High Quality B2B Lead Generation Services
For IT and Tech companies

Capture. Engage. Convert.

Our mission is to capture leads, engage your audience and help you convert leads into sales.

We have formulated a lead generation process superior to others and focus our energies on helping our clients gain a competitive advantage by gaining potential customers in order to increase future sales.

The proof is that we’ve built our success on repeat business. Our clients keep returning to us because they know we deliver a strong return on their investment. We are successful because we are experts in our field, take time to understand your business and adapt our services to meet your specific lead generation needs.

What We Do

We build your pipeline and find immediate opportunities through our lead generation services. CEC provide 3 levels of full-service lead generation campaigns in the form of packages to our clients, as well as bespoke packages for clients who require our services on a longer fixed-term basis.

We have a deep knowledge and expertise in all aspects of IT, including, Security, Networking, Cloud, Collaboration, Data Centre and ERP.

All of our lead generation packages include:

Data

Email Marketing

Content Design

Telemarketing

Marketing Strategy Consultancy

Set Number
of Leads

Meet The Team

We are an elite team of experts and champions in lead generation. Agile, smart and dynamic with a mix of best of breed skill sets and are able to adapt quickly in a rapidly fast-moving industry. With a combined 30+ years of experience in marketing and B2B lead generation in a range of sectors, CEC Marketing uses its expertise to help tech companies grow their businesses.

Based in the South West, the company has grown steadily since it was founded in 2015. The team is growing as we continue to add services that require more specialist skills and expertise. Everyone in the team will take time to understand your business so that they can advise, using their area of knowledge, on how CEC’s services will benefit your business.

Christine Cockerton

CEO & founder

Over her 20+ years marketing and lead generation career, Christine has worked with a diverse range of organisations, from small & medium sized businesses to large, high-profile corporations. Christine has fulfilled a lifelong ambition when she set up CEC Marketing, the business is very much built around her ethos of always delivering world class lead generation service and results.

Ben Cockerton

Digital & Delivery Director

Ben’s expertise lies in managing all aspects of the data, and running the email marketing side of the business. He designs and executes the sharp, eye-catching email marketing campaigns that our clients find instrumental in building their lead pipeline.

Dominic Verrall

Head of Research and Analysis

Dom started his career at CEC in the summer of 2016, with a marketing internship, and has continued in the role since taking on a full-time position in January 2018. With a strong background in data, research and analytics, Dom uses these skills to deliver successful marketing campaigns in the UK, US and across EMEA.

Tom Silcox

Digital Marketing Executive

Tom started his career at CEC in summer 2022 on our Graduate Programme. His background in STEM allows him to bring his analytical skills and incredible attention to detail to create beautiful designs for email templates and other content around the business that gets quality results.

Rocky and MJ

Chief Happiness Officers

Rocky and MJ are CECs Chief Happiness Officers and responsible for mental coaching. Rocky also fulfils the role of Chief Security Officer.

Fabian Stoesser

Digital and Data Marketing Apprentice

Fabian joined CEC in the summer of 2022 as an apprentice and is currently working with the Data and Marketing association to gain a better understanding of the environment

2015

Christine Cockerton founded CEC Marketing Services; a family run business focused on lead generation for technology companies.

2016

Ben Cockerton joins the team to head the digital department after seeing the strong reputation being built in the IT & Technology Community.

2017

Dom Verrall joined the team after graduating university and completing a successful internship to create and manage the market research department.

2018

CEC wins first contract in the USA.

Team expanded to 5 employees.

Client base expanded through recommendations and referrals.

2019

CEC expands into EMEA working on campaigns in Ireland, France, Holland, Germany and Spain.

CEC opens new office in Bristol.

2020

CEC moved to entirely virtual events due to the challenges of Covid and succeeded in continuing to build pipeline for our clients.

CEC expands their lead generation services to more territories covering EMEAR, APAC & Americas.

2021

CEC is now part of the Ariba Network.

Extended native hub portfolio of speakers & translators.

Invests in new technology and data tools.

Moved back to physical offices.

2022

CEC becomes a WeConnect member.

Invests in more graduate recruitment programs.

Teamed up with the youth trust charity and took part in the "10 peaks in 10 hours" challenge.

2023

CEC Marketing moves into new larger Bristol offices.

CEC expands team size to accommodate 2023 growth.

CEC invests in state of the art training and technology to upskill the team.

What our Clients say

Testimonials

“CEC have been an integral part of our lead generation for 2017. In a very short space of time, the team at CEC have managed to understand the type of lead we are looking for and the quality of lead we expect. I have also been impressed with the knowledge of the IT industry that CEC have portrayed, and this makes it quicker to get campaigns up and running. In a very fast paced environment, this is extremely important and one of the bonuses of working with CEC.

Matt SinclairHead of Business One & Business ByDesign – SAP UK & Ireland

“Sapphire has been working with CEC Marketing for a couple of years. Throughout this time we have developed a healthy relationship and have generated some impressive results.”

Richard HudsonGroup Marketing Director

"CEC Marketing produce exactly what I need with little fuss, on time and to budget. " CEC Marketing produce exactly what I need with little fuss, on time and to budget. We have used Christine and her team a few times for lead generation and event attendance and they have always delivered.

Nigel HawthornEMEA Marketing Director - McAfee

I have worked with CEC over the last 2 years and have always picked CEC when we have had to implement a high touch, high value type of outbound campaign. The CEC team has proven time and time again that they understand what it takes to deliver successful lead generation campaigns.

Natascha KenyonHead of Marketing and Communications

CEC have been excellent in understanding our business and knowing how to articulate our messaging across all architectures. They know how to best communicate what Comstor do and how to find new partners for us to work with and support. We strongly value our partnership with CEC and would recommend their services to all.

Victoria ReglarMarketing Director, Comstor UK & I