About Matt Pyke
Part strategist, part operator, fully obsessed with growth.
I’m Matt. I’ve over a decade helping business owners grow online, first in the trenches of digital marketing, then as the founder of an award-winning agency, and now as the strategist and mentor owners bring in when they need growth that actually compounds.
From a university dorm room to an award-winning growth strategist.
Originally from Chester, I launched Fly High Media from my Manchester university dorm room in 2016, learning digital marketing through hands-on results rather than theories. Over the last decade, that solo project grew into a full-service digital agency helping local and national brands scale their SEO and paid media, earning me the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award along the way. Today, alongside running the agency, I specialise in helping founders fix the costly disconnect between their marketing spend and actual sales revenue—trading short-term hype and vanity metrics for measurable, predictable business growth.
How a marketer became the person owners call to connect the dots.
My career started where most growth stories do: knee deep in campaigns, analytics, and the daily scramble to turn clicks into customers. I learned the craft the hard way, by being accountable for results, not theories.
That obsession became a business. What began as a one person operation grew into Fly High Media, a full-service digital agency that has since helped businesses of every size, from local challengers to nationally recognised names, grow through SEO, paid media and brand strategy.
Somewhere along the way, I noticed the same pattern in almost every business I worked with.
The marketing wasn’t broken. The sales weren’t broken. The gap between them was. Leads went cold, the messaging never matched the pitch, and nobody could draw a straight line from spend to revenue. Closing that gap quietly became my specialism, and it’s still the most valuable thing I do for a business.
Today I split my time three ways: leading Fly High Media, advising founders as a growth strategist, and mentoring the next generation of marketers and owners. Different rooms, same job: make growth predictable.
I don’t believe in hype, hacks or vanity metrics. I believe in strategy you can measure and growth you actually own. If that sounds like the kind of partner you’ve been looking for, we’ll get along just fine.
Four convictions that shape every plan I write.
Strategy beats tactics.
A clear, sequenced plan will outperform a hundred disconnected growth hacks every time. Execution first, activity second.
Marketing and sales are one system.
Demand you create is worthless if it leaks before it converts. My job is to build the bridge between the two and close the gap.
Compounding beats campaigns.
The best growth assets, rankings, brand trust, owned audiences, pay you back for years, not weeks. We build things that last.
Honesty beats hype.
I’ll tell you what I’d do if it was my money, which sometimes means telling you exactly what not to spend it on.
Work that’s been recognised and noticed.
FSB North West Young Business Person of the Year
2014, 16 nomination and business award.
High Sheriff of Cheshire’s Award for Enterprise
2019, 20 recognition for social value.
Champion and industry award nominations
Continued recognition across business and marketing.
Pick the room you need me in.
Growth Strategy
A prioritised roadmap and the system to deliver it.
1:1 Mentoring
Direct access to a senior growth operator.
Speaking
Talks and workshops that leave teams with frameworks.
Done-for-you
Hand the engine to the Fly High Media team.
What drives me when I’m not deep in a growth plan.
I’m a big believer in backing my community. Fly High Media proudly sponsors Cheshire Phoenix. It’s a professional basketball club, but it’s also a real chunk of my year: games, local energy, young entrepreneurs and marketers who are standing exactly where I once stood.
What I look for in life is the same thing I look for in work: competitive streak, a genuine love of helping people win, and the belief that the businesses doing things properly deserve to be the ones that get seen.
Add a few rescue cats and horses, family, and whatever new challenge catches my attention next, and that’s a pretty accurate picture.
Think we’d work well together?
Tell me where you’re trying to take the business. I’ll tell you, honestly, how I can help.
Work with me →