How to Create a Digital Marketing Plan for Small Businesses
“We keep getting asked this: ‘We raised our content quality and ad spend — why are leads down and CPL up?’” That’s how frustrated owners put it. Real problem. Real clients. Here’s how to diagnose and fix it, top-to-bottom — not with slogans, but with decisions that actually change outcomes. Why your marketing feels broken (and where it usually is) Most teams treat social, content, and website as separate projects. They’re not. They’re one conversion funnel that lives in three disciplines. When one link is weak, the rest frays. A few firm observations from the field: High impressions + low conversions usually mean bad intent alignment between ad/content and the landing page. Rising ad costs with falling leads often means engagement signals favour other formats or the platform is filtering for a different behavior than you ask for. Good social metrics but poor revenue points to website problems: speed, hierarchy, or distracting CTAs...