Strategy & Consultation
Experienced guidance to align your vision, structure your direction, and build with confidence. Before design, development, or marketing execution begins, we help you define a clear path forward — grounded in real-world experience and practical insight.
Why Strategy Matters Before Execution
Successful digital projects don’t begin with design or development — they begin with clarity. Without a strategic foundation, even well-built work can miss the mark, waste resources, or fail to connect with the right audience.
Strategy helps define what matters most: your goals, your positioning, your customers, and the most effective path forward. It ensures that every decision — from messaging and structure to design and marketing — is aligned with real business outcomes.
A thoughtful strategy phase reduces costly missteps, strengthens execution, and creates a plan you can build on with confidence
What We Help You Solve
Many businesses know they need to improve their digital presence — but aren’t always sure where to start or what will make the biggest difference. Our strategy consultations help bring clarity to complex challenges and create a focused path forward.
We often help clients solve questions like:
What should our website actually be doing for our business?
How do we clarify our brand message and positioning?
What marketing efforts will deliver the best return?
Why isn’t our current website converting visitors into customers?
How do we improve visibility in search and stand out online?
How do we bring consistency across design, content, and platforms?
If you’re facing uncertainty, scattered efforts, or growth challenges, strategy is often the most valuable first step.
1. Discovery & Insight
2. Strategic Direction
3. Actionable Roadmap
4. Execution Support (Optional)
Our Consultation Process
Every successful outcome begins with clarity. Our consultation process is designed to uncover the right insights, define practical direction, and provide actionable guidance you can move forward with immediately.
Areas of Expertise & Strategic Focus
Strategic guidance may include:
Website Strategy & User Experience
Brand Positioning & Identity Development
Search Visibility & Digital Presence
Marketing Systems & Growth Planning
Visual Media & Advanced Creative Direction
3D visualization, animation, interactive media, and presentation assets when appropriate.
We don’t approach projects in isolation — we consider how each element supports the broader system your business relies on.
Who This Is For
Our strategy consultations are ideal for businesses that want clarity before committing to execution.
This service is especially valuable for:
New Ventures Preparing to Launch
Established Businesses Ready to Evolve
Organizations Facing Growth Challenges
Teams Seeking Expert Perspective
Businesses Wanting a Cohesive Digital Strategy
If you’re unsure about the next step — or want to make sure you’re making the right one — a strategic consultation can provide the clarity needed to move forward confidently.
Why Choose Alchemy Imageworks for Strategic Guidance
Strategy requires more than ideas — it requires experience, perspective, and the ability to connect creative vision with practical execution. At Alchemy Imageworks, we bring over three decades of hands-on work across digital platforms, branding, marketing, and technical development.
Our consultations are not abstract brainstorming sessions. They are focused, informed, and designed to help you make better decisions — with clarity, structure, and long-term results in mind.
What Sets Us Apart:
Decades of Real-World Digital Experience
Cross-Disciplinary Insight
Clear Communication and Practical Direction
A Partner Mindset, Not a Vendor Mentality
Continuity From Strategy to Execution
We help businesses move forward with confidence — grounded in strategy, supported by experience, and built for lasting success.
Hourly Advisory
Standard Consultation:
$225 CAD/hour
Executive Strategy Session (1:1 with Lead Director):
$325 CAD/hour
Monthly Retainers
Baseline Strategy Retainer:
$2,500 CAD/month
- Up to 10 hours of strategic support
- Inclusive of monthly planning and performance review
Growth Strategy Retainer (Most Popular):
$5,000 CAD/month
- Up to 25 hours of support
- Includes campaign planning, team coordination, and strategic execution oversight
Enterprise Strategy Partnership:
Custom pricing (starting at $8,000 CAD/month)
For full-scope leadership and integration across marketing, brand, UX, and digital operations.
Frequently Asked Questions
I'm new to this digital marketing thing, where I start?
What will your strategic digital marketing services do for me?
A business or project marketing strategy is the road-map that precisely defines your specific marketing objectives and outlines the most efficient steps necessary to achieve them. Marketing objectives for most business can be broadly categorized as follows:
- Increase penetration into existing markets with your current products and/or services.
- Develop and/or locate new markets for your current products or services.
- Innovate; research and develop new products and services
- Diversify into new markets with new products and services.
It’s important for small businesses and start-ups with limited budgets that only one or two categories or objective should ever be attempted at a time. Your strategy begins to take shape throughout the process, and is a journey of patience, fraught with change. Our marketing experts can help identify answers to three questions of great concern to any business venture; Where is our business now? Where do we want our business to be? What is the applied strategy to reach those goals?
Do you create an actual written marketing action plan?
100%. You bet we do. A written marketing plan not only makes it incredibly easier for project and business participants to understand where the business is going and the steps necessary to getting there. A well-written and effective marketing plan can also serve as an important component in approaching financial institutions for loans or attracting serious investment in your business or idea.
The degree of complexity and length of the marketing strategy will largely depend on the size and complexity of the business or project in question. Many small businesses and start-ups can often be documented in just a couple of pages, whereas larger corporate projects and enterprise-level ventures can take dozens or hundreds of pages of documentation and months of planning to be effective.
How often should I audit my marketing strategy and update my action plan?
Will you require anything from me or my team?
I’m not certain I need help with my digital marketing. Can’t I do this on my own?
Absolutely, you can. The question to ask is really: "Do I want to do this myself?". As a professional marketing agency, we have the experience and the expertise to more effectively guide your marketing budget. We carefully plan advertising and marketing solutions in a wide variety of applicable digital mediums to more accurately target the customers you need to reach. We handle your marketing account management so you can concentrate on running your business.
