Helping B2B Service Providers Stand Out Through Story | £2.85MM Generated For Clients | CEO at Ratcliffe Brothers |

I'm a pretty normal guy with a very fast-growing business, mainly because of 2 reasons:

1/ I realised the opportunity on LinkedIn
2/ We capitalised on it 

Now we help the fastest-growing companies in Europe capitalise on the same opportunity. 

Here's the story so far 👇🏻

2020: Joined a personal branding start-up in London and see CEOs using LinkedIn to raise £10M+ rounds and drive £1M+ enterprise deals

2021: Help build BOM to a 327,000+ person LinkedIn community. The opportunity to be had on LinkedIn is very clear

2022: Quit my dream job to start a business with my brother

2023: Hit £100,000 in run rate in 11 days

2024: Hire our first team members and make a gazillion mistakes. We're great at LinkedIn, but we suck at business. 

2025: Things click, we hit £1M ARR and work with some of the most well-known brands in the world - Ocean Beach, NHS, + more.

2026: UK's #1 LinkedIn agency working with a roster full of great brands. On track to close £1M in sales through LinkedIn this year. 

It's been quite the journey. 

Last year we did 27M impressions across our clients LinkedIn account and this year (Q1 2026) we've already booked our clients meetings with: Ford, Blue Origin, Fed Ex, Kroger, + more. 

If you're curious about our approach to LinkedIn or you need support with your B2B marketing, apply to work with us here: www.noticed.co/contact

Or email: morgan@noticed.co

Niall Ratcliffe

I just uploaded my first ever YouTube video!!

Which feels like a huge moment for me. 

Over the last 4 years I’ve:

- Built a 60,000+ follower LinkedIn audience
- Generated over £3,000,000 through LinkedIn
- Worked with global brands on their Linkedin strategies

But I’ve never shown you the actual system we use. 

Until now. 

Last week, I recorded a full 15-minute deep dive into every aspect of our LinkedIn system:

- How turn your profile into landing pages
- LinkedIn’s hidden tools we use daily
- How we use outreach to drive sales
- Our highest-converting scripts
- Our top-performing content pillars
- The ad campaigns that work best right now
- The system to write content that drives leads

+ so much more

4 years of hard work. 
3 hours of prep.
1 hour of filming. 

Weeks of editing to get it right. 

My first video is live here: https://lnkd.in/exn6jBt5

It would mean the world if you could support :)

P.S. If you give it a watch, let me know what you think + what I can do better! This is just the start and lots more to come.

🔥 FIRST YOUTUBE VIDEO IS LIVE!! Breaking down our full LinkedIn process - just hit “Visit my website” button 👇🏻

We're #HIRING for some of the most exciting roles in our company's history. 

So, if you're dragging yourself through another Friday at a job you don't like OR you just want a new challenge, let me tell you about 2 of them 👇🏻

ROLE 1: Content Lead (Founder Brands)

We're on a mission to be the most-well known marketing agency in the UK. You'll help us fulfil that mission

- Work 1-on-1 with our founders to create content
- Lead creative direction across founder brands (100,000 followers)
- Freedom to experiment and test new content ideas
- Work with the internal team to expand horizons

So much to do here and a dream role for anyone with a content background. 

ROLE 2: Account Manager

You'll be the bridge between our clients and our team. 

- Manage relationships with some massive brands
- Translate business goals into campaign briefs
- Present work and lead client meetings
- Spot opportunities to grow accounts and deliver more value

(You'll learn more in 3 months in this role than 10 years in most other roles)

Both roles are full-time and hybrid, 3 days/week in office. 

This is your chance to work in a fast-growing team where your work actually matters.

Interested? I'll drop the job posts in the comments or DM me and I'll personally intro you to the hiring manager!

♻️ Repost this so people in your network see it! 

P.S. Know someone who could be a fit for these roles? Please send this post to them! :)

🫡 NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO IS LIVE - 7 THINGS I QUIT DOING ON LINKEDIN TO HIT £1M/YEAR | Just hit “Visit Website”👇🏻

We're #hiring for 2 different roles!

- Content Lead (Wilmslow, Hybrid)
- Account Manager (Wilmslow, Hybrid)

If you're sitting there this Sunday dreading going back to work tomorrow OR you're just ready for a new challenge - this is your sign to apply. 

These are the types of roles I wish I had available to me when I first got into the marketing industry. 

✅ Fast-paced start-up environment 
✅ Massive opportunity to learn and try things
✅ Work 1-2-1 with some amazing CEOs & businesses

One of our team members recently said this in their PDR, "I've learned more in the last 3 months than I have in my entire marketing career". 

We're one of the fastest-growing marketing agencies in the North of England.

Come and join the noticed. team :)

P.S. If you know someone thinking about/looking for a new role - send this post their way :)

In 2021, I was doing everything the LinkedIn gurus told me to do.

- Commenting on 50 posts/day
- Posting at a certain time
- Jumping on trends
- Writing short lines
- Sharing selfies

If there was something I could optimise, I was optimising it. 

And it was kinda working. We were doing about £300k a year in sales through LinkedIn.

Then I chatted to a friend who spend 15 minutes/day on Linkedin and was still driving £2M+/year in sales to his business. 

Something seemed off, so I dug a little deeper. 

Turns out 99% of the things I was doing weren’t moving the needle at all. 

So, I quit. 

I quit doing 7 things that would take me hours every single day. 

Now we made £1M/year in sales through LinkedIn and I spend less than 30 minutes per day here. 

I wrote a full article breaking down exactly what I quit + what we do now 👇🏻

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Niall Cleaver

Documenting the journey of crafting a timeless coffee cup brand | CEO & Founder of Cupsly

My story isn’t about a polished entrepreneur. My journey hasn’t been traditional. I left school without an English qualification, uncertain of what the future held. 

That failure shaped me, it forced me to think differently, fall into business, and ultimately embrace creativity, resilience, and the belief that change is possible, even when doubted. Fast forward to today, I’m growing and scaling businesses while sharing the real lessons that come from it.

Founder

Are you struggling to grow an engaging community for your business or personal brand.

Stop right there, I think I have you covered ⬇️

This is me (Niall), I'm a 22-year-old who is fascinated by growing communities in the online space. Actual communities that have meaning and purpose. 

The services we provide at Social Library 

➡️ Personal Branding (LinkedIn)

➡️ Guidance & support consulting


Drop me a message to discuss your social media strategy, review how well your current socials/posts are doing, and research how we can build your community and gain you more followers and leads.

or you can email us @

hello@sociallibrary.co.uk

Execution will humble you in more ways than advice ever could.

And this, by far, has been my best realisation.

It's actually scary how much advice is in the world we live in. And normally, it's not the correct advice. The truth is, advice that will improve your business is hard to come by because everyone is sharing an opinion online.  

But there's one thing that beats any advice:

Saying you'll do something and actually doing it.

In my teens, I told myseIf was going to go all in on business, and that meant learning many things I once never knew. How? Real experience.

Less talking, more doing.

I didn't have a background in marketing, I learned.
I didn't have a background in brand, I learned.
I didn't have a background in R&D, I learned.

And here's what I found out...

When you start facing real situations, real problems, and real outcomes, you quickly see who’s telling the truth and who isn’t.

You learn who to trust.

Advice has its place. But execution is what changes things.

Growing @thistlescientific and sharing the lessons while I do

I’ve just landed back from a week in the mountains.

And it reminded me how easy it is to forget what really matters.

I know I talk a lot about business because it's something I'm passionate about, but let's be real, it will never be as important as family. 

Scaling a business takes a lot out of you, early mornings, late nights, and missing certain celebrations. It's honestly brutal sometimes. 

Because it never stops!!!

You always have something that needs implementing, changing or improving, but what I've realised is that time away with your family allows you the space to think, enjoy and realign. Never take this for granted.

Honestly, had the best couple of days... now super exctied to get back and execute on the plan we've set out over the past couple of months.

We did it!!! Thistle is rebrand ready...

Over the past few months, we've completed a full rebrand at Thistle Scientific, one that has pushed, tested, and shaped the new direction we're heading in. These will be the months I'll remember forever, but...

I want to talk about what goes into a rebrand:

The late nights thinking decisions through.
The transition phase throughout the organisation.
The alignment through the internal team and external partners.

They all hit you! But in a good way.

Because eventually, you see all the pieces of the puzzle coming together, and you appreciate all the details and hard work that went into every part of it.

But this whole process got me thinking about one thing, "change", and how so many of us are nervous about it. This is a good feeling to have. 

It means you're pushing yourself.

Take it all in!!!

The most important skill of an entrepreneur is to do the basics first.

I used to fight this idea because it sounded too simple.

Sticking to a routine 
Doing the things you promised.
Being open-minded to the problems. 
Interacting directly with your customers.
Executing the plan you set out with your team.

It really is simple!!! 

At the start of this year, I told some of my closest friends what I was going to do. Less talking and more just focusing on what creates the moment. 

And I can already feel it. It hasn’t been anything out of this world, it's just been staying focused on what matters most in the buisness. And normally, these are the tasks you repeat.

You've got to understand that most people will dislike doing the basics over and over again, becasue it can become boring and not fun. But these are the tasks that create the difference that changes your life and business. 

It may be boring, but it works.

3 years ago, navigating a merger, improving systems, and building a stronger foundation.

Since then, Thistle Scientific has grown year on year, hired across multiple countries, and deliberately focused on scale. Why?

Equipping scientists around the world requires collaboration, obsession, and teamwork. It’s understanding what will help each researcher improve the work they’re doing.

But there’s an even bigger reason…

Scaling allows us to support even more researchers, and the better support they get, the more impact their work can have on the rest of the population.

Any researchers here... would love to chat with you.

One of the best decisions I've made as a 25-year-old growing a biotech business was to... spend time with people who have already done it.

Not people who're trying to sell you something.
Not people who shut down your ideas every five minutes.

But the people who have lived and breathed the problems you are facing.

The real operators. And what I've noticed is that they don't try to sell you online they are heavily focused on real outcomes. They have this credibility where they've been there and done it. You can just feel it!!!

So, if you're going to surround yourself with successful people:

Do your due diligence
Ask the important questions
Don't waste your time and especially theirs.

That's where real change is created.

Evean, now I've got so much to learn and it's so important to remember that the moment you think you've understood it all will be the moment you stop making progress.

We had a chance to showcase our new design in Thailand.

I pulled it... You only get one first impression.

We had an opportunity to move fast on some new design work. It would've lined up perfectly for our ASIA distributor meeting in Thailand next month, so I pushed for it. 

I thought it would be:

Great to share the new innovation.
Great to share the new Thistle identity.
Great to share our new direction with them.

But I was chasing speed over execution.

The lesson wasn't "slow down". I still believe in moving fast.
The lesson was "speed" without clarity is just expensive.

Coming straight out of a rebrand, it’s easy to chase momentum. But when you do that, you can lose the bigger picture and that costs you.

Growth never happens when you move without clarity. You only get one chance at a first impression, so we are making sure ours is worth it.

"TEST THE LIMIT"  that's what our rebrand was built on.

When we started to plan our rebrand, we didn't view ourselves as successful. We saw ourselves as a challenger brand. A brand that wanted to do things differently from others in our industry.

This was our starting point.

From the first conversations I had with our team, they were all open-minded to it and wanted to be aligned on the bigger picture, but there was something I noticed more special. 

They all wanted to be a part of it.  Contributing, debating, and just being fully curious. Through my years of learning business, I've noticed that one of the best traits in any business is the team being curious. They like to get stuck in. And here's what I've seen:

They adapt quickly to problems and solutions.
They build better products and services.
They spot opportunities others ignore.
They make better decisions.

Being curious is lethal (in a good way)

There's something special about being around an open-minded team. A team that wants to play an even bigger part in this journey. It's pretty cool.

Very proud to announce the next chapter of Thistle Scientific.

Thistle has expanded a lot over the years as a team, company and scientific partner.

Today, we’re updating our entire visual system to convey a clearer, bolder expression of who we are and the purpose we stand behind. Now the time feels right to step into our next chapter and announce the rebrand of Thistle Scientific.

One that will demonstrate the connection and deeper understanding we have for researchers and global organisations who are changing the world for good.  

Just like research, brands must evolve too. We must listen, adapt and strengthen. That's what we're here to do. Committed to the direction we're heading, and that's to equip scientists to be relentless in changing the world for good. 

One hypothesis at a time. 

Welcome to Thistle 2.0

Because science is never done. So, neither are we.

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