30+ years of proven results
Marketing is broken on both sides of the table.
For the businesses that need a marketing system installed, and for the advisors who install it.

FOR BUSINESS OWNERS
Own what fixes it.
You’ve got marketing happening. What’s missing is the strategy and system that makes it all work together.
We build that with your team, so you know who you’re for, why they choose you, what to stop doing, and what happens next.
You own it, and your team can run it.
FOR MARKETING ADVISORS
Be what fixes it.
Your clients can buy execution anywhere. What they need is someone who can bring strategy, direction, and a system to it all.
We give you the complete model to sell, price, and deliver that kind of leadership, installed in your practice in 90 days, one-on-one, without the need to reinvent the wheel.












THE OBJECTION
Wait, aren’t you an agency?
Fair question. We started as one, and we love agencies, but the outdated agency model pays for activity: more deliverables, more channels, a retainer that renews, whether or not anything adds up. Most business owners who land here have already been through two or three of them.
What we build is a marketing system that the business owns, and someone is accountable for leading it. For business owners, that’s one of our certified advisors or us. For advisors, it’s the model we hand you so you can stop selling hours.
THE PROBLEM
Random acts of marketing, at machine speed.
If you run a business
- You have growth goals, but revenue still comes in waves.
- You’ve been through three agencies, two freelancers, and an SEO firm. None of them talked to each other.
- Your message sounds different depending on who’s saying it.
- Sales keeps asking where the good leads are. Marketing keeps running tactics that don’t answer the question.
- Reporting exists, but it doesn’t tell you what to do next.
If you advise businesses
- Clients want more output and expect to pay less for it.
- You’re bidding against people who produce in an hour what used to take a week.
- The work ships. Nobody can say whether it worked.
- Every retainer gets reviewed on a shorter clock than it used to.
- You’re the most senior person on the account and you’re still doing the execution.
WHAT WE BUILT
Strategy First™
One engagement that settles who you serve, why they choose you, and what to do next. Every decision after it gets easier.
The Marketing Operating System
The plan turned into weekly execution: meeting cadence, scorecards, priorities, and one person accountable for the whole thing.
The Advisor Network
More than 100 certified advisors installing the same system in their own markets. We’ll match you with one, or train you to be one.
WHAT CLIENTS AND ADVISORS SAY

“Our business skyrocketed immediately. We have a clear roadmap, and our business is booming.”
Jake Schloegel
Schloegel Design Remodel

“I would recommend Duct Tape Marketing’s services to others, without reservation.”
Brian Witt
Owner, Ironhorse Management, LLC

“Our existing client portfolio has grown, our new business is exceeding targets, and we are on track to 2x revenue in 2026.”
Megan Kacvinsky
CEO, Point to Point
I run a business
See what a complete marketing system looks like and what it takes to install one.
I advise businesses
See the model, the frameworks, and how advisors sell and install it in their client's businesses.
MORE WAYS TO START
The Podcast
Thirty-minute conversations with the people shaping how small businesses grow.
The Next Workshop
Get Recommended: how to make AI name your business.
7 Steps Ebook
The short version of the system, for $4.99. Start where most of our clients started.
The Books
Duct Tape Marketing, The Ultimate Marketing Engine, and Unchained. Where this started.

