Learn Our Secret Recipe – How We Create Award Winning Marketing Plans

It all begins with a conversation. Our onboarding meeting includes the entire team so everyone from our SEO experts to our copywriters will get a chance to meet you and hear your story. This goes both ways, and you’ll simultaneously get a chance to meet our team, ask us questions, and learn more about how we’ll help your company grow.

Many of our clients run fantastic businesses. They do great work, offer great service, and do so at a competitive price. However, they might not be able to articulate precisely what it is that puts them above the rest. We drill deeper into your business’s market advantages to help you discover what your secret sauce really is.

Generally, our clients have a robust understanding of who they are best equipped to serve. However, we always make sure that opportunities haven’t been overlooked, and have helped clients find easily filled gaps within their market. Finding low hanging fruit is a great way to have your marketing plan make the biggest impact.

Marketing never happens in a vacuum – there is always a competitor out there. Often, we find that the competition has failed to capitalize on some core marketing strategies, giving us a clear route to put our clients in a favorable position. Additionally, surveying the competition lets us identify trends and see where the industry may be going next.

Whether our clients have adopted SEO techniques and paid advertising or are just getting started online, it is imperative to see how their marketing is currently performing. This helps us determine where the biggest room for improvement is, and also to see which efforts they’ve already found success with.

For keyword research we step into the mind of your customer and ask ourselves what sort of search would lead them to discover your business. This laborious process leaves no stone unturned, and we sift through potentially thousands of keywords to find the search terms which will most efficiently drive traffic and generate leads.

Your company’s branding is its identity, so an important part of our process is to ensure that you are broadcasting an image which accurately represents your business. We go through all of your current branding media to ensure it still reflects your brand, updating out-of-date information, and creating vector images for flawless scalability.

There are many ways to spend ad dollars in order to get more leads – and choosing the right channels to advertise in is not a decision to be taken lightly. We compare cost per lead generated across digital platforms including Google and social media, traditional media including radio and billboards, local chamber of commerce membership, and more.

Value propositions answer the question “If I am your ideal customer, why would I choose to work with you?” This deceptively simple question underpins effective marketing and as such we endeavor to answer this question with clarity and precision. Once identified, these value propositions serve as the focus of your website’s design and copy.

We weave the value propositions with the four elements of consumer desire: Clarity, Credibility, Appeal, and Exclusivity. Clarity: customers must understand your claims. Credibility: customers must believe your claims. Appeal: customers must see the value of your claims. Exclusivity: customers must think working with you is best.

It is easy to tell your customers that you’re the best in your industry – but it is far harder to have them believe you. We craft marketing messages by using specific, quantifiable, and verifiable claims, and then let the conclusions arise naturally. A good business has products that sell themselves – if you only let the products speak!

Compelling copy speaks to your customer, clarifies your product, addresses their concerns, and makes it easy to go from prospect to customer. Our writers channel your brand’s identity into the text, giving your readers a taste for what working with your company will be like. The result is a custom website that sounds like your brand and sells more effectively.

Once upon a time social media was something only teenagers had, but times have changed and today most of the customers you want to engage with (and your competitors!) are on social media. Our social media experts craft Facebook and Instagram accounts that promote brand awareness and increase customer engagement.

The first step towards getting customers in the door is getting them to know the door is there! We approach this holistically, using community engagement opportunities, social media, and traditional marketing media such as television, radio, and newspaper. Whenever possible we try to get community level engagement, as we find this to be highly effective.

What’s better than a customer? A loyal customer. Word of mouth, online reviews, newsletters, and organic social media engagement are some of the most powerful marketing tools available. We use automated review management systems to help our clients get more reviews, driving future business and protecting against the deleterious effects of negative reviews.

Unlike other marketing companies who focus on traffic, we recognize that lots of website visitors or phone calls is not the same thing as lots of sales. For that reason, we focus our efforts on building a marketing strategy that targets your ideal audience and helps smooth their journey from prospect to customer.

For each website we build, we additionally create Google Data Studio dashboards. These dashboards allow performance to be monitored at a glance – with key performance indicators prominently displayed. Conversion, traffic, website flow, and more are all tracked – allowing us to see where there is room for improvement.

One way we track website performance is by tracking user interactions within your website. A heatmap lets us see where your customers are spending their time on your webpage, clueing us into subjects that interest them and where their attention begins to wane. This helps us optimize page length, subject matter, and position calls to action more effectively.

Markets change over time, from season to season, from periods of economic boom to the belt cinching of recession. Just as markets change, marketing needs change. A one size fits all approach simply never fits all that well, and so we adjust our marketing efforts on a regular basis to best fit the current economic environment.

At the end of the day the only results that really matter are the results that you are seeing! While we can monitor website traffic and ad conversions, the way we really keep track of our progress is by regularly communicating with our clients. To that end we arrange for monthly meetings with our clients to see how our marketing efforts are being felt on their end.

We do everything in our power to make sure your ad dollars will result in conversions, but the way we ensure this is by monitoring advertising performance. If, despite our best efforts, a certain marketing channel isn’t doing well, we’ll rethink that particular avenue and put that money to better use elsewhere.

We’re never content to rest on our laurels. Even as we achieve traffic and conversion targets we’re looking for ways to improve by constantly learning and experimenting with new technologies and new techniques. As current websites reach their traffic and conversion apogee we introduce these novel approaches to see continued growth.