Small & Midsize Business Marketing Consultants

We offer fully integrated marketing strategy and services, applying the best practices of branding, communications, traditional and digital marketing.

What Potential and New Clients Say, What We Say

Can you relate to any of these statements?

“People don’t understand what we do or who we are.”

“I don’t have a marketing plan.”

“I can’t afford to hire a full-time marketing person (or department).”

“I had my cousin (relative, friend-of-a-friend) design my website, but no one goes there.”

“I had my aunt’s friend’s nephew design my website, and it got hacked—or now he’s AWOL—or the site won’t work anymore—or it won’t show up on Google.”

 “I don’t have time to work on marketing my business.”

“I’ve tried social media, but it didn’t really help my business.”

“I’m on all the social media channels, but I just can’t keep up.”

“I’ll just use AI (e.g., ChatGPT, Bard, etc.) to write my content for me.”

“It takes too much time to work on our marketing.”

As marketing consultants, here’s what we say:

“We’ll create a visually appealing, memorable logo and brand messages when we develop your brand identity.”

“We’ll develop successful marketing strategies and marketing plans for you.”

“You can’t afford NOT to market your business.”

“We provide valuable marketing services that help generate business, so you can get a return on your investment.”

“We design websites that tell your brand story and get relevant traffic.”

 “We’ll focus on your marketing so you can focus on running your business.”

“Social media may be the ‘shiny object’ of marketing, but it’s not necessarily the most powerful tactic; it may or may not be right for your business.”

“Powerful, high-quality content that tells your story is more powerful than spam generated by AI.”

“We can help create efficiencies, personalization, and revenue growth with marketing automation.”

Download Our Marketing Plan Template

Make a plan! Have a strategy! Measure your success. Our marketing plan template is appropriate for your company, product, or service.

Measurable Results

Work with seasoned professionals who stay up-to-date.

Our integrated marketing services help you achieve
measurable success.

What’s more, we’re nimble. You won’t pay for layers of red tape—or the overhead of traditional brick and mortar agencies. You’ll avoid the time spent cutting through that bureaucracy. You’ll also avoid the high price tags. Traditional agency costs can be staggering for a solopreneur, small or  midsize business.

Some of Our Testimonials

Improved Our Visibility and Traffic

“Nancy Burgess Strategic Marketing has been instrumental in improving the visibility and traffic to our website utilizing SEO techniques. Reporting, analysis, strategy and implementation has been informative and educational for our team members. Nancy is detail-oriented and delivers measurable results to help us achieve our business goals. I highly recommend her.”

Debbie Marchok, Eli’s Cheesecake Company

Industry-Leading

“Nancy really knows marketing! Whether it’s long-standing traditional techniques or the latest in social media and web-based tools (SEO, inbound, WordPress, HubSpot, Facebook, etc.) she has a handle on all of them and can effectively help apply these to your companies growth strategies. She also has one of the very best LinkedIn profiles I have ever seen…which means an awful lot coming from a guy that makes a living helping people with LinkedIn ?”

Wayne Breitbarth, LinkedIn Expert, Sales Trainer and Author

More Website Views

“Nancy took hold of an OK website and made it more elegant and user friendly. Within a month my hits and views increased. Nancy is always available to talk or meet. She gives a most impressive presentation that analyzes your company and gives steps needed to increase rankings. She is worth every dime I paid. My increase in traffic has paid for her already.”

Dan Podgorny, Kids Kustom Parties

Marketing Expertise

“Nancy has been an important part of launching our new company, providing the expertise necessary to market our product. Nancy is extremely professional, listens and has worked hard to become an expert on every angle of our new product. She has impressive energy and has provided excellent direction with marketing strategies (social media, press releases, search engine optimization, etc.) while introducing our product into the marketplace. Working with Nancy the last few months has been a pleasure.”

Chris Strzalka, My 3D Mini Me

Engaging Content

“I always appreciate Nancy’s willingness to dig into a topic, take the time to gain a full appreciation of the issues, and then create engaging content. Nancy was an integral part of our brand consultancy and clients highly valued her contributions.”

Mark Stinson, Stinson Brand Innovations

Created a Unique Brand Identity

“Nancy helped me to articulate my consultancy’s brand messaging, value and unique identity. She evolved my brand identity with a new, distinctive logo and tagline. My stationery, business cards and templates now reflect my brand value. For my website, she outlined my site architecture, chose imagery, wrote the content, and optimized the site. I now feel proud to showcase my brand and my company’s value to the healthcare marketplace. I obtained “downtown” agency quality without extravagant agency fees.”

Nancy Hedlund, MedNavigate

Trustworthy & Ethical

“Nancy is a strong writer and strategic thinker who always strives to do what’s best for the client and for the company. She loves learning new skills and masters them quickly. Nancy is trustworthy, ethical, and works collaboratively with others.”

Marita Gomez, Marketing Communications Agency

Technology Upgrades

“Nancy has done a fantastic job with our technology upgrades and revised our social media. Thank you for a job well done!!!”

Carol Gabrielsen, Unemployment Consultants, Inc.

Knowledgeable & Thorough

“Nancy knows her stuff. She is so knowledgeable about what she does and is very thorough in her analysis and work. I have been very happy with the work she has done thus far. I would recommend her to anyone who wants to market their business!”

Katie Sleigh, Sleigh Family Chiropractic

Enthusiastic & Creative

“Nancy has a unique balance of all the qualities you would look for in a marketer. She’s not only enthusiastic and creative, but knowledgeable about her industry and determined to help you get your project finished on a deadline. Nancy helped me created a direct mail project for an independent senior living facility in our area. She developed the overall plan and led me though step-by-step to make our idea a reality. She really listened to the message I was trying to portray and was able to create content for my mailer in the best version of “my voice” possible. In marketing it’s rare to find someone who can balance the old with the new (e.g. direct mail and digital). Nancy really does it all and you won’t be disappointed!”

Daniellah Salario, Assisting Hands

Small and Mid-Size Business Marketing Consultant: DIGITAL MARKETING

We are experts in online marketing for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs).

For example, we understand search engine optimization (SEO)—that is, how to get your website crawled and found by Google, Bing and other search engines. Although we build websites for our own clients, we also help website designers by writing branded, SEO-optimized content for their clients. Not AI-generated pablum.

Owner Nancy Burgess was trained at DePaul’s Kellstadt Graduate School in practical internet marketing and social media. Further, she is certified in email marketinginbound marketing and content marketing.

We’ve advanced the digital marketing capabilities of both large corporations and small businesses. What’s more, we design company websites. Our case studies show a few of these examples.

In sum, we can help your company achieve success with many digital marketing services:

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Small Business Marketing Consultant: BRANDING & CLASSICAL MARKETING

If you’re just getting started, you’ll need a few basic tools to promote your business: a brand identity, a logo, website, and business cards.

Branding

As a small business marketing consultant, Nancy Burgess Strategic Marketing helps new and existing companies with a variety of traditional marketing and branding needs. We conduct marketing research, build brand identities, create logos, formulate messages, and position brands against the competition.

Drawing on years of marketing agency experience, we offer the following traditional marketing services to help your company achieve success:

Print Materials, if needed

We also create brochures, sales aids, banners, and other print marketing collateral.

Additionally, we can help with your writing needs. Owner Nancy Burgess is an award-winning writer who has written for nationally known publications. Christine McCurdy has designed print materials since 1990.

Some of Our Consulting Services

Click on any one of the services below to learn more.

Digital and Print Materials

Offer your prospects and customers blogs, web pages, eBooks, brochures, and more to draw them to your business. Our award-winning writers produce content that people want to read.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Take your marketing to the next level with personalized, relevant marketing and sales experiences that generate revenue.

Agency of Record for SMBs

Got strategy? We provide comprehensive integrated marketing and digital marketing services for small and midsize businesses (SMBs).

Brand Identity

Make a good impression with professional branding that makes your business look and sound amazing.

Web Design

Prove you exist and drive relevant traffic to you website with a well-designed, SEO-friendly website. It's your 21st century calling card.

SEO

Don't hide out on page 100 of Google! We'll help customers find your business on search engines through search engine optimization, SEO.