Digital Marketing Coach

Stop Guessing.Own Your Marketing.

Helping companies understand what their marketing needs, build the right system, and decide what to handle in-house versus outsource.

25+ Years in Digital Marketing
20,000+ Students Taught

Your path forward

A Simple 3-Step Plan to Take Control of Your Marketing

You need a clear plan and the ability to run it — whether that's you, someone on your team, or the help you already have. Here's how it works.

Step 1

Get an Audit

Start with Chris's $497 marketing audit. You get a clear picture of what's working, what's wasting money and what to fix first — priorities you can act on or share with your team.

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Step 2

Build Your Insourced Program

Turn the audit into a plan. Through the Insourced Marketing Blueprint™, Chris coaches you and your team to run your website, reviews, AI search, social and ads in-house.

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Step 3

Scale Profitably

Grow on your own terms. With your team executing the plan, every dollar of marketing works harder — and you stay in control of the decisions, the accounts and the results.

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For owners, employees and teams

You don't need another sales pitch. You need someone in your corner.

Chris has spent 25 years helping businesses cut through the noise — and he owns agencies himself. He shows you what's working, where money is leaking, and teaches your team to run it.

Stop wasting money

Find out what's working, what isn't and where your marketing dollars are leaking — so every dollar goes where leads actually come from.

Marketing audits · Clear priorities

Learn what you don't know

Chris teaches owners, employees and teams how websites, Google, AI search, reviews, social and ads actually work — in plain English.

Coaching · Team training

Own your lead generation

Build a marketing engine your company controls — your accounts, your data, your process — so more calls and booked jobs aren't left to chance.

Ownership · Hands-on help

3 options to success

You don't have to do your own marketing — but you do have to understand it.

Choose the level of support that fits your business.

Learn it yourself

DIY Marketing

Learn to build your website, handle search and social, and run your own marketing with courses and live Q&A in the community.

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Train your team
Insourced Marketing Blueprint™

In-House Training & Coaching

Chris trains you or your in-house coordinator with live coaching, so your own people run the marketing with confidence.

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Build your foundation

Done With You

When you need a head start, we build the core foundation alongside you — then hand your team the keys to run it.

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Compare all options side by side →

Feeling lost about what's actually working?

You're not alone. These are the frustrations owners and teams bring to Chris every week.

  • You have no idea what's working

    Money goes out every month, but nobody can clearly show you which efforts bring in customers and which are just noise.

  • The phone isn't ringing like it should

    Some weeks are busy, others are dead quiet. You can't plan, hire or grow when leads feel like luck.

  • Marketing costs keep going up

    The invoice shows up every month. The reports are full of jargon. And you still can't tell which spend is actually bringing customers.

  • You're constantly being sold to

    Every day another call, email or DM promises page one and more leads. It's exhausting, and it's hard to know who to trust.

  • You don't know what you don't know

    Marketing changes fast — websites, Google, AI search, social, ads. Without someone teaching you, it's easy to waste money guessing.

  • Your team is guessing too

    Employees post and update things when they can, but nobody has a clear plan, training or priorities to follow.

Start where you are

How would you like to work with Chris?

Learn at your own pace, get a clear assessment, or work directly with Chris on your company’s marketing.

Free

Videos & Podcast

Explore practical website, SEO, AI search and marketing lessons before choosing your next step.

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DIY

DIY Community

Learn to build your website, manage search and social, and do your own marketing with support on Skool.

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$497

Marketing Audit

Get Chris’s personal review of your marketing, with priorities you can act on or share with your team.

Buy My $497 Audit
Coaching

Insourced Marketing Blueprint™

Work with Chris through 1:1 coaching and team training to put a marketing system in place.

Explore Coaching & Training

Already working with an agency or someone in-house? Get a second opinion on what's actually earning its keep. Need a head start? We build your foundation with you, then train your team to own it.

Chris Heidlebaugh, digital marketing expert, author and coach

About Chris

Your Marketing Expert. In Plain English.

I've spent 25+ years in digital marketing. As a marketing agency founder, author and former college professor, I translate complicated marketing into practical business decisions. Whether you need advice, training or help executing, my focus is helping you understand what is working, what needs attention and what to do next.

Key Marketing Credentials

  • 25+ years in digital marketing
  • 20,000+ students taught
  • Former college professor (5 yrs), Master's in CS
  • Author — Digital Marketing for DIYers (Amazon)
  • Host — The Digital Marketing Coach Podcast
  • Founder — Colorado Web Impressions
  • Creator — Insourced Marketing Blueprint
Meet Chris
Digital Marketing for DIYers book by Chris Heidlebaugh

The marketing expert behind the coaching

Author, professor, podcast host — and your coach.

Chris wrote Digital Marketing for DIYers, taught 20,000+ students as a college professor, and hosts The Digital Marketing Coach Podcast.

Client Results

What Clients Say About Working With Chris

“Chris is the real deal. He doesn't just teach marketing — he teaches you how to think about your business. The clarity I got in one session with him was worth more than years of agency retainers.”
Steve D., Business Owner — Google review testimonial

Steve D.

Business Owner

“Working with Chris transformed how we approach our marketing. He gave us a roadmap we could actually follow.”
Tahan C., Business Owner — Google review testimonial

Tahan C.

Business Owner

“Chris cuts through the noise. Practical, honest, and the strategies actually move the needle.”
Andrew U., Business Owner — Google review testimonial

Andrew U.

Business Owner

“I finally understand my own marketing. Chris empowers you instead of keeping you dependent.”
Anna W., Business Owner — Google review testimonial

Anna W.

Business Owner

“The Insourced Marketing Blueprint changed everything for our business. Best decision we made this year.”
Maira E., Business Owner — Google review testimonial

Maira E.

Business Owner

Not sure which path is right?

You Don't Need Another Package. You Need the Right Prescription.

Start with a $497 Marketing Audit.

Before recommending training, consulting or Done With You work, Chris looks at what's actually happening inside your marketing.

What's working?

What is actually generating leads, calls, customers and revenue right now.

What's broken?

Where opportunities are leaking between the click and the booked job.

What's being wasted?

Where money and effort are going out without enough coming back.

What should you own?

Which marketing capabilities belong inside your company.

What should you outsource?

Where specialized execution genuinely makes more sense.

What should you do next?

Use your roadmap yourself with DIY guidance, train your employee or team, or delegate the execution to Chris's team while you retain ownership.

We diagnose first. Then we recommend the right path.

Get Your $497 Marketing Audit

This is a paid strategic evaluation Chris performs and records personally — not a free sales pitch in disguise. No obligation to continue afterward.

Your next step

Stop Guessing With Your Marketing.

Find out what's working, what's broken, and what your company should do next — a personalized video audit of your real marketing, plus a 90-day roadmap of exactly what to fix first.

  • 30-min personalized video walkthrough
  • Prioritized 90-day action roadmap
  • No passwords or account access
  • Delivered within 5 business days
Get Your Marketing Audit

Chris records every audit personally.

Free weekly

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