Enterprise Content & Marketing Consulting
Senior advisory for enterprise marketing leaders who know great content runs on systems - not heroics.
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Build the system that makes great marketing actually run.
Most marketing teams aren't broken. They're buried. Buried under a pile of requestes, rewrites, and reviews that seemingly never end. Stuck inside systems that don’t fit how work actually gets done.
At Seventh Bear, we work with enterprise marketing and content operations leaders who are done with guessing why the work feels so much harder than it used to. We help you design the systems that actually fit: clear strategy, tight governance, workflows your team will actually follow, and the operating model to make it all run reliably at scale.
Start with a Strategy Call →How We Work With You
Three ways to engage, each builds around where you are. Really are, not where a deck says you should be. No junior analysts. No boiler plate decks. Just the most experienced content marketing and operations practitioners working today – working directly with you.
Content Operations Diagnostic
A four- to six-week engagement that audits how your content operations actually run from ideation to archive. We examine strategy, governance, story, distribution, technology, and measurement. Then we identify what's broken,where the gaps are, and what’s working well. From that, we deliver a clear, prioritized, and focused roadmap to make the fixes and let the bright spots shine brighter. Fixed scope. Fixed price.
Great fit for:
Marketing and content teams and leaders who know something is “off”, but can’t quite put their finger on exactly where the system is failing. If you’ve said "our content isn't working" and want to know why, this is your diagnostic.
Pricing
Typically between $25,000 - $40,000 fixed fee (+ travel costs if any)
Marketing Foundations & Strategy Diagnostic
A four- to six-week engagement that acts like a structural survey for your marketing department. Most consultants just look at the paint on the walls. We look at the foundation, the plumbing, and the wiring. We surface the hidden bottlenecks in your go-to-market plan, the ones keeping your team busy without producing impact, and deliver a clear diagnosis and prioritized roadmap for fixing it. Fixed scope. Fixed price.
Great fit for:
Marketing executives whose team is always "busy" but can’t point to specific, data-backed impact. If your team is working hard and the results still feel sideways you don’t have a people problem, you have a sequencing and systems problem. This is where we start.
Pricing
Typically between $25,000 - $30,000 fixed fee (+ travel costs if any)
Strategic Advisory Retainer
Think of it as a senior content strategist and marketing operation on call, without the overhead burden of a full-time hire. We embed as council for the CMO and content leadership team; helping shape strategy, set governance, sharpen editorial standards, coach the team, and be there to make sure the hard calls get made. We’re the outside voice that knows your business. Available starting with a minimum three-month commitment.
Great fit for:
Marketing leaders who need senior content strategy thinking on tap - without hiring a full-time exec for it.
Pricing
Monthly retainer, minimum three-months, scoped to our commitment length and the depth of engagement. Let’s talk about what the right fit looks like.
What This Looks Like In Practice
No matter which engagement you start with, here’s what we typically cover, and where we tend to find the most leverage:
Content and Marketing Orchestration
Content operating model design: governance, workflows, decision rights, content lifecycle, taxonomy
Editorial strategy and standards: what stories to tell, how to tell them, how to keep quality high at scale
Team structure and capability — what roles you need, how to hire, how to coach existing team into new structures
Marketing technology fit: what your stack should do, what it shouldn't, how to make it serve strategy
Measurement that means something: KPIs that connect content to business outcomes, not activity metrics dressed up as results.
What Success Looks Like
“We had great internal talent, but a short timeline. We knew we needed to extend our team with outside experts who could advise on what has worked best in a multitude of situations. Seventh Bear helped us move efficiently, effectively and gain quick internal credibility. I'm grateful we found them — and they also made the work a heck of a lot of fun.
Jennifer Hovelsrud
Staff VP, Enterprise Content Marketing
Not sure where to start?
A $2,500 Strategy Call is a 90-minute working session on the specific content or marketing question you're wrestling with. We come prepared. You leave with structured thinking, a one-page summary, and a clear sense of what to do next. No pitch. No fluff. Just the start of the work that needs to be done.
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