FAQ

How long will it take to be done?

Marketing is better thought of as a verb than a noun. It requires action. There is no “done”. Digital marketing is a never-ending and evolving journey, not a set it up once and walk away sort of thing.

Primary drivers that make marketing more verb than noun:

  1. Google (and other similar players).
  2. Your potential customers’ expectations.
  3. Your competitors.
  4. Your solutions and focus will evolve over time.

As these things change, so will your digital marketing in order to stay aligned with the market. Fall too far out of alignment, and you’re out of the picture.

How much will this cost?

Likely in the ~$3.2k / month – $4.5k / month ballpark for RocLogic’s services (for any service, a proposal will be provided with pricing info for RocLogic’s services).

Three primary cost drivers:

  1. The type of involvement you desire from RocLogic (see digital marketing services for more detail)
  2. Your niche scenario(s) complexity & current state (see Why you need a niche and what to do about it)
  3. The complexity of your business.

After a discovery call, assuming we agree on fit, you’ll be provided a proposal with more precise pricing for RocLogic’s services.

You’ll also have to pay for ads and any software tools needed. The software tools are generally not very expensive. If we decide to experiment with ads, the amount you’ll have to pay for ads generally is pretty expensive (to give you a rough sense, likely ~$3k / month to ~$7k / month range), and varies based on several factors (e.g. the market you want to play in). We can discuss initial target ad spend if we decide to work together. Target ad spend will likely vary over time.

How do I know how well inbound marketing will work for me?

There are ways to improve the probability of success, but marketing lives in the land of uncertainty. It’s not deterministic like engineering or accounting (I wish it were). What we’re doing is essentially experimenting / testing. The 4 primary factors that will strongly influence how well inbound works for you are:

  1. Your capabilities relative to the market – How good you are. What proof points you have.
  2. Your ability to express your capabilities and experience relative to the market. Less common perspectives.
  3. How patient you are.
  4. How passionate you are about what you do.

There are ways to gauge progress along the way. We use feedback from the market to influence decisions.

What’s the “process” for creating a digital marketing machine look like?

This is over-simplifying a bit, but it basically looks like this:

  1. Find a reasonable niche (or several). See Why you Need a niche and what to do about it for more.
  2. Create baseline content as needed – this might include landing pages, articles, case studies, etc. Who does what depends on our engagement. Either way you’ll be involved.
  3. Run tests and monitor.
  4. Assess results and iterate / optimize.

Want to learn how to make marketing less frustrating? See here: How to make marketing less frustrating.

What are some things you don’t do?

  • Graphic design
  • Project-based work
  • PR campaigns
  • Inside sales / SDR
  • CRM contact updating
  • Website overhauls / re-dos

What’s my journey going to look like in the beginning?

While journeys vary, there’s likely to be a fair amount of commonality. Here’s what it generally looks like in the beginning:

  1. You’ll be excited to get started, but won’t have a great idea of what to expect, when to expect it, or what the early stages of progress look like.
  2. You’ll likely feel relieved that progress is finally being made.
  3. You’ll likely get frustrated. Partly because you’ll want to focus on things you shouldn’t, and won’t want to focus on things you should. Partly because you want there to be a magic shortcut. There isn’t one.
  4. If you start to see sales-ready leads coming in, you won’t respond to them quite right. You’ll learn how to do better with practice (response times, approach, how to identify the good/bad quicker). You’ll want some sales tips.
  5. You’ll start to see how sales and marketing is hard work, but you’ll also start to get back to the core of business success: being empathetic to your customer’s needs and adding value.

How do we get started?

  1. We have a chat (you can reach out here to schedule).
  2. If we agree on fit, we agree on a price range.
  3. A proposal is provided to you.
  4. You sign and return.
  5. We schedule a kick-off meeting and get moving (with all the coincident blood, sweat, and tears).