Annual Growth Advisor · Export Sites

Turn your site from a money-spending page into a system that keeps producing orders

I act as your external growth director. Over 12 months I build acquisition into a system, turn it into assets, and grow a team that can fight — so you stop depending on one person, one platform, or one lucky streak.

¥80000 / yr · per project — far less than a full-time growth director

12 months
Build the full system
Your asset
System & data, kept
Owns results
Eyes on inquiries & orders
Built in a year — 6 systems

Acquisition · Conversion · Data & review · Content assets · Team capability · Asset build-up

Let's be honest

It's not that you haven't spent —
it's that you can't tell if it's working

After years in export, you've probably hit all of these — not because you didn't try, but because no one ever built your site as a system.

  • 「The web agency vanished after launch」

    You have pages, but no one owns inquiries or deals.

  • 「The ad agency just buys traffic」

    Plenty burned; whether it converts isn't their problem.

  • 「The team is busy, orders are flat」

    What's missing isn't hands — it's direction and standards.

  • 「Dashboards full of data I can't read」

    No idea if it's working or where to go next.

  • 「Growth rests on one person」

    They leave, and the whole playbook leaves with them.

  • 「Buyers glance and bounce」

    No trust, no clarity, no reason to send an inquiry.

Fix these one by one and you never finish — because they're one root cause: your site has never had a self-running acquisition system.

Reframe it

What you lack is a growth director — not one more vendor

You can hire media buyers, ops and designers, but rarely someone who sees the whole picture, builds acquisition as a system, and owns the result. To close that gap, you really have three options:

Full-time director

Role
In-house growth lead
Knows export sites
Hard to find; good ones are pricey
Owns results
While employed
Yearly cost
¥500k–1M + benefits + overhead
Risk
Wrong hire or churn — huge sunk cost
What you keep
They leave, the playbook leaves

Agency / outsource

Role
Execution vendor
Knows export sites
Only their slice (ads or SEO)
Owns results
Owns actions, not deals
Yearly cost
Monthly/per project, not cheap
Risk
Locked in; switching resets it
What you keep
Almost nothing — switch and gone

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Smarter
Role
External growth director
Knows export sites
Export sites only — factories & buyers
Owns results
Owns inquiries & orders
Yearly cost
¥80000 / yr · off headcount
Risk
Annual, mutual, staged milestones
What you keep
System + assets + team, all yours
The full growth path

From seeing the problem, to fixing the leak, to building the whole system

The annual advisor sits at the top of this path — not solving one or two problems, but turning your site's acquisition into a system that keeps running and compounding.

What I build

Not a few projects — a complete acquisition system

Six interlocking systems, each with standards and processes, handed to you and your team to run independently and keep producing orders.

01

Traffic & acquisition

Stop betting on one channel

Test multiple channels · Optimal traffic mix · Execution standards

02

Conversion & inquiry

Make visitors inquire

Inquiry tiering · Follow-up SOP · Sales funnel design

03

Data & review

The boss finally gets it

Core metrics · Review mechanism · A readable dashboard

04

Content assets

Content that compounds

Full-year content plan · Guide the team · Content as assets

05

Team capability

No more key-person risk

Standards & processes · Team mentoring · Runs independently

06

Digital asset build-up

Spend becomes your asset

12 months compounding · Systematized assets · Runs when we leave

How the 12 months go

One year, four steps to build the system

Not a big bang on day one — first see clearly, then build, then consolidate. Each quarter has a milestone, monthly reviews keep it aligned, progress is visible.

  1. Q1
    Months 1–3

    Calibrate · blueprint

    Align on state & goals · Growth-system blueprint · Kick off channel testing

    You'll see:Clarity on where money goes, what's first

  2. Q2
    Months 4–6

    Acquisition & conversion

    Stand up acquisition system · Build conversion & inquiry · Roll out standards

    You'll see:Inquiries start coming — and get followed up

  3. Q3
    Months 7–9

    Content · data · team

    Content-asset system · Data-review system live · Team capability building

    You'll see:Team runs to standard, data you can read

  4. Q4
    Months 10–12

    Optimize & lock in

    Confirm optimal traffic mix · Consolidate systems & assets · Year review + next-year plan

    You'll see:A system that runs without one key person

What you end up owning

The advisor leaves — the system, assets and team stay

This is the biggest difference from done-for-you ops: the money doesn't burn into one-off traffic, it becomes a compounding digital asset for your company.

01

A working acquisition system

No single-channel or key-person dependency — it keeps producing inquiries by standard.

02

A body of digital assets

Content, landing pages, SOPs, dashboards — compounding over 12 months, worth more as you use them.

03

A team that can fight

Methods, standards and cadence — it runs independently after the advisor leaves.

04

A growth playbook

The growth methods that fit your industry and products, distilled into your company's own know-how.

Do the math

Is ¥80000 expensive? Compare and you'll see

As a cost it's a sum of money; as an investment it may be the best decision you make this year.

Hire a full-time director
¥500k–1M / yr

Plus benefits and overhead — and export-savvy ones are rare

Annual Advisor

Same role for ¥80k/yr — off headcount, no managing

Keep buying ads on a hunch
Hundreds of k wasted

Money goes in, but you can't say which part drove orders

Annual Advisor

Every dollar lands on channels and pages that convert

Figure it out yourself
2–3 yrs of trial

Hit every pitfall, and by the time it works the market moved

Annual Advisor

A proven system built and handed over in 12 months

And more importantly —

The system, digital assets and team capability that ¥80000 buys stay in your company. It's not spend that disappears; it's an asset that compounds year over year.

Annual results

A year later, what they own is a system

The annual advisor isn't measured by one month's numbers, but by whether — a year on — the company truly owns an acquisition system and assets that keep growing.

12 months

From 'ads keeping the site alive' to 'a system that keeps producing inquiries'

  • 2.6×
    annual inquiries

    Stood up traffic + conversion + data systems, broke single-platform dependency, and grew inquiries steadily all year — no more swings.

    Industrial equipment maker

  • −45%
    cost per inquiry

    Confirmed the optimal traffic mix, cut wasted spend, and kept optimizing via the data-review system — acquisition cost fell sharply over the year.

    Consumer electronics group

  • 1
    self-running team

    Through standards, SOPs and mentoring, turned an order-taking team into a growth team that sets its own direction and owns targets.

    Listed company · seat-based

Results vary with industry, scale, execution and investment. The advisor owns systems, standards and direction; execution and asset build-up are done together with your team.

Client feedback

What annual-advisor clients say

5.0
Systematized

Growth used to rest on one or two people — when they left, it fell apart. The biggest win this year is a system that doesn't depend on any one person.

C
Chairman Chen
Chairman, Industrial equipment
Team growth

He's more like a growth partner off our headcount — from strategy to mentoring the team. Our team grew more this year than in the past three.

G
Grace
CEO, Consumer electronics group
Seat-based

As a listed company, we care most about measurable and sustainable. The seat model runs several sites in parallel, and the data reviews make growth legible even to the board.

M
Mr. Tan
Head of digital, Listed company
Why we work this way

High-ticket means you stay in control and never locked in

Export bosses have been burned before. So we structure the engagement to be controllable, verifiable, and stoppable anytime.

Talk first, then commit

A strategy call confirms fit both ways. If it's not a fit we say so — no hard sell, no spin.

Visible milestones

A deliverable every quarter and a monthly review — not a verdict only after a year.

Annual, no lock-in

No long contracts. Finish a year, judge the results and the system, then decide next steps.

Straight talk only

We recommend only what's worth spending on, and talk you out of the rest. We make money on results, not extra projects.

Scarce, deep engagement

The annual advisor is hands-on; we take only a few projects a year so every client gets real attention.

Let's talk — no-fit is fine too

Book a strategy call
Pricing

A year to build a growth system that's truly yours

Annual Growth Advisor

12 months · per project

¥ 80000 / year (per project)
  • All 6 systems included
  • Traffic & acquisition system
  • Conversion & inquiry system
  • Data & review system
  • Content-asset system
  • Team capability building
  • Digital asset build-up
  • Monthly reviews + direction held
  • Execution standards & SOPs
  • Far below a full-time growth director's salary and overhead
  • You build a long-term asset — one investment, compounding returns
  • Annual engagement, quarterly milestones, visible progress

Listed company · seat-based

Multi-brand / multi-site / group

  • Priced by seat, flexible by number of projects
  • Fits multiple brands or sites in parallel
  • Custom scope and reporting cadence
  • Dedicated advisor seats available

Limited slots: the annual advisor is a deep engagement — only a few projects taken each year.

What bosses really ask

Let's put your concerns on the table

How is this different from an agency or web company?

They're vendors — accountable for actions: build the site, buy the traffic, done. We're your external growth director, accountable for inquiries and orders, and we leave the whole system and team capability inside your company rather than locking you in.

I have no team, or a weak one — can we still do this?

The team doesn't need to be strong, but someone has to be willing to execute. We set direction, give standards and mentor the team. If you have no one to execute, the strategy call will help you decide: add a person or two first, or start with the quarterly advisor.

How fast will I see results?

We don't promise an overnight surge — that's not real. Typically Q1 brings clarity, Q2 inquiries start improving, and the system effect compounds in the second half. The point is monthly reviews: you see progress throughout, not a mystery box after a year.

Isn't ¥80000 expensive?

Against a full-time director's ¥500k–1M salary, or the ad budget wasted on dead channels in a year, ¥80k puts money where the leverage is. And you're buying a system and assets that stay in the company and compound — not spend that disappears.

After the engagement ends, does the system still work?

Yes. The system, SOPs, dashboards and content assets live in your company and are owned by your team — they keep running after we leave. That's the core difference from an agency: when we go, what you own stays.

How do I know if I'm a fit?

It fits export companies with some scale, a willingness to build the site into a long-term acquisition asset, and a team (or the will to build one). If you only want short-term ad ops or your budget is very tight, we'll honestly suggest starting with the ¥2999 audit or quarterly advisor instead.

Book a strategy call

Let's talk about your growth goal first, then whether to work together

The annual advisor is a deep, long-term engagement. We start with a strategy call to confirm fit both ways. If it's not a fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.

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