You built something real. Let’s take it to market.
We’re Carson Poore Consulting, a small Indianapolis team that comes alongside local businesses, founders, and nonprofits. We plan the work, then we build it. Marketing. Technical. Strategy. Coaching. Every price is on the site, and we stop at 8 clients.
Pick the door that sounds like you.
Three kinds of clients, one 8-seat roster. A plumber in Greenwood needs different work than a founder staring down a launch. But the five steps and the published prices stay the same for everyone.
Local businesses
Word of mouth built your business. It just stopped scaling. So we get you showing up when Indianapolis searches for what you do, and we set things up so every call, text, form, and after-hours voicemail gets a quick answer. And we’ll tell you straight what not to buy.
For local businesses
Founders & startups
You built the thing. Now let’s get it to people. We start with positioning and one channel that repeats, then stay on as your fractional CMO. And if you’re not at product-market fit yet, we’ll tell you, and send you off with homework instead of a retainer.
For founders
Nonprofits
You’re wearing five hats, and marketing falls to whoever has ten spare minutes. So start with the Ad Grant: Google offers verified nonprofits up to $10,000 a month in free search ads, and we help you actually use it. And our nonprofit rate isn’t charity. The budgets are smaller, and the work matters.
For nonprofitsWe plan the work. Then we build it.
For a while this site said “marketing agency.” That was a size too small, so we fixed it. Half of what you’d hire us for is technical — the site, the automation, the ad account, the tracking. The other half is deciding what’s worth building in the first place.
The market splits the other way. Indy agencies have moved upmarket and don’t build. AI shops can’t do brand. Plenty of fractional CMOs hand you a plan, then wish you luck. We sit right where those three don’t overlap... on purpose.
Marketing
Brand, campaigns, content, and email that get the right people noticing you and talking about you. We measure it in customers and booked work, not impressions.
How we do marketingTechnical
The builds most marketing shops can’t do: AI agents and automation, websites and web apps, GoHighLevel and CRM, Google Ads, GA4. A human signs off on every one, and it’s all priced for small businesses.
What we buildStrategy
A $3,000, one-time engagement: your positioning, your people, a sharp offer, and a 90-day plan you could run without us. Straight answers to “what should we do first?”
The $3,000 engagementCoaching & growth
A fractional CMO for owners and founders at $1,200–$4,800 a month. Somebody to lean on, with the plan and the hands on one team.
How coaching worksFive steps, in plain English, in order.
Every engagement runs the same five steps, whatever the practice. They’re named in plain words on purpose. And here at CPC, we aren’t afraid of a hot take: most small businesses buy ads too early. The order is how we keep you from doing that.
Conviction comes first because everything downstream borrows from it. Word of mouth comes last because it’s earned, never bought. The three steps in between do the quiet work that builds on itself.
- 01Conviction
- 02Your people
- 03A sharp offer
- 04The experience
- 05Word of mouth
The people behind “we.”
Carson Poore started this because good businesses kept getting ordinary marketing. It’s a small team that plans the work and builds it, and you talk to the same people from the first call to the last report.
What it costs, before you ever call.
Before writing this page, we read 13 competitor sites, local and national. Twelve of the thirteen publish no prices at all. You book the call, then you hear the number.
We’d rather you compare in the open. Ours are on the right.
- $1,200 · $2,400 · $4,800
- Monthly retainers, published. Three months minimum, then month to month. We ask for three because real change takes that long, and fake no-contract promises help nobody.
- $3,000, one time
- The strategy engagement, for anyone asking “what should we do first?” A reduced rate applies for nonprofits across everything we do.
- Eight clients at a time
- A team that knows your business, not a pod juggling forty accounts. When the eight seats are full, we’re full.
- You keep everything
- Your site, your Google Business Profile, your ad accounts, your data. If you ever leave, it all stays yours.
Check your own marketing first.
Five free tools live on this site: the Five-Step Check-Up, Can Indy Find You?, the AI Opportunity Finder, the Budget Calculator, and the 90-Day Plan Starter. No email gate, no login, scored on the spot. They also show off the technical practice, because we build things like this for clients.
Start with the check-up. It takes about three minutes and tells you which of the five steps is leaking.
Things owners ask first.
What does a marketing consultant cost in Indianapolis?
Our retainers are $1,200, $2,400, or $4,800 a month, and the one-time strategy engagement is $3,000. Nonprofits pay a reduced rate. The pricing page lists what each tier includes, so you can compare us without booking anything.
Do we have to sign a long contract?
No. Engagements run three months minimum, then month to month. We ask for three because real change takes that long. After that, you can leave whenever you like. You keep your site, your Google Business Profile, your ad accounts, and your data.
Who actually does the work?
We do. The same small team that writes your plan builds the site, the automation, the ad account, and the reporting. Nothing gets handed off to subcontractors, and the roster stops at 8 clients so it stays that way.
Do you only work with Indianapolis businesses?
Marketing and local SEO stay close to home, within about an hour of Indianapolis, because local work should be done by people who are actually local. Technical and coaching engagements run nationwide over video.
Bring us the thing you’ve built.
A free 30-minute call about your numbers and what we’d do first. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so and point you to someone who is. Either way, we’d love to hear what you’re building!