A Digital Marketing Agency Built For Small Business Owners
The Most Expensive Decision You’ll Make Is Trying to Figure Out Digital Marketing by Yourself
Why did you start your business?
Aside from making money, buying groceries, etc.- what really motivated you to be your own boss?
Was it for independence? Did you hate your old job?
Did you jump into something you love to do? Are you in a family owned business and the torch was passed to you?
Whatever your reason – I’ll bet that you didn’t start your business to be a full time digital marketer.
Are you the General Contractor of your Digital Marketing? You shouldn’t be. You can’t be.
If you are like 99.999% of the small business owners I meet for the first time, you probably are the unwitting General Contractor for all your digital (and non-digital) marketing tools. (I heard you say “Amen”)
You Are Trying Hard But Digital Marketing Has Too Many Moving Parts
It’s not that you’re not trying hard. The problem is that digital and local marketing requires time, talent and consistency.
Digital marketing today is extremely fluid and is evolving all the time.
Your time belongs in front of your customers and your family. Not chasing down digital marketing tools.
Each hour you spend figuring out keywords, blog posts, Google Ads setup, or ChatGPT, is an hour lost.
You could use that time to serve customers. You could close deals.
Or you could play with your kids and enjoy being a business owner.
Just because digital marketing is important to your business does not mean you need to be a slave to it.
Not anymore.
Stop chasing bright shiny objects in between Facebook doom scrolls.
Stop replying to emails who say they “saw your website and can improve it overnight.”
They can’t.
You only have 2 real choices
I’m going to give you the best advice anybody has given you to this point…
…If you are paying any type of outside marketing company or freelancer or team to handle ANY of your marketing… and you have to constantly check and re-check and wonder if it is making you money and getting new leads, then you have two choices.
Choice 1) Fire them. Send them packing. Then hire a competent, in-house marketing person. Next, develop a smart, local strategy based on your unique marketing position locally and choose only the digital marketing tools you need to reach the only targets that matter in your local market.
(I can help you here with a strategic consultation to build your strategy and get you started… 399 for 1/2 hour, or 599 for an hour).
Choice 2) Fire them. Hire me. We can get on a call, go over every contingency. (Make sure we don’t hate each other…. :])
If we are a good fit, I’ll handle your local and digital marketing as your agency of record. Month to month pricing here.
You Need A “Partner In Crime”
You need a partner who stays on the forefront of current technology leading into AI Search, yet has the experience and the chops to know how to sell your stuff.
If you think I’m asking you to delegate your digital and local marketing position to me, you’re probably right. And I have 31 clients who would tell you I’m right also.
But at least- setup a consultation with me to get on the right track.
That’s a smart use of your time.
I’ve been There.
As a former small business owner who burned through cash in digital Marketing- Learn from my mistakes.
In 2008, I was paying $1,400 a month to Vivial (now Thryv or Hibu) digital marketing company that delivered almost nothing. (You can read the whole grisly story by clicking here).
So I fired them, got Google SEO certified, and learned what actually works. I built a digital marketing agency of record system that actually works for a small business owner.
By 2011, I’d become one of the top franchisee marketing consultants in the U.S., helping brands like Marco’s Pizza, Buffalo Wings & Rings, and Planet Fitness build winning local strategies.
In 2020, I launched Mader Marketing—the only Agency of Record built specifically for small business owners. Now I’m obsessively learning AI marketing so you don’t have to.
You run your business. I’ll run your digital marketing.
(513) 341-1112
Scott Mader Founder
AVOID VOODOO MARKETING
Overwhelmed By Digital Marketing?
I’ve been exactly where you are. Let me show you the way out.
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Break Out Of Your digital Marketing Confusion- Now & Forever
Let me guess- your current large digital marketing company has set you up with dashboards, marketing tools and other bright shiny objects for your digital marketing “package.”
How’s that working out?
THE MADER MARKETING, LLC timeline
scott fires vivial
After wasting boatloads of money based on the “yellowpages digital marketing” company (Vivial)- Scott wises up and pulls the plug on his commercial cleaning business marketing program. Being hyper-motivated- Scott learns anything and everything about SEO, Google Search, and all things digital.
scott dramtically increased size of his cleaning company
After firing Vivial. Scott was able to use the $2500 per month to go from one truck to six trucks and sell his company in 1 1/2 years. Later, Scott would admit the first 3 months were very difficult- as he invested all money and time in learning what does and doesn’t work for small business owners with respect to digital marketing. He then sells his cleaning company for 4x earnings.
SCOTT ROLLS OUT HIS NEW “SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING AGENCY CONCEPT” TO THE LOCAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
After helping other local small business owners fire their large digital marketing companies, Scott is retained by a national corporate franchisor to help all their franchisees throughout the country. He is subsequently hired by companies such as Planet Fitness, Marcos Pizza, Skyline Chili & more, becoming one of the top LSM consultants in the country.
scott opens mader marketing, llc- in spite of the covid pandemic
MADER MARKETING, LLC was the ultimate product of Scott’s passion and skill set. The business plan and structure was put into place in December 2019. Our official launch was slated for March 2020, which coincided with the Covid outbreak. In spite of this poor timing, MADER MARKETING was flooded with requests by existing Vivial, Thryv and Hibu customers.
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