Content & marketing stocktake

Find the content that's pulling its weight, and cut the rest

A proper stocktake of your website, content and marketing, with a prioritised plan for what to keep, fix and cut. Built for marketing teams in regulated industries.

Alice Xerri showing a client work on a laptop
Blog stocktake, example
Posts to keepKeep 14
Posts to updateFix 27
Posts to retireCut 39
Ranked by impact, with next steps

Sound like you?

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Your website's a few years old and nobody's quite sure it's working

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There's a blog backlog, and no one knows which posts earn their keep

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You're about to spend on an agency, a campaign or a rebuild, and want to know where to start

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You've just inherited the marketing and need to know what you're working with

What's in a stocktake

Same idea as a stocktake in a shop. Count what you've got, work out what's moving, and clear out what isn't.

Website content

Your key pages, checked against how people actually use them. Messaging, structure, proof and the path to a call or sign-up.

Blog & articles

What's ranking, what's getting read, what's out of date, and which posts are competing with each other.

Lead magnets & funnels

Your guides, tools and nurture emails. How people find them, and what happens after they hand over their email.

LinkedIn

Company and exec profiles. What's landing, what to do more of, and where you're wasting effort.

Search & AI visibility

How you show up in Google and in tools like ChatGPT, and what's stopping you showing up more.

Anything else you're running

Email, landing pages, sales decks, case studies, events. If you're putting it out into the world, it can go in the stocktake.

What's in scope depends on what you're running. Not everyone needs all of it.

A prioritised plan you can use

Everything I find, ranked by what'll make the biggest difference. Quick wins, what your team can handle, what needs extra hands, and what to park for now. Then we walk through it together on a call, so nothing gets lost in a document.

It's what an audit should be, minus the 80-page spreadsheet you'll never open.

Your stocktake plan, example
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Rewrite the homepage hero so it says who you help
Quick win
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Merge the three competing super guides into one
Your team can do this
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Rebuild the nurture emails behind the lead magnet
Needs extra hands
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Start a podcast
Park it for now

Need more than a review?

A stocktake looks at what you've already got. If you also need to work out where you're going, we build the strategy on top of it.

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Competitor research & where the gaps are
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Content pillars & the topics under each
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Messaging & tone of voice for each audience
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Which platforms to focus on & which to drop
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A content plan to get it moving

The stocktake does the groundwork. It can run as a standalone project, or as the first month of a fractional engagement.

Stocktake + strategy from $10,000

How it works

01

Quick call

We talk through what you've got and what's not working, and I send a fixed quote.

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Access

You share analytics, Search Console and anything else I need to see.

03

Review

I go through everything and build the plan. Delivery is from two weeks, depending on how much there is to review.

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Walkthrough

We go through the plan together, and you decide what happens next.

Pricing

Start with a review, or build the whole plan

A stocktake starts with one platform and scales with how much you want reviewed. If you need a strategy too, it's built on top of the stocktake. Either way, you'll get a fixed quote after our first call, so you know the full cost before anything kicks off.

What we can review
Website
Landing pages
Blog and articles
Lead magnets & funnels
Email
LinkedIn
Sales material
Search & AI visibility
Stocktake
From
$2,000
+ GST, for one platform
✓A full review of your chosen platform
✓A prioritised plan of what to keep, fix and cut
✓A walkthrough call to go through it together
✓A fixed quote before we start
✓Delivery from two weeks
Book a call

Reviewing more than one platform? Your quote scales with it.

Stocktake + strategy
From
$10,000
+ GST
✓A stocktake of content you've already got
✓Competitor research and gaps
✓Content pillars and topics under each one
✓Messaging and tone of voice
✓Platform recommendations
✓A content plan to get it moving
Book a call

Can also run as the first month of a fractional engagement.

What happens after

Some teams take the plan and run with it. Others want help putting it into action. No pressure either way. The plan's yours to keep.

Consulting
Your team does the work, and I guide it with regular calls and reviews.
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Fractional content lead
I join your team part-time and run the plan myself.
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Website copy
If the website's the big problem, a rewrite might be the next step.
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Questions people ask

What is a content stocktake?

A content stocktake is a one-off review of your website, content and marketing, followed by a prioritised plan to fix what isn't working. It shows you what to keep, what to fix and what to cut, in the order that matters.

Is a stocktake the same as a content audit?

Pretty much, with less spreadsheet and more plan. A typical audit tells you what's wrong. A stocktake also tells you what to do about it, in what order, and who should do it.

What's the difference between a stocktake and a content strategy?

A stocktake reviews what you've already got and tells you what to keep, fix and cut. A content strategy builds on that, with competitor research, content pillars, messaging and tone of voice, platform recommendations and a content plan. A stocktake plus strategy starts from $10,000 + GST and takes roughly a month.

How long does a stocktake take?

Delivery is from two weeks once I have access to everything. The more you want reviewed, the longer it takes, and you'll get a timeline with your quote.

How much does a stocktake cost?

Stocktakes start from $2,000 + GST for one platform, like your website or blog. The more you want reviewed, the more it costs. You'll get a fixed quote after our first call.

What do you need from us?

Access to your analytics and Search Console, plus any lead magnets, email sequences and LinkedIn data you want included. I'll send a short list once we've scoped it.

What happens after the stocktake?

You keep the plan and decide what to do with it. Some teams run it themselves, some bring me in for consulting or as a fractional content lead, and some start with a website project.

Not sure where to start? This is where.

Book a call and we'll work out if a stocktake's the right first step.

Alice working through a draft with a client on a laptop