A Marketing Consultant for Your Small Business
Quick Answer
Kindly Creative provides marketing consulting for established small businesses. TJ reviews your current marketing, identifies priorities, and builds a practical plan for your team or vendors to execute. Based in Albuquerque and working nationally. Strategy, implementation, and ongoing advisory are scoped separately; you do not need to buy a website.
Not sure whether the next dollar belongs in SEO, ads, content, or your website? Start with the decision. We help you choose what to do next, what to stop, and who will do the work.
Free 30-minute call with TJ. He will email available times. No obligation.
Are You Spinning Your Wheels?
You may already have a website, an agency, and a steady stream of marketing tasks. What is missing is a way to decide which of those activities is helping people become customers. More activity is not always the answer.
You're doing a lot but seeing little
Social posts, emails, maybe some ads. Lots of activity but no clear strategy tying it together. Effort without results.
Every vendor pushes their service
The SEO person says SEO. The ads person says ads. No one gives you objective advice on what you actually need.
You don't have time to figure it out
Running a business is consuming. Marketing strategy gets pushed to 'when things calm down.' They never do.
Previous strategies gathered dust
You've paid for plans before. They looked nice. Then sat in a folder while you went back to random tactics.
Clarity Over Chaos
Your marketing strategy consultant should connect recommendations to your customers, budget, and capacity. We review the evidence, narrow the priorities, and turn them into an execution plan with owners and next steps. You can use your own team, existing vendors, or separately scoped help from Kindly.
- Objective assessment of where you are
- Clear priorities based on your goals and resources
- AI opportunity assessment for your marketing
- Actionable roadmap with specific next steps
- Guidance through execution, not just planning
- Accountability to keep momentum
Our Process
How We Work Together
Consulting that produces results, not just documents.
Deep Dive Assessment
We analyze your current marketing, competitive landscape, customer journey, and business goals. We identify what's working, what's not, and what's missing.
Strategy Development
We develop a focused strategy with clear priorities. Not 50 ideas you can't execute. The 3-5 things that will actually move your business forward.
Execution Planning
We break strategy into actionable steps with clear owners and timelines. You know exactly what to do and when to do it.
Ongoing Guidance
If ongoing advisory is in scope, we review progress, solve problems, and adjust priorities together. A strategy-only engagement ends with the agreed handoff.
What You Get
Marketing Assessment
Comprehensive review of your current marketing with specific findings and recommendations.
Strategic Roadmap
Clear plan with priorities, timelines, and resource requirements. Built for execution, not filing.
Channel Strategy
Recommendations on where to focus: organic vs paid, which platforms, what content types.
Vendor Guidance
Objective advice on hiring decisions, agency selection, and what to handle in-house.
Regular Strategy Sessions
For advisory engagements, agree on a meeting cadence to review progress and adjust the plan.
Accountability
Someone to keep you on track and call out when you're drifting from priorities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Consulting is strategic guidance. We help you figure out what to do and how to prioritize. Services mean we do the work. Many clients start with consulting to get clarity, then engage us for specific execution.
We work with established small businesses and growing companies who have some marketing in place but need strategic direction. If you're doing $500K+ in revenue and feel stuck or scattered with marketing, we can help.
Kindly offers project-based assessments and strategy work, plus ongoing advisory when needed. We quote the scope before work starts. Marketing consulting is priced separately from ad spend, implementation, and our AI consulting offer. Your initial 30-minute call with TJ is free.
Both options are available. Some clients want pure strategy and have internal teams to execute. Others want us to handle implementation. We can do either or a hybrid approach.
For ongoing advisory, we typically meet bi-weekly or monthly depending on your needs. Project-based work has its own meeting cadence. You're never left wondering what's happening.
We focus on clear decisions, owners, and next steps. You can take the plan to your own team or existing vendors. If you want implementation or ongoing advisory from Kindly, we agree on that scope separately.
Yes. We often serve as the strategic layer that coordinates and directs specialist vendors. We can help evaluate their work, set priorities, and ensure efforts are aligned.
Yes. We have a dedicated AI consulting service that helps small businesses adopt AI tools and strategies. From AI readiness assessments to tool implementation and team training, we help you put AI to work practically. Learn more on our AI Consulting page.
Related Services
Services that work well together to grow your business.
Google Ads management
Paid search when customers are actively looking for your services.
Content & Copywriting
Turn the strategy into useful pages, articles, and email.
AI Consulting
Dedicated AI strategy and implementation for your business.
Website Design
Website improvements when the inquiry path needs attention.
SEO Services
Build organic traffic as part of a long-term strategy.
Talk Through Your Next Step
Request a free 30-minute call with TJ. He will email available times. No paid work starts until you agree on the scope and price.
A conversation about fit, scope, and budget. Detailed audits and implementation are scoped separately.