What our clients say

“I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation and listening to your ideas and came away feeling more energised than in several weeks. I immediately called my MD and said that your course was such great value, and also circulated the Canva tool detail to the Team.”

Clare Turner, Account Director, People Marketing

“Christina and her team are fantastic to work with. Very reliable and deliver exactly what they say they are going to do. As a startup who did not want to worry about marketing they were prefect.”

Alex Moyle, Founder at Recruiting Gym

“Christina is an absolute pleasure to work with. She is knowledgeable, professional, patient and has completely transformed our Social Media presence since we have been working with her. She has built and maintained strong relationships with every member of our business that she has come into contact with. She successfully strives to keep on top of all the latest trends and functionality of the ever-changing world of Digital Marketing – her input is invaluable to our business. Without hesitation, I would recommend Christina to anyone looking for assistance with their Social Media strategy.”

Samantha Nixon, Team Manager, Kajima UK

Christina and the team @ GUM have been a great source of information and thought leadership when it came to building out our new website and improving our marketing function. We have had marketing training and they are always keeping us up to date with marketing tools and trends.

Paul Foster – Director, Skylan Recruitment

“I worked with Emily whilst at Forterra. She was responsible for managing our Facebook account. This meant she needed to be active with creating posts, idea generating and being reactive to comments and messages but she was also absolutely fantastic at keeping Forterra updated with anything that needed our attention as well as daily and weekly reporting. Emily is very professional, pays attention to detail, great at customer service and support and it was a pleasure to work with her. I hope to work with her again in the future.”

Leanne Davidson-Town, Marketing Executive, Forterra

Christina is fabulous! She provides us with honest, insightful and valuable guidance with an excellent sense of humour and a real good-hearted desire for helping us to project our brand. That’s why I recommend Christina and her company, Green Umbrella.

Josh Craven, Med-Tech Recruitment Consultant, Indo professionals

Christina is a knowledgeable, experienced social media expert. Her honest and down to earth feedback and advice is valued highly by myself and the team here at SSLPost. I would not hesitate in recommending Christina (and have done so!) to anyone looking for a social media marketing company that speaks your language.

Annie Rickard, General & Compliance Manager, SSLP Group Ltd

“I have been working with Christina for a number of months now. Throughout this time Christina has always put the needs of our business first. She has a real in-depth knowledge of both social media and recruitment, which means that the services she offersreally fit our business and requirements.”

Holly Langley, Business Operations Manager, Simply Commerce

“Working with Mark has been great! He is patient, creative and delivers when he says he will. Happy to recommend!”

Alice Wallace, Director, Opening Doors London

Christina and her team have been our marketing company for 6 years now and could not fault their service levels. New website design and hosting was great also. Mark deals with our silly questions in a prompt and effective manner when we have issues with the website. Banners for exhibition stand plus much more. Thank you guys.

Debbie Curtis, Director, Curtis Recruitment Limited

“Mark instantly knows what I’m after despite my tenuous briefs. Very creative, incredibly efficient and the work has always been delivered super fast.”

Sarah Smith, Owner at Piccadilly Lily and Sarah Smith Jewellery

Christina and her team have supported our online marketing efforts for a number of years and we have been extremely pleased with their work. They provide interesting content, are proactive with us to spot opportunities and challenge us in a constructive manner when changes of direction need to be made. Christina has a deep understanding of the challenges that recruitment agencies face and has provided valuable and insightful advice when needed.

Simon Speak, Director, AFR Consulting

“We undertook a website review with Julia. Just love Julia’s no-nonsense, no waffle, straightforward approach which was exactly what we needed.

She had conducted research and was very prepared before the review meeting. She took time to ensure all our questions were answered and didn’t mind jumping from topic to topic. We came away with loads of constructive feedback and a big todo list. Thank you, Julia.”

Phil Salton, Managing Director, Solid Recruitment Solutions

“Christina took the ITI team through LinkedIn startup training and opened our eyes to the possibilities that this platform holds for us. Her practical knowledge and insights will help us to stick to the important bits and prevent us from being seduced by time wasting and costly dead ends. The proof is always in the results we start to produce and I am confident that having a checklist to work through will give us the edge we are looking for. Thanks Christina.”

Paul Wilson, Chief Executive, Institute of Translation and Interpreting

“This was my first training session with Julia, It was very good, with practical information using the best workshop book I have ever seen. I’m sure if there was a Pulitzer for session resources it would win. Scribbling like nostradamus I almost felt like him as I left, finding the elixir of the what I need to do to get social media to work for me. Thanks, Julia, very enjoyable and informative.”

Paul Hunt, Managing Director, Recruit 500

We have used Green Umbrella for a number of months now in our Recruitment Business for marketing support, we have found them useful, talented and industry experts in their field.

Andrew Brindley, Founder and Director, Temp Rewards

“Pam helped me develop my company page and my own awareness on Linked In and Facebook, and the results speak for themselves! I would recommend Pam to help anybody understand more about how they can get the most out of social media, and help raise awareness of their business! Thank you Pam from myself and all at the BRITE Team!”

Samantha Parramore, Brite Recruitment

I would recommend Christina & her team at Green Umbrella to any business seeking a professional marketing company. Christina’s knowledge within her field is fantastic, coupled with her professionalism and personal approach – she is a pleasure to work with! Wishing you continued success with Green Umbrella Christina & I’m sure your business will continue to go from strength to strength!

Elaine Jordan – Director, Extension Recruitment

“I have been working with Pam of Green Umbrella now for some time for social media coaching. I find her coaching sessions excellent motivational and extremely helpful. Her simple methods are amazing, being a novice I can see instantly the impact of making the little tweeks here and there. She is approachable friendly & really does try to get down to the nitty gritty of what a business needs. If you are looking for someone to take a no nonsense no tech language approach to support you and your business through the minefield of social media then Pam is absolutely without hesitation your person.”

Dawn Turbitt, Managing Director, KSB Recruitment Consultants

I’ve worked with Green Umbrella Marketing for a number of years now and with Christina personally for at least 3 years. Quite simply they have become an integral part of my social media strategy. LinkedIn in particular is a key source of clients for Brunton Bid Writing, and Christina and her team have helped me to understand how to leverage this platform effectively. Our regular calls keep me on track and without this my social media marketing would easily fall by the wayside. Highly recommended.

Fiona Brunton, Owner, Brunton Consultancy Ltd TA Brunton Bid Writing

Mark has exceeded my expectations in his excellent work in the re-branding of my business and in the design and development of our new website! His creative, design and development skills are exceptional. Mark has a fantastic personality and is a pleasure to work with. I have been delighted with the results Mark has produced in building our new website and I would have no hesitation in recommending Mark to any new prospective clients.

Nigel Angus, Managing Director, Next Move Recruitment

“Thank you for the marketing seminar yesterday. I learned so much and was very excited to get to work today to make changes! None of it was a giraffe’s fart (best phrase ever)!”
Stacey Greenwood, Marketing Manager, Vivate Recruitment

“Legend. That is all you need to know. Mark delivers every time. His ideas are original and he has the patience to deal with a someone as demanding as me.”

Paul Dewick, Director, Boomerang Funding

Passionate about recruitment marketing with a deep understanding of the market and trends from within the industry – a rare thing.

Paul Smith, Head of Marketing, Logic Melon

“Christina is a great go-to person for all social media topics and challenges, especially for IT challenged people – like me! Christina makes new processes within social media easy to understand and implement. She has a mind full of information and can easily offer quick and effective solutions within social media and marketing. Both Christina and Green Umbrella can quickly understand the commerciality of any business and their challenges and create bespoke solutions to meet immediate and long terms needs.”

Ruth Forster, Director, Wagstaff Recruitment

“Christina delivered a great session for us at The Recruitment Conference 2019. As always she was a pleasure to work with ahead of and during the event and worked with her co-presenter to ensure her content was relevant to our audience. Her session was very well received. Look forward to many more years of working together.”

Louise Triance, Managing Director UK Recruiter

“I first came across Christina when she presented a series of Social Media workshops. I was immediately impressed by her knowledge and passion for her subject. She presented in a calm professional way showing empathy with her audience. Christina has the rare ability to be able to communicate to people with different levels of knowledge, without out sounding patronising. She is an excellent and engaging presenter.”

Peter Anstee, Business Development Manager, Anstee & Co

Mark has been brilliant when it comes to designing our website – he was able to translate our thoughts and ideas perfectly and has been flexible and responsive to work with. He’s also helped us with ad-hoc online templates and been able to come up with ideas and suggestions that we’ve taken on board and used. He’s quick, thorough and given us the real technical / marketing help we’ve needed during the first few years of setting up our business. We go back to Mark every time as we know he’ll deliver!

Jemma Rawlins, Director, HRLIfe

“I have known Jane for a number of years and we have a two way relationship in that I do work for her and she does work for me! Always polite, helpful, timely and knowledgeable about all things social media, Jane is a very easy person to work alongside. She is highly efficient and organised as well as being personable to work with.”

Karen O’Mahoney, Managing Director, Market Energy

Once again Mark has done a fabulous job updating my website. He is a genius at making sense out of my ideas and turning things around in super quick time. Mark did a great job of originally designing and launching my web site and is helping me keep it up to date. I love that he was also there to revamp business cards and is on hand for any marketing collateral I need. A great one-stop-shop!

Susan Tracey – Director, Lifeworks Consulting

“I highly recommend Christina. Having taken on the additional responsibility of social media, I have worked with Christina for over a year now. On a personal level, she has been exceptionally patient and informative and her knowledge of social media and our industry has truly impressed. She understands and adapts her approach to our business and is highly professional. In summary, she instils complete confidence and I value her services.”

Janet Tully, HR Manager, Proactive IT Appointments

“Christina recently worked with Velocity Growth Hub to deliver workshops on digital marketing for SMEs. These workshops were very informative and provided lots of hints and tips of how small businesses can improve their digital marketing through the use of social media. The feedback from delegates has been positive, saying the workshops have shown them new ways to market their business.”

Jo Elliott, Project Officer, Velocity Growth Hub

I can’t recommend Christina and Green Umbrella enough. We have worked with Christina for over two years and in that time we have grown our social media presence and thought leadership. None of this would have been possible without Christina and Green Umbrella.

Chris Chambers, Chief Operating Officer, People Value

“I’ve made it my mission to attend seminars by Julia @ Green Umbrella whenever I can, such as Recruitment Expo and TEAM conference, plus specific training courses. She is a true SME on social media and marketing for the recruitment industry. As a speaker she is funny, relevant, high-pace and can cater to all levels. Plus she knows this stuff, hands-on, hands-down and really ‘walks the walk’. So, hugely valuable, very enjoyable, highly reccomended! :)”

Anthony McCormack, Managing Director, Macstaff

“Christina has helped us with our social media and email marketing training. She is knowledgeable, an exceptionally good listener (difficult to find in most) who seeks to understand in a calm and unfazed way. If you need support in most things web-based or social media, then Christina and Green Umbrella are who I would recommend – thank you.”

Nigel Banister, Director, GMD People