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A Marketing Proposal for ProTELEC Alarms

Prepared for Harry Black
Prepared by Hayden Coutts
Date April 2026

Stop making claims. Start publishing receipts.

Every commercial security website in the category says the same four things — trusted, reliable, experienced, certified. None of them leave a residue in a buyer's memory a week later. Numbers do. Real numbers tied to real places, from real years. ProTELEC's monitoring centre already produces data like this every day — annual incident counts, response times, intervention outcomes, retention metrics — and none of it is on the website. The marketing job is to get it out of internal spreadsheets and onto the page a buyer actually reads.

ECAM — now North America's largest video monitoring brand under Canadian parent GardaWorld, with 140,000+ cameras, 6,000+ customers, and named institutional clients like Lambert International Airport and the LAPD published front-of-site — is a textbook example of the play ProTELEC should be running. ECAM treats its own data and its own customers as marketing assets. ProTELEC has the same ingredients: 55+ years of continuous Manitoba commercial security practice, 1,000+ commercial customers retained over 25 years (ProTELEC's own published number), and named institutional clients already sitting on the current site as silent text testimonials — RM of Ritchot, Legal Aid Manitoba, Camrose County, St John Ambulance, Merit Functional Foods, Nutripea. The receipts exist. They're buried in a dated layout with no data, no visual hierarchy, and no clear sense of what ProTELEC is actually selling.

The marketing job is to put the receipts on the page. And the essentials come before any ads, any content program, any outbound — because nothing else lands if the site underneath doesn't do three things it currently doesn't.

  1. Clearly highlight what ProTELEC sells. Preventative camera monitoring and the MRR-generating services get pride of place above the fold, in plain language. A commercial buyer should know in ten seconds what they're looking at and why it matters.
  2. Actually look like a high-quality brand. ecamsecure.com, netwatchsystem.com, sonitrol.com, and ProTELEC's own proteleccheckmate.com are the visual bar. The current protelecalarms.com sits well below it, and the credibility hit is real.
  3. Show the data. A live Manitoba incidents counter on the homepage. Named customers with real stories and real numbers attached. Industry vertical pages — the pattern already proven on proteleccheckmate.com — rebuilt for ProTELEC Alarms, with specific stories per vertical as the case study program fills them out over the year.

Everything else — ads, LinkedIn, content, outreach — layers on top. If the site underneath doesn't do those three things, nothing stacked on it will carry.

How the program runs.

Months 01 – 02 · Foundation

Paid search on, landing page live, case studies rolling.

Defensive paid search goes live in Week 1 — we run Google Ads on ProTELEC's own brand name so that anyone searching "ProTELEC" lands on ProTELEC's site instead of a competitor's ad. It doesn't wait for the rebuild. Since the January pause, four months of branded search traffic has been quietly flowing to competitors by default; that's the fastest thing to recover. A new proactive video monitoring landing page goes live end of Week 4, and the Google Ads Camera Monitoring and Commercial Alarm campaigns turn on in Week 5 pointing straight at it. The full protelecalarms.com rebuild ships end of Week 8 — a proper visual overhaul that puts preventative camera monitoring and the MRR-generating services front and centre, brings the Five Diamond monitoring centre forward as a credibility anchor, and gives the institutional client list real visual weight. proteleccheckmate.com is the nearest reference point for the tone and quality bar.

In parallel, the case study campaign kicks off in Month 1. We shortlist 8–12 of the strongest existing commercial clients, we work through which ones pick up the phone, and the first interviews start before the end of Month 1. Every case study carries real CAD numbers — before/after costs, incidents prevented, dollar impact — not testimonial copy. The first finished case studies enter production in Month 2.

Month 03 Onward · Growth

Case studies compound. The program layers on top.

Case studies ship on a monthly cadence from Month 3 forward — format and volume depend on the tier (see The Fee below). LinkedIn company page posting begins in Month 3 on a weekly rhythm: one data point per post, one short story, one institutional reference. The monthly performance dashboard and month-end review begin at the end of Month 1 and continue throughout.

At Month 3 we review together on real numbers — reach, inbound leads, cost per qualified lead, pipeline movement — and decide together what to keep, what to change, what to cut. Month 4 onward is when Plus-tier programs layer in leadership personal brand management and warm + cold LinkedIn outreach on top of the base program.

Pricing

Three tiers, all built on the same foundation: a new website, Google Ads, and a case study program. Each tier layers additional services and production value on top of that base.

Starter
$5,000 CAD / month
Foundation tier. New website with a live Manitoba Incidents Prevented counter on the homepage, Google Ads, LinkedIn ads, and quarterly written case studies — the minimum program to run credibly.
Gets the website and paid search working at a disciplined price. Right for ProTELEC if the priority is cost discipline and we'd rather prove the engine works at quarterly case-study pace before scaling up.
Core
$6,000 CAD / month
Everything in Starter, upgraded. The case study cadence moves to photo (eight per year, shot on site) and LinkedIn company page posting goes weekly on a one-data-point-per-post rhythm.
Core is the version where the case study campaign becomes a compounding content layer — eight shot-on-site customer stories a year, weekly LinkedIn data points pulled from the monitoring centre's own running numbers, and an upgraded site that finally shows the real commercial book.
Plus
$7,500 CAD / month
Everything in Core, with quarterly video case studies added on top of the photo cadence (twelve total per year), dedicated leadership personal brand management on LinkedIn, and warm + cold LinkedIn outreach campaigns. The full production suite plus active outbound reach.
Plus is for clients ready to commit to the full production suite and active outbound reach. Twelve case studies a year in mixed photo and video formats, weekly leadership personal brand management on LinkedIn, and outreach campaigns by vertical. Easy to upgrade from Core at any point.
Starter Core Plus
$5,000 / mo $6,000 / mo $7,500 / mo
Foundation
Full protelecalarms.com rebuild (Months 1–2)
Google Ads management
LinkedIn ads (from Month 3)
Monthly performance dashboard & review
Case study program
Written case studies 4 / year
Photo case studies (professionally shot on site) 8 / year 8 / year
Video case studies (professionally produced) 4 / year
Content & reach
LinkedIn company page management (weekly)
Manitoba Incidents Prevented counter (homepage)
Leadership personal brand management
Warm + cold LinkedIn outreach

One thing I'd want from you first.

I'd rather hear your read now than re-do work later.

1

Any pushback on the argument above

Any position you'd challenge, direction you'd change, risk you think I've read wrong. I'd rather hear it before I start building than fix it in Week 3.

If you want to go ahead.

01
Tell me you're in — a text or a quick call is enough
02
We do a 20-minute kickoff call to walk through any pushback and align on the approach
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The Monday after that I start building — Google Ads Brand Defense goes live that week, website rebuild begins in parallel, and the case study shortlist lands in your inbox by end of Week 2