Eric Siu shows how to pitch a marketing campaign by asking what's working for competitors, then using tools like Ahrefs and SimilarWeb to find gaps. Package it in a simple PowerPoint with clear metrics, ROI, and risks stated upfront.
In this video, I'm gonna show you how you can pitch your first marketing campaign to your boss or even to a potential client. My name's Eric Siu, I am the co-host of the Marketing School Podcast and the host of the Growth Everywhere Podcast, where I nerd out on marketing every single day. And for the Growth Everywhere one, we nerd out on entrepreneurship and we interview world-class entrepreneurs. So, how do you go about pitching your first marketing campaign? It's tough because sometimes you have to deal with budgets, sometimes you have to deal with other stakeholders. Maybe you have a partner, maybe you have a boss that's resistant, Maybe you're new to a company and you kind of need to prove yourself. So how do you pitch it? I run a company called Single Grain. We're an agency. We work with companies like Uber and Amazon. And how do we go about pitching it? The first thing that you need to do more than anything else, don't be salesy. Make your boss or make whatever stakeholders— you have to get them curious. Hey, how do you think our marketing campaign is going right now? What do you think we need help with from a marketing perspective? What worked and what didn't work? And then you start to get them curious. You start with the discussion first. And then from there, you start educating. Because they might not know things. I don't know what the conversion rate is. I don't know, I don't know. But you might have a solution. Well, have you thought about this? And then you start, it starts to become more consultative. At least for me personally, it's much easier to sell when I'm consultative and I actually know what I'm talking about. What I'm showing you on my screen right here is just a couple tools that you can start with too. So let's say you're trying to pitch SEO, for example. You can use a tool called Ahrefs. And right here, I just put in neilpatel.com. And neilpatel.com, I can see the different keywords that he's ranking for, the top pages he has. I can see a lot of the stuff that he's doing. So nothing pisses people off more than seeing their competitors kicking their butt. Let's say Neil is a competitor. Man, Neil's got 404,000 keywords over here. Well, you know, Mr. Eric, I mean, how many keywords do you have for Single Grain? Oh, you only have 47,000 keywords here. Oh, guess what? Neil's almost 10 times, a little under 10 times bigger than Single Grain. That's gonna get the competitive juices going. It's like, look, they rank for this stuff. They're doing all this content over here. Da da da da da. You open their screen up, great. It's like, man, we're really falling behind. That means they're making so much more revenue than us. It's competitive, right? It's like a sport. And the second thing I'll say is you can use a tool like SimilarWeb. SimilarWeb will show you where their traffic is coming from, where they're running ads, what similar websites are out there. I mean, there's a whole host of other things that you can pull from SimilarWeb. And you can also use a tool called Adbeat, which gives you competitive intelligence on advertising. Bring all this stuff out there. I mean, you do want to make it professional too. What I suggest is, yes, put it in a PowerPoint, But don't just make it a bunch of bullet points. If you're gonna put any text, make the text really big. And then speak to every single slide that you're presenting on. And then just talk. Talk versus just read off something. Nobody likes that. If you're part of a big corporation, you're probably gonna be doing a PowerPoint. Ideally, you're not doing it, but maybe that's the culture. You wanna make sure that you put in the success and the failure metrics, like here's the goal, here's what we're aiming for, here's what we're putting in, here's the potential risks. And also at the same time, what a lot of people fail on is, hey, if you invest, X dollars, you will get Y back. That makes people feel comfortable. It shows that you've actually done your homework instead of looking unprepared. Come in, make you look professional, don't skimp on the details, and make sure that you set expectations. Put the goals out there— success, failure, all that good stuff. You're gonna be good to go. Before we go, I just wanna make sure that you actually got this power-up and you're gonna do something with this video to go level up. So just hit subscribe if you enjoyed this video, and we'll see you in the next one. Bye.
