Marketing in Marion, built around the follow-up
The businesses winning in Marion are usually not the best at what they do. They are the easiest to find, the quickest to reply, and the clearest about what happens next. That is a systems problem, not a talent problem, and it is fixable.
Paying for attention you cannot hold
Running ads before the follow-up works is paying to fill a bucket with a hole in it — and the bigger the budget, the faster it drains. We will not take on paid media for a Marion business until the path from click to answered enquiry actually holds water. It is a cheaper answer for both of us.
What we do in Marion
Five divisions, one team, for companies and for individuals. Most Marion engagements start with one of them and grow into the others once the first is paying for itself.
Business Consulting
Who your Marion business is actually for, what you sell, and how the sale happens — written down so every other decision has something to point at.
Branding & Design
Logos, brand systems, packaging, signage and print that survive contact with the real world. Built as a system with rules, not one file you are afraid to touch.
Web Design & Development
Websites and online stores for Marion that load fast, say the right thing, give one obvious next step, and report back on what happened.
Advertising & Media
Search and social campaigns aimed at Marion and the surrounding area, plus a plain-language teardown of what your competitors are doing that you are not.
AI & Automation
Follow-up that never sleeps, a chat assistant trained on your business, and internal tools that replace the spreadsheet holding everything together.
Two jobs, and one of them is invisible
Doing the work is one job. Being known for it is a different one, and nobody teaches the second. Plenty of people in Marion are excellent and quiet, watching louder and worse get hired instead. That is a fixable problem, not a personality flaw.
Small enough that you get a person
You are not account 4,000 in a queue. When something breaks you message the people who built it, and they answer. That is a real advantage of our size, and it is one we would rather keep than trade for volume.
Every industry runs the same chain
Restaurants, med spas, contractors, dental and medical practices, gyms, retail, real estate, private schools, nonprofits, e-commerce brands, coaches, creators. What we look at is the same everywhere: how people find you, what they see, what makes them decide, and what happens after they pay.
Steal our playbook: 10 pages on individual and business success
The same walkthrough we run on paying clients, written so you can run it yourself. Four moments decide whether a business grows or a career does. This shows you which one is costing you, and what to fix first.
- The four-moment audit — run it on your business or yourself in 30 minutes
- The 12-hour rule, and what it costs you to break it
- A follow-up sequence you can copy word for word
- What to track, and the three numbers that are worth a dashboard
Marion questions, answered
How do you charge?
Retainers run $800 to $2,500 a month depending on scope. One-off projects start around $700. Everything is quoted in writing before it starts, and there are no percentage-of-spend fees hiding in it.
What happens on the first call?
Twenty minutes. We ask what the business does, where the work comes from now, and what happens when someone gets in touch. By the end you will have a ranked starting point, whether or not you hire us.
Do you need access to everything up front?
No. We ask for what a specific piece of work needs, when it needs it. You will get one clear list rather than a drip of requests over three weeks.
Can we start small?
Yes, and plenty of Marion clients do. One project, see how it goes, decide about the rest afterwards. That is a reasonable way to buy from anyone you have not worked with before.
Also serving nearby
We work with businesses across Iowa. If you are outside Marion, start here.
Ready when you are
Twenty minutes, no cost, no deck. We map where your Marion business is now, where you want it, and what to do first. If we are not the right fit, we will say so on the call.
Prefer to pick a slot yourself? Open the calendar.