Marketing & Advertising
Calgary marketing agency
Ads, content, and email for Calgary companies, measured by the calls and forms they produce. If a channel isn't paying for itself in 90 days, we move the money.
Part of Marketing & Advertising.
Who this is for
Companies with 50 to 150 staff and nobody whose whole job is marketing. The owner or the ops lead wears that hat between other things, and the last agency sent a dashboard nobody opened. Most of our clients are in Calgary, with a few in Airdrie, Okotoks, and Red Deer. If you have a marketing department, you probably need a specialist, and we'll say so.
What you get
- A plan with a number on it: leads per month, from where, at what cost.
- Google Ads and Meta ads run in-house, with the spend billed to your card.
- Content aimed at what Calgary buyers search before they phone, written by people who've sat in your sales calls.
- Email to the customers you already have. Usually the cheapest lead all year.
- Call and form tracking so every lead has a source.
- A monthly meeting that compares the plan to what happened.
What we don't do
- Run ads without conversion tracking in place. We'll set it up first or we won't start.
- Guarantee rankings or lead counts. Anyone who does is guessing with your money.
- Post on social media because a calendar says so. If it isn't a lead channel for you, we'll tell you.
Proof
"In my 40 years I've used many marketing companies, and Achieve has outperformed them all. Best consistent lead generation by far."
Nine years with one Calgary home-improvement business: leads up 786% at year five against the two months before we started. Read the case study.
Pricing
Retainers from $2,500 a month. Most companies your size land between $3,000 and $5,000 a month, depending on channels and how much ad spend we manage. Ad spend is separate and stays in your name.
Questions we get
Do you work with businesses outside Calgary?
Yes. Most clients are in Calgary, and we run campaigns across Alberta from here.
How is this different from the agency we used before?
You get the number that changed and what it cost to change it, every month. Not a dashboard.
How much should a company our size spend on ads?
We won't guess. The first month establishes your cost per lead, and the budget follows from how many leads you can handle.
Do we have to sign a long contract?
Twelve months on retainers, or month to month at a 15% premium.
Do you do photo and video?
Yes. Drone photography and video for job sites, listings, and brand work. See drone work.
Can you just fix our Google Ads and leave the rest?
Yes. See Google Ads management in Calgary, or start with the audit and we'll tell you if that's the right first move.
What to do first
Take the Hidden Hours Audit. Free. Twelve minutes of questions, a written report in five business days. It tells you whether marketing is the leak, or whether leads are arriving and dying in a shared inbox. If the report shows nothing worth doing, it says so.
Find out where the hours are going.
The Hidden Hours Audit. Free. Twelve minutes of your time, a written report in five business days. Nine out of ten people who took it said it was useful.