🧭1:1 ADVISORY

Stop building your business inside your own head.

Ongoing 1:1 advisory for agency owners, brand operators, and ecommerce SaaS founders who need a thinking partner — not another course.

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You're good at what you do. That's not the issue.

The issue is you're making every decision alone. You're too deep in the weeds to see the patterns. You need someone who's been in your seat, speaks your language, and will tell you the truth — then help you act on it.

“Matt is a great coach and business therapist. He is always there to help me break through business and mental roadblocks that end up unlocking massive clarity, reduced stress, leading to substantial revenue growth for the brand.”
Richie MashikoBRAND CEO · SHESBIRDIE.COM · MARSHAL CLIENT, 6 YEARS LATER
HOW TO WORK WITH ME

From outside perspective to embedded growth leadership.

Whether you need one sharp strategy call per month or a senior growth operator closer to the business, advisory is designed to help you make better decisions before you spend money on the wrong work.

MONTHLY ADVISORY
OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVE
MOST FLEXIBLE
$1,000
PER MONTH · CANCEL ANYTIME
For founders, marketers, operators, and builders who want a recurring outside perspective on growth, strategy, positioning, content, creative, ecommerce, or business decisions.
+ Monthly 1:1 strategy call
+ Async prep before each call
+ Review of current challenges, ideas, or decisions
+ Tactical feedback across growth, positioning, content, creative, or ecommerce
+ Best for occasional outside perspective
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WEEKLY ADVISORY
CONSISTENT STRATEGIC FEEDBACK
MOMENTUM
$2,000
PER MONTH · CANCEL ANYTIME
For founders, marketers, operators, and teams who want a more consistent thinking partner across growth, content, positioning, ecommerce, creative, or execution priorities.
+ Weekly 1:1 strategy call
+ Async prep and follow-up
+ Ongoing feedback on decisions, ideas, content, campaigns, and positioning
+ Support prioritizing what to fix, test, build, or ignore
+ Best for consistent strategic momentum
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PREMIUM ADVISORY
HIGH-TOUCH STRATEGY PARTNER
RECOMMENDED
Starting at $5,000
PER MONTH · CUSTOM SCOPE
For DTC, ecommerce, agency, and SaaS operators who need deeper strategic support than a monthly or weekly call. For founders and teams making expensive decisions around growth, positioning, creative, offers, site experience, agencies, hiring, or new channels — and who want a senior outside perspective closer to the business.
+ Weekly strategy calls
+ Async Slack + Loom access
+ Growth, positioning, offer, creative, and channel strategy
+ Review of key decisions, campaigns, landing pages, creative, decks, and messaging
+ Agency, vendor, partner, and hiring guidance
+ Prioritization across what to fix, test, build, pause, or kill
+ Custom strategy docs, scorecards, teardown notes, and working roadmaps as needed
+ Best for teams in a growth, repositioning, launch, rebuild, or scale-up phase
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GROWTH OPERATOR
EMBEDDED GROWTH LEADERSHIP
BY APPLICATION
Starting at $10,000
PER MONTH · CUSTOM SCOPE
For DTC, ecommerce, agency, and SaaS teams that need senior growth leadership closer to the work. For when advisory is not enough — you need someone helping shape the strategy, organize the priorities, direct the moving pieces, and keep growth work pointed in the right direction.
+ Weekly leadership calls
+ Async Slack + Loom access
+ Growth roadmap and priority ownership
+ Campaign, funnel, offer, creative, and channel direction
+ Agency, vendor, contractor, and internal team coordination
+ Review of ads, landing pages, emails, site experience, launches, decks, and messaging
+ Working docs, scorecards, teardown notes, and accountability systems
+ Best for teams making big growth moves with too many moving pieces
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Not sure which level fits? Monthly and weekly advisory are best when you mostly need a thinking partner. Premium Advisory is best when you need closer senior strategy support. Growth Operator is best when you need embedded growth leadership helping organize priorities, people, partners, and execution.

Growth Operator is not a full-time marketing department, media buyer, designer, or agency replacement. It is senior growth leadership, prioritization, direction, and operating support for teams that already have people or partners executing the work.

HOW I WORK

Sometimes I'll ask you the right question. Sometimes I'll give you the answer. I pull from a toolkit of frameworks based on what you're actually dealing with.

DIAGNOSTIC FRAMEWORKS
The 3B's
Blind Spots · Biases · Behaviors
TAKE
Time · Attitude · Knowledge · Experience
Spectrum Thinking
Finding the gray between overcomplicated and oversimplified
4 Dimensions of Intent
Should · Desire · Duty · Value
ACTION FRAMEWORKS
DIRT
Do It Right Today — bias toward action
Traffic Light
Green · Yellow · Red prioritization
Intent → Resistance → Action
What do you want, what's stopping you, what will you do
The Heavy Lift
Reframing hard things as completable
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
“I just quoted the highest retainer price I've ever quoted in my life! It scared the shit out of me, but I said the number thanks to you. I'm proud of myself!”
Chrissy Gray
MARKETING OPERATOR
“Matt has helped me so much. He's literally like a big brother to me — there to help with anything, seemingly at any time. Working with Matt is DEFINITELY something you want to do.”
Dennard Crawford
AGENCY EMAIL MARKETING STRATEGIST
“There are not enough words to express my gratitude towards Matt. Matt is your right-hand man.”
Emily Penrod
CEO · MIXXIECOMMS.COM
“Matt is incredibly knowledgeable and has personally given me super useful insight that has saved me tons of time and money.”
Joseph Siegel
AGENCY CEO · BORINGECOM.COM
“Speaking to Matt for just an hour gave me a whole new outlook on my ads account. Clear, honest feedback and actionable tips to implement right away.”
Scott Liebenberg
BRAND CEO · TAPEREDMENSWEAR.COM
“Before working with Matt, I felt stuck and confused. Now I've been able to earn more while working less, doing work I actually enjoy.”
Nick Izevbigie
AGENCY CEO · SUNRISECOMMERCE.COM
WHO THIS IS FOR
GOOD FIT
✓ Agency owners $500K–$5M who feel stuck
✓ Brand operators making decisions alone
✓ Ecomm SaaS founders navigating GTM
✓ People who want honest feedback, not validation
✓ Operators who'll do the work between calls
NOT THE RIGHT FIT
— Looking for someone to do the work for you
— Want a course or group program
— Need therapy (I'm not a therapist)
— Aren't willing to be honest about what's broken
— Want permission, not perspective
OTHER WAYS TO THINK ABOUT THIS

Some clients think of this as fractional CMO, fractional head of growth, ecommerce growth consulting, marketing strategy, or senior advisory support. The simpler version: I help founders and teams make better growth decisions before they spend money on agencies, ads, creative, websites, vendors, hires, or new channels.

COMMON QUESTIONS
What exactly is advisory? Is this coaching? Consulting?
It's neither — and both. I'm your trusted thinking partner. I don't do the work for you (that's what Marshal is for), and I'm not just asking you how that makes you feel. I bring real operator experience, a toolkit of frameworks, and the ability to read the situation and know when you need a question vs. when you need an answer.
Do you take equity or rev-share?
No. Monthly fee, cancel anytime. I want my incentive to be making you successful enough to keep paying me, not owning a piece of something I'm not building.
How long do clients typically stay?
Most people start weekly and move to monthly after 3–4 months once they've built momentum. Some stay weekly for a year. It depends on what you're going through.
What does async access actually look like?
Slack DMs and Loom videos, Monday–Friday. You send me a question, a decision you're wrestling with, or a Loom walking through something — I respond thoughtfully, usually within a few hours. It's not a chatbot. It's me.
What if I want to cancel?
Month-to-month. Cancel any time. No end-of-contract fees, no clawback, no awkward exit convo. If something's not working, I'd rather end it clean than drag it out.
How fast can we start?
Usually within a week. Intro call first, then I send a short onboarding Loom so you know how to use the Slack + Loom setup, and we pick a recurring call time that works. First real session typically within 7 days of the intro.
Does this work for my industry?
Core fit is DTC ecommerce + agencies serving DTC + ecommerce SaaS. If you're adjacent — B2B SaaS founder, creator business, service firm — the frameworks still transfer, but the intro call is the right filter, not this FAQ. If it's not a fit, I'll tell you on the call.
Ready to think out loud?
30-minute intro call. Free. No pitch. We'll figure out if this is the right fit — and if it's not, I'll tell you.
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Prefer email? matt@mattlady.com
Need hands-on execution, not advisory?
Marshal handles creative operations for DTC brands doing $10M–$100M. Done for you.
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