Strategic Consulting Services

With today's fast-paced and constantly changing environment, are you feeling stressed, frustrated or anxious? 

It is a challenge to know where to market your organization, product or service. At, Stepping-Stone Marketing Consulting, LLC we can help reduce at least some of your stress, frustration and anxiety by providing the expertise to support your marketing efforts with:

• Strategic Planning
• Analysis
• Message Development
• Contract Marketing
• Consulting, Advising, Coaching and Mentoring
• Meeting Facilitation

Strategic Planning
What better way to reduce stress and anxiety than by having a solid strategic foundation and direction that is essential for an organization's success? We can help relieve stress and anxiety in several ways, including:

• Conduct a strategic planning workshop
• Create a customized Strategic Step-Pathway
• Provide input and leadership for developing a strategic plan

Analysis
A potential short-coming with many marketing plans is insufficient analysis. which leads to a lot of frustration. We can reduce frustration by helpng you gain a stronger understanding of the forces that impact your organization through in-depth analysis that may include:

• Marketing and Communications Assessment
• Competitive Landscape Evaluation
• Exernal Environment Assessment
• Opportunity Assessment

Message Development
With so many voices competing for the minds of your target audience, it is frustrating and challenging to break through the clutter and create the message that will actually move people to action. We can assemble a team that will help reduce frustration by helping you to:

• Identify the people most likely to connect with what you are offering
• Create a memorable experience with what you are offering through a compelling message, visual and/or activity that gets them excited
• Provide tools to tell others
• Capture interactions through a relationship database
  

Contract Marketing
Many business owners, managers, and marketers are stressed bcause there aren't enough people to do the work that needs to be done. Is your marketing staff stretched to its limits? Or, do you have vacancies in key positions? We can immediately help by providing:

• Full-time or part-time support from a skilled and experienced marketing professional
• Project-based support
• Short-term or long-term leadership or project management support

Consulting, Advising, Coaching and Mentoring
Are you frustrated because you or your staff don't have the marketing expertise needed to be as effective as you would like? Maybe you have a marketing challenge and you would like advice from or access to a consultant to discuss a specific area of concern. Or, maybe you are the leader of an organization with limited time or marketing expertise to coach and counsel your marketing staff. If that's the case, we may be able to help reduce frustration by providing an experienced marketing professional to serve as a consultant, advisor, coach or mentor.

Meeting Facilitation
Are you frustrated because you don't have time to get outside input or because your bias or position interferes with getting reliable feedback from others in your company or because people don't have the marketing skills needed to do their job effectively? Gathering input from key stakeholders and making sure staff and leaders are trained is essential to an organization's success. To do so, we can help reduce frustration by planing and facilitating:

• Strategic brainstorming workshops
• Scenario-planning workshops
• Marketing training workshops

If you can relate to any of these situations, call (740) 548-7145 or send an email to Stepping-Stone Marketing Consulting, LLC to learn more about our strategic marketing consulting services.