Survey Du Jour

What is your firm's most pressing business challenge?
 

Syndicate

Who's Online

SwanDog
“You can transform your communications group to a marketing powerhouse in 18 months!”

 
Consulting Print E-mail

You never know what drives the need for external support. For some, its lack of time. For others, it’s the need for an objective eye or strategic support. Still others simply can’t afford full time marketing management and look to us for our Virtual CMO tm offering.

Whatever drives your need, SwanDog can support it.

  • We work exclusively in financial services
  • With firms of all sizes
  • For distributors, manufacturers and investment-product providers
  • On both a retained and project basis
  • Our principals and associates average over 20 years of financial industry experience

Our work spans a broad spectrum of projects, from brand develop to training and development. The one constant is that every program we undertake stems from a strong, disciplined marketing base.

A sampling of some of our engagements is below:

Marketing Audit
For one client, we conducted a thorough marketing audit. As a result, we  identified missed opportunities, worked with them to redesign their marketing organization, developed job descriptions and even pre-screened their candidates.

Organizational Design
We’ve helped facilitate organizational redesign and rationalization to achieve best practices and fill functional voids.

"SwanDog successfully helped our firm rethink our strategic approach to managing the numerous and highly duplicative product-driven roles across our organization. Dave came in with an innovative approach backed by best practices utilized both inside and outside the financial services industry.  With SwanDog's guidance and facilitation, we created a fully integrated, channel agnostic product organization, allowing us to effectively and consistently communicate and drive product creativity and innovation throughout our company."    

Robin Beery, EVP and Chief Marketing Officer Janus Capital Group

Brand Development
An engagement that began as an effort to help develop and refine a client’s corporate brand resulted in SwanDog serving as an agency search consultant. As such, we assessed needs, surfaced candidates, developed and solicited an RFI and coordinated the entire process through final presentations and selection. In this case, our subject matter expertise was the difference maker.

We’ve Also Done:

  • Business and marketing plan templating, development and training
  • Marketing and value-added program development
  • Marketing training and development through Marketing Fuel ™
 

eNewsletter

Required Reading

Advance Your Marketing Thinking.

We’re always looking for fresh, provocative articles to advance our marketing thinking.

Brand Valuation Requires both CFO, CMO, In this article, Don E. Schultz, professor emeritus of integrated marketing communications at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, discusses the challenges of placing financial value on brand and marketing efforts. Marketing News, October 15, 2006,