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Pure Local is an Australian online business directory connecting consumers with trusted local businesses through permanent business listings, verified customer reviews, and intuitive search tools...
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We're a Creative Agency located in Taber, Alberta working with amazing clients to help bring their projects to life. We do websites, logos + branding, graphic design, and video projects. Send us an message to get started...
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Top rated digital marketing consultant. I help designers and personal brands get 2X leads from social media without the hassle...
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That PPC Group helps businesses grow through strategic paid advertising. Our team manages Google Ads campaigns designed to increase leads, conversions, and ROI through data-driven targeting, ongoing optimization, and scalable performance marketing strategies...
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We build brands through high-impact engaging experiences. Trusted by Australia's largest brands and media agencies, we are experts in experiential marketing. We specialise in creating impactful brand activation and national sampling campaigns - turning memorable moments into digital momentum that grabs...
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Carley Russell's Review Sourced from Google
The Black Raven team are always a pleasure to work with. They are dedicated, hard-working, and never shy away from a big or unconventional idea — in fact, they thrive on it. Time and again they've taken our most out-of-the-box briefs and delivered results that exceeded our expectations. They're our first call for anything creative and ambitious, and that's not something we say lightly.
Kym Barron's Review Sourced from Google
We consistently have a great experience when working with Black Raven Media. Seamus and the team take time to more deeply understand not only our client's needs but to also understand the entire category and formulate unique approaches as a result. The team are always solutions focused and easily pivot if roadblocks present in tricky executions. Highly recommend.
Shelby Davis's Review Sourced from Google
The Black Raven team are such pros. They develop and facilitate such unique experiences for brands to have engaging and memorable experiences with their customers and they make it look easy. It's been an absolute treat to have seen so many of these come to life over the years. Whenever I want something out of the box, I know who to talk to.
Building your business or product as a brand is becoming increasingly important. Accord Tech Solutions is always ready to transform your startup into a brand. We know how to turn your small business into a brand. Let's work together and win the race of building a brand with digital marketing...
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Jared's Leads is a data-driven marketing and lead generation company that helps businesses identify, target, and acquire new customers. For more than 15 years, the company has provided sales leads, mailing lists, email lists, data solutions, and direct marketing services designed to increase revenue and...
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John Quirk's Review Sourced from Google
I've known Jared for awhile and he is a quality human and passionate about marketing with integrity. He hustles and goes the extra mile for his people and I'm proud to call him a friend first.
douglas Douglas's Review Sourced from Google
I started my outbound telemarketing call center selling Las Vegas vacations in 2010.By 2012 I learned that leads were everything, and everything else was nothing.In 2013 I reached out to Jared's Leads for a test file, and that's where it all began.By 2015 Jared was my number 1 lead source. But it was 2017 when Jared became unforgettable to me.He sent me a test file of leads all from the same state. The test file blew up.I asked him how many more of these leads did he have? 15 million made me smile!That's when the rather unthinkable in the lead purchasing relationship happened.I asked Jared to front me the entire database of 15 million and let me make $3,500 weekly payments."Why would I do that, he asked?" It was an understandable question, and I imagine my answer was colorful.But guess what? Jared said "let's do it!"And that's the kind of person Jared is. I went from 2 call centers to 5, revenues increased by 40%, it was life-changing.Jared Knapp is a pillar of integrity, and you'd be hard-pressed finding anyone to tell you different.
Cody Wilson's Review Sourced from Google
I’ve had a great experience working with Jared’s Leads. I worked directly with Marlon, and every conversation was not only informative but genuinely valuable. There was no pressure — just clear, insightful discussions focused on improving how we operate as a business.The tools and systems they’ve built, especially around AI and strategy, have made a real impact on how we approach our processes and growth. It’s helped us think differently and operate more efficiently.Grateful to have connected with their team and looking forward to continuing to build on what we’ve implemented.
As the recipient of the 2023 Idizaayn Innovator Media Award, we attribute our success to the pivotal role played by our world-class customer support. Our commitment lies in providing unparalleled guidance to our clients, ensuring an exceptional experience throughout their projects. We steadfastly believe in...
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Mumbai-based AI video production agency founded in 2018. We help EdTech brands, D2C startups, online coaches, and corporates scale content fast using AI-powered workflows — reels, brand films, course videos, motion graphics, and post-production...
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Unipeg Media is a full-service digital marketing agency with over 8 years of experience, helping businesses grow through a combination of creative design, strategic marketing, and advanced technology solutions. The agency offers a wide range of services, including SEO, performance marketing, social media...
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Nikaura's Review Sourced from Google
We are genuinely impressed with the high quality and streamlined services which we have obtained from Unipeg Media, which happens to be surprisingly young and highly proficient in its niche. Together, we have braved through challenges and successfully completed projects.
Jorgia Morgan's Review Sourced from Google
We brought along a very complicated website idea that many companies had already disagreed to work on. Folks at Unipeg Media took up the challenge and built a replica of the idea that we’d penned down for them. Unipeg Media deserves much appreciation for their zeal and confidence.
SACHIN RATURI's Review Sourced from Google
The best website design company in Delhi NCR loved the way their management handles everything in a perfect manner. No deadline miss, no miscommunication every task is precisely done. They promised me to build my portfolio website in 15 days, and to my surprise they did. Wishing all the best to team Unipeg
OneAlphaMed is a global pharmaceutical marketing and medical communications partner helping healthcare organizations accelerate therapy adoption, strengthen HCP engagement, and improve patient outcomes. We combine brand strategy, medical affairs, digital innovation, pharma AI, and patient support programs to...
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At Impester Media, we specialize in amplifying your brand's reach through exceptional SEO, ORM and Social Media services...
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At Obelisk Infotech, we specialize in providing tailored SEO and Digital Marketing Solutions designed to align with your business objectives. Our team comprises top-tier SEO Professionals, Digital Marketing Experts, Creative Web Designers, and seasoned programmers dedicated to enhancing your company's...
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PPC Review from Mike Torgersen
Obelisk Infotech delivers exceptional results in social media and PPC advertising. Their strategic approach ensures maximum engagement and conversion rates, propelling brands to the forefront of their industries. With an impressive understanding of target audiences and innovative campaign designs, they consistently drive tangible growth for businesses.
Ankita Rajput's Review Sourced from Google
Great experience working with Obelisk Infotech. They really understand online marketing and know how to get results. I appreciate their consistent communication and transparent reporting. Thanks to their efforts, our rankings have improved and we’re seeing more customer inquiries.
Yarin Ohayon's Review Sourced from Google
I’ve been working with Obelisk Infotech for the past 4 years, and the experience has been nothing short of outstanding. From day one, their team has been professional, reliable, and fully committed to helping my business grow.They’ve consistently delivered high-quality marketing strategies tailored to my needs, and the results have been great. What I appreciate most is their transparency, prompt communication, and genuine interest in my success.Obelisk Infotech is not just a service provider, they’ve become a true partner in my business journey. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for a dependable and results driven marketing agency.
Top Tech Software Solutions is a leading software development and digital marketing company providing professional website development, SEO services, mobile app development, branding, AI automation, and custom software solutions for businesses of all sizes. We help brands grow online through innovative...
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VASA is a personal-brand web development and AI search optimization studio led by a website developer and SEO specialist based in Chennai, India. The brand focuses on building high-performance websites that prioritize customer acquisition, search visibility, and AI-era discoverability rather than purely...
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Kiran Infotech is a leading digital marketing agency in Zirakpur dedicated to helping businesses grow and succeed in the online marketplace. With over a decade of experience, the company works with startups, small businesses, and established brands across multiple industries. By combining creativity...
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manjit kaur kaur's Review Sourced from Google
Kiran infotech is Expert Training Institute and Sir avtar singh! This Digital Marketing course is a revelation. The material is nothing short of brilliance. You'll transform into a true professional.
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MANISH KUMAR's Review Sourced from Google
My company has had a very noticeable positive growth in organic traffic and rankings (2 keywords in the #2 spot) since they were brought on board. Kiran Infotech team that has been assigned my site continues to demonstrate great communication and knowledge regarding not only link building, but also on and off-site SEO practices as well. I highly recommend Kiran Infotech Digital Marketing Company.
Quavento helps ambitious businesses build digital excellence through custom development, strategic marketing, and stunning design. Helping businesses build meaningful digital relationships through custom development, strategic thinking, shared values, and solutions that truly fit...
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Ask yourself: Can I finish this sentence, "We need to [specific outcome] by [timeframe] because [consequence of not doing it]", without describing an activity like "build a strategy" or "improve our digital presence"?
If you can't answer that question, no digital strategy agency can help you yet.
Agencies are skilled at filling vague briefs with visible work.
If you walk in asking for "a digital strategy," you'll get a document, not a result.
The most common root cause of failed agency engagements isn't a capability gap on the agency's side.
It's a client who didn't define a measurable expectation before signing.
The agency becomes a cost center the moment the brief stays vague.
The BetterBriefs Project global study, published by the IPA and based on responses from over 1,700 marketers and agency staff across 70 countries, found that 80% of marketers believe they write good briefs, while only 10% of creative agencies agree.
The same study found that respondents estimated 33% of marketing budgets are wasted on poor briefs and misdirected work.
Meanwhile, the ANA's "Enhancing Client/Agency Relations" survey found that just 27% of agencies believe clients provide clear assignment briefs, and not a single agency respondent strongly agreed.
Write your one-sentence outcome and pressure-test it with your CFO or a board member before briefing digital strategy agencies.
If neither of them can connect it to a line on a P&L, rewrite it.
Shortlisting by industry vertical is one of the most common and most costly mistakes in hiring digital strategy companies.
An agency that has produced results for three eCommerce brands has not necessarily solved a B2B lead generation problem.
An agency that grew a DTC brand's organic traffic hasn't necessarily navigated the compliance constraints of a financial services company.
When reviewing agency profiles and case studies, filter for problem match, not sector match.
The question isn't "have they worked in my industry?" It's "have they solved the specific problem I have, in a comparable context, with measurable results?"
Despite this, 89% of companies say "experience in our industry" is a major factor when selecting an outsourcing provider, according to a 2024 survey of business leaders compiled by Passive Secrets, making industry match the most common shortlisting criterion, and problem match the most overlooked one.
How to shortlist effectively:
What to look for in case studies:
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Digital strategy agencies should write down what a successful 90-day outcome looks like from their side.
Without a shared, written definition of early success, both sides spend the first quarter doing work they believe is valuable while the other side is quietly keeping score on different metrics.
By month four, the client is frustrated by the absence of visible results, and the agency is frustrated that the client doesn't appreciate the foundational work they've completed.
This pattern is common enough to have a name in the consulting industry: the expectation gap.
The financial consequences of getting this wrong are significant.
According to the ANA and 4As joint study, The Cost of the Pitch, based on 300+ interviews with U.S. brand marketers and agency executives, the average cost of an agency review when no incumbent is involved is $408,500. That’s the cost for the client alone, before accounting for the digital strategy company’s own pitch costs.
When expectations break down and a review becomes necessary, that is the price of a poorly aligned start.
The 30-day milestone should cover access, audit, and alignment.
The 90-day milestone should include at least one deliverable that tests the quality of the agency's strategic thinking before you're locked into a full year.
What to do: Send the agency your written version of the 90-day success before the kickoff call. Ask them to do the same. Where they diverge is where the relationship will break first.
The person who presents to you and the person who runs your account on a daily basis are often not the same.
This gap between the seniority of the pitch team and the seniority of the delivery team is one of the most predictable sources of post-signature disappointment in agency relationships.
Before signing, identify who will be doing the actual work on your account. Ask to meet them.
Ask digital strategy firms what percentage of their time will be dedicated to your engagement. Then assess whether that person has the experience level the engagement actually requires.
Your relative budget matters here. An agency billing $6M annually will prioritize a $150K retainer differently from one billing $900K annually.
The smaller agency may be the higher-priority client, which means more senior attention, faster response, and more accountable work.
The table below shows how staffing typically plays out by agency size, and what it means for how you'll be treated.
| Agency size | Who pitches | Who delivers | Your likely priority |
| Boutique (under 15 people) | Founder or principal | Often the same person | High, but capacity is finite |
| Mid-size (15-75 people) | Senior partner | Account director + specialist | Moderate, senior input is scheduled |
| Large (75+ people) | Business development director | Rotating account team | Depends on your budget's rank in their portfolio |
Most buyers evaluate digital strategy agencies on what they'll do when things go well.
Fewer think through what will happen when things don't go well, which, in any honest engagement, they sometimes won't.
The way an agency handles underperformance tells you more about the health of the relationship than any pitch or proposal.
Top digital strategy agencies identify problems before the client does. They come with a diagnosis and propose a course correction.
An agency that waits for the client to notice and then explains why the results weren't their fault is an agency that will cost you more than the retainer.
The data supports taking this seriously upfront. The SPI Professional Services Maturity Benchmark, a survey of thousands of professional services organizations, cited by Workday's 2025 industry analysis, found that on-time project delivery rates dropped to just 73.4% in 2024, down from 80.2% in 2021.
The same research found that project overruns rose to 11.3% over the same period.
In agency engagements specifically, a Deltek benchmark study found that nearly 40% of agenciesexceedprojectbudgets due to scope creep from poorly defined contract terms.
These aren't edge cases. They're the statistical norm, and they almost always go unaddressed until the client notices the invoice.
Before you sign, understand the digital strategy firm’s process for flagging underperformance: how often they review results against baseline, what triggers an internal review, and how they communicate bad news.
Rated 4.8 on Google and 4.7 on Trustpilot, DesignRush Agency Directory is a reliable resource for finding digital strategy agencies. We owe this to our executive selection team, which follows a strict screening process when featuring agencies on the platform, assessing key performance indicators, like portfolio, client reviews, and industry reputation.
Learn more about DesignRush Agency Ranking Methodology.
DesignRush sustains a directory of over 30,000 agencies categorized by service category, location, expertise, and reviews. We build our database in two ways:
Agencies can also reach out to DesignRush and must go through the verification process prior to being listed.
Ask in the first meeting who will be on your account after the contract is signed. The most consistent structural flaw in agency sales models is pitch-and-switch staffing: senior operators close the deal, junior operators execute the engagement. The senior judgment that persuaded you to sign is often not what you're buying for the next 12 months.
To protect against this, require that the Statement of Work name the specific individuals responsible for your account, along with their seniority level and the number of other accounts they carry simultaneously. Many digital strategy agencies overload account managers with 30 to 50 clients each. At that volume, no individual client gets meaningful strategic attention, and monthly "strategy calls" become status updates where someone reads your own analytics back to you.
The clearest red flag is a digital strategy firm that arrives at the first meeting with a proposal already written.
A serious digital strategy partner asks about your margins, customer acquisition costs, competitive positioning, and internal constraints before it proposes anything. Additional red flags that signal execution-only thinking include:
Agencies that cannot explain their week-by-week decision-making process either don't have one or don't want you examining it.
The three most common post-signature cost surprises in digital strategy engagements are: change orders for work outside the initial scope, consulting hours billed separately from retainer fees, and technology or platform costs that the digital strategy agency treats as pass-through charges.
A $10,000 project can easily grow to $13,000-$15,000, and a six-week timeline may stretch to twelve weeks. All that can lead to financial overruns, reduced quality, and team burnout. Before signing, request a complete list of every line item not covered by the retainer, including: additional revision rounds beyond those specified, stakeholder workshops, tool subscriptions, third-party data licenses, and any work triggered by internal changes on your side (a rebrand, a product launch, a new market entry).
A well-run agency will provide this list without hesitation. One that deflects is signaling a billing model that depends on scope expansion to improve its own margins.
A credible digital strategy agency engagement in 2025 runs $3,000 to $25,000 per month on retainer, or $5,000 to $150,000+ for a defined project. According to a pricing study drawing on data from 1,200+ agencies, monthly retainer costs span $3,000 to $25,000, with median spending at $7,500 for mid-market companies.
Hourly consulting rates range from $100 to $350 per hour, with senior strategists commanding rates above $250.
On the global side, the 2025 Global Digital Marketing Report by DesignRush puts the worldwide average agency rate at $97 per hour, with U.S.-based agencies averaging $124 per hour.
Yes, a 12-month lock-in with no performance milestone clauses is a structural risk, not a standard industry practice. Long contracts without exit provisions protect the digital strategy firm’s revenue, not your outcomes. A confident agency with a proven process should be willing to build in milestone-based reviews, typically at 90 days and 6 months. There, both parties assess whether the engagement is generating the agreed-upon indicators of progress.
At a minimum, any long-term contract should specify: what deliverables are due at each quarter, what performance benchmarks trigger a strategy review, and what the exit mechanism is if those benchmarks are not met.
Ask the shortlisted digital strategy agencies to show you two proposals from different clients in different industries and explain the strategic differences between them. Agencies with a genuine strategy capability will have fundamentally different recommendations for a D2C consumer brand versus a B2B SaaS company. They’ll offer a different channel mix, different measurement frameworks, and different competitive positioning approaches
Agencies that apply templated thinking will show cosmetic differences: the same services with different company names on the header. A generic proposal signals generic execution. The right strategy depends on your stage, competitive landscape, and ideal customer profile. During evaluation, also listen for how quickly the digital strategy company moves to tactics. Legitimate strategists spend the first conversation asking questions; agencies selling repackaged work move quickly to talking about what they do.
Walk away immediately if the agency makes performance guarantees, refuses to name your day-to-day account team, or cannot explain how it measures strategic success independent of vanity metrics.
These three signals do not indicate inexperience, but a business model designed to obscure accountability. Digital strategy firms that make guarantees like "first page rankings in 30 days" or "500% ROI for everyone" either don’t understand how digital marketing works or are overstating certainty to close the deal.
Separately, if an agency's reporting vocabulary consists exclusively of reach, impressions, and engagement rate with no connection to revenue, pipeline, or customer acquisition cost, the strategy layer is missing, regardless of how sophisticated the pitch sounded. If a digital strategy firm avoids sharing analytics dashboards, performance reports, or access to your own ad accounts, that's a serious warning sign. A successful digital strategy relies on data-driven decisions, and access to those numbers is how you verify you're on the right track.
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