From big business to the public sector, Zest is the creative marketing and advertising agency bringing its clients the benefits of truly sharp thinking.

ZEST ST is The Integrated Creative Marketing and Advertising agency in Kent bringing its clients the benefit of truly Sharp Thinking.

The Integrated Communications Agency in Kent. ZEST ST is at the heart of everything creative

We’re an integrated communications agency based in Kent. We create ideas that make your marketing and brand communications more effective. We deliver innovation and give you strategically-sound campaigns with much more creative impact and engagement from advertising, PR, digital and direct marketing and literature programmes. We work with a wide range of clients, in a wide range of sectors. Here’s our approach...

We call our approach ‘Sharp Thinking’. Sharp Thinking is at the heart of everything we do, from strategy to delivering innovation. To deliver our Sharp Thinking, we first listen to you. This is so we understand you, your values and your strategic goals. Next comes the analysis. We evaluate and research your offering, define targets, determine how best to reach them, understand the competition, and truly get to grips with your customers’ decision making process. Our Sharp Thinking is key to our clients. We help their products to be chosen instead of their competitor’s. And that improves our client’s business.

The Creative Vision

Some see a brick wall and see it as an obstacle. We see it as a climbing wall and have a great time clambering over it. At Zest, we see things differently, we think differently, and we bring the creative benefits to our clients.

The Story

ZEST started out in 1981 as a full service advertising agency with a group of talented creative people and a commitment to quality. Since those days, our name has changed once or twice, and we’ve moved house more than once, but still we surround ourselves with the most talented creative people, and we are still 100% committed to quality.

The Creative Tools

Without a doubt, our sharpest tool is our thinking, and whether our clients want mouth-watering design, a suite of creative ideas, bullet-proof strategy, or a little bit of everything, it’s this tool they value most. Sharp thinking though, would be nothing without service and delivery, the other tools of our trade. In the right hands, our tools get the results for our clients time after time.

The Brief

Have you ever gone grocery shopping without a list? You end up buying everything BUT the thing you actually needed, and it invariably costs you a whole lot more than it should have. Which is why we work with our clients to arrive at a crystal clear brief – to ensure that we both know exactly what’s being done and what the end goal is. And by the way, no shopping list is complete without chocolate.

Marketing, Advertising, Creative Services

Full service means everything under one roof. Advertising, pr, media, graphic design, conceptualising, copy writing, strategy, digital web services. Use one or two, or use them all – you’ll never be short of options with Zest.

Creative Ideas

Our ideas create buzz around brands. Not only inspiring target audiences, but also producing winning results for clients. In short, we create great creative work, that works.

Relationship Marketing

Knowing you, and developing a deep understanding of your business, we advise on the best possible communication techniques and tools. We help form a stronger and more direct connection between you and your customer. Addressing existing or potential customers as individuals, rather than as part of a ‘target audience’, helps you engage with them and can deliver a real boost to sales.

Direct Marketing

Our ability to develop a sound understanding of our clients’ unique business and customer base allows us to produce highly creative direct marketing concepts and campaigns that hit the mark. Clean databases and accurate audience lists ensures our campaigns deliver cost-effective marketing to a consistently high level. Digital Marketing We understand the digital space and can help make it work for your brand. We create websites, e-blast campaigns, Google AdWords, organic search results, RSS and much much more. We can create innovative industry-leading digital ideas that help raise your product’s profile.

Informative writing

We speak your customers’ language and create copy that connects with them. Creative copy, detail orientated technical writing, a blog: we do it all. In the world of web we understand keywords, search engine optimisation, metatags and writing for spiders. Whatever the medium we create the right words to drive sales of your product.

Company Literature

Yes we design brochures! Annual reports and suites of brand literature; and every one tells our client’s unique story. Remember, your company literature doesn’t have to stop at print. A number of our clients take advantage of our video email and podcast capabilities to support and enhance their literature.

Live Communications / Guerrilla Marketing

It’s a hub for on-the-street activity and a sure way to draw in the crowds. We use guerrilla marketing as a way to create the unexpected and unconventional to give standout to your brand. Using online technology we now release campaigns simultaneously as web virals targetting YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites thereby giving even more exposure to your product and brand.

Media Planning and Buying

Today’s fragmented audiences need to be engaged in their own environment. That’s why we explore every appropriate outlet, including TV, radio, outdoor and online, before developing the most cost-effective plan to meet your campaign objectives and budget.

Incentive and Reward Schemes

We create and run sales, and customer incentive programmes that make a difference to your business. Our skill and experience means we offer a total service, including: strategy development, promotion, management through web-accessible databases, and where required, development of specific or large-scale team incentive events.

Affiliate Marketing

We create and deliver affiliate marketing activities such as clubs and joint brand initiatives create platforms to boost brand awareness and sticky customer contact.

Public Relations

Integrated into our account teams, our PR people help us create high-profile coverage for clients through PR programmes or stand-alone activities. While traditional avenues remain essential, a focus on social networking, social media and online community building has never been more relevant. Through Social Media Optimisation we add another dimension to your online visibility and brand building, allowing traffic to be driven to your site through an additional avenue to search engines.

The Details

8 The Oaks
Lords Wood
Kent
ME5 8LF
United Kingdom

T: +44 (0)1634 671167
F: +44 (0)1634 863494
E: Terry Hewett

Registered Office as above
Registration No. 1555371
VAT Registration No. 619 4147 35