Five to Nine connected 150+ top digital talent between Cape Town and Australia
CONNECTING TOP MARKETING TALENT TO STARTUPS
With over 10 years’ experience working in Global Agencies and 5 years’ with Startups, we know good talent when we see it. With Talent Representatives, Lauren in Sydney and Bill Murray in Cape Town, trust and creativity was our foundation.
We aimed to make a positive impact on global connections. Our mission is make top talent accessible to startups, everywhere.
SUCCESS
150+ top digital and creative talent signed up to our collective. We made AU$100K in the first 6 months through word of mouth projects. We loved this book Built to Sell to outline how we set up our offerings.
BUSINESS AUTOMATIONS + PROCESSES
Our whole business was set up using Airtable as our database, using Zapier, Docs, Xero and Slack. We streamlined remote work back in the day when it wasn’t a thing in 2018!
To streamline the business, I completed B-School which is 6-week, interactive program that teaches smart, effective online marketing strategies to business owners who want more sales and more impact from their online presence.
WHAT HAPPENED
Five to Nine ran from 2017 until 2019, for various personal reasons the business closed down. In hindsight with the world moving completely remotely, we should have kept going!
Top digital talent
Collective of 150+ top Creative and Digital from Cape Town South Africa, connecting them to SMEs in Australia.
Digital freelancers
Curated talent Design & Development, Copywriting, Art Direction, Content and Growth, On Demand.
ex-Creative Agencies
All talent had to have had experience in global creative and digital agencies
150+ top digital talent
From a Growth Marketer for Africa Albida Tourism, Creative Technologist for Hometime, Art Director for Santona and UX Specialist for Stall Square. All thriving reviews from our clients.
Startups + SMEs
We made AU$100K within the first 6 months servicing startups who needed talent on demand / daily / monthly pricing.
“Wow, this lady is phenomenal. Lauren brought me on board to Five To Nine when working remotely wasn’t a big thing. We built a lovely business and she exposed me to such an incredible brain. Hers. She is a machine when it comes to platforms, efficiencies and general communication. She is a delight to work with and I foresee that that journey will not be our last journey to travel. I would work with Lauren again in heartbeat, that work ethic and enthusiasm is something anyone would benefit from.”
“Yes, Lauren is a professional operator, very experienced, has access to a large team of talent and manages the process really well.
Great communication, Lauren keeps checking in, making sure things are progressing where we needed them to. Also knows lots of great people so could help out on other projects too. Thank you!”
“Lauren was a great mediator between challenges. She knew exactly what our needs and painponts were, and understood how we could make things difficult for our creative talent.
This is something you don’t get in advertising agencies. It’s always very much two separate teams, whereas Lauren helped to keep us all cohesive and moving towards the same goal.”
“Andre (UX Designer) goes over and above to complete the tasks required.
He does his own research and lets the data dictate the results.
He will complete whats requested, but go beyond that and assist in every aspect when able.”
“Working with Lauren and Clyde (Growth Marketer) was incredible easy to do, they have great ideas on how to continuously improve our online presence, they have such a positive attitude and are fun to work with. They work very efficiently and have grown our online presence in SEO immensely.”