Empower Your DIY Team With Marketing Skills

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

You want to keep marcom costs low and 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.


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: their best marketing effort is still amateur, and blending in with their best amateur attempt limits you from standing out.

The Bottom Line

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


With stronger execution, you'll position your business in a way that makes it more visible, credible, and appealing than 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.

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.

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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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