Helping brands communicate for growth

Marketing and communications consultancy to build your results & reputation

Kate speaking at the Vacation Rental World Summit 2023 on how communicating well positively impacts your business

Helping founders achieve marketing success

Drive growth and customer loyalty while piloting your brand vision.

⚡️ Marketing strategy and planning

⚡️ Brand narrative and storytelling

⚡️ Mentoring for founders or teams new to marketing

French Waterways searched for over two years before we found what we were looking for in Kate S-G. She quickly understood our business aims, our marketing needs and our very particular audiences. We consider ourselves very lucky to have such a diligent, strong right arm on the tiller to guide us through the ever-changing marketing world.
— Ruth, French Waterways

About us

Coconut Comms is the culmination of my 20 years’ marketing and PR experience. I help founder-led businesses in travel and hospitality improve customer acquisition, retention, brand advocacy, and to exit.

⚡️ Nine years’ in-house PR, communications & product marketing

⚡️ 10 years as an independent communications consultant across luxury travel, holiday rental marketing, vacation rental tech and SaaS

⚡️ 8 years as a travel industry pundit for BBC

⚡️ An entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for the power of effective communication and storytelling

Kate Stinchcombe-Gillies, founder and communication consultant

We met Kate a long time ago when she was working at Holiday Lettings and got in touch when we heard her on the radio. Kate has really helped us see the light and the marketing has been a revelation (not a single email that has been sent hasn’t converted for us).
— Richard, Beside the Sea Holidays

What we do

Our mission is to drive the results you seek through the development and application of a marketing communication strategy that achieves resonance with your ideal customer.

⚡️ STRATEGY

Look at where you’re at versus where you’d like to be, delve into the why and wherefore, to deliver a marketing strategy to get you on the road towards your goals, and a plan you can implement there and then.

⚡️ CONSULTANCY

Support your implementation of the strategy and plan. Oversee execution and measurement, learnings and re-thinks.

Help you get the best from your agencies and creative partners.

⚡️ MENTORING

Coach your team to understand their role in your brand communications and to be your happiest advocates.

We didn’t think we needed you, but once we started we couldn’t turn back. You’ve been empathetic, a friend, passionate about our business and helped us market everything we cared about. Just… thank you.
— Mary, Miller of Mansfield

First, let’s talk

Ready to invest in marketing but don’t know where to start?

Reached a certain size or plateau but need some expert help to scale?

Just need a fresh marketing perspective to support your business ambition?

Book a free 30-minute kick-off call or drop me an email

It’s been an absolute pleasure, hugely satisfying and very commercially successful working with you.
— Baz, The White Hart of Wytham