BlackBox Services

Marketing consulting

Get real-time insights and expertise to fuel growth and drive marketing performance.

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Don't go it alone.

Marketing isn’t a one-and-done initiative, it’s a continuous marathon demanding both speed and endurance. With rapidly shifting environments dictating the terms of the game, executive coaching firms are struggling to generate and sustain demand from ideal clients. In these types of environments, it helps to have an outside perspective – someone who understands your unique challenges and opportunities. 

Your Questions,
Answered.

With one-on-one BlackBox consulting, we’ll solve your biggest marketing challenges in real-time. We’ll get very clear on your objectives, what’s working/not working, what high-potential opportunities your firm should focus on, and how to move forward. 

My goal for these consulting sessions is to have you walk away with clarity and actionable next steps—a game plan, if you will—to find, engage, and win your ideal clients.

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"[Amber] understands our space really well and her attention to detail is amazing! She is very responsive and smart in her approach, and is taking our organization to a new level of sophistication in digital marketing."

Ann, Communications Director

Leadership Coaching Firm

Expertise Areas
What do you need help with?

During your BlackBox consulting session, we can discuss any number of B2B marketing elements. Here are some of the top focus areas for BlackBox clients.

Generating high-quality, ready-to-buy leads is both an art and a science. Sophisticated buyers and complex buyer journeys require a refined, ever-evolving lead gen program that finds, engages, and converts. Use your BlackBox consulting session to get insights on:

  • Lead funnel mapping
  • Buyer journey mapping
  • Lead nurture campaigns
  • Lead scoring
  • Conversion rate optimization
Aligning your sales and marketing efforts is one of the cornerstones of building sustainable, high-volume sales pipelines. But getting everyone on the same page can be difficult at best. Use your BlackBox consulting session to get insights on:
  • Defining lead qualification criteria
  • Cross-sell & upsell strategies
  • Handoff best practices
  • SOP development for managing leads
  • Sales enablement best practices

When prioritized and executed properly, content marketing can act as a campaign performance accelerant. Unfortunately, many organizations are unsure how to effectively integrate content marketing into their overarching strategies. Use your BlackBox consulting session to get insights on:

  • Designing a high-performing content strategy
  • SOP development for sustainable content creation
  • Mapping content to the buyer journey
  • Identifying relevant topics based buyer needs and challenges/li>

Targeted, hyper-customized marketing to a selection of high-potential accounts can be one of the strongest revenue generating strategies available to your firm, but it requires discipline and alignment. Use your BlackBox consulting session to get insights on:

  • Identifying prospective accounts for development 
  • Designing account strategies and coinciding multi-channel ABM campaigns
  • Creating sophisticated messaging strategies for enterprise targets
  • Aligning marketing, sales, and client delivery around ABM

If you’re spreading precious time and resources across too many or irrelevant channels, you’re likely not seeing the results you want. Use your BlackBox consulting session to get insights on:

  • Analyzing your existing channel strategy to determine fit
  • Identifying high-potential channels to reach your prospects
  • Optimizing your channels strategies and action plans
  • Examining potential channel partnerships

Anyone with a complex or growing tech ecosystem can attest to the fact that technology can either help or hinder your marketing efforts. Use your BlackBox consulting session to get insights on:

  • Analyzing your existing MarTech stack for efficacy & assessing potential needs for additional tools
  • Acquiring new technology and what to look for, ask about, etc.
  • Designing a high-performing MarTech ecosystem
  • Best practices for implementation, integration, and use
Messaging can be one of the trickiest elements in marketing. At the strategic level, it’s how you tell the world who you are, what you do, and who you do it for. At the tactical level, it’s a conversation with prospects and clients, answering the questions that arise throughout the buying process, across a wide array of media and channels – email, social posts, white papers, ads, and so on. Use your BlackBox consulting session to get insights on:

  • Developing a strategic messaging framework
  • Defining your firm’s USPs and brand pillars
  • Creating a system for consistent messaging across all communications

As with most industries, the executive coaching and professional development markets are changing faster and more frequently than ever before. Use your BlackBox consulting session to get insights on:

  • Industry trends
  • Buyer awareness & perception
  • Market opportunities and threats
Optimizing your marketing operations can do wonders for eliminating redundancies, unnecessary costs, and distracting initiatives that don’t add value. Use your BlackBox consulting session to get insights on:

  • Assessing support needs and identifying redundancies
  • Analyzing existing SOPs for optimization
  • Designing new SOPs

Project scope

Let's Get Detailed

Duration

75 minutes

Inclusions

  • Client intake questionnaire
  • Video consulting call
  • Actionable next steps
  • Call recording for future reference

Fee

$279 for one-off consulting sessions

For information on consulting packages and retainers, please contact me.

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Need some guidance?

Book a complimentary 30-minute consultation with me to discuss your marketing initiatives, challenges, and support needs. We’ll discuss your business situation and where you want to get to, and assess if BlackBox is the right fit.

Why BlackBox?

Industry Expertise

Gain access to more than 10 years of strategic and tactical marketing experience in Executive Coaching, Consulting, and other B2B professional services industries.

Relevant Insights

Make key business and marketing decisions based on relevant, data-backed information and experience-driven recommendations.

Creative Solutions

Create a fresh approach to Executive Coach marketing with innovative concepts used in other high-performing B2B industries like SaaS/Tech and CyberSecurity.

Clear, Decisive Action

Gain clarity and confidence in your firm's marketing activities with a detailed roadmap for accelerating performance – and results.

Case Studies

Check Out Past Client Work

Aligning and guiding content strategy rollout to scale demand generation efforts.

Establishing reputation as thought leaders through strategic content marketing.