About Focused Marketing Systems
Marketing Should Work by Design. Not by Chance.
We help Phoenix-area business owners turn scattered marketing activities into a connected system designed around how the business actually grows.
Want to know who you’d work with? Meet the founder ↓
Most businesses don’t have a shortage of marketing.
They have the pieces. The problem is that the pieces aren’t always working together.
That’s why Focused Marketing Systems exists.
It starts with strategy.
Before recommending another website, campaign, platform, or tactic, we look at the entire path a customer takes through your business, from the first time they hear about you to the day they send you a referral. See how it works →
Then we give each piece of your marketing a job. Because a website isn’t a marketing strategy. Neither is social media, email, SEO, advertising, or any other individual tactic. Those things can be valuable, but they’re pieces.
A marketing system connects those pieces into an intentional path from the right prospect to revenue and referral.
Built around your business. Built to be owned.
Focused Marketing Systems isn’t a traditional marketing agency. Our goal isn’t to make your company permanently dependent on us to run a mysterious marketing machine somewhere behind the curtain. It’s the opposite.
We diagnose what’s happening, design the system, help build it, document how it works, train your team to run it, and help you keep improving it.
The result is marketing your company can understand, manage, measure, and improve. Marketing becomes more than something you buy from vendors. It becomes a capability your business owns.
Marketing by design, not by chance.
Meet the founder
Hi, I’m Nate.
I’ve spent enough time around small businesses to notice something interesting. When marketing isn’t working, our instinct is usually to add more marketing. Another campaign. Another platform. A redesigned website. More content. Maybe another agency.
And now the marketing isn’t just disconnected. There’s more of it.
I founded Focused Marketing Systems because I believe there’s a better way to approach the problem.
I’m a marketing strategist and implementer who currently serves as the CMO of DadPool, an above‑ground pool rental company serving the Phoenix metropolitan area. My work there has given me the opportunity to do more than talk about marketing strategy. I get to build it, implement it, measure it, find the bottlenecks, and improve it inside a growing business.
After we put this kind of system in place at DadPool, we generated over 1,800 leads in one year. We had more leads than we could handle.
That’s the perspective I bring to Focused. I don’t believe most business owners need another person selling them a tactic. They need someone who can look at the whole business, diagnose what marketing actually needs to accomplish, and connect the right pieces into a system that makes sense.
My background has shaped that approach in other ways, too. Before marketing, I served in the U.S. Army and deployed to Afghanistan. Today, I also serve as a pastor at Valley Bible Church in Gilbert, Arizona.
Those are very different environments, but they’ve reinforced some of the same principles I bring to my work: think clearly, communicate plainly, build systems people can actually use, and take responsibility for the work you’ve been entrusted with.
Outside of work, I’m married to Christina, and we’re raising four children here in Arizona.
Focused Marketing Systems is built around a fairly simple conviction:
You shouldn’t have to guess your way through marketing.
You should understand what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, how the pieces fit together, and what deserves your attention next. That’s the kind of marketing system I want to help you build.
Ready to see how your marketing fits together?
Let’s map what you have, identify what’s missing, and determine what your marketing system actually needs.