Marketing and customer experience strategy for regional businesses across Australia
Clearer marketing | Better customer experiences | Stronger local growth
Mac&Ernie works with Australian regional small businesses, leaders and community organisations to build trust, loyalty and referrals through clearer communication, more sustainable marketing and better customer experiences.
Services include: strategic planning, policy development, custom workshops and masterclasses for Business and Service Groups, Councils, Boards and more.
📍Located in Gippsland, working across Australia.
Strategy that fits your place and purpose. Marketing that works where you work.
Marketing & Content Strategy
Practical strategy for businesses & organisations that want clearer messaging, better content direction & marketing that works with your time, capacity & goals.
Marketing & Social Media Training
Workshops, coaching & masterclasses designed to build confidence, improve capability & make marketing easier to manage in the real world.
Social Media Policies & Guides
Clear, useful policies, playbooks & governance tools that help organisations communicate confidently, reduce risk & create consistency across teams.
Strategic marketing support with a practical, human touch.
I'm Erika McInerney. I started Mac&Ernie ten years ago, after moving back to Gippsland following almost two decades in agency marketing in Melbourne and London.
I wanted to be somewhere I knew, working with the businesses and organisations that keep small towns and regional areas thriving.
My work pairs marketing strategy with customer experience. That combination is uncommon in a small consultancy, and it's the reason most clients say working with me feels different to working with a marketing agency.
Do less, connect more. That's my philosophy, and the way the work actually gets done - supporting, not taking over the business.
Do less.
Connect More.
6 weeks personalised 1:1 coaching
Reset your marketing and customer experience over six weeks - so it actually works, without burning you out. A new, personalised 1:1 intensive experience with me as your expert guide.
Trusted to deliver strategy and training by organisations across Gippsland and Australia including:
Resources for smarter, more sustainable marketing.
Explore practical resources created for regional, suburban and small-town businesses, including blog articles, downloadable tools and the Small Town Business Podcast. Everything is designed to help you market more effectively, reduce friction and better understand what works where you are.
FREE Customer Ease Audit to find the friction in your business
Mini Instagram Audit to give your profile the boost it needs.
Head to the blog for long-form tips and up-to-date marketing advice.
Find what’s making it harder for customers to say yes - and fix it.
The Customer Ease Map™ is a practical workbook for small business owners and service providers who want to spot friction in the customer journey, improve customer experience and remove hidden barriers to bookings, sales and repeat business.
Use it to map the journey, identify what’s getting in the way, and make simple improvements that help customers move forward with more confidence.
$47 - download and start today.
Small Town Business Podcast