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Every spoke of the wheel, pointed at the same goal.

Your website says one thing. Your Facebook page says another. Your Google listing still shows last year's hours. None of it is wrong, exactly. It just is not pulling in the same direction.

Strategy is the part of marketing most small businesses never get. Not more posts, not another ad. A plan for the year, where every spoke of the wheel points at the same goal.

1 plan for the year 5 spokes on the wheel Website · Google · Social · Reviews · Email

Marketing in bursts is not marketing. It is panic with a budget.

Here is the pattern we see everywhere: things get slow, so the owner posts three times in a week, boosts something on Facebook, maybe prints flyers. Then things pick back up, and the marketing goes silent for four months. The message customers receive is not "this business is thriving." It is static.

I owned a bar in this town for ten years. In 2016 we added a kitchen at Ruby's, a real menu, real food. Two years later, customers were still walking in and telling me "I didn't know you served food." Two years. I thought everybody already knew. Everybody did not.

The most expensive assumption in small business is that everybody already knows.

That is what strategy fixes. Not by shouting louder, but by making sure the story of your business gets told all year, in the right places, at the right times, whether you are slammed or slow. The plan runs even when you are too busy to think about it. Especially when you are too busy to think about it.

What you walk away with.

Not a binder that sits on a shelf. A working plan for the year, built around your seasons, your customers, and your goal.

One goal, stated plainly

More weekday lunch traffic. More service calls in the shoulder season. Whatever it is for your business, we name it first, because every spoke of the wheel gets pointed at it.

A calendar for the whole year

Seasonal pushes planned in January, before the season starts. The spring message, the fall message, the holiday push, all scheduled so they fire on time instead of two weeks late.

Every spoke, one story

Website, Google listing, social, reviews, and email all saying the same thing at the same time. When they agree, each one makes the others work harder.

A plan that survives your busy season

The whole point of planning in January is that July takes care of itself. The posts go out and the message stays current while you run your business.

Proof it holds up.

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“Nate helped me get the back end of my website optimized for SEO and helped me drive out content ideas. He also supported social posting which was awesome. What a weight lifted off of me to just have him manage that!”

Sherrie Nelson, Simply Golden Solutions, Des Moines metro
Real review from our Google profile. 5.0 stars across 19 reviews.

Stop doing random acts of marketing.

Tell us what your year looks like and we will show you what a plan for it looks like. The first conversation is free, and you will leave it with something useful either way.

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