About us

 

Grapevine Marketing Agency was formed to provide businesses with an outsourced marketing solution and enable clients to a) bring down the overall cost of marketing, and b) provide businesses with marketing strategy, training and creative services from one provider.

 

We believe that we are the market-leader in our field, and we offer huge experience of marketing disciplines and varied market sectors.

 

The company is owned by two Directors, Dean Spencer and Chrissie Porter, and employs a team of marketing, PR, creative and website professionals.

 

Dean Spencer

Growing up in the print industry, Dean came from the shop floor of busy manufacturing businesses, through the ranks to eventually run two separate businesses as Managing Director. He has been Managing Director of a £4M turnover commercial print business in London and also the European Managing Director of a niche market print company of £15M turnover. He honed his love of marketing within each of the businesses he ran, and was a pioneer within the print industry.

 

He has managed over 500 employees in his career and has had vast experience in exporting, importing He completed a post-graduate MBA at Nottingham Trent University and entered the marketing arena with his business partner, creating Grapevine Marketing Agency in 2003.

 

His current role involves looking after the strategy of his clients, acting as a Marketing Manager/Director for many key clients, writing editorial for clients and keeping on top of the art of natural website promotion - otherwise known as search engine optimisation (SEO).

 

Dean lives in Derbyshire with his partner and three children - all girls, aged 5,3 and 6 months. In his spare time he enjoys photography and is reliving his amateur band days by trying to play guitar again - fortunately in the comfort of his own home!

 

 

Chrissie Porter

Chrissie studied Business at a University in London. It was during her degree that she worked part time for a Graphics and Marketing company based in Watford, and truly fell in love with Marketing.

 

Once she finished her degree, gaining a 2:1, she won a much sought afer position working for Hewlett Packard (HP).It was here she developed her marketing skills, and gained experience within HP's affiliate marketing programme which is second to none.

 

After 3 years at HP, Chrissie moved on to run a marketing department for a Global company based in the East Midlands, and was responsible for creating innovative campaigns that were used both here in the UK and in the US.

 

Chrissie formed Grapevine with Dean in 2003 and her current role sees her working with all sorts of companies, ranging from global software brands through to midlands based recruitment agencies. Her true passion is brand awareness and consistency; something which has stayed with her since her HP days, and something which is key to many of Grapevine's current clients.

 

Spare time is limited for Chrissie as she and her husband have a young daughter; however, the creative streak does extend to cooking and creating hand made cards.