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Technology We make complex products easy to understand, and easy to buy.

Ideate Partners helps SaaS and technology businesses tell their story with clarity. We start with what your buyers need to understand and what might make them hesitate, then build the brand, the website and the marketing around that.

What we deliver

Tech buyers don’t buy features. They buy outcomes. That’s the job: connect the innovation to the real-world result.

The work on these slides is for Sava, Sayfa Systems and Conergy.

Pages we designed for the Sava website laid out at an angle: Intelligent Energy, the surveying diploma, technical webinars, consultancy and careers
Pages we designed for the Sayfa Systems website laid flat at an angle: the Rhino product page, About us, SIMS inspection and maintenance, a news article on BIM and our designs for its homepage
Ten tablets at an angle on warm grey stone, each a page of the one Sava site we designed, from the surveying qualification and the 404 page to working with employers
From the Autarky animation we made for Conergy: a Feed in Tariff stamp lands on a map of the UK and Ireland, then solar panels pop up all over it
Content we designed for water2business on five tablets close up: Water and Production, Water in the UK, the Making Water Work guide and the results pages of two customer case studies

Demand and lead generation: SEO, PPC and LinkedIn campaigns that keep the pipeline full.

Website design and technical SEO: Fast, search-ready sites that show off the product and turn visits into leads.

Brand strategy and messaging: A proposition that lands with technical and commercial audiences alike.

Sales and investor materials: Decks, animations and explainers that make complex products click.

Thought leadership and content: White papers, case studies and articles that build credibility in your niche.

Our technology work

Sava

Positioning and strategy, Branding and identity, Digital solutions

Is your product easy to understand?

A quick test, drawn from how we explain a complex product.

  • Can your team say what the product does, who it is for and why it matters, in one sentence each?
  • Do your headings use the words buyers search for before they have heard of you?
  • Does your first page answer the questions buyers ask first?
  • Can a buyer see the whole offer before the detail?
Simon Baghomian, Creative Director & Founder of Ideate Partners

If the answer to any of those is no, that’s where we’d start: with what your buyers need to understand, and what might make them hesitate.

Simon Baghomian, Creative Director & Founder

Ways we can help

  • 01

    Positioning and strategy

    When an offer is difficult to explain, the cause usually sits upstream of the marketing, so we start by defining where you compete and testing it against how your buyers really decide.

  • 02

    Branding and identity

    A brand has to carry the weight of the business behind it, often in conversations you are not part of, so we build identities that signal the right level of expertise wherever a buyer forms a view of you.

  • 03

    Digital solutions

    For many buyers the website is where a shortlist is decided, so we plan every page around the questions they arrive with and the doubts that slow them down.

  • 04

    Marketing and visibility

    More activity rarely moves the numbers that matter, so we set the commercial priorities first and build the content and search programme that keeps you visible across a long sales cycle.

What changed for Sava

National Energy Services traded as two brands across three websites. The task: bring clarity to complexity.

  • 26%More visitors from search than the Sava site’s previous best monthJanuary 2019, against October 2018, the previous best month for unique visitors from organic search (records from June 2018)Sava
  • 1stOn Google for ‘residential surveyor qualification’, up from 2ndDecember 2018 to January 2019, against 2nd in December 2018Sava
  • 2Brands brought together under the one Sava nameRebrand effective 1 Feb 2018Sava

Questions we are asked

Ask us something else
How do I choose a marketing agency for a technology business?

Every agency says it understands technology, so look past the claim. Ask to see work where it made something technical easy to follow, ask how it will learn what your buyers think, and ask how you will both know the work is right. An answer that starts with your customers, not the agency’s own taste, is a good sign.

Do you only work with SaaS businesses?

No. What our clients share is not a kind of technology but a strong offer that is harder to explain than it should be. If that sounds like yours, we are probably a good fit.

Do you need to understand our technology?

Enough to explain it, and we get there by asking. We often work with founders, sales teams and subject-matter experts. Your experts stay the experts; our job is to make what they know clear to a buyer.

Can you help with tech PR?

Yes, as part of the wider marketing, so the press hear the same clear story as your buyers. We won’t promise coverage, because nobody controls what a journalist writes.

Some of the organisations we have worked with

  • Conergy
  • HCML
  • Staffline
  • Sava
  • Anderson Group
  • Bush and Co
  • NHS
  • Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
  • Water2Business
  • Maxell
  • Loop, for Table Tennis England
  • Energy Saving Trust
  • Paris House
  • Tourism Australia
  • kbs Intelligence

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