No Bullshit Consultants

Your business.
No filter.

We help businesses that are too busy working in their business to stop and look at it properly. Straight answers. Real results. A team that works toward your goals — not the clock.

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Can customers find you?

Search visibility, directories, local presence. If Google doesn't know you exist, neither do your customers.

Can they trust you?

Reviews, reputation, website credibility. People decide in seconds whether you're worth their time.

Can they book, buy, or sign up?

Getting traffic means nothing if visitors bounce before they convert.

Review. Plan. Execute.

We don't bill hours or write strategy decks nobody reads. We review your business, agree goals, then work toward them until they're done.

1

The Business Review

Everything under the microscope

Website, SEO, competition, local presence, reputation, operations, missed opportunities. All findings delivered in plain English — scored, prioritised, and ready to act on.

2

Set The Goals

Targets, not timesheets

Sarah and Andy sit down with you and agree specific, measurable targets. Not billable hours. Not vague KPIs. Real outcomes that move the needle for your business.

3

Crack On

On-site and off-site execution

We get to work — hands-on, in your business and behind the scenes. At the checkpoint we review together: adapt, continue, or part ways. No hard feelings. Then we map out the rest and keep going.

Transparent pricing. No surprises.

From a quick digital audit to a full embedded partnership. You know exactly what you're paying for, from day one.

Entry point
OG Digital Review
£49.99
One-off
 
A complete audit of your total online viability. Written in plain English, not a 47-page strategy deck stuffed with buzzwords.
  • Website & SEO health check
  • Competition analysis
  • Local presence review
  • Social reputation audit
  • DIY fix list included
  • Prioritised action plan
Popular
6-Month Partnership
£1,000
per month
or £5,000 upfront — save £1,000
One-off business review followed by six months of goal-driven execution. We work toward your targets, not a timesheet.
  • Full business review included
  • Agreed goals, not hours
  • On-site & off-site work
  • 2-month checkpoint review
  • Remaining 4 months mapped out
  • Walk away at checkpoint — no ties
Best value
12-Month Partnership
£1,000
per month
or £10,000 upfront — save £2,000
Same hands-on approach, longer runway. More room to build momentum and deliver deeper strategic change across the business.
  • Full business review included
  • Agreed goals, not hours
  • On-site & off-site work
  • 3-month checkpoint review
  • Remaining 9 months mapped out
  • Walk away at checkpoint — no ties
Standalone products
GBP Create, Setup & Optimise
Google Business Profile built from scratch, fully configured and optimised for local search visibility.
£29.99
Domain + Email Setup
Includes 1-year .co.uk domain registration and basic professional email configuration.
£49.99

Award-winning. Battle-tested. Still hungry.

Seventeen years of wins, one very public loss, and every lesson turned into ammunition for the businesses we work with.

Sarah Penn — Business Woman of the Year
Southwark Business Awards 2019
Sarah Penn
Co-founder & CEO
Business Woman of the Year. Named in the ASI Hot 25 — the industry's most influential. A keynote speaker at international trade events who has won more tenders than most people have written. Sarah builds relationships that last the lifetime of a business. The kind of operator who walks into a boardroom and walks out with the contract.
Business Woman of the Year ASI Hot 25 Keynote Speaker Tender Specialist
Andy Thorne — SkuCon Las Vegas
SkuCon 2019 — Las Vegas
Andy Thorne
Co-founder & Creative Director
The creative engine. Put branded Rubik's Cubes on Sky Sports for Froch vs Groves 2. Produced a We Will Rock You parody for Promo Products Week that hit 55,000 views and caught the attention of Queen's Brian May. Staged The Outstanding Promo Show — TOPS — at the Tower of London. Double-digit awards. Zero off-switch.
Froch vs Groves 2 / Sky Sports TOPS at Tower of London 55k+ Views Award Winning

London. Park Avenue. Hong Kong. Amsterdam. All of it earned.

From a London office to four global locations. Fortune 100 clients on the books. Both turned down an offer to buy the company. Then they lost one — and learned even more. Now every win and every scar goes straight into the businesses they work with.

17+
Years in the industry
10+
Major industry awards
4
Global offices (were)
F100
Client experience
The bit most consultants leave out

We lost our company.

Outstanding Branding was ours. Built from nothing in 2009, taken international, more than ten industry awards, clients from one-van operations to the Fortune 100.

We had an offer to buy it. We both turned it down. We thought we were just getting started.

In October 2021 it went into voluntary liquidation.

Six finance applications were refused in the run-up. By the time it closed, suppliers were owed money and customers had orders that never turned up. Some of them said so publicly. They were entitled to.

That's ours to carry. Not the pandemic's, not the lenders', not the market's.

We're not going to dress it up, and we're not going to bury it three clicks down where you'd find it anyway. Here's what it taught us, and we paid a lot for it:

Cash is the only vote that counts. Growth you can't fund is just a countdown, and the numbers tell you the truth long before you're ready to hear it — we were too busy being outstanding at everything else to stop and read our own.

And the offer on the table beats the one in your head. We said no because we were certain the best was still to come. Certainty is not a forecast.

That's why Outstanding Group exists. We look at your business the way we wish someone had made us look at ours.

Let's have a conversation.

No pitch deck. No discovery call. Just a proper chat about your business and where it's leaving money on the table.

Based in
Southend-on-Sea, Essex