An agency you can't check is a promise you can't collect.
Riverbrain Studio runs search, ads, email, websites and tracking for business owners who want to see what their money is doing.
If you've hired an agency before, some of this will be familiar.
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The sales calls got returned within the hour. After you signed, less so.
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The reports arrived on time. They were full of impressions and follower counts, and you read them twice looking for the part that mentioned money.
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Somebody said "trust the process" about a campaign you were paying for, and you nodded, because you didn’t have the vocabulary to argue.
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Six months in, the phone wasn’t ringing any more than it had been.
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And when you finally left, you found out the website, or the ad account, or the Google Business Profile, wasn’t yours to take with you.
None of that happened because you don't understand marketing. It happened because the deal was built so you couldn't see in and couldn't get out.
Where we start
First, make it checkable.
Our starting point for every client is the same: connect the sales to the marketing, so a booked job can be traced to the ad, the search, or the email that produced it. It isn't glamorous, and it isn't always what people come asking for.
But it's the difference between a report you have to trust and a report you can check — and every service we run is built on top of it. Sometimes it's the whole first job. Sometimes it's the only thing we recommend.
Services
What we run
Most clients start with one or two of these, not all of them. Sometimes the honest answer is "none yet — fix the tracking first."
- Search (SEO) Rank for the searches that end in a purchase, not the ones that end in a screenshot.
- Google Ads Pay for intent. Stop paying for wrong-number calls, competitors' clicks, and your own brand name.
- Meta and social ads Demand you can put a number on. If it's the wrong channel for you right now, we'll say so.
- Organic social Proof you're real, for people who found you somewhere else first.
- Email and lifecycle The cheapest revenue you're not collecting: people who already said yes once.
- Websites and conversion A site that turns the traffic you're already paying for into calls and orders.
- Tracking and analytics Before any of the above: make sure a sale can be traced back to the click that caused it.
Who this isn't for
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Businesses that want likes and followers as the deliverable. We’ll run social if it feeds something that makes money. We won’t sell it as growth.
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Anyone who wants a guaranteed page-one ranking by a date. Nobody can sign that honestly, and we won’t either.
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Owners who want to hand over strategy and never open a report.
Tell us what's happening.
Two or three sentences about your business are enough. Email or WhatsApp works too.