{"id":44702,"date":"2016-09-16T00:26:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T23:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?p=44702"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:05:33","slug":"mark-wright-climb-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/mark-wright-climb-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Wright: Climb Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mark Wright, 26<br>\n<\/strong><strong>Company: <\/strong>Climb Online<br>\n<strong>Web: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climb-online.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.climb-online.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2016\/22-climb-online\/\">Startups 100-listed<\/a> marketing agency lays claim to being &ldquo;the most successful business founded by an <em>Apprentice<\/em> winner&rdquo;, able to return Lord Sugar&rsquo;s &pound;250,000 investment after just nine months.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by Mark Wright in 2015, Climb Online is a digital marketing agency that aims to disrupt what it sees as the traditional reputation of &ldquo;secrecy and dishonesty&rdquo; seen in the industry with an approach that puts customer service first. It&rsquo;s certainly had an impressive run since the entrepreneur&rsquo;s appearance on the BBC show, securing contracts with more than 250 businesses in the last 18 months including Company Check, Groupon, Emirates, Dickie&rsquo;s and My Voucher Codes to name a few, and turning over &pound;2.8m last year &ndash; a figure it expects to double for 2016. As well as his business interests, Wright acts as an ambassador and mentor to The Prince&rsquo;s Trust, offering free access to the &lsquo;Climb Academy&rsquo; to those interested in digital marketing &ndash; a course due to be launched in Autumn 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his achievements so far, Wright says he will &ldquo;not stop or feel a sense of complacency until Climb Online secures international offices and becomes the largest and most desired digital agency to work with across the UK and overseas&rdquo; &ndash; with its sights already set on expansion into Ireland, the UAE, South Africa and Australia.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image&nbsp;&copy;Peter Searle.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Wright, 26 Company: Climb Online Web: www.climb-online.co.uk This Startups 100-listed marketing agency lays claim to being &ldquo;the most successful business founded by an Apprentice winner&rdquo;, able to return Lord Sugar&rsquo;s &pound;250,000 investment after just nine months. 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