Engagements

Register transformative growth without disrupting your business.

Partner with Blackthumb for analytical support and marketing campaign management that drives massive growth and keeps your team focused on what they do best. You’ll receive in-house expertise, bandwidth, and results without the in-house overhead.

Solution Spotlight

“It was clear from our Growth Diagnostic that we needed to change our product offering to better suit the needs of our customers, but without Blackthumb we wouldn't have known where to begin. Blackthumb created and managed the project plan that helped us implement and clearly measure the effect of the product changes.”

— Retail Client

Why Partner With Us?

Evidence-Based Insights
That Drive Growth

Analyze and Solve
Problems Quickly

One-Stop Analytics,
BI, and Marketing

Deep Competitive Insights
and Scoreboards

Stay Focused with
Done-for-You Solutions

Expertise and Outcomes
with Less Overhead

Engagement Options


Reporting Engagement

In reporting engagements Blackthumb builds, maintains, and provides consistent access to a stable of proprietary business intelligence reports tailored to suit the client’s business model and priorities. These global reports are designed minimize noise and provide clients with only the insight they need to effectively manage their businesses and achieve their objectives.

Featured Reports:

Business Dashboard

Take control of your business with a global view of top KPIs.

Customer Health Report

Identify, track, and engage your best customers. Isolate the products and marketing activities that attract and retain them.

Multi-Channel Marketing Dashboard

Objectively measure your marketing efforts, so you can invest more in the activities that drive growth.

Product Contribution Report

Understand what products and services are driving growth by acquiring customers, increasing basket size, and promoting customer loyalty.

Engagement On-Boarding

Step 1: Define Scope

We align on reporting needs, data requirements, and next steps.

Step 2: Confirm Plan

We lock scope, data plans, and align on cadence of communication.

Step 3: Data Flow

We work with your IT team to build and automate secure data pipelines.

Step 4: Build & Review

We create and refine reports, gaining client approval to validate clarity and impact.

Step 5: Go Live

Live dashboards and regular reporting deliver timely, actionable insights.

Strategic Analytics Engagement

Strategic Analytics Engagements couple Blackthumb’s insights-packed suite of BI reporting with world-class analytical expertise to drive growth and solve problems. Strategic analytics engagements regularly deploy Blackthumb to execute your data-driven projects, provide insight into business performance, measure key activities, and answer your most challenging questions.

Strategic Analytics Engagements Include:

BI Reporting

Access Blackthumb's world-class suite of dashboards and reports.

Analytical Bandwidth

Ongoing analysis, ad hoc support, and strategic insight when you need it most.

Consistent Contact

Regular check-ins to review progress, align on goals, and share findings.

Growth Driver Review

Quarterly deep dives to evaluate strategy and surface new opportunities.

Engagement On-Boarding

Step 1: Engagement Kickoff

Blackthumb aligns with client on reporting needs, meeting cadence, and project priorities.

Step 2: Data Flow

Blackthumb works with the client’s IT resource to build and automate the data pipeline needed to fuel reports, analyses, and project work.

Step 3: Report Creation & Review

Blackthumb builds reports for client review and refinement—ensuring they’re intuitive and actionable.

Step 4: Project Work (On-Going)

Projects are scoped and executed based on client goals, timelines, and next steps—tracked and reviewed regularly.

Step 5: Client Connections

Regular check-ins to share results, provide insights, deliverables, and receive client feedback.

Marketing Engagement

Blackthumb’s marketing roots run deep. Marketing Engagements enlist Blackthumb to analyze current campaign performance, convey recommendations to optimize activities, and work with internal leaders to manage campaign activities.

Blackthumb carries deep experience in a variety of marketing domains including digital marketing, direct response marketing, and brand management. With access to a stable of world-class marketing domain-experts Blackthumb has the skills, bandwidth, and relationships necessary to execute multi-channel marketing campaigns that drive transformative growth; allowing you and your team to stay focused on what needs your attention most in your business.

Marketing Engagements Include:

Campaign Management

Blackthumb partners with your business to plan, execute, and optimize multi-channel marketing campaigns on your behalf. Specific domains include digital marketing, direct response, ABM, and more.

Vendor Engagement

Where necessary Blackthumb engages third party experts to manage specific activities on your behalf. Blackthumb manages vendors and aligns their activity with your objectives.

Measurement

All campaign activity is backed by industry-leading reporting—giving you and your team visibility, confidence, and control over performance and ROI.

Consistent Contact

Regular meetings at your team's discretion to review results, discuss projects, share insights, and document next steps.

Engagement On-Boarding

Step 1: Review

Blackthumb performs a Marketing Mix Analysis to evaluate client's current marketing scope and performance.

Step 2: Plan Shareout

Blackthumb shares findings and a recommended plan to optimize results and pursue new growth opportunities.

Step 3: Kick-Off

Blackthumb activates the agreed-upon marketing plan—coordinating vendors, resources, and developing reporting infrastructure.

Step 4: Management

Blackthumb continuously monitors and optimizes campaign activity to maximize performance and ROI.

Step 5: Connections

Regular check-ins to share results, insights, deliverables, and gather feedback.

Universal Engagement

Looking to exclusively focus your time on what matters most? Maximize your engagement with Blackthumb with a Universal Engagement. In these engagements you’ll benefit from the synergistic effects of leveraging Blackthumb for BI reporting, strategic analytics, and marketing campaign management.

As a fusion of all engagements, Universal Engagements empower Blackthumb to effectively operate as the client’s in-house marketing and analytics department, but at a fraction of the cost that would be required to stand up a complete team of analysts, media planners, and IT resources.

Universal Engagement Benefits:

Focus & Time Savings

Blackthumb handles reporting, strategic analysis, and marketing so you and your team can focus on core competencies to drive growth and profitability.

Cost Savings

Universal Engagements enlist Blackthumb to serve as your in-house marketing and analytics department—at a fraction of the cost of building a full internal team.

Enhanced Results

Blackthumb's focus, domain expertise, and access to broader data ensures your business benefits from the best ideas, generates the strongest insights, and has access to better information to drive growth.

Consistency

Blackthumb provides continuity of reporting and insight by fitting your business with talented analysts and project managers who understand your unique business requirements.

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The Blackthumb Value Guarantee

At Blackthumb, we live by the principle that to receive value, you have to deliver value. That's why 80% of the project fees for an Scorecards, Growth Diagnostics, and Analytics Projects isn't invoiced until after our findings, insights, and recommendations are conveyed.

If any client doesn’t find value in the insights and recommendations derived from the project, Blackthumb will forgo billing of the final 80%.

Beyond the initial 20% retainer, clients are only billed for directly attributable costs like data, travel, or third-party fees for which the client explicitly approves.