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Rise Growth Marketing Collective

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The agency alternative for UK startups that have outgrown their first freelancer.

Borehamwood, United Kingdom
Rising
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About Rise Growth Marketing Collective

Rise is a growth marketing collective for UK startups, scale-ups and SMEs that have outgrown a single freelancer but can't justify full agency fees or hiring in-house yet.

Every engagement is led by founder Barri Coen, with channel work delivered by specialists who do that one thing full-time: paid search, paid social, SEO, affiliate, email and lifecycle, conversion rate optimisation, analytics and tracking 30+ channel specialists. No account managers. No junior staff learning on your budget. No fixed retainer you keep paying when the work slows down.

Most clients start with a planning phase: an audit of what's actually working, a forecast of what each channel can realistically produce, and a roadmap that puts the budget where the return is. It's a fixed fee and it stands on its own. If ongoing channel management makes sense afterwards, it's priced on specialist hours against your agreed budget, with media billed at cost and no markup.

Who this works for

Founder-led digital businesses, typically 5 to 50 people, with a real budget and no in-house marketing team. Companies that want someone senior to own the numbers rather than a team of four sitting on a weekly status call.

Who it doesn't

Businesses looking for the cheapest hourly rate, or organisations that need a full agency structure with dedicated account management. Rise is built to remove that layer, not replicate it.

Based in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, working with clients across the UK.

Services

Service Categories

Industries Served(18)

Consumer & Retail
Ecommerce & DTCConsumer ElectronicsBeauty & Personal Care
Education & Nonprofit
EdTech & Online LearningNonprofits & NGOs

Team

Barri Coen

Barri Coen

Lead Growth Marketing Consultant

Projects

Reviews & testimonials

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Richard Packman - SockGeeks
Jul 2026

Barri at Rise knows his subject and is friendly and easy to approach with it. It felt more like having someone inside our team than bringing in a freelancer. We used Rise for AdWords and analytics support and for customer acquisition strategy. He responded and delivered quickly, was open about what he was doing and why throughout, and communicated well the whole way. I would call on him again without hesitating.

Google Ads, analytics and customer acquisition strategy.

Saher Shodhan - Traktion
Jul 2026

Rise are genuinely good to work with. They have delivered strong results for our clients and communicate clearly throughout. If you are a startup or a small business looking for marketing help, they are who I would point you towards.

Ongoing marketing delivery supporting startup and small business clients.

Michael Ross - New Dawn ADHD Coaching
Jul 2026

Barri has a strong grasp of marketing strategy and social media. The insight I valued most was about generating leads through social channels, and it brought more traffic and more enquiries through my website. He also set up analytics tools for me, so I now have a much better sense of which parts of my marketing are actually earning their keep. He was responsive whenever I wanted to talk something through, and he is good company as well as good at the job.

Marketing strategy, social media lead generation and analytics setup.

Marc van Agteren - Hartley
Jul 2026

We came to Rise with very little in place and they built the marketing function for us, starting with how we described ourselves and ending up running our paid channels. The useful part was that they could work at the speed we were working at. Our product kept changing underneath them, and they never insisted on holding to a plan that no longer matched it. When we needed someone in front of the board at short notice, they came. For a young company still working out who it sells to, that counted for more than anything else. I would recommend them.

Positioning and paid acquisition for an early-stage app.