With 1:1 Expert Guidance, You CAN Do Marketing

When marketing efforts are distributed across your team as secondary responsibilities, we teach them the skills, tools, and strategies to achieve effective results for your business.

  • Align Business Goals

  • Create Effective Content

  • Track Measurable Results

Unique Value Proposition

The problem: You want to keep marcom costs low and already have internal resources, but you need help with marketing strategy and skills training. You don’t need - or want - a dedicated marketing team; you just need expert guidance to make the most of what you already have.

The trap: It’s easy to assume that your current approach is good enough - after all, plenty of competitors are patching together their marketing tasks with untrained or part-time marketing staff, too.

But here’s the reality: Your competitor's best amateur attempt at marketing is just that - an amateur attempt. Don't limit your potential to the boundaries set by others. Be excellent. Stand out.

The Main Message

You need a skilled, strategic approach that plays to your strengths and is delivered by your current staff with your current resources.

With stronger execution, you'll position your business in a way that makes it more visible, credible, and appealing than your competitors who continue to rely on weak, unskilled attempts at marketing.

Ideas To Get You Started

Using CRM for Lead Gen and Nurturing

Covers topics like subscriber forms, design templates, drip campaigns, and content.

Creating Written and Multimedia Content

Level-up the impact of your blog, podcast, video, newsletter, or social media.

Planning Effective GTM Strategy

Communicate and promote to the right audience, at the right time, with the right content.

Optimizing Outreach and Measuring ROI

Uncover insights that vanity metrics like impressions, likes, and clicks aren’t telling you.

Customer Reviews

Great feedback and practical advice that no one else has mentioned. We are now on the right track.

Monica B.

Founder and CEO

We met at a trade show and kept in touch. Eric's got a solid marketing background and brilliant advice.

Jessica R

Sales and Marketing

We were doing well, but needed oversight with some new projects and marketing tech. Glad we did.

Daniel A

Director of Operations

FAQs

We already have staff handling marketing. Why would we need your help?

Having internal staff manage marketing is great, but without the right strategy and guidance, efforts can be scattered, reactive, and ineffective. We help your team develop a structured approach, providing the tools, training, and insights they need to execute with confidence. Instead of guessing what works, they’ll follow a clear, results-driven plan tailored to your business.

Why not just hire an agency or a full-time marketer instead?

Agencies and in-house hires can be expensive, and they often require extensive onboarding to understand your business. Our approach is different because we work with the resources you already have, training your team to handle marketing effectively in-house. This not only keeps costs low but ensures your marketing stays aligned with your company’s core operations, rather than being outsourced to someone who doesn’t fully grasp your industry.

What kind of marketing support do you provide?

We don’t just give advice, we equip your team with actionable strategies, training, and guidance on execution. Whether it’s refining your messaging, improving content creation, or leveraging the right tools, we focus on practical, real-world marketing that works for SMBs. We bridge the gap between knowing what needs to be done and actually doing it effectively.

How does your approach help us stay ahead of competitors?

Most of your competitors are doing just enough marketing to get by, often with untrained staff producing inconsistent, low-impact results. We give your team the knowledge and structure to outperform them with informed, strategic, and more effective marketing. With a stronger brand presence and smarter execution, others will struggle to keep up.

How do we know this will work for our business?

Our process is tailored to SMBs that rely on non-traditional marketers for marketing tasks. We evaluate your current efforts, pinpoint strengths and weaknesses, and develop a strategy tailored to your team’s capabilities and potential. We don’t push one-size-fits-all solutions; we help you create a system that works for your business, your industry, and your internal team to promote long-term success.

What does "Value Proposition" mean?

A Value Proposition is simply the answer to “Why should someone choose you?”

It’s not a slogan, not a mission statement, and definitely not a buzzword. It’s the clear, plainspoken promise of what you do, who you do it for, and why it matters. It’s what tells a potential customer, “Here’s the specific problem I solve for you, and here’s how your life or business gets better because of it.”

A strong value proposition sits at the crossroads of empathy and clarity. It shows you understand your audience’s challenges and communicates, in real language, how your product or service delivers something genuinely useful or meaningful. When done right, it doesn’t sound like marketing fluff; it sounds like the start of a good conversation.

What is the difference between Lead Gen and Nurturing?

Lead generation and lead nurturing are two parts of the same story, just different chapters.

Lead generation is about meeting new people. It’s when a business does something to attract attention and spark interest, like someone walking by your booth, downloading a free guide, or filling out a contact form. At that moment, you’ve earned a small slice of their curiosity. That’s a lead.

Lead nurturing, on the other hand, is about earning their trust. It’s everything that happens after that first handshake: the follow-ups, the helpful insights, the small touches that remind them you’re paying attention and that you actually understand what they need. Nurturing turns a name on a list into a real relationship, and it’s usually where the decision to buy (or not) quietly takes shape.

In short: lead generation starts the conversation, but lead nurturing keeps it alive long enough for something meaningful to happen.

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Marketing Second is a marketing consultancy based near Minnesota's Twin Cities, and serves B2B SMBs by upskilling their in-house staff through tailored training on marketing concepts, strategies, content, and software tools.

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