Dan Goldsmith is the founder of Demand Pros, a consultancy that helps high-ticket service businesses get found and chosen. He has driven more than $250 million in client revenue, built and sold two companies, and now serves as a fractional CMO, where his advice is tested on a real P&L every week.
Dan has spent the last decade as an adjunct professor of marketing at leading business schools, and has conducted research with more than 42,000 high-ticket service buyers to find out how they actually decide. He draws on that academic foundation to build tools and trainings that help everyone from business leaders to MBA candidates turn cutting-edge research into new best practices. He lives in Columbia, Maryland.
Market Research for High-Ticket Service Businesses: The Sharpest Edge Your Competitors Can’t See

I once spent an afternoon in a dark room, behind a two-way mirror, listening to a woman take my client's brand apart piece by piece. So many decisions they loved, she had a problem with. Numerous things they assumed were obvious, she'd misread. On our side of the glass, my client was dying, with every…
SEO isn’t dead. AI is cheating off Google’s homework.

Everyone says AI killed SEO. The reality is simpler, and it’s good news for anyone trying to get found and chosen.
I’ve never met a high-ticket service company with its marketing email dialed in—and that’s a huge opportunity.

I've sat with a lot of high-ticket service businesses over the years, and I've yet to find one that had email fully integrated into its growth strategy. Not one. I don't say that to pick on anybody; I say it because email is the closest thing to free money I know of, and almost nobody…



