Growth Chief | Outsource Your Marketing and Business Development

You've built something worth buying. Now is the time to sell.

Maybe you just raised capital and your investors expect momentum. Maybe you took over the family business and want to take it further than it has ever gone. Or maybe you built a strong product and know it should be selling far more than it does.

Either way, the pressure lands on you. You know your product and your customers better than anyone. What you don't have is a senior marketing leader who can build every channel, run them together and aim all of it at sales.

Growth Chief is that leader, with the systems and tools already in place, building from the first month.

The usual alternative

Months recruiting a head of marketing
A senior salary before the first result
Then agencies, data and software on top
And the risk of one hire who doesn't work out

With Growth Chief

30 years of experience on day one
Tools and infrastructure already running
Every channel planned and run together
Month to month, no long-term contract

Whether you're starting from scratch or starting over.

Starting from scratch

You just raised capital or launched something new, and now you face a blank page. Which channels, what budget, who to hire, what comes first. You can research it yourself for months, or bring in someone who has done it.

Starting over

You hired a PPC firm, then an SEO firm, then a cold email shop. Each did its piece, none of them talked to each other, and nobody owned sales.

Either way, what's missing is the same: one senior person who owns the whole system and aims it at sales.

How it works

From an empty list to conversations with the right people.

We start with who needs to hear from you, then choose the best way to reach each of them.

Map the market

Identify every buyer, referral partner, independent agent and dealer who fits, using public and private data.

Find who decides

A named person at each target, with the right title and verified contact details. Not a general inbox.

Reach them the right way

Advertising, outreach, direct mail, content, press or events, chosen and coordinated by audience, so each campaign supports the others.

Deliver conversations

Replies are handled and qualified, then handed to you with context. You close the sale. Each month you see what was done, who responded and what moved closer to a sale.

Your first 90 days

A clear rhythm from the start, so you know what to expect and when.

Month 1

Map and build

Define the audiences, build the target lists, set up the channels, messaging and tracking.

Month 2

Launch and test

Campaigns go live across the chosen channels. We measure response by audience and message.

Month 3

Focus on what works

Budget, time and attention shift to the channels and audiences moving sales, and the rest are cut or reworked.

One coordinated system

More than buyers. Everyone who can bring you sales.

Most agencies reach end buyers with one or two channels. We also build the people who sell and refer for you, and point every channel at whichever audience will move sales fastest.

Who we reach

Direct buyers
Referral partners
Independent sales agents
Dealers and distributors

How we reach them

Search engine and social media advertising
Cold email and LinkedIn outreach
Direct mail
Websites and landing pages
Search and AI visibility
Video and content
Press releases and media
Co-marketing partnerships
Public and private data
Trade media and events

These are tools, not a package. Not every business needs every channel. With hands-on experience in all of them, we decide which to use and how to allocate budget, time and attention for the best result.

Growth strategy

Who to reach, in what order, with what message and budget.

Distribution model

Recruiting and supporting agents, dealers and referral partners who sell for you.

Conversion

Websites, materials and follow-up processes that turn interest into sales.

The decision

Three ways to build your growth engine.

	Hire in-house	Separate agencies	Growth Chief
What you get	One person, who still needs vendors and tools	One channel's results per vendor	A plan, every channel and your partner network
Who you reach	Whoever your hire has time for	End buyers	Buyers, referral partners, agents and dealers
Strategy	Depends on one hire	Each vendor optimizes its own channel	One plan across every channel
Who does the work	Your hire, plus vendors they manage	Often junior staff after the sale	A 30-year operator, directly
Tools and data	Bought and set up from scratch	Separate per vendor	Already in place from week one
Time to start	Months to recruit and ramp	Weeks per vendor	Building in the first month
Commitment	Salary, benefits, severance	Often 6 to 12 month contracts	Month to month

Results

What coordinated growth has produced.

Commercial real estate

A firm with several million square feet of flex warehouse, office and storage space. Multi-channel local outreach brings in referrals and direct tenant inquiries, leading to millions of dollars in signed leases. A client for more than 16 years.

Commercial lending fund

An investment fund making commercial mortgages on environmentally impaired real estate. We helped it relaunch its pipeline and grow to $100 million a month in loan opportunities.

Residential mortgage brokerage

A startup that grew by recruiting loan officers from competitors, from zero to 120 in the first 12 months. Each brought a book of business, together producing $80 million a year in closed transactions and $2.3 million in revenue.

Specialty chemical manufacturer

A maker of a proprietary fuel additive, run by scientists with a lab and a factory, sold to only two or three enterprise customers and had no sales or marketing at all. We built a network of independent sales agents to take the product to market. Together they generated nearly $10 million in revenue for that product line.

Used car dealership

A startup dealership selling used cars in one of the most crowded advertising categories there is. A series of tests narrowed to one campaign that worked: within about 10 days of each launch, the lot was nearly sold out. Demand regularly outpaced how fast the dealership could restock.

Specialty farm

A small farm growing premium cherry tomatoes had product but no buyers. We mapped every logical outlet, from chains and distributors to restaurants and hotels, and reached out to each with what made the product different. A five-star hotel ended up buying every tomato the farm could produce.

Financial services and business consulting

An advisory firm serving business owners and executives. A multi-channel program combining LinkedIn, email, cold outreach, paid search and more reached two audiences at once: prospective clients and the professionals who refer them. It has generated millions of dollars in revenue.

1031 exchange services

Currently building a referral network and buyer channels for a startup, using the same coordinated system, with a goal of becoming a top 5 firm in the industry within 18 months.

Who you work with

Joel Arberman

Managing Member
Meraki Partners, LLC

For about 30 years, Joel has built the systems that bring companies their next customers, partners and investors. His work starts with one question: who needs to hear from this business, and what is the most effective way to reach them?

He has led multi-channel growth programs in very different markets. He has generated tenant and referral inquiries for a commercial real estate firm for more than 16 years. He relaunched a commercial lending fund's pipeline and grew it to $100 million a month in opportunities. He designed the campaigns for a used car dealership in one of the most crowded advertising categories there is, where each launch nearly sold out the lot within about 10 days. And he has filled his own advisory firm's pipeline with clients and referral partners through LinkedIn, email, paid search and more.

He also builds the people who sell for you. At his residential mortgage brokerage, he recruited 120 loan officers from competitors in the first year, each bringing a book of business. Together they produced $80 million a year in closed transactions and $2.3 million in revenue from startup.

His capital markets background sharpens all of it. Earlier, he was an analyst at two asset management firms and a partner at a 700-person investment banking firm, and he has independently taken 17 companies public. Taking a company public is a growth campaign of its own: building an audience of investors and giving them a reason to act. Working in small cap, micro cap and early stage financings, he has seen which growth strategies work and which waste money.

Who this is for, and who it isn't.

Growth Chief is built for higher-margin products and services, where each new customer or partner relationship is worth real money. A $40 widget or a $20-a-month app is not our market.

A strong fit

A clear, valuable, high-margin product or service
An established company with room to sell more, or a funded launch
Capacity to deliver more than you sell today
A clear decision maker
Someone who follows up on leads promptly
A marketing budget on top of the fee

Not a fit

Low-ticket products or impulse purchases
No way to fund the fee and a marketing budget
Wanting to pay only on results
No one available to follow up on leads
Unable to fulfill more sales than you have now
No one with authority to decide

FAQ

Common questions

Is this an appointment-setting service?

No. Outreach is one of the tools we use, but the engagement covers the strategy, every channel that fits, and the referral partners, agents and dealers who sell for you. The goal is sales, not a count of meetings.

How soon will we see results?

Building starts in the first month and campaigns launch in the second. It usually takes 6 to 8 weeks of live campaigns to know what is working, and outreach and advertising typically produce conversations within the first few months. Established companies with a sales team in place usually see results sooner than new launches built from zero.

How do you measure progress?

Each month you get a plain report: what was done, who responded, which conversations were handed to you, and what moved closer to a sale. We report on sales activity, not clicks and impressions.

Do you replace our sales team?

No. We bring you qualified conversations and build the systems behind them. You or your team close the sales.

Do you work with commission-only sales agents?

Yes. We recruit and support independent agents, dealers and referral partners, and you pay their commissions directly. We also generate demand for them, so your line is one they want to sell.

Is the marketing budget included in the fee?

No. You pay ad spend and similar costs directly, with no markup, so you always see where every dollar goes.

Do you offer guarantees?

No. Results depend on the offer, the market and how leads are followed up, so they can't honestly be guaranteed. Instead, engagements are month to month, so you can stop at any time.

We're a newly funded company. Is that a fit?

Yes, if you can fund the fee and a marketing budget, and the offer is clear and high margin. Funded launches and established operators both work well.

Which industries do you work with?

Any industry where the product or service is a considered, high-margin purchase and the buyers, partners and agents can be identified. The approach is the same across industries.

Get in touch

Book a strategy call.

Tell us what you sell and who buys it. If we're a fit, we'll talk through how we would reach them.

Thank you. Your message is on its way to Joel, who replies within one business day.

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