The right marketing

Most businesses are doing too much marketing and getting too little from it.

Because they haven't stopped to ask which bits are actually working. And often, underneath that - they haven't done the work to understand who they're talking to in the first place.
If you're talking to everyone, you're connecting with no one. A strategy built on real audience insight is a different thing entirely from one built on assumption.

A marketing strategy gives you a clear picture of where you are now, where you want to be, and the most realistic, effective route to get there - based on your resources, your audience and your business goals.

And because we understand both sides of growth, our strategies factor in your internal reality too. What your team can sustain. How your people communicate. Where the gaps are between what you're saying externally and what's happening internally.

Two clear steps.

Build the foundation with Audience Research and Insight and then overlay the Marketing Strategy.

Audience Research and Insight:

The businesses that grow aren’t always the ones with the most marketing activity. They’re the ones that understand their audience so well that when someone reads their content, it feels like it was written specifically for them. That doesn’t happen by accident.

 

What we work on

  • Identifying who your ideal customers actually are – not who you wish they were
  • Understanding how they think, what they worry about and how they make decisions
  • Mapping different audience types and what each one needs from you
  • Social listening and research – finding out what your customers are really saying
  • Recognising personality types within your audience and what that means for your messaging
  • Translating audience insight into messaging and content that connects

What you leave with

  • Detailed audience personas for your key customer types
  • A language guide – the words and phrases your audience actually uses
  • Content and messaging recommendations based on real insight
  • A research process you can repeat as your business evolves

This is the same skill at the heart of our personality profiling work – understanding people deeply enough to communicate in a way that actually lands. On the inside we use it for team dynamics. On the outside, for marketing.

Marketing Strategy:

A clear picture of where you are now, where you want to be, and the most realistic route to get there – specific to your resources, your audience and your business goals.

What’s included:

  • An audit of your current marketing activity – what’s working, what isn’t, and why
  • A clear picture of your audience – who they are, how they behave, what they need
  • Your positioning – what makes you different and how to communicate it
  • Channel recommendations – where to focus your energy and why
  • A content strategy – what to say, how often, and in what format
  • Measurable goals – so you know what success actually looks like
  • A 6 or 12-month marketing plan – realistic, achievable, specific to your business
Reactive marketing is exhausting.

A clear, targeted marketing strategy makes your marketing sustainable and effective.

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Built for you

We build strategies around your audience, your resources and your goals - not a generic template.
2

Both sides

Our strategies factor in your internal reality too - what your team can sustain and how they communicate.
3

Ready to go

You leave with a 6 or 12-month marketing plan that's realistic, specific and ready to act on immediately.
4

Insight driven

We do the audience research first - so the strategy is built on insight, not assumption or guesswork.
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Everything Included

A marketing strategy from YAYS includes an audit, positioning, channel plan, content strategy and measurable goals.
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People first

We've spent over twenty years understanding what makes marketing work - and it starts with understanding people.
What's next?