Digital marketing for Thurrock, a borough of builders and logistics firms.
DC Digital is based in Essex, and we’ve worked with businesses here, including UPR Scaffolding in Stanford-le-Hope and TotalSafe UK in Corringham. Below is what the borough’s own figures say about how its firms win work, and where we’d start with yours.
Photo: “London Gateway” by Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph (cropped)
DC Digital builds websites and runs SEO, Google Ads, social media and SendIQ outbound campaigns for Thurrock businesses. About one business in four registered in the borough is in construction, and about one in six in transport and storage. So most of our advice here is about selling to contractors, shippers and other firms, not just the public.
What the borough’s businesses look like
The latest official count puts 7,190 businesses in Thurrock (ONS, 2026). Two sectors stand well apart from the rest of Essex and from England as a whole.
| Share of registered businesses | Thurrock | Essex County Council area | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction | 26% | 22% | 14% |
| Transport and storage | 16% | 4% | 4% |
| Fewer than 10 people working | 92% | 90% | 89% |
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2026[1]. Shares calculated by DC Digital from counts rounded to the nearest 5.
Three things the table doesn’t show:
- It’s grown fast. The number of registered businesses rose by about 26% between 2016 and 2026, against about 9% for England. Construction firms went from 1,110 to 1,900, a rise of about 71%[1].
- The big employers move things. Of the borough’s 25 or so workplaces with 250 or more staff, about 10 are in transport and storage[2].
- Two ports, one freeport. London Gateway and the Port of Tilbury are both tax sites in the Thames Freeport, designated in November 2021[3]. The council’s own economic roadmap names wholesale and retail, transport and storage, and construction as particularly important to the local economy[4].
Where we’d start with a business here
This part is our reading of those numbers, not a statistic. When a quarter of firms build things and a sixth move things, a lot of buying happens between businesses: tenders, approved supplier lists, recommendations and someone picking up the phone. That changes the order we’d do things in.
Go to the buyers directly
If you sell to main contractors, developers, facilities managers or freight firms, your buyers can be listed by name. SendIQ researches the companies that fit and approaches the right people in them, so you’re not waiting for one of them to search.
A website that passes the buyer’s checks
Before a contractor adds you to a list, someone checks you out, usually on a phone. Accreditations, insurance, the work you take on and recent jobs should all be one tap away. We build websites around those checks.
Website design → Marketing for construction firms → B2B marketing →
Search, where households are buying
Trades that sell to homeowners still win work from the map results and from Google Ads. We set the targeting around the postcodes you actually cover, and judge it on what each enquiry costs.
Show the work
For firms whose proof is what they’ve built, fitted or delivered, social media made from real jobs does more than stock images. We photograph and film the work ourselves.
Who we’ve worked with in Thurrock
| Client | Where | Sector | Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPR Scaffolding | Stanford-le-Hope | Construction and trades | |
| TotalSafe UK | Corringham | Fire safety | Outbound campaign |
We list them as past clients only. Results appear on our site when the figures have been checked and the client has agreed, not before.
How working with us works
01
Where we are
Based in Essex. There’s no office in the borough, or anywhere open to callers
02
Meeting in person
When it’s worth it, pick a date and David travels out: your yard, site office or unit
03
Day to day
Calls, email and WhatsApp, with a report every month
04
Who you deal with
David Cooper, the founder, from the first call onwards
07
Replies
Within 24 hours, weekends included
Questions we get from businesses here
No. DC Digital is based in Essex, and there’s no office in the borough or anywhere else for visitors. Most of the work runs on calls and email. When sitting down together would help, we agree a date and David comes to your premises.
Yes. Stanford-le-Hope and Corringham are part of Thurrock, and the official business figures on this page cover the borough as a whole, the most detailed level with usable sector breakdowns. They’re the closest true picture of the town, and one of our past clients, UPR Scaffolding, is there.
Sometimes less than you’d expect. If your buyers are contractors, developers or shippers, they tend to find suppliers through tenders, approved lists and people they trust. A website that passes their checks, plus a direct approach to named buyers, usually comes first. We’ll say which applies once we’ve looked at your market.
Yes. UPR Scaffolding in Stanford-le-Hope, and TotalSafe UK, a fire safety business in Corringham, for whom we ran an outbound campaign. We don’t publish figures for either yet: results go up only once they’ve been checked and agreed.
Tell us who buys from you
Contractors, shippers or households: we’ll reply within 24 hours with where we’d start. Call 07512 210345 or email [email protected].
Request a time [email protected] 07512 210345 WhatsApp Business: 07512 210345 (@dcdigitalmarketing)
We reply within 24 hours, weekends included. No obligation.
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Sources
- Office for National Statistics, UK Business Counts: enterprises by industry and employment size band, 2026 and 2016 (Nomis dataset NM_142_1, updated 24 September 2026). Thurrock, Essex County Council area and England.
- Office for National Statistics, UK Business Counts: local units by industry and employment size band, 2026 (Nomis dataset NM_141_1).
- The Designation of Freeport Tax Sites (Thames Freeport) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/1195), in force 19 November 2021, legislation.gov.uk.
- Thurrock Council, Backing Thurrock: a roadmap for economic recovery, resilience and a return to growth, Part 1 (2021).