Auckland marketing consultant | Auckland NZ

We'll help you connect your business goals to marketing goals

Marketing strategy and planning services customised to fit your requirements

Great marketing comes from great planning

Let us formulate and deliver the marketing strategy to help your business thrive.

We meet many business owners who request help with shifting their approach to their marketing. We encourage them to ask the ‘why’ question and do the strategic thinking before asking the ‘what’ question about tactics. The ‘thinking’ and the ‘doing’ need to be connected to each other and should come in that order.

How do we help you do this?

Through our marketing strategy and planning services...from identifying target audiences with marketing segmentation through to defining digital marketing strategies; we have frameworks and packages to step you through the process.

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Marketing strategy and planning services

All our marketing strategies are crafted to suit your business – there is nothing out of the box. Having said that, often people ‘don’t know what they don’t know’ and to make it easier we have a menu of services below that you may be interested in discussing, including packages that help connect your business and marketing goals for set prices. If you don’t find what you are looking for listed, please contact us anyway so that we can discuss customising a solution to your requirements and budget, such as consulting by the hour.

Planning packages (starting from NZD$3495+GST)

Marketing Plan – Gold Package

Marketing Planning with support across 12 months. We prepare documentation

Work with us on your annual marketing plan…year after year if it suits. Involves preparing a marketing plan for you as described in the 'basic package', however it keeps you accountable with quarterly reviews. It also includes the development of an implementation plan for planning tactical marketing that helps meet your overall marketing objectives and strategies. Quarterly payment plan.

Marketing Plan – Silver Package

Marketing Planning with support across 12 months. You prepare documentation

Similar to the Gold package, however, you get even more involved by writing your own plan while we guide you through the process by providing you with templates and feedback to refine your plan. A cheaper alternative that is a great option for anyone with more time available and wanting to learn through being more ‘hands-on’. Quarterly payment plan.

Marketing Plan – Basic Package

A one-off Marketing Plan

Similar to the Gold package in that we will document it for you, but without the support across the year. Ideal for those that want help with the up front thinking and then be left to get on with things.

Other marketing consulting services

(hourly rates or packages available)

Support your marketing employees' or own professional development by tapping into senior experience

We help businesses transition through growing their marketing function and capabilities with this mentoring & coaching package.

You may not have been able to justify employing a senior marketer in your business and this can sometimes make junior marketers feel like they are missing out on early career development. We can help you fill that gap by providing your business with ongoing senior support without the need to employ someone full time. We provide strategic input as well as someone to help your marketers take their performance to the next level. Having a mentor and coach for marketers can help with retention as well as professional development as they feel supported in their marketing journey.

You can learn more about marketing mentoring & coaching on this page.

Lift the hood on your marketing and see where opportunities for improvement lie – a 3 step plan for auditing and accelerating your marketing...

Need an independent review of your marketing processes, collateral or communications? Want an expert opinion on where you are doing well, where there are opportunities to develop and areas for you to address?

We have a 'marketing deep dive package' that is designed to help your business turn over a new leaf. Or we can customise a marketing audit to suit your needs, including a discovery phase as well as a reporting and recommendation phase so that you get the chance to discuss findings and ask questions.

Get in touch to request more information about this package.

Get a group together to get their input into marketing

Need a framework and fresh thinking about your branding, communication strategy, targeting or segmentation? Or simply a brainstorming session to help get your creative thinking cap on?

Our workshops are tailored to your requirements. We can facilitate and participate at the same time or be invited to participate in sessions hosted by specialists in a particular field to provide a broader marketing perspective (e.g. website discovery meetings, re-branding sessions or scoping deep-dives).

C ontact us to explore some options for your workshop.

When marketing projects need some special attention

We support businesses that need someone to jump in and manage marketing projects.

Projects could be outside day to day marketing and therefore require additional focus or resource or they may require specific skill sets that we can provide. A project could be anything from overseeing the creation of a new website to establishing marketing guidelines or setting up a suite of marketing communication.

You can learn more about project management services on this page.

If you need help with ‘the doing’, our outsource marketing packages are perfect for actually implementing your marketing plan.

“Help your customers and you help your business”

– Leo Burnett

Why choose me as your marketing consultant?

Client-side experience – I know you. I’ve been in similar shoes to yours, making decisions for many businesses that have relied on my expertise and judgement. I’ve had real-world experience and had to put money where my mouth is, so I’m always considering “If it were my business…” when asked my opinion.
Lots of experience with many great brands – I have worked with some well-known businesses through a range of different economic times and unique challenges as their industries have undergone transformation. It has not all been plain sailing –a real roller-coaster of successful endeavours mixed with periods of immense pressure. This ‘ride’ has produced fantastic learnings that can be readily transferred to other businesses and industries regardless of size.
Bring big business experience to small businesses – I’ve had the luxury of big budgets while working for some large companies. I have also had massive audiences to test hypotheses and campaigns on in the United Kingdom and now smaller businesses I work with benefit from all that experience.

Practical thinking – you may choose to only use Flex Marketing for marketing consulting, however, you are sure to get practical advice because we don’t just spend all our time ‘thinking’ and not doing. Through our outsource marketing services we are still very hands-on for much of our time, meaning that we won’t advise you to do the impossible.
Easy to get along with – we relate to what your day-to-day is like, aiming to add value by being proactive and acting in your best interests. You won’t find us sitting in any ivory towers – we do our best to get to know you, your team and your business to help you succeed.