How it works

You see the strategy before you hire me.

Most marketing relationships start with a pitch and a leap of faith. Mine starts with the actual plan, so you’re judging the work, not the promise.

The problem with the usual way

A pitch asks you to trust me. A plan lets you judge me.

An agency walks in with a deck, a case study, and a promise. You sign a retainer before you’ve seen a single strategy.

Mine starts differently. I show you the actual plan: how your practice areas should be structured, how a prospect moves from search to signed, where the money goes and why. You see it before you owe me anything.

Four steps, in order

  1. 1

    I break down where you actually are.

    What’s bringing in cases. What’s quietly wasting money. What your market looks like. No jargon. You’ll understand it, because I explain it in plain terms.

  2. 2

    I show you the strategy.

    This is the part nobody else does. I architect the actual plan: practice-area structure, the prospect journey from first search to signed, and budget allocation with the reason for every dollar. You see the real plan, not a teaser, before you owe me anything.

  3. 3

    I build it.

    I don’t hand you a plan and disappear. I source the build team at a fair rate and run the execution, so the strategy actually gets done, without agency margin stacked on top. The plan you approved is the plan that ships.

  4. 4

    I stay accountable to the cases, not the clicks.

    We measure signed cases that pay your bills. If something isn’t working, I find it fast, because I know exactly what I’m looking for.

The difference

CMO vs. agency

A typical agency

  • Pitch deck first, plan after you sign
  • Retainer before results
  • Reports clicks, rankings, and lead counts
  • Margin stacked on every vendor

Counsel CMO

  • The full plan first, before you owe anything
  • You judge the work before you commit
  • Reports signed cases and what each one cost
  • Build team sourced at a fair rate

An agency keeps you on a retainer. A CMO makes the spend defensible enough that you’d keep it anyway. I’d rather earn it that way.

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A pitch asks you to trust me. A plan lets you judge me. I’d rather be judged.
Joshua Ramsey

See the strategy before you hire me.

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