Nathaniel Bingham, founder of Grow Your Business Co, seated on a stool
Nathaniel BinghamFounder & strategist · Lexington, KY

About

I help businesses stop wasting money on marketing that doesn't work and start building systems that actually grow revenue.

The problem I solve

Most owners are spending on marketing they can't measure.

They've tried agencies. They've tried freelancers. They're doing plenty of work. But ask which half of it is producing revenue and the answer is a shrug.

What I kept seeing was businesses investing in tactics with no coherent strategy underneath: social content posted without a purpose, ads running without tracking, email lists sitting unused for months.

None of that is a discipline problem. It's a planning problem, and it's fixable.

How I work

Three commitments that shape every engagement.

Access

You work with me

No account managers, no handoffs, no layers between you and the person doing the thinking and the work. When you have a question, you ask me.

Fit

Built for your business

Nothing off a shelf. The approach comes from your customers, your margins, and your constraints, not from whatever worked for the last client.

Pace

No documentation theater

No lengthy proposals, no 40-page decks, no deliverables that exist to justify an invoice. You get what you need to make decisions and move.

Downtown Lexington, Kentucky in early light: the white gable and shingled steeple of a church, with the blue glass tower of the Lexington Financial Center beside it.
Downtown LexingtonWhere the work gets done. Shot on an October morning.Marketing in Lexington

Areas of expertise

Five areas that cover most of what growing service businesses actually need.

  1. 01Marketing Strategy Development
  2. 02Marketing Systems & Automation
  3. 03Email Marketing & Lead Nurturing
  4. 04Customer Acquisition & Retention
  5. 05Brand & Content Strategy

What I believe

If we work together, these are the assumptions underneath everything I recommend.

Strategy precedes tactics.

Decide what you're doing and why before deciding where to post. Tactics chosen without a strategy are just expensive guesses.

Systems outperform campaigns.

Something repeatable beats something clever that runs once. A system keeps working on the weeks you're too busy to think about marketing.

Simplicity beats complexity.

If it takes a diagram to explain, it won't survive a busy month. The plan you'll actually follow beats the sophisticated one you won't.

Measurable results matter most.

You should be able to trace revenue back to what caused it. If you can't answer “where did this customer come from?”, that's the first thing we fix.

Behind the scenes

Most of the job is planning. Some of it is a softbox, a tripod and a full day of hair and makeup segments, shot one after another so the client walks away with a library instead of a single video.

Behind the scenes at a beauty tutorial shoot: a camera operator in a cap stands beside a camera on a tripod and a large softbox, while a stylist in a yellow cardigan curls a seated model's hair in front of a tall gilded mirror under a woven pendant light.
On set with Beheld Beauty Collective, October 2026.

Working together

I do my best work with businesses that already have something working and need a plan to scale it.

Stage

Growth-oriented businesses

Service-based, local, and B2B companies past $500K in annual revenue, with product-market fit but no cohesive marketing strategy.

Method

Strategy-first, always

We start by understanding the business and what's actually blocking growth. Execution follows the plan, never the other way around.

Shape

Project or ongoing

Fixed-fee strategy projects, or retainer-based fractional support with clear monthly expectations. No lock-in either way.

Let's talk

Tell me what you're working on. I'll reply within a business day with a few times for a 30-minute call, and we'll find the constraint together.

Two minutes to fill out. A reply within a business day.
Nathaniel Bingham