The Firm
A brand and marketing strategy firm, founder led.
DDF Consulting is for operators, founders and businesses whose expertise is real and whose reputation has not caught up with it. The failure is almost never effort. It is order: reaching for visibility before settling on a position worth being visible for. The firm works a layer above that, on the position itself and on the proof that makes it hold.
The firm is built and run by David Dante Frank. He has spent almost a decade in brand strategy and digital growth, starting in the UK in 2018 and then in Lagos, where he ran strategy on agency teams for some of the biggest drinks brands in the market: Guinness, Malta Guinness, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Captain Morgan, Orijin. He built the positioning and audience frameworks those campaigns ran on, directed major campaign launches, and won competitive pitches, including regional FMCG business across East Africa. He still runs marketing himself on live accounts, which is where the judgment the firm sells gets tested.
He started the firm because of what kept happening in those rooms. Capable people, real budgets, work getting done, and no two people describing the business the same way. The answer was always the same one. Post more, try another platform, try another agency. It is what the industry rewards, and it was still wrong.
The firm is built so that it does not depend on him. At the start he was the whole firm, then he built a team that carries the standard when he is not in the room. A business whose credibility sits entirely inside one person is not really a firm. It is a performance the founder has to keep running every day for the firm to look like one. Building past that is the discipline this firm sells, and it applied it to itself first.
The market cannot choose what it cannot repeat.
Senior Account Manager
The client's main contact, and the person keeping the work on track.
Operations Manager
Coordinates who is doing what, and by when.
PR Manager
Press, partnerships and speaking opportunities.
Content Writer
Articles, posts, newsletters and scripts.
Video Editor
Filming and editing, for the firm and for clients.
Graphics Designer
Brand assets, decks and campaign artwork.
Social and Platforms
Posting, scheduling, community and analytics.
Finance
Invoices, budgets and reporting.
The firm can be judged before it is hired. The positions it holds and the writing on this site are its thinking, in the open, where anyone deciding whether to commit can weigh it first.
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