Practices
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Most consultancies organise around the channels they sell. We organise around what you are left holding at the end. Each practice below builds or maintains one asset, and any of them can be bought on its own.
- Practices
- 05
- Bought as
- Sprint or advisory
- Ends with
- A handover
- Media fees
- Never a percentage
- 01
Owned Search
Asset: pages that keep earning visits
Structure, technical health and writing that turn your site into something search engines keep sending people to.
- 02
The Site
Asset: the pages you send everyone to
Structure, speed and clarity on the pages that every other channel eventually points at.
- 03
Audience & Retention
Asset: a list you can contact tomorrow
Email, lifecycle and reviews — the part of your marketing that no platform can switch off.
- 04
Paid Acceleration
Asset: proven routes to demand
Google, Meta and marketplace advertising used to speed up what already works, not to stand in for it.
- 05
Signals
Asset: knowing which of the above is working
Enough measurement to tell which asset is carrying the business, and deliberately no more than that.
Why this cut
Channels come and go. Assets do not.
Organising by channel makes a consultancy easy to buy and hard to judge. Organising by asset makes the question simple: after the engagement, what does the business hold that it did not hold before?
Rented
- Paid clicks, which stop on the day the card does
- Platform audiences, rebuilt whenever a policy changes
- Algorithmic reach, lent to you and never yours
- Agency knowledge, which leaves with the account manager
- Tooling nobody in-house can operate without a licence
Owned
- Pages that answer real questions and keep being found
- A site your own team can change without raising a ticket
- A list of people who agreed to hear from you
- First-party data you hold rather than borrow
- Written decisions your next hire can follow
Where to begin
Nobody needs all five at once.
The order matters more than the count. These are the three starting points we recommend most often, decided by what is currently costing the business the most.
If the site is the bottleneck
The Site first, then Owned Search. There is no point sending more people to pages that lose them, and search work built on a slow, badly structured site takes twice as long to pay back.
- The Site
- Owned Search
If one ad account carries everything
Audience & Retention alongside Owned Search, with Paid Acceleration kept running as it is. The goal is a second route to the same customers before anything gets touched in the account that is currently working.
- Audience & Retention
- Owned Search
- Paid Acceleration
If nobody trusts the numbers
Signals on its own, as a short sprint. It is a poor use of money to rebuild anything while the reporting is wrong, and this is usually two to three weeks rather than a programme.
- Signals
Tools
What we work inside.
A capability statement rather than a set of partner badges. We take no commission or referral fee from any vendor on this list, and we would rather remove one from your stack than add one.
Search & content
- Search Console
- Semrush
- WordPress
- Webflow
Site & commerce
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- BigCommerce
- Hotjar
Audience & email
- Mailchimp
- HubSpot
- Zapier
- Airtable
Ads & signals
- Google Ads
- Meta Ads
- Analytics 4
- Tag Manager
Five practices, one consultant who has read all of your documents.
Questions
Asked before most first calls.
We will, and we do. The distinction is what the advertising is being asked to do. Accelerating an offer that already converts is good use of a budget; holding up a business that has no durable presence is an expensive habit. We will run the accounts and say plainly which of those two situations you are in.
Where to start
Find out how much of it you actually own.
Tell us what you have and we will send back an independent read: which parts would still be working if the advertising stopped, which would not, and what we would build first. No obligation attached to any of it.