Independent marketing direction

We make sure whoever runs your marketing delivers, and every dollar earns its keep.

For owners spending $5,000+ a month who still can’t say what’s actually working. We find what’s making you money and what’s wasting it, and point it the right way. You don’t have to learn any of this or chase anyone. We’re paid only by you, so the answer you get is the straight one, not a sales pitch.

Free 30-min second opinion

Find out if your marketing is working

Plus a short written summary you keep, whether or not we work together.

Step 01 / 04

Three quick questions, then pick a time. Takes about 30 seconds.

What’s your biggest marketing frustration right now?
Roughly how much do you spend on marketing each month?
What kind of business are we looking at?
Good. Let’s get you on the calendar.

Pick a time that works. 30 minutes, no pitch deck. You’ll leave with at least one thing worth fixing.

Enter your website address, like yourcompany.com

We’ll pre-fill the calendar for you, so booking takes seconds.

A better fit for you
We’re built for owners spending $5,000+ a month.

A paid engagement wouldn’t be fair to you yet. But the same questions still apply, so grab our free checklist: 12 Questions to Ask Whoever Runs Your Marketing.

20+ yrsin the field
1,000+businesses seen from the inside
$0taken from your ad budget
Built & sold a national marketing company Always on your side 100% U.S. based
What the call gets you

Thirty honest minutes, and something in writing.

01 · The call

A 30-minute read

We dig into your numbers, your channels, and whoever’s running them: marketing company, in-house, or you. Real talk, no slides, no warm-up.

02 · After

A written summary

A short, plain-English read on what’s working, where money is leaking, and what we’d fix first. Yours to keep either way.

03 · The catch

Zero obligation

No hard sell, no pressure. If there’s nothing for us to do, we’ll say so and you’ll have lost nothing.

Where you are now

Find your position. Then we set the course.

Every business sits somewhere on this path. Tap the one that fits and see your next move.

Your next bearingTap a stage above and we’ll show you where we’d start. Wherever you land, the free call ends with your next move, in writing.

Why listen to us
20+
years in
digital marketing
1,000+
businesses seen
from the inside
$0
earned from
your ad spend
All
channels: ads,
SEO, CRO, email

We’ve seen how the work actually gets billed.

For twenty years, marketing companies quietly hired our founder’s company to do the work they billed their clients for. We know where budgets get padded and how results get dressed up.

We answer to you, never the vendors.

We’re paid one way: a flat fee, from you. Nothing we recommend earns us a commission or a cut, so the read you get is clean, and the only interest we’re serving is yours.

We read the whole map, not one channel.

Ads, SEO, CRO, website, email, attribution, CRM: we’ve worked across all of it, so we can tell you where your next dollar actually belongs.

In their words

Owners who finally got a straight answer.

We thought our Google Ads were fine. Turned out nearly a third of the budget was going to broad keywords that never converted, and it had been that way for months.
Home Services
Three agencies in six years, and none of them ever showed me that half my retainer was going to a channel we couldn’t even measure.
Health & Wellness
We were about to sign a year-long contract with a new agency. They told us not to. The one we had just needed steering, and that answer saved us the whole switch.
Professional Services
What working together looks like

A clear first 90 days, then we keep you on course.

First we find out what’s really happening in your marketing and set the course. Then we stay on to keep everyone pointed the right way. You keep whoever runs your marketing, whether that’s a marketing company, an in-house team, or you. Our job is to make sure the whole machine points one direction, and stays there.

01Weeks 1–2

Audit

A full teardown of your marketing and whoever runs it: where the money actually goes, what’s being tracked, and what’s quietly costing you.

02Weeks 3–6

Baseline

A true read on what’s driving revenue instead of vanity metrics, and a prioritized 90-day roadmap of what to fix and in what order.

03Weeks 7–12

Direction

Whoever runs your marketing gets clear, prioritized direction. We check their work against the plan and the numbers, and you watch the first fixes land.

04Month 4 on

Ongoing

Every month we review what got shipped against the plan, catch waste and drift early, weigh in on the decisions that matter, and adjust course as your results change. No end date, because keeping everyone honest never stops.

Urgent problems get handled the moment they surface, not when the calendar says so.

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How it works

Three steps, and you’re pointed in the right direction.

01 Book the call

Tell us where it hurts

Pick a time and answer a couple of quick questions. We come in already knowing what to look at.

02 Get your bearing

We point you true

On the call we read your situation cold and tell you straight: what’s working, what’s wasted, what to do next.

03 Keep the map

You get it in writing

A written summary and a clear first move land in your inbox, whether we ever work together or not.

Who this is for

If one of these sounds like you, the call will pay for itself in clarity.

You’re spending $5k+ a month and honestly can’t tell if it’s working.

You’ve got a marketing company or an in-house marketer and can’t tell if they’re good or just busy.

You’re running it yourself and want a senior strategist in your corner, not another vendor to manage.

You’ve been burned before and want a second set of eyes with no angle.

About Marketing Compass

We know what you’re not being told about your marketing, because for twenty years, marketing companies were our founder’s customers.

He built and sold one of the largest subcontract marketing companies in the country: the company other marketing companies quietly hired to do the work they billed their clients for. More than a thousand businesses came through it. That company sold; the experience stayed, and now it sits on your side of the table. From that seat, we saw the inside of more than 1,000 businesses’ marketing: the dashboards built to look impressive, the spend nobody questioned, the metrics chosen because they flattered the invoice.

That’s the knowledge we now put on your side of the table. Think of it the way a homeowner hires their own representative to oversee the contractors building their house: we’re that for your marketing, not the crew doing the work, but the one making sure it serves you.

We make our money one way, from the flat fee you pay us. So we have nothing to upsell and no agenda but yours, and on a call with us you get a straight answer instead of a sales pitch.

100% U.S. BASED No pitch. No obligation.

Find out if your marketing is actually working.

Book a free 30-minute call. You’ll get a straight read on what’s working and what to fix first, plus a written summary to keep.

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