Agency · Growth partner
We run the machine in your accounts.
Some businesses don't want to buy leads. They want their own acquisition engine, built and run by a team that buys media every day across a dozen industries. That's a growth partner engagement.
The whole path from ad to booked customer.
Paid media
Meta and Google first, then the channels your numbers earn. Built, tested and managed in accounts you own.
Pages and offers
Landing pages, lead magnets and trust assets that turn a click into a conversation.
Creative
Ad creative and video produced and refreshed on a schedule, so winners get replaced before they wear out.
Follow-up
Text and email sequences that reach every lead fast and keep working the ones who aren't ready yet.
Tracking
Cost per lead, cost per appointment and cost per customer, tied back to the ad that produced them.
Reporting
A dashboard you can open any day and a regular numbers review with the people running your account.
Three stages. Numbers at every one.
- 1Stage
Diagnose
We go through your accounts, funnel, follow-up and sales data, and find where the money leaks between the ad and the customer.
- 2Stage
Build
We rebuild the path in your accounts: campaigns, pages, creative, follow-up and tracking, tied to one cost-per-customer target.
- 3Stage
Run and scale
We test, cut what loses, put budget behind what wins and add channels once the first one is profitable.
Who it's built for
Established businesses where one customer is worth enough to justify a real acquisition budget. Engagements start at $10,000 a month paid to Direct Marketing Media. Your ad budget sits on top and stays in your accounts.
We take a small number of these at a time, so the application asks about revenue and current spend up front.
Questions businesses ask
How is this different from buying leads?
When you buy leads, we run the media and you buy the result. As a growth partner, we build and run the acquisition engine inside your own ad accounts, pages and CRM. You own every asset and every data point.
What does it cost?
Engagements start at $10,000 a month paid to Direct Marketing Media. Your ad budget is separate, sits on top and is billed to you directly by the ad platforms.
Who owns the ad accounts and pages?
You do. We work in accounts you own and you keep everything we build if the engagement ends.
Which channels do you run?
Meta and Google first, because that's where most businesses find their first profitable campaign. YouTube, Bing, TikTok, native and programmatic come in when the numbers earn them.
Is there a contract term?
Terms are set in the agreement after we review your application.
We're a smaller business. Is this for us?
Probably not yet. If you're under about $3 million a year, you'll usually get more from learning to run the machine yourself first. Nick Pifer teaches exactly that in the Ads Launched Workshop at adslaunched.com.