Reality check:

People don't want to buy products & services. They want to solve their problems. This program quickly aligns your messaging with what matters most to them: outcomes.

What's the Conversion Marketing program?

It is a 6-step (weeks) guided engagement meant to help clarify your marketing messaging, clearly identify your target audience, and develop creative assets. It's a perfect starting point in ensuring your marketing is on point and your sales team is prepared to sell to people who want to buy.

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MiniBulk bags discovered that product quality and stock on hand (while high on the list) weren't their prospect's primary concern. Avoiding downtime is, because bag failure or lack of bags means their plant stops operating. The difference is in messaging that addresses what really matters to them.

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We asked Future Values' owner where his best clients came from. "LinkedIn," he replied. To confirm, he traced back to the source and discovered that leads made contact via LinkedIn, but were actually referrals. Thus, accountants made more sense to market to, as a source of high quality referrals.

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Converting a high rise tower from condominiums into rental units takes completely new thinking. A new target audience was determined, marketing created new messaging, and the tower rented out in record time despite the presence of considerable competition in the community.

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When your supply chain is five layers deep, you might never know who your customer/end user is. Messaging becomes less about the product and more about why others might promote your product. Identifying motivations at all levels of the supply chain is critical. Conversational fluency is the key.

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WordPress websites owners often set aside budgets for technical maintenance, security patching, and plugin updates. All of which can be a huge distraction from sales and marketing. So we took the tech in-house. Clients can now do their thing, without having to deal with tech headaches.

Our 6-Step Marketing Program

(Approach applies to Inbound Marketing as well as Conversion Marketing. The difference is scale and number of deliverables. This program is focussed on a single target audience for a single product or service. The Inbound version typically has multiples.)

Let's get to know you.

We ask key stakeholders a lot of questions. Sales. Ownership. Even customers. We explore your goals, challenges, and the market opportunities you face. It's a facilitated conversation that works to uncover blocks, align team members, and focus your business thinking before moving into the products and services you sell.

Let's get to know who you sell to.

Not all organizations and audiences are good fit clients. Some are good. Some just aren't. Identifying truly ideal clients (the organizations or audiences you sell to) is task number one in positioning your products and services to ensure your sales team isn't spinning their wheels.

Who makes decisions and why?

Organizations don't buy, people do. The individuals at your ideal client organizations hold a variety of buying/blocking motivations/roles. Following proven account-based marketing methods, motivations are explored and documented for your sales team's reference.

(Swap 'organizations' for 'audiences' when your business is retail/direct to customer.)

What Do We Say to Them?

With customer motivations and profiles in hand, we work with you to craft personalized messaging to the people who buy or influence the buying decision. It's how we build conversational fluency and authentically engage with prospects. Sales can create a playbook with this info.

Copywriting

We review key copywriting frameworks to determine which is most applicable for your audience based on your chosen messaging approach. Initial content is drafted and refined until we have our messaging perfected.

Visual Design

This is where we put it all together. Brand guidelines, website design, collateral design, signage, and more are crafted to meet product/visitor/reader needs.

It's a fact that failing to align your messaging with your customers' desired outcome results in wasted time, costly expenditures, and ineffective campaigns. Let's avoid that.

Play the video to hear what Heather has to say about Kayak.

 

Why work with Kayak?

Having worked with more than 700 organizations both large and small, we bring substantial experience to the table. We help marketers, sales managers, and business leaders improve lead conversion quality, shorten sales cycles, and achieve revenue goals. Our team has been doing this since 1999.

Kayak Marketing was founded in 2011 on the premise that you can accomplish much more when we're doing 'it' with you, than we ever could doing it for you. Our mission is to empower you to be more successful, with or without us.

 

Invaluable help maximizing our HubSpot tools and strengthening our content strategies. Kayak's team has class-leading capabilities.

After 14 years, I'm as enthusiastic about working with Kayak as ever and look forward to continuing our collaboration. For any business seeking a reliable, knowledgeable, and forward-thinking marketing partner.

- Kev Burns, Educator, PeopleWork Learning

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The team went over and above to ensure that we were set up for long term success. Kayak is now a trusted partner that I would highly and heartily recommend.

- Lori Dundass, Associate Director, Business Marketing, ATB Capital Markets

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We have worked with Kayak for a number of years including on a recent website redesign and they have always delivered top notch service, professionalism, and expertise.

- Joel Richards, Richards Mortgage Group

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Kayak's approach involved a lot of hands-on learning and knowledge transfer, which we really liked. And, that was the actual reason we selected Kayak.

Focus your messaging, land better leads. Starts at $9800.

1

Problem
Exploration

Gather all the details about your business, your customer, and the problem to be solved.

Weeks 1 to 3

2

Message
Creation

Write and design communications content to align your goals with your customers' goals.

Weeks 4 to 6

3

Marketing
Deployment

Plan and deploy personalized offers via email campaigns, social media posts, and ads.

Onward

We empower you with effective strategies, advanced tools, and expert guidance. We're an award-winning Calgary-based digital agency solving for you, the client, always.

Let's start solving.

Frequently Asked Questions About this Conversion Marketing Program

Are you going to do my job?

No, we’re not here to take over your role. Instead, we’ll coach you to deliver higher-quality messaging. We’ve been helping clients solve communication challenges since 1999, creating countless campaigns and facilitating hundreds of workshops. While we won’t do your job for you, we’ll provide the tools and expertise to help you succeed.

Is conversion strategy still inbound marketing?

Think of conversion strategy as a focused, short-term plan within the broader framework of inbound marketing. Conversion pages are where prospects land just before making a decision to engage or purchase. They arrive via referrals such as emails, social posts, or ads, and thus are already familiar with your brand, product or service. Conversion pages are designed for prospects who are near the end of their buyer’s journey and ready to take action. Those arriving from a topical search (without reference to your specific solution) are less qualified visitors than those coming from a point of reference.

Ideal client or persona—what’s the difference?

Your ideal client refers to the organizations you aim to work with, while personas represent the specific individuals within those organizations that you want to reach and communicate with. Personas base their decision-making on a combination of their role at the organization and the level of urgency they feel to take action.

Why should we hire you if we already know how to do this?

Even top athletes hire coaches because they want to improve and achieve more. Similarly, we bring specialized expertise to help you refine your strategies and elevate your results. Our guidance can help you unlock greater potential from your marketing efforts.

Our business is different. Have you worked in our industry before?

With experience working with over 700 organizations across various industries, it’s likely we’ve encountered challenges similar to yours. However, what truly matters is that we combine your insights with our marketing expertise to create tailored solutions that achieve more together than either of us could alone.

Why don’t you just do it for me?

Unlike traditional ad agencies that work out of sight and then pitch you on their work, we collaborate with you throughout the process. This ensures transparency—you’ll know what was done, why it was done, and how to replicate or improve upon it in the future (with or without us). By working together, we empower you to build on our success.

What’s the “starts at $9,800” thing? Why don’t you just give me a price?

Every organization is unique, with different challenges and team dynamics. Some problems require simple solutions; others are more complex. Our pricing reflects this variability. Like a good coach, we adapt our approach based on your specific needs.

What does the schedule and commitment look like?

Typically, weeks 1–3 involve workshops lasting 2–4 hours each, scheduled weekly to allow time for research, reflection, and implementation between sessions. Weeks 4–6 are customized based on what’s determined during the initial phase. Together, we’ll design a schedule that works for you.

How many leads can I expect as an outcome?

That depends. This program equips you with the skills and knowledge for sustainable lead generation over time—your results will grow as you apply what you’ve learned.