1-on-1 Marketing Consulting for Founders

Marketing Consultant for Founders Who Are Done Guessing.

Not an agency that rents you a junior team, not a freelancer who runs one channel and leaves. A senior operator who has personally managed ₹100 Cr+ in ad spend across 50+ brands, diagnoses your whole funnel, and hands you a system your own team can run. You keep the machine, not a retainer.

100 Cr+
Managed
8+ Yrs
Experience
50+
Brands
10k+
Specialists Trained

1. When You Actually Need a Marketing Consultant

You hire a marketing consultant when the problem is a question, not a task. Not "run my ads" but "we are spending and it is not turning into revenue, and I do not know why." A consultant diagnoses the whole funnel, tracking, offer, pages, and spend, finds where the money is leaking, and gives you a clear plan for what to fix and in what order.

Most founders reach for the wrong kind of help first. They hire an agency to rescue a business whose fundamentals are not fixed, and the agency efficiently spends the budget into a leaking funnel. Or they hire a freelancer to run one channel, who optimises their piece and never sees that the real problem is the offer, the tracking, or what happens after the click. A consultant is the seat you hire before that, to work out what the right work even is.

This is that seat. If you are about to scale spend, launched something that is not converting, or grew on organic and stalled, a diagnosis first is the cheapest, highest-leverage money you can spend, because it protects everything you are about to pour in behind it.

2. What You Get

This is not an hour of opinions. It is a diagnosis plus the system to act on it, and it is all yours to keep:

A Full Funnel Audit

A live walk through your ad account, funnel, and tracking to find exactly where budget and attention are leaking.

A 90-Day Roadmap

A prioritised plan for what to fix and in what order, so you stop guessing and start spending into something that holds.

Your Growth System, Built

Not just advice. The actual system is built with you, so your own team can run it after the calls end.

Tracking You Can Trust

Get your pixel, server-side tracking, and conversion events checked, so every decision after is based on real numbers.

Clear Success Metrics

Leave knowing the one number that means "this is working," measured end to end, not a dashboard of vanity stats.

Recordings You Keep

Both calls recorded, plus the written plan, so nothing lives only in someone's head. You own the machine.

3. Consultant vs. Agency vs. Freelancer

Three very different ways to buy marketing help. The honest comparison, on the axis that actually matters to a founder:

What you are comparingConsultant (this)AgencyFreelancer
What you actually getA senior operator who diagnoses the whole funnel and builds the fix with youA team, often juniors, running your channels month to monthOne person executing one channel
Best whenYou are not sure what is broken or where to spend nextYour fundamentals work and you want ongoing executionYou know the exact job you need done
What you own at the endA system and roadmap your own team can runResults while you pay, little stays if you leaveThe task delivered, but no strategy
Biggest riskA plan nobody executes (solved here by building it with you)Junior team, template playbook, you become a small accountGreat at the task, blind to the funnel around it

4. Who This Is For

Founders With Spend Running

You are already spending on ads (or about to) and want to know it is going to the right place before you scale.

D2C & Service Brands That Stalled

You grew on content and word of mouth, growth plateaued, and you need a paid engine that actually holds.

Businesses That Do Not Trust Their Numbers

Your reports never agree, tracking is a question mark, and you cannot say which campaign made money.

Teams That Want to Own It

You would rather build in-house capability than rent an agency forever. You want the system, not the dependency.

5. How It Works: The 2-Call Model

The engagement is two focused calls, deliberately built to solve the classic consulting weakness: a plan nobody executes. So it is a diagnosis plus the system to act on it, not a slide deck of advice.

1. Discovery & Audit Call

We go through your live ad account, funnel, and tracking together and find where the budget and attention are actually leaking.

2. Your System, Built

Between the calls I build your growth system around exactly what the audit found, not a template.

3. Strategy & Action Plan

The second call walks you and your team through the system and a clear 90-day plan, so you leave knowing exactly what to do.

6. Proof: Real Named Engagements

This is not a portfolio of stock logos. These are real, named consulting engagements with outcomes you can check.

Results Spotlight

Consulting Engagements & Track Record

  • ISMS Global Education: rebuilt tracking and pages dropped cost per lead from roughly ₹600 to ₹250, with the lead rate up about 45%.
  • Serene Paathshala: diagnosed that acquisition and fulfilment were the same problem, and held 2.5 to 3x ROAS on the direct funnel.
  • ₹100 Cr+ in ad spend managed across 50+ brands in 10+ countries, including Aon, noon, and Entri.app.
  • Author of the best-selling book "The Growth Engine: Beyond AI and Advertising."

7. Fees & What It Is Worth

The 2-call strategy package is ₹29,999 (from ₹49,999). Judge it the way you would any investment: on return, not sticker price. If you are about to put lakhs into ads and your funnel leaks, a diagnosis that catches it does not cost ₹29,999, it saves multiples of that over the next few months and points the rest at the right target.

You are not paying for two calls. You are paying to walk away with a system and a plan your team can run, so the value keeps working long after the engagement ends. That is the whole point of hiring a consultant over renting an agency: you own the machine.

Free, in-depth reads to help you make the call before you book:

9. Frequently Asked Questions

What does a marketing consultant actually do?
A marketing consultant diagnoses what is wrong across your whole funnel, tracking, offer, pages, and spend, and gives you a plan to fix it, in the right order. Unlike an agency that runs your channels or a freelancer who executes one task, a consultant works out what the right work even is. In this engagement you also get the system built with you, so your team can run it afterwards.
How is a consultant different from an agency?
An agency puts a team on your channels and runs them every month on a retainer, so you are buying ongoing execution. A consultant diagnoses what is actually wrong and gives you a plan and system to fix it, so you are buying clarity and direction. An agency does the work; a consultant works out what the right work is. Many businesses use a consultant first to set direction, then an agency or in-house team to execute.
When should a startup hire a marketing consultant?
The best time is before you scale spend, not after it has gone wrong. If you are about to increase your budget, launch a new funnel, or you grew on organic and stalled, that is exactly when a consultant pays for itself, by making sure the money goes to the right place from the start. Waiting until you have burned a large budget works too, but it is the expensive way to arrive at the same conversation.
How much does this consultation cost?
The 2-call strategy package is ₹29,999, reduced from ₹49,999. It includes a discovery and audit call, your growth system built around what the audit finds, a second strategy call with a 90-day action plan, and recordings of both calls. The value is in the system and plan you keep, which one recovered leak in your ad spend typically pays for many times over.
Is a marketing consultant worth it for a small business?
Yes, when you are unsure what is wrong or about to scale, because the fee is small next to the budget it protects. For a small business the most expensive mistake is rarely the consultant, it is months of ad spend poured into a funnel that leaks. If instead you already know exactly what needs doing, a freelancer to execute that one job is the more cost-effective choice.
Do you run the ads for me after?
This engagement is consulting: diagnosis, plan, and the system built with you, so your own team can run it. It is designed to make you independent, not dependent on me. If what you actually want is someone to press the buttons on an ongoing basis, that is a different job, an agency or a freelancer, and I will tell you so honestly.
Piyush Sachdeva, marketing consultant

By Piyush Sachdeva

Piyush is a marketing and growth consultant who has managed ₹100Cr+ in ad spend across 50+ brands in 10+ countries, including Aon, noon, and Entri.app. He works with founders to audit their funnels, fix what is leaking, and build growth systems their own teams can run.

He is the author of the best-selling book "The Growth Engine: Beyond AI and Advertising", founder of Social Masla, and creator of Pulse, a WhatsApp automation engine.

Stop guessing. Find out where your budget is going.

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