Client discovery checklist

Understand your clients needs better when developing proposals for pitches or on-boarding new clients

How will the planning template help me and my business?

Discovery involves learning insights about agency or consultant customer needs, their strategic initiatives, their goals, and their outcomes. Discovery will enable you to tailor your proposal to your client's needs during the pitch process or when onboarding new clients as a preparation for starting on new marketing campaigns or web design and build projects.

This template will help you:

Create or review your process for learning about customer needs
Identify the right questions to ask to deliver a better solution
Improve proposal win rates by proposing more relevant solutions
Discover new insight sources

Who is this checklist for?

This template is aimed mainly at members of Smart Insights who work for marketing agencies or are consultants.

This guide will help you create or review your process for learning about customer needs. It will then let you identify the right questions to ask to deliver a better solution and thus improve proposal win rates by proposing more relevant solutions.

What does the client discovery checklist cover?

This Excel checklist will help you through :

Identification of 9 key areas of insights for discovery
Prompts to ask the right questions of clients
Links to recommended insights sources

Guide structure

Goals and objectives
The Market
Website data
Content audit
Customer audit
Influencers in the market
Specific media, SEO and link audits
Additional research

Resource Details

About the author

Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly is a freelance digital marketing consultant working with agencies and direct clients of Mark Kelly digital consultancy. You can follow him on Twitter or connect on LinkedIn.

What’s inside?

Excel templates for you to amend for your business

Related Resource: Companion Agency Client Discovery guide which explains a process for managing client discovery for the sections in this checklist. Brand and marketplace audit (Word)