How is marketing for a staffing agency different to general B2B?

Staffing firms sell to two markets at once, clients and candidates, and the brand has to land with both. We run client outreach and SEO alongside employer brand and candidate sourcing, with a fractional CMO holding the plan together, so the desk fills roles and wins new clients at the same time.

Do you work with high volume or specialist staffing firms?

Both. The model fits high volume agencies in industrial, healthcare and hospitality where the engine is reliable supply and consistent client coverage, and specialist staffing firms in tech, finance or education where margin depends on calibre of candidate and depth of network. The campaigns flex to the commercial model.

Is Limivex a content agency, an SEO agency, or a full-service agency?

We are a fractional CMO with the team to deliver. You get senior marketing leadership that owns the strategy, and a lean expert team that ships the work across brand, content, LinkedIn, email, web and SEO. Most firms sell you one channel, or a stack of freelancers to coordinate. We run the whole marketing function as one, the way an in-house department would, built around how staffing and recruitment firms win.

How does the programme work with the marketing people we already have?

It flexes to your set-up. Where you have an in-house marketer, we work in collaboration with them, giving them direction and senior people to work alongside so they get more done. Where you have nobody in the seat, our team is the function. Either way we own the strategy and the results, and you keep your people.

What does an engagement cost?

Engagements open at £3,600 a month. Most staffing firms land around £4,800 for the fractional CMO plus the team running the core function, and an Embedded option at £10,000 suits larger firms that want a full department. All on 30-day rolling terms, with no long lock-in.

How long until we see results from a staffing marketing programme?

Outreach replies and LinkedIn engagement land inside the first month. SEO and ranked service or sector pages compound from month three onwards. Candidate flow from paid campaigns is usually live in weeks but optimises over the first quarter as the conversion data builds.

Marketing for Staffing Agencies

A fractional CMO for your staffing firm, with the team to deliver. Senior leadership owns the plan, and a lean expert team ships the work across brand, content, LinkedIn, email, web and SEO, filling client pipeline and candidate pools at the same time.

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Staffing MDs Tell Us

The Pipeline Staffing Agency Owners Actually Want

Most staffing agencies have plenty of activity. The squeeze sits elsewhere. Margin gets eroded, the brand blends in with every competitor, and the sales floor ends up carrying the whole number. The same brief reaches us from MDs and founder owners.

Margin, not just volume.
Roles that pay properly, clients who brief properly, and a brand that earns the higher fee instead of competing on rate.
Inbound that takes pressure off the sales floor.
A steady flow of qualified client enquiries from search, content and outreach, so Monday morning is not another round of cold calls.
A brand worth the client base.
A site, a social presence and outbound that match the placements you actually make. Most firms run the same staffing template, and you should not look like them.

Staffing Verticals We Work In

Six Staffing Markets We Build Campaigns For

Staffing covers very different markets. Each vertical has its own buying committee, its own credibility cues, and pressures that look nothing like the desk next door. The marketing has to reflect that, and the strategy behind it sets the channel mix for each one.

Site managers, operations directors, HR business partners

Industrial and Warehouse Staffing

Buyers shortlist on local presence and proven fill rates. Marketing has to prove the operation behind the brand.

Workforce leads, ward managers, locum and clinical operations

Healthcare Staffing

Compliance, framework presence and candidate quality decide the relationship. Content has to carry clinical credibility.

Engineering managers, heads of delivery, talent acquisition

Technology and Contractor Staffing

Speed of submission wins, and so does the calibre of your vetted contractors. Marketing has to show the technical depth behind the desk.

Finance directors, FP&A leads, group financial controllers

Finance and Accounting Staffing

Discretion, network calibre and screening quality carry the relationship. Buyers want considered content over noisy outbound.

Head teachers, school business managers, multi-academy trust HR

Education and Supply Teaching

Safeguarding and framework compliance come first, then candidate pool depth. Marketing has to land on credibility and local coverage.

General managers, operations directors, event production leads

Hospitality and Events Staffing

Speed of mobilisation and shift reliability win the account. The brand has to feel as polished as the venues you staff.

The Staffing Programme

What We Run for Staffing Agencies

What Changes

Three Shifts You Should Expect

Vague growth promises are easy to make and impossible to bank. Once the strategy and the foundations are in place, the change shows up in three places the MD and the sales floor both feel.

Margin
Before
The brand looks like every other staffing site, and clients negotiate on rate every time.
After
A sharper brand and real sector authority let the firm hold the higher fee on its specialist desks.
Inbound
Before
Service pages bring no enquiries, and the sales floor carries the entire pipeline.
After
Qualified client enquiries land through search and content, taking the weight off cold calling.
Talent Supply
Before
Candidate sourcing leans on paid job-board credits and the same shrinking database.
After
Researched outreach, paid social and an employer brand fill the candidate pool faster, and for less.

Proof in Staffing

Staffing Firms We Run the Marketing For

Volume desks need both sides of the market working at once, so the programme has to feed clients and candidates together.

Clear Recruitment custom website on desktop

Case study, Clear Recruitment

Data Centre and Energy Infrastructure recruitment

The marketing function for a global data centre recruiter, owned end to end

Clear had no senior marketing leader and a website that no longer matched the firm. So we became the function: a fractional CMO owning the plan, with the team shipping a custom website, an automated jobs feed off LinkedIn, a two sided portal, an ongoing SEO and blog programme, and a weekly LinkedIn cadence. The first inbound lead arrived within a week of launch, after a long quiet stretch on the old WordPress site.

1 weekFrom launch to first inbound lead, after a long quiet stretch on the old site
Inbound, not duplicationThe site now generates enquiries, and consultants stay on their mandates while the jobs feed updates itself

Read the Clear Recruitment case study

SmartChoice International website and content programme

Case study, SmartChoice International

IT and Technology Recruitment

Senior marketing leadership for a London IT recruitment firm placing across multiple markets

SmartChoice had the desks, the delivery hubs and a strong founder story, but no one owning marketing. Limivex came in as the fractional CMO with the team to deliver: we set the plan and ran the work, from a rebuilt SEO foundation and per-market landing pages to a content programme that publishes and distributes for the IT staffing niche.

Months 1 to 3A full technical rebuild and an SEO foundation across the whole site, taking it from no clear search presence to a crawlable, optimised base
Per-market pages liveA dedicated, locally written page for each market SmartChoice operates in, in place of one generic London-centric site

Read the SmartChoice International case study

Case study, 83DATA

Recruitment

Standing up a new recruitment brand, and the marketing function behind it

We led the launch and ran the marketing from a standing start. Brand, an email programme and an original salary guide turned 83DATA from an idea into retained client accounts, and a partnership that ran for years.

Retained accountsWon from a standing start and held for years
2020 launchOne brand built, then years running the function behind it

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Finalised Projects
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Client satisfaction rate
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Brand Transformations

Mike Meyrick, Chief Executive Officer, Meyrick Consulting

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“Limivex now controls our entire sales and marketing activity across Europe and the US, and I'm having calls every week with my ideal clients.”

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