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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Book a call. I'll show you exactly what I'd do with your firm before you commit to anything.
Judge the work. Not the promise.