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Consulting Services
Marketing Plan
This plan uses the foundational elements of the Duct Tape Marketing System – Strategy, Marketing Hourglass and Content Roadmap to help build a fully developed marketing strategy for the clients that simply want a marketing plan.
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- Client interview – 10-15 ideal client interviews completed by us. You will receive access to full recordings, interview transcripts, and high-level summaries.
- Competitive research – Full detailed report on competitive factors for 4-6 of your top competitors. High-level summaries including position in market, why they win, website ranking factors, social signals and reviews.
- Ideal client personas – Persona for each of your market segments including overview, priority initiatives, success factors, perceived barrier, buying process, and decision criteria.
- Core message – A clearly defined unique core difference, talking logo, and messaging for using your core difference when reaching different target markets.
- Marketing Hourglass – Brainstorm session with your consultant and members of your team to come up with everything you could possibly be doing for each of the 7 phases of the Hourglass: know, like, trust, try, buy, repeat and refer.
- Content calendar – Content calendar including the following elements: 12 monthly themes, types of content, and monthly goals for each type of content.
- High-level strategies – 4-6 of your highest-level strategies mapped out including detailed tactics to help achieve these strategies.
Managed Marketing Programs
Jumpstart Program
This program is designed to quickly get you more exposure, more traction and ultimately more leads. It’s not meant to be a full-blown marketing plan and set of tactics. Rather, it’s what you need right now to get the essential elements rolling until you’re ready to tackle even more advanced strategies and tactics.
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- Strategy and Content Planning Meetings – Two in person or virtual sessions to conduct discovery and research and present initial strategy priorities.
- Develop keyword content plan – List of key themes that will be the focus of any content and SEO opportunities.
- Create editorial calendar – Install editorial content plugin (WordPress only) or develop content topics spreadsheet for upcoming quarter.
- Write and post two blog submission per month – Two 500-700 word blog posts taken from key content themes, posted to WordPress and optimized for search engines.
- Publish 50 social media updates across Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn per month – Hand crafted posts taken from your content, list of industry influencers and proven engagement tactics to stimulate social media growth, activity and engagement.
- Claim, create and submit directory profiles – Discovery and enhance relevant local and industry related directories and create consistent profiles across all.
- Monitor and manage directory opportunities – Ongoing process of optimizing directory profiles and promoting campaigns that help raise directory profiles in search engines.
- Create and integrate robust rating and review web page and process – Develop a process to aggressively stimulate reviews to Google and other review sites including a review only web page and process to enhance and support increased reviews.
- Create key metrics dashboard – Creation of a client dashboard to monitor growth and improvement in key indicators such as website traffic, social metrics, reviews, and keyword ranking.
- Report on key performance metrics monthly – Monthly status check in and reporting to gauge and adjust progress and tactics.
- Conduct quarterly review meeting – Quarterly in person or virtual session to plan upcoming content themes, adjust and add new tactics.
Catalyst Program
This program is designed to help your business get more exposure, more traction and ultimately more leads. The central building block of this program is the creation of a modern marketing website. From this foundational element we will begin to create marketing assets such as content, social media engagement, marketing materials and the necessary functions to attract and convert leads to customers.
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- Create initial marketing strategy and plan – Three in person or virtual sessions to conduct discovery and research and present initial strategy priorities. Create ideal client personas, competitive landscape research and core marketing message and positioning.
- Develop keyword content plan – List of key themes that will be the focus of any content and SEO opportunities.
- Create editorial calendar – Install editorial content plugin (WordPress only) or develop content topics spreadsheet for upcoming quarter. To include plan for lead capture content such as eBook.
- Create Marketing Hourglass – map customer journey and determine content plan for stages of know, like, trust, try, buy, repeat and refer
- Design or redesign full WordPress site – Includes design, hosting, core pages and content, lead capture landing pages and blog set-up. Also, includes ongoing maintenance and changes.
- Write and post four blog submission per month – Four 500-700 word blog posts taken from key content themes, posted to WordPress and optimized for search engines.
- Create influencer list – build journalist, influencer, competition and customer lists and alerts to include guest content opportunities and outreach for link building and PR purposes.
- Publish 100 social media updates across Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn per month – Hand crafted posts taken from your content, list of industry influencers and proven engagement tactics to stimulate social media growth, activity and engagement.
- Create Marketing Kit – suite of marketing materials to be used in sales efforts offline and online.
- Claim, create and submit directory profiles – Discovery and enhance relevant local and industry related directories and create consistent profiles across all.
- Monitor and manage directory opportunities – Ongoing process of optimizing directory profiles and promoting campaigns that help raise directory profiles in search engines.
- Create and integrate robust rating and review web page and process – Develop a process to aggressively stimulate reviews to Google and other review sites including a review only webpage and process to enhance and support increased reviews.
- Email Marketing – Develop and format concept for monthly email newsletter and follow-up campaign (varies depending upon email service provider.)
- Create and manage advertising plan – create plan to increase leads. Project manage the plan. (Expense for PPC or Ad Space additional)
- Create and manage referral program – develop referral program from Marketing Hourglass work.
- Create and distribute one press release per month – draw from content calendar, promotional calendar and monthly news and events to create and submit press release to news distribution network.
- Create and install lead conversion system – develop sales process based on overall marketing strategy.
- Create new customer kit – suite of materials used to orient new customers.
- Create annual marketing plan – document to include key promotional activities by month.
- Create key metrics dashboard – Creation of a client dashboard to monitor growth and improvement in key indicators such as website traffic, social metrics, reviews, and keyword ranking. To include key conversion goals and funnels in Google Analytics.
- Monthly status session – once a month meeting to review all projects, adjust plan and report on performance.
- Conduct quarterly planning meeting – Quarterly in person or virtual session to plan upcoming content themes, adjust and add new tactics.
- Access to monthly webinar series – Exclusive invitation to online sessions covering essential and ever changing elements of marketing.
Marketing Department Program
While many of the elements reflected in this program do represent key marketing elements for most business, the Marketing Department plan relies on a high degree of customization in terms of both elements and specific tactics and does often evolve as more elements are completed.
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- Create initial marketing strategy and plan – Three in person or virtual sessions to conduct discovery and research and present initial strategy priorities. Create ideal client personas, competitive landscape research and core marketing message and positioning.
- Develop keyword content plan – List of key themes that will be the focus of any content and SEO opportunities.
- Create editorial calendar – Install editorial content plugin (WordPress only) or develop content topics spreadsheet for upcoming quarter. To include plan for lead capture content such as eBook.
- Create Marketing Hourglass – map customer journey and determine content plan for stages of know, like, trust, try, buy, repeat and refer
- Consult on CRM and marketing automation – Work to initiate or integrate CRM tools with marketing plan and develop customer journey and marketing automation based on Marketing Hourglass development
- Design or redesign full WordPress site – Includes design, hosting, core pages and content, lead capture landing pages and blog set-up. Also, includes ongoing maintenance and changes.
- Write and post four blog submission per month – Eight 500-700 word blog posts taken from key content themes, posted to WordPress and optimized for search engines.
- Create influencer list – build journalist, influencer, competition and customer lists and alerts to include guest content opportunities and outreach for link building and PR purposes.
- Create guest content opportunities – From influence list conduct monthly outreach to find guest bloggers and opportunities to contribute to other blogs and news sites.
- Create a publish podcast – Create and install process for interviews with clients, influencers and other guests.
- Publish 200 social media updates across Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn per month – Hand crafted posts taken from client’s content, list of industry influencers and proven engagement tactics to stimulate social media growth, activity and engagement.
- Manage social media engagement – engage fans and followers on your behalf. Create campaigns for engagement.
- Create Marketing Kit – suite of marketing materials to be used in sales efforts offline and online.
- Create Lead Capture tools – quarterly eBook, white paper infographic or checklist to use in lead capture efforts
- Claim, create and submit directory profiles – Discovery and enhance relevant local and industry related directories and create consistent profiles across all.
- Monitor and manage directory opportunities – Ongoing process of optimizing directory profiles and promoting campaigns that help raise directory profiles in search engines.
- Create and integrate robust rating and review web page and process – Develop a process to aggressively stimulate reviews to Google and other review sites including a review only webpage and process to enhance and support increased reviews.
- Create and manage email marketing campaigns – Write and create lead capture campaigns, follow-up autoresponder campaigns, and sales campaigns.
- Create and manage advertising plan – create plan to increase leads. Project manage the plan. (Expense for PPC or Ad Space additional)
- Create and manage social advertising campaigns – Develop ad content, create keyword strategy and target audience and manage ad spend in social media.
- Create and manage referral program – develop referral program from Marketing Hourglass work.
- Create and distribute one press release per month – draw from content calendar, promotional calendar and monthly news and events to create and submit press release to news distribution network.
- Create one guest editorial opportunity per month – write and submit one article per month to online or offline publication.
- Create and install lead conversion system – develop sales process based on overall marketing strategy.
- Create new customer kit – suite of materials used to orient new customers.
- Create annual marketing plan – document to include key promotional activities by month.
- Create key metrics dashboard – Creation of a client dashboard to monitor growth and improvement in key indicators such as website traffic, social metrics, reviews, and keyword ranking. To include key conversion goals and funnels in Google Analytics.
- Create and renew lead conversion funnels – Install and create lead tracking goals and funnels for KPIs and campaigns.
- Conduct bi-monthly status meetings – Meet with client twice monthly to brainstorm, report and analyze plans and campaigns.
- Conduct quarterly planning meeting – Quarterly in person or virtual session to plan upcoming content themes, adjust and add new tactics.