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Consultancy & Strategy

Marketing consultancy, strategy, and planning solutions that help your business thrive.

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Consultancy and strategy that empowers business decisions.


The business growth journey is never a straight, flat road that gets you quickly from A to B. It feels more like a roller coaster with consistent ups and downs. We have seen the power of an integrated marketing strategy applied across businesses large and small. Over the last 20 years we have built a proven suite of marketing consultancy and strategy solutions to help businesses grow and thrive.


Our extensive knowledge and breadth of experience covers both traditional and digital marketing across B2B and B2C industries. Our solutions are customised to your business growth requirements and can be as flexible and fluid as you need. Whether you need high level marketing consultancy services, or a hybrid model where we can work in partnership with your marketing team. We can develop a solution that works for you and your business.

Our consultancy & strategy services.


Strategy Development

Brand creation, building & positioning strategies, digital, social media, and content strategies, development of key messaging, value propositions, mission statements, and unique selling propositions, new product or packaging development, and more.

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Marketing Plans

Integrated marketing plans, content planners, organic social media calendars, and campaign plans focused on building awareness, driving engagement, and generating leads to help your business thrive.

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Marketing Consultancy

Business growth consultation, marketing management, workshop facilitation, sales training, qualitative & quantitative research facilitation, digital audits, media planning & buying, and more.

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Marketing Management

Dedicated and experienced account managers that work alongside you or your marketing team to plan, execute, and analyse your marketing activities in order to help achieve your business growth plans.

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Performance Marketing

Performance based, integrated marketing campaigns backed by data-driven insights and designed to deliver tangible results that help your business grow, including ROAS (return on ad spend), ROI, MQLs, conversions and revenue.

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Account Based Marketing

Transparent and scalable account based marketing programs that assist your internal teams to nurture and close complex deals or long sales cycles amongst your key accounts.

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People & Culture Programs

Leadership coaching, executive development courses, mentoring programs, acquisition & change management services to help align your internal culture so you can deliver superior business performance.

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Analytics & Reporting

Analytics analysis and data interpretation delivered in a customised, real-time reporting dashboard to drive business growth decisions.

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Why choose Icon for your marketing consultancy & strategy?


01 Proven results

Our marketing strategy services are underpinned by data-driven insights and industry knowledge. We consistently review and refine our clients’ marketing strategies to ensure we are achieving your objectives and deliver recommendations that allow you to confidently make business growth decisions. We measure our success by your success.

02 Industry expertise

Our consultancy & strategy team possess extensive marketing knowledge built from years of experience working across a wide range of B2B and B2C businesses, large and small. From property development & home building, retail, FMCG & franchise, right through to a range of industrial & manufacturing niches.

03 Local knowledge

All our marketing, strategy and consultancy services are in-house. When you need assistance with your marketing, you have access to the power of 35+ full time staff members who possess a range of experience and an understanding of the local market. We are just as engaged as you are in helping your business thrive.

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Popular digital marketing questions.


  • Does my business really need a marketing strategy?

    In short, yes!


    Many businesses often dive straight into launching marketing activities without giving any thought to the overarching strategy and answering the main question of what they want to achieve with said activities.


    A marketing strategy helps you identify the big questions around why you want to undertake marketing in the first place. Are you looking to increase your brand’s awareness in the marketplace? Are you wanting to connect more with your customers? Or are you looking to accelerate growth through lead generation?


    Answering these questions and writing down a specific set of objectives will ensure you make the most of your marketing activity investment. Your marketing strategy will keep the activities in your marketing plan focused on achieving those goals.

  • Why should I work with marketing agency? Why can’t I just manage marketing in house?

    As a business owner, your time is valuable, and your focus should be spent on making the right business decisions to ensure your company will grow and thrive into the future. By working with a marketing agency you can free up your time to focus on what you do best, running your business.


    Working with a marketing agency like Icon Visual Marketing gives you access to a range of experts, covering all aspects of marketing, from strategy to creative & content development, PR, packaging, web, online and social media advertising. So instead of expecting one person to understand it all, you have access to an experienced team who understand your industry, and your business needs.


    Our entire team is focused on helping you effectively and efficiently achieve your business growth objectives.

  • How much does marketing consultancy and strategy cost at Icon?

    All our marketing consultancy and strategy services are customised based on your business' specific requirements.


    We provide a range of flexible and scalable marketing consultancy and strategy solutions to work within your budget requirements. 


    From ad hoc consultancy services, through to a hybrid model where we integrate with and support your in house marketing team, right through to being your wholly outsourced marketing team, we can tailor a solution that works for you. 


    It all comes down to what you want to achieve, what budget you have to spend, and what time frame you want to achieve your goals.

  • What is performance based marketing?

    Performance marketing, is quite simply, marketing based on  performance. It is a term given for marketing strategies that focus on achieving a set of agreed results, such as clicks, conversions, return on investment (ROI), or return on ad spend (ROAS).


    Performance marketing drives specific actions that can be tracked and measured against agreed objectives through the use of optimisation and data analysis. Online marketing strategies often feature a strong performance marketing focus, with payment of activities based on achieving certain actions, such as clicks, downloads, leads and more

  • What is account based marketing?

    Account based marketing a specific business marketing strategy that focuses on growing a specific set of targeted accounts within a specific market or industry to create a personalised and engaging buying experience.

    Account based marketing strategies ensure both the sales and marketing teams are working cohesively to achieve the same goals, and goes beyond just lead generation. It encourages the nurturing and growth of customer relationships to ensure ongoing partnership.


    Account based marketing is highly personalised, designed to engage each account (or even account manager) with specific messaging that addresses the needs of the individual account. It also encourages upselling and cross selling to ensure your business can get the most value out of your largest accounts.

  • Is my business to small to work with Icon?

    No business is too small to work with us. We will come up with a bespoke digital strategy to help your business grow, no matter what its current size is. 


    We work with businesses of all shapes and sizes, from local small  businesses, to growing SMEs, to national corporations. We are a truly dynamic organisation that can work with any sized organisation and their available budget.

  • Can Icon manage my marketing consultancy and strategy needs if my business is not based in Sydney?

    Of course! We have several clients around greater New South Wales, as well as in Victoria and Queensland. These clients are all managed remotely using online video calls, emails and phone calls. Once a campaign is set up our clients have access to an online, customised reporting dashboard that delivers results in real-time so you can monitor your campaign’s performance from anywhere in Australia.

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