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We specialize in marketing for owner-led
businesses. Owners are often in a unique situation: you put your marketing hat on, take it off
for another hat, check results of whatever you did (sort of),
get back involved in marketing, get pulled
in another direction and find yourself stuck on this up-and-down
cycle of propping sales back up.
The result: lots of things get
tried, none of them very well, and the question mark is never
taken out of marketing.
My clients have confidence in
their marketing. They know, plus or minus 15%, what
kind of return they'll get for every marketing dollar they
spend. They don't have to rush back and put their
marketing hat on. We wear it for them.
That drives how we think, the solutions we
create and the structure we have. That's what makes us
different.
The Solutions We Create
We don't subscribe the the "fell swoop" school of marketing.
That is, trying to find a magic bullet that, in one fell
swoop, can double sales. We typically recommend several
small changes. We'd rather test five small
changes/improvements to your marketing than risk 60% of your
budget on a single strategy. Many times, frankly, we're
surprised which solution works the best. It's often the
one everyone thought (before implementation) would be a nice
complement to the other "much cooler" things we recommended.
We've been surprised by million dollar door hangers and simple
sales letters that pulled so well we didn't have to do the
much cooler things.
More often, though, no single recommendation
works so well by itself that you can afford not to implement
all the strategies. Working together, multiple marketing
methods delivering the same message can be powerful.
The Structure We Have
We've been called a Marketing Studio. Which is not a bad way
of thinking about us. That is, like a film studio that
brings together the people it feels can best make a particular
movie, we bring the right people together to create and
implement your marketing solutions.
I'm at the heart of all the strategy. I
conceive every message. I write 99.9% of every word
spoken or written on behalf of our clients. Then we work
with a wonderful group of professionals across the country
(and world) who help us implement. We do this these
important reasons:
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Our overhead stays
low and our fees stay low. If you just need me, or a
few of us, that's all you pay for. |
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I match creative
with client. We use different graphic artists, for
example, for our law firm and our tattoo equipment
manufacturer. And while that sounds obvious, firms
that employ a full-time graphic artist don't. |
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I'm free to make broader
recommendations--recommendations made solely for the
benefit of the client. I'll never try to sell you a
new logo because I have to keep someone busy! |
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I can partner with people far
more talented than I could afford to hire as
employees. |
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