Can your business grow and still be the one you want to own?
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Most owners are not short of ambition.
They are short of a plan that grows the business without costing them the reason they started it, or the life it was supposed to pay for.
Results you can explain to someone who was not in the room.
Most owners would call three dollars back for every dollar spent a good year. Ditaranto Document Services has held seven to one or better, month after month.
The number we point to first is quieter. Our average client has stayed more than eight years.
We rebuilt an online store once and the owners watched revenue double inside a year. Then they asked us to stop. A larger business was not the life they were after. So we stopped.
Growth is not always the goal, and an advisor who cannot hear that is not advising you. He is selling you something.
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First we get to know you. Then everything else has something true to say.
On Fire Media with a client.
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We get to know you, and you get to know your business
Not a questionnaire. A long conversation about what you are for and why you started. Most owners have never had to say it out loud.
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We discern what matters, and what to say
Discernment is deciding what not to say as much as what to. What is left is the two or three true things a prospect can repeat.
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Then we help you say it to the right people
The website, search, content, email, ads. Scoped from the first two. Not only the people who buy. Also the ones you want to hire.
How it starts.
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A discovery call, free, thirty to forty-five minutes
We learn how the business makes money and what is in the way.
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Usually, a day together
The Growth Strategy Sprint. One day, in person, with the owner of this firm and a VP. $9,700 plus travel. Two dates a month.
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Then the build the strategy calls for
A website, a brand, a marketing retainer, or some combination.
The owners we do our best work with.
- You own it and you sign the checks. $2M to $20M, no marketing department.
- You have paid for a website before and it changed nothing.
- You are on several channels and cannot say which brings in a client.
- Good people are as hard to find as good clients, and nothing you publish helps.
- You want to be advised, which includes being told what not to spend.
- You want the business to be worth owning, not just worth more.
Who we are not for
A business shopping for the cheapest website, or a procurement office running an RFP.
The work, and who it was for.
Marketing retainerDitarantoSeven to one or better, month after month.
WebsitesOhio StateMore than five sites across the university.
Brand and webFranciscanOne of our longest relationships.
WebsiteArborCareOwner operated, and growing on purpose.
BrandThe Dallas ForumStrategy and visual identity.
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AI is not the threat. Generic is.
We use AI every day. It has made us faster at almost everything. It has not made a single decision.
Not knowing is what makes a person ask one more question. Having to answer for a decision is what makes him careful with it. A limit, pointed in the right direction, is where judgment comes from.
That is what we mean by discernment, and it is what you are paying for. Not pattern recognition. Someone who has to live with what he told you.
The same discipline, where every dollar was given.
Many of our longest relationships are parishes, schools and ministries, Franciscan University of Steubenville among them. Every dollar was given by somebody, and someone has to say what it bought.
For those organizations the first step is usually a Case for Support.
Start with a conversation.
Free, thirty to forty-five minutes. We will tell you plainly what the first step should be. Sometimes a day of strategy. Sometimes a website. Occasionally not us.