Marketing Mentorship

Ellen in your corner for six or twelve weeks, so your marketing stops being something you’ll get to “next month”.

You’ve probably got more marketing ideas than you know what to do with. A notes app full of them. A launch you keep pushing back. A website you wince at every time you send someone the link.

The problem isn’t that you don’t know enough. It’s that you’re running a business, and marketing keeps falling to the bottom of the list. When you do get to it, you’re never quite sure if you’re doing the right thing.

That’s where Ellen comes in. As a marketer, she’s worked with 100+ organisations, from Google and Sephora to charities and one-person businesses.

With 1:1 marketing mentoring, you get that experience on your side. Together, you’ll work out what actually matters for your business, ditch what doesn’t, and get the important stuff done while Ellen keeps you on track.

Does this sound familiar?

  • You’ve got a list of marketing jobs as long as your arm, and you don’t know which to start with

  • You’re posting, emailing and doing something, but you’ve no idea if any of it is working

  • Your business has grown up, but your marketing still looks like it did three years ago

  • You make a plan, feel great about it, and then real life takes over and nothing happens

  • You’ve wondered more than once if everyone else got a marketing manual you didn’t

You don’t need more ideas. You need an experienced marketing mentor to help you pick the right ones, and someone who’ll ask how it’s going

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Get To Know Ellen

How marketing mentoring works

Before you start

You’ll fill in a questionnaire about your business, your customers, what you’ve tried and where you’re stuck. Ellen will go through it before your first call, so you can get straight into it.

1:1 sessions

You’ll meet Ellen on video every two weeks. In the first session, you’ll work out your priorities and make a plan together. After that, each session is about looking at what’s happened, fixing what isn’t working and deciding what’s next.

Check-ins

In the weeks you don’t meet, Ellen will check in to see how you’re getting on, answer questions and give you a nudge if things have stalled. It’s a friendly bit of accountability, not a telling-off.

Support in between

Questions don’t wait for your next call. Email Ellen when you need a second opinion, feedback on a draft or help making a decision.

Who is marketing mentoring for?

Marketing mentoring is a good fit if you’re a small business owner, founder or freelancer, and you’re ready to do the work with someone experienced alongside you.

You’ll work well with Ellen if:

  • You want practical marketing advice, not theory

  • You’re happy to try things and see what works

  • You’d like someone to challenge you when you need it

  • You want your marketing to fit around your business, not take it over

You don’t have to love self-promotion. Plenty of brilliant people hate it.

When it’s probably not right…

  • You’ve got one specific problem. It’s Power Hour will sort it for less.

  • You’d rather someone else did the work. The Pansy Studios team can take it on through a retainer.

Choose your mentoring package

  • Focus: 6 Weeks Of Marketing Mentoring

    Best for getting one big thing done, like a launch, a website refresh or a new marketing plan you actually stick to.

    • A questionnaire before you start

    • Three 60-minute 1:1 sessions with Ellen, every two weeks

    • Three check-ins in the weeks between sessions

    • Written notes after every session

    • Email support for the full six weeks

    Investment: £1,395

  • Momentum: 12 weeks of change

    Best for a proper overhaul or more intensive support. You’ll have time to make changes, see what works, tweak it and build habits that last after you finish.

    • A questionnaire before you start

    • Six 60-minute 1:1 sessions with Ellen, every two weeks

    • Six check-ins in the weeks between sessions

    • Written notes after every session

    • Email support for the full twelve weeks

    • A wrap-up plan at the end, so you know exactly what to keep doing

    Make It

Meet Our Founder, Ellen Jones

Ellen is the founder of Pansy Studios. She’s spent years helping businesses work out what’s holding their marketing back, and she’s done it for a lot of them.

Brands like Google, Pinterest, Snapchat, Mailchimp, Sephora and The Body Shop have trusted her with their marketing. More recently, she’s worked with Novartis, Greater Anglia, GoDaddy, Rakuten, Shelter and Public.Digital. She’s run talks at Cambridge, Hyper Island, University of the Arts London and Queen Mary, and for cultural institutions including the National Portrait Gallery, Tate and the V&A. In the non-profit world, she’s worked with Oxfam, UNICEF and akt.

That’s over 100 organisations, from global brands to charities and one-person businesses. Whatever’s going on with your marketing, there’s a good chance Ellen has seen it before and knows how to fix it.

Along the way, she’s picked up a few awards, including Stonewall’s Young Campaigner of the Year and the inaugural MTV EMA Generation Change Award. She’s also been named on the Evening Standard’s Most Influential People in London, Attitude’s 101 LGBTQ+ Trailblazers, the Independent’s Top 50 LGBTQ+ People and the Diversity Power List. Her book, Outrage: How To Fight For LGBTQ+ Lives, was the Booksellers Association’s Book of the Month in 2026 and was Highly Commended at the DIVA Awards.

Mostly, though, people book her because she'll tell them the truth about their marketing and then help them fix it.

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