Most growth agencies are built around one or two functions — a paid-media shop, an SEO shop, an email shop. The result is a portfolio of vendors, each optimizing their slice without the integrated picture, each blaming the others when the curve flattens. We built RGM as a single integrated operating system: every service below is run by the same senior partner team, sharing one analytics layer, one strategic plan, one accountable P&L.

Worldwide digital ad spend exceeded $700 billion in 2024 according to industry estimates from eMarketer1, with the share of marketing budgets allocated to integrated growth functions (rather than siloed channels) growing year over year. Brands that win are the ones that operate the stack as one stack.

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Growth Strategy & Brand Architecture

The strategic plan, market thesis, and brand system that the rest of the work executes against.

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Performance Marketing

Integrated paid-media P&L management across search, social, programmatic, video, and retail.

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Paid Search

Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and emerging surfaces. Bid management, query mining, ad-copy iteration.

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Paid Social

Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, X. Performance creative, audience architecture, signal feedback.

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Programmatic Advertising

The Trade Desk, Basis, DV360. Audience strategy, supply-path curation, brand-safety controls.

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Lifecycle & Email Marketing

Klaviyo, HubSpot, Twilio. Welcome flows, post-purchase, win-back, and the deliverability work behind them.

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Search Engine Optimization

Technical, on-page, and content. Site architecture, schema, intent mapping, AI-overview readiness.

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Conversion Rate Optimization

Hypothesis-driven testing across landing pages, checkout, and onboarding flows.

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Marketing Analytics & Instrumentation

GTM, GA4, Looker Studio, Tableau. Server-side tagging, identity resolution, attribution modeling.

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Creative Strategy & Production

Performance creative built for the algorithm and the eye. Concept, motion, edit, iteration.

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AI-Augmented Marketing Operations

Claude, Gemini, OpenAI as operational infrastructure — research, copy variants, segmentation, agentic workflows.

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Retail Media

Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect, Instacart. The fastest-growing ad surface in retail commerce.

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SMS Marketing

TCPA-compliant, lifecycle-integrated SMS — Klaviyo, Attentive, Postscript. Pre-send tester included.

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AI Search Optimization (AEO/GEO/AIO)

Cite-worthy content for ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini.

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Voice Search Marketing

Conversational query optimization for AI assistants and smart speakers.

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Customer Data Platforms (CDP)

Segment, mParticle, RudderStack, Hightouch. Activation-first, not infrastructure-for-its-own-sake.

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Events & Experiential

Field events and sponsorships measured for pipeline impact, integrated with lifecycle programs.

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AR / VR / Spatial

AR try-on, virtual showrooms, spatial commerce — when they actually move revenue.

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Web3 & Crypto

Compliance-aware growth marketing for crypto, DeFi, RWA, and tokenized products.

Custom-tailored. Always. Black box on purpose.

Every engagement is different. Some clients hire us to ensure traction when they launch something new. Some hire us to transform the marketing operation itself — the culture, the architecture, the team underneath. Some hire us to drive down channel-specific CAC. Some hire us to 4x revenue in 24 months. None of them get what they came for. They get more.

We don't publish our process. The repeatable shape of how we work is real, but it's calibrated to the engagement — the brand, the maturity, the data already in place, the team on the other side, the actual constraint binding growth. Two engagements that look identical from the outside are run very differently inside. Success costs hard work from smart people. It always returns.

Everything starts with the audience.

Always. Not the channel mix, not the creative, not the ad accounts. The audience — who they actually are, where they actually buy, what they actually believe about the category. Most clients arrive certain they know their audience and learn something different the first time we mine their CRM together. That's fine. We re-educate.

What we don't accept is a misalignment between goals and budget. The math has to work. Brands that haven't done the algebra of "what would it actually cost to reach this number" — and aren't engaging us specifically to figure that out — are usually a poor fit.

The work, in shape.

Generalized — the actual scope is calibrated per engagement:

  • Research is the foundation. Competitive analysis, market structure, PESTLE and SWOT, audience analysis, CRM data mining, full audit of existing marketing and advertising assets. Done before any plan ships.
  • Modeling is transparent. Forecasts grounded in your marketing financials and your business financials — not industry benchmarks slapped onto your numbers. You see the model. You stress-test the assumptions with us.
  • Strategy precedes tactics. A real strategic thesis, an experimentation plan with statistically meaningful tests, a milestone schedule, success defined in writing, and a channel-by-channel media plan that maps to each.
  • Testing structure is principled. We test audience × message and creative by segment and funnel state. Start in the channels that produce the richest signal fastest. Validate against statistical significance, not pattern-matching. Then expand into adjacent surfaces — channel arbitrage — where the same audience can be reached more efficiently elsewhere.
  • Channel performance gets squeezed. Once a channel works, we work it — formats, placements, bidding, creative iteration — carrying the top-performing campaign architecture across.
  • Audience arbitrage when TAM ceilings hit. If growth slows, CACs rise, or LTV deteriorates, we expand the audience definition by overlap and shared attributes. Not every engagement needs this. The ones that do are usually the ones already moving fast.

Two numbers about the practice itself: 96% of clients renew annually. 100% have referred new clients. Not all of those referrals are accepted.

Common questions about working with RGM.

What's the difference between a growth marketing agency and a performance marketing agency?

Performance marketing is one discipline within growth marketing. Performance marketing focuses on paid acquisition channels with directly measurable ROAS — the auctions, the bid management, the creative testing. Growth marketing is the broader practice that includes performance plus lifecycle, SEO, CRO, analytics, and the strategic frame that ties them together. A performance-only agency optimizes paid channels in isolation; a growth marketing agency optimizes the integrated funnel. We're built as the latter. Read the full comparison →

How much does a growth marketing engagement cost?

Engagements are scoped as quarterly residencies, not retainers. Median engagement size sits in the $150K–$400K-per-quarter range depending on scope (number of services, channel investment, creative production volume). We don't offer commission-on-spend pricing — it creates the wrong incentives. Specific scoping happens after the application review.

Do you work with venture-backed startups, or only mid-market and enterprise?

Both, with a filter. We work with brands at any stage where the strategic and operational complexity exceeds what an in-house team of two or three can run alone — typically once a brand crosses ~$5M in annual revenue or has just closed a round large enough to fund a 12-month growth thesis. Below that, the work doesn't usually justify the cost of senior attention.

Are you a full-service agency or do you specialize in one channel?

Full-service across the twelve disciplines listed above, but specialized in the integration of them. We don't take engagements that ask us to manage one channel in isolation — that's a job for the agency that lives inside that channel every day. We take engagements where the value is in connecting strategy → creative → media → lifecycle → analytics into one accountable system.

Where are you located? Do you work with brands outside the US?

The team is distributed across major US metros. We work with brands globally — most engagements run async with a weekly synchronous working session at a cadence aligned to the client's headquarters. See where we work →