A marketing agency for startups
Leads from your first channel, picked by an audit before any budget grows. For startups with paying customers or investment behind a real product and nobody in house running marketing.
30 minutes on your numbers. The diagnosis is yours either way.
- 6.7× revenue
- $300k to $2M
- 70% email opens
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What a marketing agency for startups does first
A marketing agency for startups should pick your first channel from three numbers: your runway, your monthly budget and how long a sale takes. Here is how each one points.
| What your numbers show | Where we start | What you get first |
|---|---|---|
| You need sales calls this quarter | Paid ads on Google | Leads from buyers searching today. Paid ads are the fastest channel. |
| Your buyers are job titles you can name and a sale takes months | Paid ads on LinkedIn | Ads in front of the titles and companies that sign, with lead forms that go straight to your CRM. |
| Your runway can wait 3 to 6 months and buyers search for what you sell | SEO | Pages that keep bringing inbound when ad spend pauses. First new pages live within weeks. |
| Leads already come in and some never get a reply | Business automation | Every lead followed up without a sales hire. First system live in 4 to 6 weeks. |
Tracking comes first on every channel. Leads, calls and revenue counted in one place. Your next board update starts from numbers you can check.
Results for a founder run company
B2B data company
A B2B data company with no marketing team of its own went from $300k to $2M ARR
B2B data company in software and tech. Founder run, no marketing team, a self managed ads account and no reliable tracking.
6.7×
revenue growth
$300k to $2M
annual recurring revenue
3
large partners landed
- Email campaigns at 70% opens, 7.7% clicks and 5.1% replies, two to three times industry averages. Verified
- The work started with search and articles. Paid ads, email and outreach were added as results earned them.
- Partners landed by type: a financing partner, an industry association and a California school.
Anonymized under NDA. The numbers are real.
Bring your last 90 days of numbers, book a call, and see the channel we would start with.
Services from a digital marketing agency for startups
Every service is sized to your runway. One starts, and the next waits until the first shows results you can check.
Paid ads management
What you get Leads from buyers already searching. Google Ads for startups first, LinkedIn and Meta when your buyers live there. Budget set with you after the audit.
When it fits When you need sales calls this quarter. Every change is dated in a monthly report on leads and calls booked.
See how paid ads management runs each month.
SEO
What you get Inbound that keeps coming when ad spend pauses. We build the pages your buyers search for, starting with the ones closest to a sale.
When it fits When your runway can wait 3 to 6 months for steady inquiries. First new pages live within weeks.
Business automation
What you get Every lead followed up without a sales hire. We build the follow up, onboarding and reporting systems a small team cannot run by hand.
When it fits When leads come in faster than a small team can answer. First system live in 4 to 6 weeks.
AI development
What you get Work done without adding headcount. We build AI systems that sort leads, answer common questions and check work before it goes out.
When it fits When repeated work would otherwise need a new hire. A national services business saves about $248k a year with four AI systems.
From first call to first channel live
Nothing changes until we have read your numbers.
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The call
30 minutes on your runway, your monthly budget and how long a sale takes. -
Free ads audit, about a week
We read the last 90 days of your Google Ads account and check whether every lead it brings reaches your CRM. -
The walkthrough
30 minutes on the first channel, the order after it and what each one needs from your budget. -
First channel live
- Paid ads are the fastest channel.
- The first new pages go live within weeks, with steady search inquiries in 3 to 6 months.
- The first system is live in 4 to 6 weeks.
Want the audit on your numbers? Book a call and we start there.
Is your startup ready for an agency?
A marketing agency for startups fits once there is something to grow. Check your company against both lists.
Good fit
You have paying customers or investors behind you
The product is real. Revenue or funding gives the first channel room to prove itself.
The founders still run marketing
No head of marketing yet. You want it run for you and reported in plain numbers.
You need sales calls this quarter
The audit tells us where to point the first budget.
Not a fit
No paying customers and no funding yet
Every channel charges for each test. Win the first customers yourself, then call us.
A senior marketing team runs your channels
Your team already covers the channels and the reporting.
You want a launch campaign for an idea
We grow products that already sell or have investors behind them.
Next step
Find the first channel worth your next dollar.
A 30 minute call on your runway, budget and sales cycle. About a week later you see the channel we would start with and the order after it. The diagnosis is yours either way.
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Questions startup founders ask
Are we too early for a marketing agency?
Not if you have paying customers or funding behind a real product. Before that, win the first customers yourself and call us after.
We burned budget with an agency before. What is different?
You see the audit and the plan before any work starts. Every change after is dated, and paid ads results read in leads and calls you can check in your CRM.
Should a startup start with paid ads or SEO?
The one your audit points to. Paid ads reach buyers who search today, search pages build inbound over time, and automation keeps every lead warm.
Do you work with venture backed startups?
Yes. Venture, accelerator and private equity backed companies all fit, and so do startups that grew on revenue alone.
Do you only work with software startups?
No. We work as a B2B startup marketing agency across industries, and software is where our strongest result sits.
Question we did not answer? Book a 30 minute call and ask it live.