Cut through the noise and see how home improvement companies drive best-in-class results with proven techniques taught in leading business schools
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We use homeowner intelligence to transform raw home service leads into ready-to-buy opportunities, creating an efficient growth engine for our clients.
Our proven process works with every lead source because it uses a strategy-first approach. We start with strategy, not because it's trendy or because it sounds smart, but because a strong strategy is the thing that actually keeps working when the market gets tough and it's not clear what to do next.
Every day we talk with talented home improvement leaders who are struggling to be heard and chosen in an increasingly noisy market. We often hear things like:
"Our costs are rising, but our results are stagnant."
"We need more leads."
"I'm not sure that we are getting the most out of our sales and marketing spend."
"We think we need to expand (or change) our team, but we're not sure who we need."
"Our agency isn't driving the kind of results we need."
"Companies keep pitching us things that sound great, but we're not sure if it's real or right for us."
"We're not differentiated enough, and our message seems stale."
"We KNOW this can be done better, and we see competitors doing it, but we don't know how."
Sound familiar?
It turns out that many smart, capable leaders were taught that the best way to get through the locked gate in front of an opportunity is to break it down with a sledgehammer and a ton of sweat. They literally call it a ‘breakthrough.’ However, even when they are successful at breaking through, they reach the next locked gate tired, frustrated, and searching for a better way.
Instead of trying to sell you the latest sledgehammer, we help home improvement businesses build an elegant Master Key: a clear, actionable strategy, forged from deep customer and market understanding, that becomes your roadmap to success and is yours to keep, forever.
Master Key Marketing primarily serves large local and mid-sized regional home services brands, as well as select professional services firms in other industries. These firms have a unique set of needs that combine local visibility, brand positioning, advertising, and a data-driven lead handling process to create an efficient growth engine.
By leveling up industry best practices with techniques taught in leading business schools, we become a true strategic partner, empowering service brands to create a reliable and efficient flow of qualified, brand-aware sales opportunities.
We get it - you're pitched on solutions all the time. Here's a quick look at what makes Master Key Marketing truly unique in the marketing and sales strategy space:
It might sound obvious, but most "strategists" are really sales people in disguise. Not us.
We serve your best interest by rigorously following the data and collaboratively determining the best path.
Because we are a strategic partner, not an agency, we are happy to work with anyone.
We will work with your current agency, help you vet and onboard new agencies or vendors, recruit and hire for an internal team, train your staff, or do whatever else may be in your best interest.
Most of your competitors probably use an advertising-first approach that sounds like: "If you buy our thing you're going to be happy."
A strategy-first approach creates leverage by increasing motivation and reducing friction to drive KPIs throughout your business.
We advise companies to own their entire marketing ecosystem from day one, so you always have the freedom to do what is best for your business.
No long term contracts, data access issues, or proprietary platforms here.
Unlike most any other provider, we are actively involved in teaching cutting-edge techniques in leading business schools.
We bring the latest tools, research, and insights to our engagements, driving innovation in your company as a core part of our services.
Making the phone ring is important, but driving revenue is essential.
By improving and aligning every piece of the customer journey we don't just 'make leads.' We help you create more, and more valuable, sales opportunities.
Unlock growth with expert strategies tailored to your business. At Master Key Marketing, we empower you to build, manage, and scale your brand with precision. From market research to lead handling, our proven tools and insights drive real, measurable results.
How do your customers really feel about your services? What motivates them to buy, and what stops them in their tracks? Smart market research is like a cheat code for generating powerful copy and imagery that makes all of your advertising dollars work harder.
When you define a clear, compelling positioning that sets your brand apart and resonates with your ideal audience, people feel like the brand is talking directly to them. It creates trust without being cheesy, and delivers a smooth customer experience all the way to close, and beyond. Brand positioning is the key lever that helps established brands scale and allows smaller brands to capture market share.
For home services companies, marketing is just the first step of the sales process. Our extensive toolbox can improve every part of the customer journey, from first contact to referral, by aligning and arming your marketing and sales teams with the right tools, messaging, and strategy to drive revenue.
Not sure if you have the right people, or who you should hire next? We create a step-by-step plan and ideal team structure based on your unique needs and goals. Along the way we can assist with job descriptions, vetting candidates, interviews, and onboarding for both new team members as well as vendors.
We also identify, and if needed, create opportunities to roll out new sources of leads to grow volume, lower costs, and reduce risk.
Working hand in hand with your leadership team, we do a deep dive into your sales and marketing results, grounded in spend data from accounting. We identify misalignments, easy wins, missing data, and opportunities to grow while cutting waste at the same time.
We audit and refine your creative assets, copy, and spending to match your strategic goals.
We educate and empower your team with proven marketing principles taught in top business schools as well as proprietary market research that helps them connect with customers and make better decisions. We also frequently train and QA call center/BDR process for policy and sales alignment.
Dan and his team have a wealth of knowledge and experience that is exactly what remodelers need. His background includes extensive marketing expertise in the residential construction industry and teaching marketing at the graduate school level, giving him a unique understanding of the challenges of the home renovation business.
Dan has introduced us to marketing strategies we never knew existed! We are seeing remarkable improvements in our marketing efforts. I highly recommend their services to any remodeling firm looking to take their marketing to the next level.
For companies wanting support for specific issues such as who to hire, marketing audits, and simple market research, we offer limited scope project-based engagements with specific deliverables, usually for a flat fee.
Many firms hire us to support and even lead large or complex projects such as total website re-builds, standing up new teams or lead sources, CRM/analytics overhauls, re-branding initiatives, and similar medium to long-term project plans.
If you are juggling numerous projects, want ongoing mentoring for internal staff, need supervision for external vendors, or just want an executive-level marketing resource on your team, we offer monthly engagements that allow us direct resources wherever it is needed most in real time.
In addition to teaching both undergraduate and MBA-level courses in marketing strategy and management, Dan is an accomplished entrepreneur. He founded America's most successful entertainment laser manufacturing company in 2007, had a successful exit, and has been working to develop industry leading marketing strategies for home improvement companies and professional services firms for the last ten years. In the last six years, Dan has driven over $200 million of directly attributable net revenue into the firms where he has worked, while also significantly improving the cost efficiency of numerous demand generation and branding programs.
Dan holds the elite Professional Certified Marketer (PCM) from the American Marketing Association as well as the Digital Marketing Institute's highest level of digital marketing certification (CDMP).
Dan founded Master Key Marketing so that frustrated business leaders could have a trustworthy and impartial strategic partner who 'speaks the language' and knows how to connect marketing actives to business outcomes - a key pain point in many existing vendor relationships. With a small team of outstanding subject matter experts, Dan is currently working with firms in the home remodeling, tech, and financial services sectors.
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