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A marketing proposal for 3ti

Put your tarmacon payroll.

You've built a genuinely category-leading solar charging hub. Caterpillar, JLR, Silverstone and Merseyside Police already run it. Now let's make every car park owner in Britain want one, and turn dwell time into demand.

33%
of new cars must be EV in 2026, by law
23%
where the market actually is
£0
no detectable paid media running
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The uncomfortable truth

Award-winning product.
Invisible brand.

3ti has a genuinely category-leading hub, solar-supplemented, deployed in under a day, no multi-year grid-connection wait. It's won the innovation awards. It's on Caterpillar, JLR and Network Rail sites.

And yet, for a brand with that client roster: roughly 3,500 LinkedIn followers, and no detectable paid media anywhere.

The product was switched on years ago. The marketing never was. That's not a criticism, it's the entire opportunity, and it's the one thing a media agency exists to fix.

99.98%
uptime (3ti's figure)
8+
blue-chip clients
~3,500
LinkedIn followers, total
0
always-on paid campaigns
The competition markets harder than you, with a weaker product. We close that gap.
The market moment

The law is ahead of the car parks.

Government has made the destination unavoidable, the only variable is who captures the demand first. Right now, nobody in solar-supplemented charging is even trying to.

The mandate-vs-market gap
The ZEV Mandate legally requires 33% of new cars sold in 2026 to be electric. The market is running at around 23%. That gap is millions of drivers arriving in car parks that aren't ready.
What the law demands · 202633%
Where the market is · H1 2026~23%
Scale: share of new-car sales, 0 to 40%. Sources: ZEV Mandate (gov.uk), SMMT, July 2026.
31 Mar 2027
The grant window shuts

The Workplace Charging Scheme pays up to 75% of cost (£500/socket), but this is its final year. A hard deadline is a marketer's best friend.

28 Oct 2026
Depot Scheme reopens

The £170m Depot Charging Scheme's next window opens, Window 1 closed in June. A live, dated capture moment for fleet buyers.

~£25k
Tax write-off, expiring

100% first-year capital allowance on charging kit runs to March 2027, up to roughly £25k back on the £100k unit, subject to your tax position. Urgency, quantified.

The positioning

Everyone else sells a cost. 3ti sells an asset.

The whole category sells EV charging as a sustainability expense someone else takes off your hands, and quietly keeps ownership of. There's a sharper, unclaimed story sitting in plain sight.

How the category talks

  • "Net zero for everyone", sustainability first
  • "Zero cost, zero risk, we fund it"
  • The operator owns the asset; you get a rent-like slice
  • Charging framed as a cost to be offset
  • Spoken to facilities managers, about carbon
VS

How 3ti should talk

  • A revenue asset on ground you already own
  • The sun undercuts the grid, structurally cheaper power
  • Live in a day, earning while rivals wait for the grid
  • Every hour they dwell, you earn
  • Spoken to owners & FDs, about yield
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The sun doesn't send invoices

Solar-supplemented power means a structurally lower cost per kWh than a grid-tied rival. You can undercut on price, or bank the margin. That's pricing power no cost-centre pitch can match, and it's true whichever commercial model 3ti runs.

No multi-year grid wait

Rivals queue 18 months to a decade for a new grid connection. 3ti needs no new connection and installs in under a day. Reframed for a marketer: your car park starts earning this quarter, not this decade.

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Dwell time is inventory

You already own the asset and the customer's already there for hours. We're not asking a business to build something new, just to meter something it currently gives away for free.

We've done your homework

We know exactly who you're up against. And it's wide open.

3ti isn't fighting to build the national charging network, that's bp pulse and GRIDSERVE, burning billions. 3ti sells a product to the people who own the car parks. In that lane the field is thin, and almost nobody markets. Here's the map.

The direct field · nearly empty

Rapid-deploy hubs

3ti's true peer group: containerised, deploy-in-a-day charging hubs.
Only two come close. Fellten's Charge Qube, but that's battery/DC, not solar. Beam's EV ARC, solar but off-grid, smaller, and US/public-sector. The solar-native, long-dwell, 12-bay hub is 3ti's to own.
A different game

The network operators

bp pulse (£1bn), Believ (£300m), Connected Kerb, GRIDSERVE.
They own and operate the public network. They soak up the budget and the headlines, but none of them sells a hub a site owner can buy and run. They compete for attention, not for the form factor.
The slow alternative

The carport builders

egg (which now owns 3ti's old construction arm), FlexiSolar, EvoEnergy, Solarsense.
Bespoke solar canopies: planning-heavy, capex-heavy, months to build. 3ti's answer is speed, no groundworks, no capex on EVCaaS, and an asset you can even relocate.
And here's the gift

The whole category under-markets itself.

0
competitors publish owned data or an industry index. The category has no authority voice. That lane is 3ti's for the taking (see the Tarmac Dividend Index).
1
cliché shared across the entire field: "turn your car park into a revenue asset." Everyone says it. Nobody owns it. 3ti can.
~3.6k
3ti's LinkedIn following, behind both EvoEnergy and Solarsense despite the better product. And almost nobody in the category runs real always-on paid media.

The whole sector is consolidating, roughly 150 operators heading to five or six. 3ti stepped out of the capital race and repositioned to sell the picks and shovels. The one thing missing is the brand and the demand engine to match it. That's us. And, as you said yourself, the timing is right.

The conversion engine · a Media Addict original

The Tarmac Yield™ calculator

The interactive asset that turns attention into qualified leads. A prospect enters their site; it shows, instantly and honestly, what their tarmac could earn, with the grant and tax stack applied. Every input is a qualified lead and a data point 3ti owns.

Model a site

Drag the inputs, the meter moves live.
Illustrative annual earnings
£0
from 12 bays · solar-supplemented margin
Over 5 years
£0
cumulative · if you own it
Or as EVCaaS
£0
your share · no capex
Purchase price (to own outright)£100,000
Grant + first-year tax offset-£31,000
Indicative payback (own),
⚠︎
Indicative model, editable assumptions. Figures illustrate the mechanism, not a 3ti quote. Real numbers get validated on your specific site, that's the conversation.
Validate your number, book the call
Who we'd fill the funnel with

Three buyers. Three money stories. One brand line.

This is an account-based motion, not a spray. We lead with the three segments where the "your tarmac earns" story lands hardest, each with its own proof point, its own deadline, and its own channels we buy cheaply.

Anchor · ABM

Car-park & retail-park operators

Commercial Directors, Heads of Estates, multi-site portfolios with revenue-per-space KPIs.
"Operators like APCOA are targeting 100,000 charge points across Europe by 2035. Don't be the one left with empty tarmac."
  • LinkedIn ABM to named decision-makers
  • National business press (The Times, City AM)
  • Competitor-move urgency (APCOA, CTEK)
Deadline lever: portfolio rollout economics
Best fit · fastest proof

Hotels & destination retail

GMs, Group Property Directors, businesses whose entire model already IS dwell time.
"Nearly half of EV drivers now factor charging into where they stay, every hour they're parked is an hour you're paid for."
  • High-intent paid search capture
  • Booking-platform sustainability partnerships
  • Single decision-maker = fastest case studies
Deadline lever: booking-conversion loss
Volume + timing

Offices & salary-sacrifice

Facilities & Reward leads, employers whose salary-sacrifice EV schemes need charging to work.
"Your salary-sacrifice scheme only works if staff can charge at work, while the grant still covers 75%."
  • Warm referral via sal-sac providers
  • High-intent search + reward-provider referral
  • Grant-deadline campaign (ends Mar 2027)
Deadline lever: WCS grant sunset
The plan · phase 1

Start where Britain's business owners already are, and already trust you.

At any one moment only about 5% of business owners are ready to buy (LinkedIn's 95‑5 rule). So the job isn't only to catch that 5%, it's to be the name the other 95% already trust when their moment comes. One move does both: a partnership with The Times.

The Times×Media Addict

A pay-on-results partnership across the whole News UK portfolio, high-impact print, DR print, sponsored content, digital, native and video, the premium, credible inventory that normally costs a fortune. You put £25,000 in upfront as pre-paid leads. The Times draws down against it as it delivers them across its full above-the-line premium inventory, and when it is spent and working, you renew and scale again. We agree the cost per lead, and exactly what qualifies as a lead, together up front.

£25,000 upfront · pre-paid, guaranteed cost-per-lead*
64%
of UK business decision-makers, every week
£4.1m
avg. business budget each reader controls
£452bn
of budget decisions they make a year
No.1
for business readers, ahead of the FT
One deal. The whole portfolio.
High-impact printDR printSponsored contentDigital & nativeVideoTimes RadioRaconteur reportsTimes Enterprise Network

*The media owner delivers the leads within the agreed maximum media value cap. Cost per lead and lead definition to be agreed before launch.

Why The Times, and why first

The one place Britain's business owners actually are.

These aren't passive readers. They control the budgets and sign the cheques, and 36% of them already rank sustainability a top-three priority, so 3ti's story lands on an open door, not a cold one. Source: Ipsos MORI Business Influencer study, News UK.

And it does two jobs at once

Brand and leads, from one deal.

1.5×
more trust in a brand that advertises in a news brand. For a £100k considered purchase, credibility is the sale. (Newsworks)
61%
effectiveness uplift when print and digital run together, exactly what a whole-portfolio partnership buys. (Newsworks)
95:5
only 5% of business buyers are in-market at any moment. The Times builds the name the other 95% trust when their moment comes. (LinkedIn B2B Institute)

And this is not a cold introduction. Media Addict is already a live, paid News UK partner, running The Times and Sunday Times as active channels, with 70+ creatives already built for their titles. The relationship, the data and the trust are in place today, so Phase 1 moves fast.

Phase 1 is this partnership, plus the LinkedIn and paid-search layer that captures the demand it creates. One quarter, one number to judge us on, brand and leads together. For owner-operators specifically, Raconteur's category-exclusive reports, the Times Enterprise Network and the Bricks & Mortar property audience reach them exactly where they already read.

The plan · phase 1 · the capture layer

The Times builds the demand. We hoover it up.

Running their LinkedIn and paid search is part of Phase 1, live alongside the partnership from day one. Because brand advertising doesn't just build warm feelings. It moves search, and share of search reliably leads share of market (Binet, IPA). So the moment The Times has people looking 3ti up, we are already there to turn that attention into booked calls. All of it in-house.

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Paid search + SEO

Capture every high-intent search The Times creates, "commercial EV charging", "revenue from car parks", "workplace charging grant", and build the content to own the "car park as a revenue asset" category outright. Savills already values it at £2,000 to £4,000 per charger a year, up to £5,000 in prime sites; we make 3ti the name attached to that number.

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LinkedIn ABM

Named-account targeting of car-park operators, estate directors and FDs, document ads and "book a site assessment" conversation ads to the exact people the 95‑5 rule says aren't searching yet, but will be.

Retargeting & nurture

Everyone the brand work touches is captured and nurtured across a long buying cycle, segmented by stage, handed to sales on high-intent signals, never left to go cold.

The one number we move
Cost per qualified site-survey booked

Not reach. Not impressions. A pipeline metric an FD respects, the cost to put a real, survey-ready site in front of your sales team.

The unfair advantage

Mediatrack.ai

Our proprietary platform attributes every pound, including The Times partnership, to pipeline. We build the landing pages the campaign runs to, included, and Mediatrack auto-optimises them to the best-converting version so every source gets its strongest possible result. It also compounds the first-party data from the Tarmac Yield calculator into an audience 3ti owns forever. Most agencies buy media. We instrument it. That's the edge, and it's ours.

The plan · phase 2, if budget permits

When it's working, we widen the net.

Every channel below reaches the same business-owner audience, no trade press, no wastage. We add them only once Phase 1 is proving out, ranked by cost-per-lead, not by what's easy to buy.

Best cost-per-lead

Direct mail

A site-specific ROI pack, posted to named owners, filtered by SIC code and seniority.
The best-evidenced cost-per-lead of any channel here (4.4% response vs 0.12% for email). Asset owners skew older and less digital, a printed yield report cuts through where an ad won't.
Bundles with The Times

Audio, Times Radio & podcasts

Times Radio sponsorship + "The Business" podcast (the News UK stable), plus LBC for the widest senior-decision-maker reach per pound.
Host-read, trackable, trust-building, the format that suits a considered six-figure decision, added to the partnership you already hold.
Right place, cost-effective

City AM + targeted OOH

City AM (65% C-suite, handed out at 1,600+ City & Canary Wharf offices) plus OOH on commuter rail, the City and Heathrow business lounges.
Puts 3ti "everywhere serious business is" in the exact geography of the owners you're chasing, pair with a QR code to add a lead-gen edge.

And this is only the media. Media Addict is your whole agency: we write the copy, design the site and run the full advertising suite. Other business titles like the Telegraph and City AM, programmatic, paid search, SEO and CTV, all tracked through Mediatrack so every pound is measured, not guessed. We just recommend you start with The Times, plus the paid search and SEO that hoover up the demand it creates.

The plan · the first 90 days

Live and learning inside a quarter.

Illustrative shape, not a final media plan, that's what the call is for. But this is the tempo: proof fast, brand next, compounding by day 90.

Days 0 to 30

The Times goes live

Brand + leads from week one
  • News UK / Times partnership live, guaranteed CPL
  • Tarmac Yield calculator + landing pages built
  • Paid search + LinkedIn ABM capturing the demand
  • Mediatrack.ai attribution wired in
Days 31 to 60

Optimise & scale

Drive the cost-per-lead down
  • Spend moves to the best-converting Times inventory
  • First case study captured & amplified
  • If budget permits: direct mail, audio, City AM added
  • Referral channels opened (Segen, NHS cohort)
Days 61 to 90

Compound it

Own the category
  • SEO owning "car park as a revenue asset"
  • First-party audience owned & growing
  • Grant-deadline push (WCS ends Mar 2027)
  • Reporting on cost-per-survey-booked
The agency behind the idea

A sharp strategy is easy to admire.
Harder is trusting who runs it.

So here's the case for Media Addict, plainly, not a tagline, but the way we're built, and why it fits a challenger brand watching every pound.

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Bought direct, priced on the outcome

We buy media directly and at cost, and price ourselves on the result, not on a percentage that quietly rewards us for spending more of your money. Independent, no network markup, incentives aligned to your ROAS.

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Mediatrack.ai, our own tech

A proprietary platform that attributes every pound to pipeline and compounds first-party data into an audience you own. Most agencies rent someone else's tools. We built ours, it's how we prove the number that matters.

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Built to buy big, cheaply

Our edge is buying above-the-line and mass digital at scale for less, the reach a national infrastructure brand needs, at a cost a challenger can justify. Brand and performance, from one desk.

Proof · My Claim Group × Media Addict

62,839 leads. 57,864 signed clients. The brand built on the way.

For My Claim Group, one of the UK's largest claims operations, we bought above-the-line: high-impact print and sponsored content with News UK, national DR television and national radio. Then we made every pound of it perform. Five months. 62,839 leads. 92%+ converted to signed clients. The clients signed and the brand built at the same time. That is the whole point: we buy above-the-line, and we make it pay on performance.

62,839
qualified leads delivered
92%+
average lead-to-signed conversion
5 mo
across 4 channels
News UK
one of the four, the Times model, proven

Client-reported figures from My Claim Group campaign reporting, Apr to Aug 2025 ("signed" = a lead converted to a signed client). Conversion reflects that specific high-intent vertical and is shown to evidence Media Addict's ability to buy above-the-line and make it perform, not a projection for 3ti.

The long game

Then we make 3ti the name every owner already knows.

Phase 1 wins the quarter. These are the cost-effective plays that compound over years, turning 3ti from a product into the authority on car-parks-as-assets.

The flagship idea

The Tarmac Dividend Index™

The UK's first annual ranking of commercial car parks by their unrealised solar-and-charging revenue, built from public data (the VOA rating list, solar-yield models) and 3ti's own numbers. Any owner can look up their own site's score, and hand us a lead to do it. Regional and sector leaderboards give the press a story every year. The government's own evidence already values an 80-space car park at around £22k a year but stopped short of mandating it, so it is a voluntary commercial case. Which is exactly where a tool like this earns its keep.

One line that works on any owner: "where does your car park rank?"

We build our own tech, Mediatrack included, so if this is of interest we'd scope it as a one-off build. It's a longer-term play rather than Phase 1, but it's the kind of owned asset that makes 3ti the name every owner checks.

Warm channels you already hold

Turn the exclusive Segen distribution deal and the NHS Chargepoint cohort into referral lead sources, reaching owners through people they already trust, at near-zero media cost.

An owned audience

A quarterly "Tarmac Dividend" report that makes 3ti the neutral authority owners subscribe to, not a vendor they screen out. Every issue is a fresh PR peg and a fresh lead source.

Earned authority

Founder profile in the Times Enterprise Network off the Segen momentum, category-defining PR, and the right awards, the credibility layer money can't directly buy.

How we'd start

Phase 1, from £25,000.

A guaranteed cost-per-lead Times partnership, plus the demand-capture layer that hoovers up everything it creates. Brand, credibility and leads from week one, on a number your board can approve, with no long lock-in.

Phase 1

The Times partnership + demand capture

The News UK / Times partnership goes live on a guaranteed cost-per-lead. We build the Tarmac Yield calculator and landing pages, run paid search + LinkedIn ABM to capture the demand it creates, and wire in Mediatrack.ai to attribute every pound. One number to judge us on: cost per qualified site-survey booked.

From £25kGuaranteed cost-per-leadBrand + leads togetherMedia bought at cost

Transparent commercials

Times mediaPay-on-results · guaranteed CPL
Everything elseBought direct, at cost
Hidden % of your spendNever
Full numbersIn the proposal

To start, we'd need from you

  • Your commercial model + list price, confirmed
  • Real utilisation data from a live site (e.g. Surrey CC, Uni of Surrey)
  • Priority regions and any named target accounts
One conversation

Let's put your tarmac
on payroll.

A 45-minute strategy call. We'll pressure-test the numbers on real 3ti sites, confirm the commercial model, and show you the first 30 days mapped. No deck theatre, just the plan.

Every pound tracked. Every site captured as data you own. That's Mediatrack.ai.

The sun doesn't send invoices.