Marketing agency in Kortrijk

Kortrijk Xpo is full in the coming months: Interpom, the trade fair for the potato industry, from 29 November to 1 December 2026; Velofollies, the cycling fair, from 22 to 24 January 2027; See-days, the trade day for safety, environment and energy, on 18 February; and SID-in, the study and careers fair, from 25 to 27 February. In 2028 Agro-Expo comes to Kortrijk Xpo for the first time. For an exhibitor every fair is three campaigns: one before, one during, one after.

The mistake we see most: the stand costs tens of thousands of euros, and after the fair a stack of cards lies on a desk for three weeks. The follow-up is where a fair earns itself back.

If your team works in English, Kortrijk asks you to plan in three languages. Local buyers and suppliers work in Dutch, buyers in Mouscron, Tournai and the Lille metropolitan area in French, and buyers further away in English or German.

The staff rule is the one foreign owners miss most: a company based in Flanders uses Dutch in its relations with its employees, whatever language the team speaks at work. A vacancy for SID-in or your careers page can be in English as well, but the documents your staff sign follow that rule.

Two things help with French-speaking buyers.

• French pages on French search termsA French visitor types 'menuiserie', not 'schrijnwerk', and often 'Courtrai' instead of Kortrijk. On our page about SEO in Kortrijk you see which Kortrijk services Google also suggests in French.
• Ads aimed at France, in FrenchIn Google Ads and Meta you aim a campaign at the Nord department or towns around Lille, with French copy and a French landing page. Show prices the way a French client expects them, with the right VAT (your accountant tells you which), and state your delivery time to France.

How a site in two or more languages works on one domain is on multilingual website development. We built sites in four languages, French included, for a law firm and for Business Centrum.

Kortrijk does not fund marketing or a website. It does pay towards what draws shops and traders to its centres, through Onderneem in Kortrijk, the economy department on the Leiestraat.

The project grant for traders' associations is the most useful one for marketing: a joint action, campaign or stunt by the street can be reimbursed in full. What Flanders funds for digital projects is in our guide to Flanders digitalisation grants, and the short version in website grants in Belgium.

If you start out in Kortrijk, since 1 October 2026 you can rent a workplace in Kortrijk Kiemt, in the former hospital on the Reepkaai: three workshops, six desks in an open space and three flexible places, for 75 to 100 euros a month or 7.50 to 10 euros a day, until at least July 2028. For a starter that is a marketing moment too: an address, a network of other starters and events on the site. Put your address in your Google Business Profile and on your site straight away, and say in your first posts where you are.

Google in Belgium suggests not only 'marketing agency kortrijk' for the region, but also 'creative agency kortrijk' and, in Dutch, 'reclamebureau kortrijk' and 'communicatiebureau kortrijk'. For your own company it works the same way: buyers in the region type their service with 'kortrijk' or 'regio kortrijk', and in French with 'courtrai'.

Kortrijk agencies charge what agencies elsewhere in Flanders charge: SEO 800 to 2,000 euros a month, Google Ads management 500 to 1,500 euros, and a full-service package 2,000 to 5,000 euros, each without your ad budget and without VAT. More in digital agency cost. A fair often needs one-off work on top: a video, a landing page, a series of emails. VBS charges a fixed price per assignment, after a first conversation, with the proposal in English if you prefer.

A short video on your stand and in your posts before the fair works best when it says in ten seconds what you make and for whom. Film your product in use, not your logo. Add subtitles in Dutch, French and English, because a fair hall is loud and half your visitors watch without sound. And reuse the footage after the fair: in your follow-up emails, on your product pages and in a reel for those who were not there.

• A site that only speaks to the boardA buyer wants specifications, certificates, delivery times and a contact person. Put those on a page per product or service.
• No French version, but French clientsA French-speaking buyer who reads your site in Dutch calls a competitor more often.
• LinkedIn as a notice boardA company page with only news from the board reaches few people. Posts from your people, with a face and a concrete story, do.
• Fairs without measuringNote per fair how many conversations, quotes and orders came out of it. That tells you which fair to skip next year.

Looking for a new site for your company in Kortrijk? See web design in Kortrijk; for the rest of the province, our marketing agency for West Flanders.