be combined with an Advertorial or Press Release, professionally designed and copywritten by Bartley Marketing, in one or more local offline media. More information here.

Ad Hoc Promotion is particularly useful for Annual Members who do not want the regular commitment of Regular Promotion Membership but occasionally have something special to announce and promote. 

The promotion can be based on content supplied by the Member or on a full length article as outlined above. Often it will be based on a short news article which we will publish on Lymington.com, or it may be based on an event in our Events Calendar or on your business webpage - it's all very flexible!

Whatever the nature of the content it is normally get picked up by search engines and Google Alerts and is then then promoted with a compelling caption together with relevant images across all our channels.  

To get the most benefit from all our social media platforms you should provide us with a number of additional hi resolution images over and above those needed for the article itself.

To discuss your proposed Ad Hoc Promotion please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

New Forest based Bartley Marketing is a marketing consultancy and agency which also provides the full range of marketing services to local business, from consultancy and planning to branding, advertising and PR, websites, online advertising and SEO to direct communications and social media management.

According to your needs Bartley Marketing can:

• Clarify and define your marketing objectives, strategies, messages and branding

• Plan your marketing and communications

• Check your website and social media are working for you - and help put them right

• Design and build your new or replacement website

• Train you to make the most out of social media - or manage it on your behalf

• 'Ghostwrite' your blogs, as well as write copy for editorials, advertorials and articles

• Implement your direct email communications with clients and prospects

• Provide graphic design and photography, including 360 degree Google 'See Inside'

• Produce online and offline advertising and manage your printed promotional and point of sale materials

Check us out now at www.bartleymarketing.co.uk and call 01590 612902 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

It is normally worth becoming an Annual Member even if you only want short term promotion because of all the benefits which come with Membership.

However in some instances we can offer Ad Hoc Event Promotion to Non-Members. If you feel this might better suit your needs please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

A brief discussion about your current marketing objectives and target markets will help us to encapsulate your most important marketing messages and then to create compelling captions for your promotions across our combined media channels, blowing your trumpet with our wide reaching communications!

If you would like to we can expand this discussion into a review of your marketing plan. This may then lead on to a wider discussion about ways to grow your business. As highly experienced marketing professionals with the support of a fantastic local team of specialist experts in all fields of marketing, we can help with all your digital and traditional marketing needs: ranging from marketing direction and planning including brand identity and positioning; to providing creativity and expertise in specific areas ranging from websites to copywriting and design to social media; to giving you peace of mind by taking care of the planning and implementation of relationship and content marketing; right through to saving you time by managing specific elements of your marketing including social media, email marketing, digital marketing, PR and advertising. 

Working with us and investing in considered, wise, “smart” marketing and strong, cost effective exposure via online and offline media on a flexible basis to suit your needs and budget, can in the long run save you money too.

The first tangible business benefit of Lymington.com membership is your Featured Business Page on the Lymington.com website. We can set this up for you or you may wish to do it yourself; in any case you will be able to log in and update it yourself at any time. We can tailor your webpage to showcase the exact elements of your business that you would like to promote to the local market. In other words, we can help 'tell your story' and explain exactly why people should come to you!

Google likes our Directory a lot and simply having a webpage on Lymington.com has value in itself. Google regularly features our pages and events in Google Alerts and Google Search.

Find out more about your Featured Business Page here.

Once your Featured Business Page is set up we’ll then promote it across all our online channels. Your first promotion is included as part of Membership set up: we introduce you as a new Member and encapsulate the main messages of your business or organisation.

Multi channel promotion includes a compelling endorsement of your message, with promotion across all our digital media channels: our acclaimed Weekly What’s On newsletter plus our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages.

To create the promotion, content and images supplied by you are honed by us to create a compelling message which is then individually tailored to each of these channels and linked to further information and calls to action.

Make sure to take advantage of this benefit which is included with Membership. It’s easy to add events to our Events Calendar, which has grown into the most comprehensive guide to “what’s on” for Lymington and the New Forest. 

Each week we pick a selection of event links from the Events Calendar, and promote them in the Diary section of Weekly What’s On. We always try to include all the upcoming events belonging to Members.

Members quickly get into the habit of adding their events for this additional benefit!

We are more than happy to promote your job vacancies on our Jobs Page and we have a good track record of attracting quality recruits. Just send us the details in a word document or an email, there’s no extra charge. We then promote new vacancies in the “Jobs” section of Weekly What’s On and where relevant across our social media platforms too. This is a Members Only service!

As a Member, your business will be included as relevant in our own hugely popular local feature articles, ranging from general to subject specific and seasonal articles such as “what’s on during the school holidays”, “where to stay”, “places to eat and drink”, “get set for the year”, “great Christmas gifts available locally” and so on.

These articles which feature on our Home and News pages are then publicised via Google and promoted in Weekly What’s On and across all our social media platforms.

We have also started a new "Member Noticeboard" in Weekly What's On. This is partly to ensure that Members who don't host events get full value of Membership. We explain to readers that the financial support of Members helps to make our weekly newsletter viable and we encourage them to read about and support these businesses and organisations whenever and wherever they can.

When applicable we tag your business in posts across our social media platforms and retweet your tweets, thus augmenting your own social media marketing. You need to provide us with the relevant Facebook, Twitter and Instagram handles in order to take advantage of this element of membership.