Business overview
Marketing coaching and consulting for values-led businesses.We’re a collective of marketing specialists, with over 100 years of experience between us, ready to put our eyeballs and know-how on your brand and business. Ex-corporate and agency leaders, we left big business to help build businesses that drive profit, while positively impacting people and the planet.
Marijke is founder of The Marketing Collective, Marketing Coach to Ethical Entrepreneurs, Director of a Cambodian Children’s Charity (Dara Children’s Trust), and Mum to a feisty five-year-old!
Products and services I offer
Marketing coaching and consulting for values-led businesses:- One-on-one SME coaching and consulting (1hr weekly or fortnightly)
- Group coaching (1hr weekly or fortnightly)
- Fractional CMO services (bespoke)
- Purpose-led branding and marketing for impact programmes and consulting
- Self-Serve Marketing Training Programmes: Brand Blueprint & Mastering Marketing
- Loads of freebies on my website: www.themarketingcollective.co.nz/resources
Why I'm in the Venus Network
Having built my career overseas in London, New York and Melbourne, I returned to NZ to become a single Mum by choice and started my business during Covid when my son was one. Virtually, I have created a fabulous small business customer base all over the world. I don't feel like a natural networker but now nearly five years into my business, I feel it's time to commit locally - to align myself with likeminded business women and grow together.My gallery
Testimonials
"The Marketing Collective programmes have given me the tools I needed to tackle difficult areas in my business that were holding me back. It has helped me define the essence of what my brand is about and how that resonates with my customers."- Liz, Founder Elizabeth Allardyce
"Working with Marijke and her team over the past year has been the best investment of my time and money. Having a clearly defined mission/vision is fundamental to set my business apart from the competition. Marijke held my hand every step of the way and helped me crystallize my mission. She and her team are the best partners an entrepreneur can have—they’re so knowledgeable, kind, empathetic, and honest. I count working with Marijke as one of the great blessings in my life. I feel confident the marketing vision and strategy we’ve created will set my business on a path to longevity and success."
- Tania, Founder Altruist Apparel
"We have been lucky enough to work with Marijke over the past year and she is amazing! Her Brand Blueprint programme has been a fantastic journey for us to think about and to help us build our brand - and it shows! We have had multiple comments on how professional and modern our sales and proposals are."
- Belinda, Head of Product at Tikpay
My point of difference
We are not an agency but a collective of trusted marketing specialists across all marketing disciplines, each independent business owners ourselves who are passionate about helping ethical and sustainable businesses succeed. We believe business should be the change we need to see in the world and we're on a mission to help these businesses become the critical mass needed to influence systematic change.All our branding and marketing advice, strategies and tactics are led by shared values. We help our clients discover their purpose and bring their values to life through their brand. We then help them take it to marketing in ways that feel aligned with that purpose and those values - to genuinely connect on emotional levels with their people, customers and communities.
Purpose drives profit, which drives impact.
My latest business news
I recently launched a podcast about better brands, called Collectively.Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collectively-purpose-led-business-and-marketing/id1760059295
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/11iypcfPUPjPJtvtmFX6ty
