About us

The journey began with a great arrangement with my friend and former business partner, Tom, who agreed to put LTF (Me!) on a retainer so he could still deliver for clients whilst the sale of our previous business went through. As it usually does, the sale of that business took months, and so I was able to hit the ground running with a regular 2 to 3 days a week of design and consultancy whilst I worked to build new contacts and clients both in London and locally in Northamptonshire.

During my time working with Stephen, he referred me to several hugely important and valuable clients including Georgie & Bryony from LikeMinders (now a client of LTF’s for nearly 10 years!).

There was Julia Langkraehr, an absolute force of an entrepreneur and an incredible Woman. Julia put her faith in my new venture and commissioned us to re-brand and deliver a website for her multi-million pound retail business, and went on to introduce me to MANY key clients in LTF’s growth, including Samantha Collins with Aspire (again now in their 10th year working with LTF). There were many supports, connectors, friends and contacts that put their belief in me and helped me build LTF from the spare room, into what it is today.

In addition to my networking, I felt I needed an outreach strategy too to establish myself in the local area (I knew NOBODY here). My first port of call was to start attending local networking events which (while I did meet some interesting people and a couple of clients) looking back didn’t yield a lot.

It was my decision to reach out to as many printing companies, and marketing consultants, that really made the difference. One firm in particular, JR Press run by Geoff Fone, were extremely welcoming, and made almost an instant decision to refer ALL of their website design enquiries to me.

Not only that, but after a few months of being partners, Geoff decided he liked my approach, and would like to retain me to help JR Press with their own online marketing (this was probably my first ever Digital Marketing customer now I think about it!).

Through my work with JR Press, I met many local businesses who became clients. Two of note are Rofin Baasel, now in their 10th year of being an LTF client, and Phoenix Metals, also in their 10th year of being an LTF client! All of these people have invested in their design and online marketing with LTF every single year, and continue to do so.

After only 6 months of working alone, with the occasional bit of web development from Simon down in Brighton, I was overwhelmed with the workload and decided to seek out help. I wrote to Northampton University looking to connect with recent graphic design graduates and was lucky to meet Matt Holland (now entering his 9th year with the business and very much my right hand man!).

The 3 years following that move into an office saw probably our steepest growth curves, with revenue almost doubling each year for 3 years in a row, and the taking on of 2 further full time employees.

In our new lovely home, we continued to flourish and grow. Bringing on new members of the team on both a full time and what I call “Permalance” basis along the way, and winning some fantastic clients along the way… always punching above our weight, and focusing on the next thing and innovating.