How an effective strategy partner operates
Marketing strategically takes a team. It requires deep insights combined with a range of expertise. A strong marketing strategy partner:
Takes a pragmatic approach. Blue-sky strategies that don’t suit your organization or customers lead to lackluster results. By exploring what’s possible for your brand now, your agency can uncover the opportunities for what comes next.
Understands your customers. Your strategists should obsess over every nuance of your ideal customer – their motivations, behavior, and decisions.
Actively monitors and optimizes. Having a strategy is important, but so is knowing when to adjust it. If your agency isn’t evolving your marketing strategy based on data, you’re likely wasting precious time and resources.
Our marketing strategy process
Our experience in creating data-driven, journey-based marketing strategies enables us to serve clients effectively across a wide range of industries.
Data Gathering + Analysis
Uncovering the cold, hard facts
Data is at the heart of every marketing strategy. By pulling data from every available source – first-party data, previous campaign performance, competitor research, customer interviews, surveys, and more – we learn about your audience, identify challenges, and start to formulate ideas
We may formalize and document our analysis as an audit that contains our key discoveries and takeaways.
Audience + Competitor Research
Digging deeper into your market
Attracting an audience requires you to understand their needs and challenges. Through extensive audience research, we discover what problems audiences face and what makes them tick, so we can connect with them and leave a lasting impression.
Your competitors are hungry for the same customers. Our team’s competitive analysis surveys the landscape and starts identifying where your business can find the advantage.
Evaluation & Optimization
Making improvements by measuring performance
Wherever possible, we avoid treating strategies as one-and-done. Digital marketing is iterative and a strategy should be a living thing. We aim to revisit marketing strategies regularly so we can take into account new data, assess whether the market has shifted, and adjust course accordingly.