Lightbulb Media

We turn businesses into brands by creating scroll-stopping ads, content & copy, and then delivering it directly into the feeds of your ideal clients.

If you’re tired of having smoke blown up your arse and you fancy working with a bunch of loud, honest, but extremely talented Northern creatives then give us a shout.

University Of Creative Idiots

An edutainment platform & community teaching aspiring marketers, current marketers & cash-strapped small businesses how to do creative marketing properly, get real results, and keep up with how fast it changes. All for £30 a month.

Head to joinuci.com and apply to enrol.

Co-Founder

Benchmark Leads

Cheshire-based digital marketing and lead generation agency helping businesses expand their online presence and generate new clients via social media management, bespoke web design and targeted digital advertising techniques.

Head Of Digital

Dive Digital

Dive Digital helps businesses to grow online via comprehensive online advertising packages, expert advice and bespoke marketing solutions housed under our three main arenas: Creative, Social and Strategy. 
**Sold. (Acquisition by Benchmark Leads Feb 2017)

Owner

EPR Nutrition

As Communications Director, I worked with a small team to create and introduce a new and innovative nutrition brand to the marketplace in partnership with Shaun T, a US-based fitness celebrity, famed for the INSANITY workout amongst other worldwide crazes. 

From the inception of the brand itself, I worked towards planning and implementing the logistics, PR, marketing and creative strategy for the full launch weekend across 3 separate venues in the UK. The pinnacle of these events was a live workout with Shaun T for 850+ fitness fans in Manchester on the 27/02/16 (highlights of which can be seen below).

Having full control over all social media platforms, web and blog content allowed me to use my marketing skills and experience in the fitness industry to ensure maximum customer base growth, engagement and retention. I then transformed this growth into sales revenue which increased the maximum profit potential for the business at very little cost.

Communications Director

Loughborough University

During my time on my Hall Committee, my role was to organise, promote and market the University's wide variety of charity events to both my own Hall and the wider student community.This involved everything from bucket collecting in various cities, to climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and Arctic Dog Sledding. During my year as Rag Rep, the University raised over £1,000,000 for a selection of great charities.

Rag Rep

PSCA International

I was originally hired in Delegate Acquisition with a task to ensure maximum attendance at various government reform conferences held at the Barbican in London. After two months of consistently surpassing targets I was promoted to Marketing Executive.

This promotion meant I was given my own personal event to manage, giving me full responsibility for the attendance and success of this conference. My role involved utilising my telecommunications and e-marketing skills in order to pitch the events to both public and private sector individuals in the relevant areas, and transfer these into sales of high-priced event tickets.

This was a basic + commission role and I thoroughly enjoyed having the freedom of uncapped earning potential, which solidified my love of the sales and marketing sector. The first event I managed (Health + Safety) was a complete sell-out and a great success, so it was a hard decision for me to leave. However, I wanted to further my education at University in the hope it would further enhance my skills in the industry.

Marketing Executive

CEO at Lightbulb Media | Scaling epic brands with paid ads, copywriting & content that converts 💡

It’s hard to find a marketing partner you can trust these days. The internet is filled with lofty claims from fresh faced gurus peddling "guarantees" and promises of overnight riches.

Here’s how it usually goes:

😍 Promised the world on a stick by an agency/freelancer 
😅 Locked into a 12-month contract
🙂 Handed off to a junior who can barely tie their own shoelaces 
🙃 Slowly losing the will to live as you wade through excuses for why nothing is working
😭 Patiently waiting for your contract to end so you can finally jump ship

We feel your pain. Most of our clients come to us having been burned by blaggers big & small, but we don’t blow smoke up arses here.

We've spent the last 7+ years scaling businesses just like yours through:

- Paid Advertising 
- Social Media
- Copywriting
- Content Creation
- LinkedIn Ghostwriting

Our work has driven £250m+ in attributable revenue for our clients across the UK, USA & Europe, and we won’t be slowing down any time soon.

Want to see examples? Check out my Featured section, the case studies on our website, and our Instagram Highlights where we’ve got a chunky collection of them 📈

We’re big on data here, you see.

So if you’re serious about growing online, and you’re open to working with a company who will cut the fluff and tell you exactly what you need to hear, rather than what you want to hear, then we might just be your dream partner.

We’re also all absolutely hilarious. We won’t charge you for that, though.

Drop me a DM or email marketing@lightbulbmedia.co.uk and let’s grab a brew ☕️

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Also a co-founder of The University Of Creative Idiots- an online community and edutainment platform teaching aspiring marketers, current marketers & cash-strapped small businesses how to do creative marketing properly, get real results, and keep up with how fast the industry changes.

All for just £45 a month. Yep- you’re welcome.
Head to joinuci.com and apply to enrol.

Lewis Kemp

Ian Dempsey DipPFS

Themoneyman

Independent Financial Planner and Coach

Independent Financial Advisor

Magpie Money Coaching

Helping clients make sense of their money with deeply understood coaching to form better financial habits, build stronger foundations and change their financial future.

We'll build a real understanding of where you are now, where you want to get to, the deeper meaning of your goals and how important they really are to you.

We will look at the big picture to create emotional engagement to help you make better, clearer and more successful decisions.

Founder and Financial Coach

MANUP?

MANUP? is a Men's Mental Health Charity that was founded in 2019 and officially became a Charity in July 2021. Its purpose is to de-stigmatize men's mental health and this is done via podcasts, videos, fundraising, corporate events, and much more. Learn more here - www.manup.how

Member Board of Trustees

Set Them Up Foundation

The Set Them Up Foundation are delivering engaging and rewarding lessons for young adults aged 15 to 19, around...

● Financial planning. Developing good money habits early on is key to financial responsibility.

● Investments. Children are more than capable of grasping crucial concepts like stocks and bonds.

● Mortgage and rental advice. The basic understanding that things cost money is a vital aspect of financial literacy.

● Pensions. The simple ideas of saving and planning for retirement can transform a child's financial future.

A range of 50 further lessons have been created for our online learning platform delivering on topics that further financial literacy and get youngsters ready for life after school. First Pay Slip, Tax, Insurance, Introduction to Cryptocurrency, Fraud & Ponzi Schemes, Cost-of-living Comparisons, Financial Wellbeing, Emotional Spending and many more

Advisory Board Member

Quilter Financial Advisers

I provided bespoke, expert financial planning to professionals, directors and business owners by making complex financial solutions easy to follow, tax efficient and by taking the headache away, allowing them to focus on what they do best.

Maximising tax efficiency, understanding complex needs and consistently delivering effective solutions which are easy to understand is the way i did this.

Delivering the results they expect and adding significant value to their financial goals is what I did best.

I worked with Business owners, Senior Managers, High earners, Recruitment executives, Company directors and HR managers.

I always deliver the very best for my clients by looking at the bigger picture and delivering no nonsense, black and white financial plans which make complex financial solutions easy to follow.

Financial planning doesn't have to be complicated. Making the complicated easy to understand is where you'll see my value.

Financial Planning Consultant

CMP Financial - St. James's Place

I Provided bespoke financial advice to professionals by maximising tax efficiency, understanding individual needs and consistently delivering effective solutions with a personal approach. 

I worked with Business owners, Senior Managers, High earners, Recruitment executives, Company directors and HR managers.

I delivered the very best for my clients and took time to always look at the bigger picture. I made complex financial solutions easy to follow and tax efficient and took the headache away from clients finances allowing them to focus on what they do best.

St. James’s Place Wealth Management is a FTSE 100 company.

Financial advisor improving the lives of directors and business owners through bespoke expert advice

HSBC Retail Banking and Wealth Management

Experienced wealth adviser providing financial and relationship management services to Company owners, Company Directors, High flyers and executives which included: 
- Bespoke Investment and taxation advice
- Tailored individual and family protection advice
- In depth, individual and intergenerational Inheritance tax planning
- High level individual and family Pension advice
- In depth Discretionary portfolio reviews and analysis

Premier Wealth Manager

Santander UK Corporate & Commercial

Senior financial adviser providing expert, bespoke protection, investment and pension advice to retail and corporate clients of Santander

Wealth manager/ Client Relationship Manager

Britannia Building Society

Providing bespoke mortgage, protection and general insurance advice to business owners, executives and professionals

Area Mortgage and Protection specialist

Qualified, certified and award winning to coach your finances | Helping business owners sort their money without the waffle | Straight-talking, no fluff, no suits, just real plans that work

Trying to sort your money out can feel like assembling flat-pack furniture with no tools and a toddler chewing the instructions. Confusing, frustrating and somehow you end up with three spare bits and no clue why.

That’s where I come in.

I’m a straight-talking Geordie dad who swaps jargon for plain English, suits for t-shirts, and nonsense for actual help. I don’t drive a Porsche or wear cufflinks. I turn up in the family car with a coffee in hand and a brain full of practical ideas to help you sort your life out financially, emotionally, maybe even spiritually (no promises on that last one).

I’m not here to dazzle you with pie charts or bore you to tears with compound interest. I’m here to talk about you, your family, your future, and what actually matters when it comes to making your money behave.

If you're the type who likes to DIY, I’ll cheer you on and hand you the right tools. If you’d rather get a co-pilot, I’ll be in the passenger seat, Sat Nav on, snacks packed (Fruit Salads and Midget Gems, obviously).

Fully qualified and certified. Fully human. Zero fluff.

Follow along for free tips, real talk, and the occasional dad joke. No pressure, no hard sell. Just ideas that might help you stress less, save more, and finally feel like you're on top of things.

(And yes, I do accept payment in sweets. I have standards.)

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Ian Dempsey DipPFS

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