Who we are.
“We are PASSIONATE about helping grow and improve GREAT businesses.”
Fine-sounding words.
But what do they actually mean?
You’ve heard it all before. We could go on at length about how we’re ‘focused on results’, and our services are ‘for every business type’. Maybe we’ll throw something in about ROI.
And ALL of it would be true – these are vital pieces of the success puzzle.
But helping great businesses grow and improve is more than data and acronyms. We hate the thought of selling you something without meaning, just because it gets us a quick buck.
The SBM team is here to grow alongside you and your business in meaningful conversation and partnership. We’re here to listen, understand and get to work on the right solution, not something pre-made, all wrapped in plastic and picked off a shelf.
Helping great businesses grow and improve isn’t a tagline, or a marketing slogan. It’s our guiding principle. It’s how we see past the numbers to what makes a business truly great: people and passion.
You’ve got a great business.
Let’s get to know each other, and see what we can do to help it grow.
The Team.
James
CEO
“Try, Learn, Try Smarter.”
Tom
Co-founder / Developer
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
Jo
Executive Assistant to CEO & Lead Digital Producer
“Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business car, how you leave others feeling after an experience with you becomes your trademark.” – Jay Danzie
Jude
Head of Development
“Being a programmer is like magic: no one knows how you do it but everyone expects it to be marvellous.”
Kale
Head of Marketing
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.” – Alan Watts
Campbell
Video Strategist
“I needed to think. So I galloped into a wooded glen, and after punch-dancing out my rage and suffering an extremely long and very painful fall, I realized what has to be done.” – Hot Rod
Steven
Head of Video
“Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.” – Simon Sinek
Justin
Head of Design
“Every day you seem to know less and less about more and more.”
Christian
Head of Content Development
“What would Taylor Swift do?”
Stuart
Internal Marketing Manager
“Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.” – Mordin Solus
Ross
Senior Campaign Manager
“You can rationally defeat your intuition, but you cannot intuitively defeat rationality.” – Joscha Bach
Martyn
Business Development Manager
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”
Vats
Head of Finance and HR
“I would rather have my corporations greedy than virtuous. It’s more trustworthy.” – Jordan Peterson
Mike
Digital Strategist
“Pressure makes diamonds.” – Matt Church
Sara
Senior Graphic Designer
“There’s a thin line between destruction and creation.” – Oliver Jeffers
Cameron
Campaign Manager
“Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating. You know you can’t bore people into buying your product, you can only interest them into buying it.” – David Ogilvy
Tonino
Senior Digital & UX Designer
“Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.”
Jess
Creative Producer
“$20 can buy many peanuts.” – Homer
Hazal
Digital Marketing Specialist
“Nothing good comes from your comfort zone.”
Peter
Developer
“jelly beans, $2.99” -sign at shops
Rachel
Accounts Receivable
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
Kate
Content Writer
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
Sara
Midweight Graphic Designer
“They don’t know that we know they know we know.”
Martin
Developer
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
Ben
Digital Marketing Specialist
“The best teacher in life is experience.”
Josh
Content Writer
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” – Robin Hobb
Dominic
Developer
Spirit animal: Toyota Hilux
Shan
Account Manager
“Oh, Martyn Coomber!! I’m going to get you!”
Fletcher
Digital Strategist
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” – Nelson Mandela
Emma
Digital Strategist
“That’s the way the cookie crumbles.”
Jacinta
Script Writer & Editor
“I’m pretty sure Seinfeld had a joke about that.”
Michael
Junior Full Stack Web Developer
Everybody’s just a person.
Anna
Junior Full Stack Web Developer
Teeth are always in style
Henry
Junior Graphic Designer
“Live, Laugh, Love”
Anmol
Junior Digital Marketing Specialist
“We need a campaign, we have ample budgets and there’s NO deadline” – Clients in my Dreams
Brianna
Administrative Assistant
“I am an early bird and I’m a night owl so I’m wise and I have worms” – Michael Scott
Corey
Creative Producer
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton
Padma
Junior Digital Marketing Specialist
“If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Ray
Web Developer
“You Must Trust Yourself. Trust Your Own Strength.” – Gandalf the Grey
David
Camera Operator/Editor
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Raj
Junior Digital Marketing Specialist
“Remember to enjoy the ride.”
Hari
Full Stack Developer
“Do not wait for something big to happen. Start where you are with whatever you have.” ― A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Junhan
Full Stack Developer
“There are different ways of doing the thing that you stuck on, so don’t worry.”
Matthew
Full Stack Developer
“Developers like to solve problems. If there are no problems available, they will create their own.” – Scott Adams
Tansy
Junior Graphic Designer
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller
Tom
Content Intern
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” – Isaac Asimov
Michael
Internal Marketing Assistant
“Everything’s coming up Milhouse.”
Sam
Junior Content Writer
“What’s another word for Thesaurus?” – Steven Wright.
Gerry
Senior Business & Marketing Strategist
“Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.” – Seth Godin
Alicia
Senior Intergrated Producer
It’s fine. I’m fine. Everything is fine.