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Digital Marketing · GTA + Canada

Digital marketing agency
without the agency in between.

A digital marketing agency for local businesses where one person builds the website, does the SEO and runs the ads. You get the work and the phone number, not an account manager.

Looking nearby

Searching for a marketing agency near you?

Most owners searching that phrase have been burned once already. They paid a monthly fee, got a slide deck full of impressions, and never worked out whether any of it produced a customer.

The problem is usually structural. The agency that runs your ads did not build your website, so when the campaign underperforms nobody owns the landing page it points at.

Here the website, the search rankings and the ad campaigns are the same job done by the same person. When a search term converts, the page gets sharpened around it that week, because there is nobody to hand it off to.

What we do

Digital marketing services, pick what you need.

01

Web design and development

Fast, mobile-first websites with local SEO built in, from $999 CAD. The foundation everything else runs on.

02

Local SEO

Map results, city pages, citations and reviews. The work that makes you findable without paying per click. From $300/mo.

03

Google and Meta ads

Campaigns with conversion tracking wired in before a dollar is spent, across Google, Facebook and Instagram. $600/mo including SEO.

04

Google Business Profile

The listing that decides your map ranking, filled out properly and kept active. Flat $250/mo.

05

Social media management

Consistent posting that looks like your business instead of a stock template. $300/mo.

06

AI automation

Lead-reply agents that answer inquiries in minutes and log every lead in your CRM. Quoted per project.

Order of operations

Where should a local business start?

Start with the website if it is slow, dated or hard to use on a phone.Traffic sent to a weak site is money set on fire, whether it came from search or from ads.

Start with the Google Business Profile if the site is fine but you are invisible on the map.It is the cheapest fix in local marketing and most profiles are half empty.

Start with ads if you need calls this month.Search rankings compound over six months or more. Ads work the week they launch, and they buy you the time SEO needs.

The free audit tells you which of those three you are actually in, with the reasoning written out. If the answer is that you do not need to hire anyone yet, it says that too.

GTA home turf, Canada-wide

Digital marketing for the GTA and anywhere in Canada.

The home game is Peel Region and the surrounding GTA: shops, contractors, clinics and suppliers in Brampton, Mississauga, Oakville, Vaughan and Milton. Knowing what the clicks cost and who already ranks in those markets is the advantage.

Outside the GTA the work runs by phone, email and screen share. Same discipline, same direct access, no difference in what gets built.

Recent work

Real sites, real clients.

Keep reading

Go deeper on any one piece.

Every service has its own page with the pricing, the process and the honest limitations spelled out.

FAQ

Digital marketing: your questions.

What does a digital marketing agency actually do?

In practice it means three jobs: building the website people land on, getting that site found on Google, and running the paid ads that fill the gap while search results catch up. Most agencies do one of those well and outsource the rest. Here all three are done by the same person.

Do I need an agency or can I do this myself?

Plenty of it you can do yourself. Filling out your Google Business Profile properly, asking customers for reviews and keeping your hours accurate cost nothing but time. Where owners usually lose is the technical work and the consistency, because marketing only pays when it happens every month.

How much does digital marketing cost for a small business?

A website with local SEO built in starts at $999 CAD. Ongoing work runs $300/mo for SEO, $600/mo with Google and Meta ads management, or $1,000/mo for the full stack including CRM and social. Standalone services like Google Business Profile management are $250/mo.

What makes you different from a bigger agency?

You get the person doing the work on the phone. There is no account manager between you and the build, no junior quietly handed your campaign, and no retainer padded with reporting hours. The tradeoff is honest: a one-person operation takes on a limited number of clients at a time.

Which should I start with, SEO or ads?

If the phone needs to ring this month, ads. If you can wait and want the traffic to stop costing money per click, SEO. Most local businesses end up running both, with ads carrying the first six months while the search rankings build underneath.

Do you work with businesses outside the GTA?

Yes. The Greater Toronto Area is home turf and where the competitive landscape is most familiar, but everything runs by phone, email and screen share. Businesses anywhere in Canada get the same work and the same direct access.

Work with me

Let's find out why your phone isn't ringing.

Send your website or Google Business Profile link. You get a free written audit that shows exactly what is holding you back on Google, and what it costs to fix.

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