Marketing.
Campaign strategy, content, positioning, SEO fundamentals, and the messaging that moves buyers. We think first. We ship second.
The work itself.
Strategy
Positioning, competitive landscape, target audience definition, campaign architecture, quarterly roadmaps. The thinking work that determines whether execution moves the needle or just makes noise.
Content
Editorial calendars, long-form articles, case studies, blog posts, whitepapers, video scripts. Written by senior writers who understand the sector, not junior interns writing to prompt.
Campaigns
Integrated campaigns across email, ads, social, PR, and events. Real launch plans with roles, dates, KPIs, and the discipline to measure what worked and what didn't.
Naming
Product names, brand names, campaign names, event names. Trademark screening, domain availability, sound-and-look tests. The work of finding a name that survives contact with the market.
Story
The core narrative your organization tells about itself. Origin, mission, differentiators, customer story architecture, founder story. The words that answer 'why you' before anyone even meets you.
Research
Buyer interviews, competitive audits, sector benchmarks, message testing. What people actually think, in their words, so you're not guessing at what to say next.
Products
Naming and positioning of new products, launch collateral, sales enablement materials, category creation work. Especially good if you're building the product AND the market at the same time.
Every Marketing engagement comes with.
Direct line to Mark
Every engagement led by Mark himself. No account manager between you and the person doing the work. First call, last commit.
Weekly rhythm you can plan around
Weekly status, monthly deep-dive, quarterly strategy review. You always know where things stand and what happens next.
Records that outlive the engagement
Every process documented. Every decision logged. If you ever move on from us, the whole record is yours.
Clear roles & escalation paths
Who owns what, who signs off, who gets called at 11pm. Written down before the work starts, not after something breaks.
Numbers that mean something
Monthly reports focused on outcomes, not activity. What actually moved.
A runbook when we wrap
Post-engagement documentation your team can operate from. No hidden dependencies. No lock-in you didn't ask for.
Work we've done in Marketing.
Three shapes a Marketing engagement typically takes.
- Discovery interviews
- Competitive audit
- Messaging framework
- Positioning statement
- Elevator pitch
- Voice guide
- Strategy & concept
- Creative production
- Multi-channel execution
- Sales enablement
- Reporting & optimization
- Editorial calendar execution
- Ad management
- Content production
- Monthly reporting
- Direct line to strategist
Questions we get asked
With research, not with tactics. We look at your market, your competitors, and what you already have, and we work out the positioning before anyone talks about channels. Skipping that step is how organizations end up with a busy marketing calendar and no idea whether any of it is working.
Often, and it is one of our better arrangements. We take the parts your team does not have the capacity or specialty for, and we stay out of the parts they own. That takes an honest conversation up front about where the line sits, which we are happy to have.
Either. We write content, messaging, and brand story as a matter of course, and we also edit and shape what your subject-matter experts produce. For technical and regulated work the second arrangement usually reads better, because the expertise is genuinely yours.
We agree the metrics before the work starts, so success is defined at the beginning and not argued about at the end. Then you get reporting against those numbers, with the analytics set up properly underneath so the data is worth reading.
Work is scoped and estimated up front, then billed the way that fits the engagement: project, retainer, or hourly. Larger engagements split into milestones. Where we are buying media on your behalf, that budget is separate and stays yours.
Let's just talk.
No slide deck. No pitch. Every first conversation is thirty minutes with Mark. Real read. Real fit. Then we go.
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