Fast-growing small and medium businesses often need more marketing and business planning talent than they can readily add to their management ranks. What's more, those needs are often temporary, with a short burst of intense activity needed for deciding what to do and making it happen.

To solve these problems without adding staff, firms typically turn to management consultants or marketing agencies on a project basis. However, this often means emphasizing either strategic vision or program execution — not both. While consultants can quickly understand a wide variety of industries and develop impressive strategies, they don't generally manage implementation. Marketing agencies, on the other hand, bring creativity and experience executing all the latest media options. But, they typically do their best work supporting a marketing strategy developed by senior client side executives, in the context of the company's overall business strategy. Growth companies with no senior marketing or strategy professionals on board to manage an agency relationship in the context of an overall plan gain less from the investment.

We solve this problem for growing businesses with an approach we call "Plug. Play. Unplug." In a nutshell, we combine the strategic resources needed to quickly understand new markets and envision our clients' path to growth with the current operational expertise to implement the plans we create. Unlike consultants who bring big ideas but leave execution to the client, we commit ourselves to delivering on our plans (and refining them as we progress if circumstances change), right down to the details. And, we bring the same entrepreneurial spirit and energy to the task that our client companies would expect from their founding team.

Plug us in and we'll understand quickly what you need, be ready to play through execution, and, once you're ready to unplug, we'll move on — allowing you to get all the advantages of added management while you need it, while avoiding excess headcount when you don't.