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Find out what your marketing actually needs. In 1 week.

I spend a week inside your business, talking to you and whoever else touches marketing. You come out with a map: where your time and money are actually going, what a system could take over, and what to fix first. You keep it either way.

Sound familiar

You're doing 5 jobs, and marketing is the one that slips.

There isn't time to run all of it, so most of it doesn't get run.
Email, social, paid, leads, content. All of it is somehow yours.
You're falling behind and you can feel it, but you can't get to it.
Nothing talks to anything else. Not the tools, not the data.
You rarely look at the numbers, and when you do you're not sure what they're telling you.
Hiring a marketing team isn't on the table, and an agency wants 10 grand a month.

The hard part isn't fixing it. It's knowing which bit to fix first.

What it costs to get a proper answer

Everything else starts at 10 grand a month.

Working it out yourself $0, and months of guessing
The discovery week $1,500, once
A marketing consultant ~$6,000 for a week of their time
A fractional CMO $3,000 to $15,000, 1 month minimum
An agency ~$30,000, 3 months minimum
$0$15,000$30,000

So most people never get the answer, and keep spending anyway.

71% of small businesses do all their own marketing. Nearly half spend money on it with no real idea whether it worked. Not because they don't care. Because finding out has always cost more than the problem.

Simply Business solopreneur report; survey of 1,000 small business owners; SaaSConsult fractional CMO pricing, 2026.

How it works

3 steps, and you can stop after any of them.

01

We talk for 30 minutes

You tell me how marketing currently works, or doesn't. I tell you honestly whether this is worth doing. If it isn't, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.

30 minutes, free

02

I spend a week inside your business

I talk to you, and to anyone else who touches marketing. I go through your tools, your lists, your numbers, what's connected and what isn't, what you've tried and what happened. I ask the questions nobody's asked you yet.

1 week

03

You get the map

Written up, in plain English, walked through with you on a call. What's costing you, what to fix first, and what it would take. Then you decide what to do with it. Build it yourself, hand it to someone else, or ask me to build it.

Yours to keep

The offer

The discovery week.

$1,500 one time

No retainer, no lock-in, nothing to cancel.

  • A week of my time inside your business, with you and whoever else touches marketing
  • A written map of how marketing actually runs right now, including the bits nobody has written down
  • Where your time and money are going, with a number against each one
  • What a system could take over, ranked by what it's worth rather than what's easiest
  • What each fix would cost and what it should return, so you can decide with actual figures
  • A 45-minute walkthrough, so you understand it rather than just own it

Then it's your call. Plenty of what I find you can do yourself, and I'll tell you which bits. If you want me to build the rest, we scope that separately. There's no obligation and I won't chase you.

If you already know exactly what you want built, skip all this. Tell me on the call and we'll scope the build directly.

What usually comes out of it

Every business is different. The gaps rarely are.

Tools that don't talk to each other, so the same thing gets done 3 times by hand.
A customer list nobody has emailed, sitting on the cheapest revenue you'll ever get.
Content that could write itself from what you already know, in your own voice.
Enquiries arriving somewhere nobody watches.
No tracking, so every decision is a guess with confidence.
Money going out on things that stopped working a year ago.

I've been in marketing 10 years. Most of what I find isn't exotic. It's just nobody's job to look.

My first client

I didn't ask her what she wanted built. I asked what she was trying to do.

She sells a course. She'd put things together in pieces, so nothing followed anything and there was no order to it. She wanted to launch, she didn't want to hire a team, and she didn't have the money for one anyway. So I started with what she was actually trying to achieve, and why, and worked backwards from that.

1

I learned how she talks

Read everything she'd ever published, pulled out her real phrasing, and built the whole thing in her own language.

2

I built around her, not a template

Her offers, her buyer, her objections, in the order her buyer actually decides in. Another business would have needed something completely different.

3

I checked it before launch

Top to bottom: broken links, dead buttons, prices showing differently on different devices. All fixed before anyone saw it.

Val

Why me

I've done it the hard way, on my own, with no budget.

I've been in marketing 10 years, and I've run my own business. So I know exactly how it feels when all of it lands on you.

Especially when you're not technical. Especially when AI is still this new thing you keep meaning to sit down and figure out. Especially when there's no budget to hire the people who would take it off your hands, and no spare capacity to learn it all yourself.

Asking the right questions is the part I'm actually good at. I do it every week, for companies much bigger than yours, and it's the part almost nobody bothers with before they start selling you something.

Before you ask

Things I won't do for you.

Questions

Straight answers.

What do I actually walk away with?

A written document and a 45-minute call where I walk you through it. It covers how your marketing runs today, where the time and money go, what to fix first, and what each fix is worth. It's yours. Take it to anyone.

Why would I pay for this instead of a free consultation?

Because a free consultation is a sales call, and you can tell. I'm not going to spend a week of real work hoping you buy something afterwards, and you shouldn't want me to. You pay, you get the answer, and you owe me nothing after that.

Do I need to be technical?

No. If you can tell me how someone becomes your customer, that's enough.

How much of my week does it take?

Around 3 hours of your time, spread across the week. The rest I do on my own.

What size business is this for?

You've got real revenue and either a small team or nobody, and marketing keeps landing on someone who already has 4 other jobs. If you have a marketing team and they're good, you don't need me.

What if I want you to build it afterwards?

Then we scope it separately, off the back of the map. Plenty of clients won't need me for that, and I'll tell you when that's the case.

Let's find out if it's worth doing.

30 minutes. Tell me how marketing currently works in your business. You'll know quickly whether there's anything here worth paying for.