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A Bay Area and Silicon Valley marketing agency for startups and growth companies.

Strategy and execution across positioning, paid acquisition, websites, SEO, AI visibility, branding, messaging, conversion, and lead generation.

Built for VPs of Marketing, Heads of Growth, CMOs, CEOs without a CMO, and managing partners of established firms.

Describe the marketing problem → See all six marketing offers
Recommended starting point
Marketing Strategy Review
Investment
$5,000
Timeline
10 days
Deliverable
90-day repair plan
Session
90-min exec
Request the Marketing Strategy Review →
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SF Marketing Agency is a local and regional marketing agency for San Francisco, the Bay Area, and Silicon Valley. Startups and growth companies are the preferred audience; other regional companies may still fit.

Lead path rebuild

The website has to make the inquiry path visible before it asks for one.

Most weak sites do not fail because one button is wrong. They fail because a buyer lands with a question, sees too little proof, and cannot tell what a serious first step looks like.

Traffic source and page promise have to match. Proof has to appear before the form asks for trust. The form has to capture source, page, CTA, and lead quality.
Trafficarrives
Proofearns
Inquiryfollows
Buyer lands

Search, paid, referral, or AI answer sends a buyer to the page with one commercial question.

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Proof appears

The page shows category fit, local relevance, what gets checked, and why this team can help.

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Request feels safe

The CTA asks for a clear first step and the form records the page, source, and problem.

Leak fixedPages that explain the agency but do not create a serious inquiry.
First offerMarketing Strategy Review used to find the leak and set the 90-day repair path.
Proof before form

Show the work before asking for the lead.

Buyers see a lead-path map, a page review, and a 90-day repair plan before the contact step.

lead path workspace showing traffic, proof, page sequence, and inquiry repair priorities
IncludedLead-path map

Shows what the visitor needs to see from first page view to qualified inquiry.

IncludedLeak view

Separates the traffic problem from the proof, page, offer, and form problem.

conversion workspace showing where belief weakens before the contact action
IncludedRepair sequence

Turns the review into page, CTA, proof, tracking, and follow-up changes.

Find the right starting point

Find the page that matches the problem in front of you.

Most buyers do not search for a methodology. They search for the thing that is costing them money this quarter. Choose the problem below.

Bay Area marketing agency for weak pipeline Start with the Marketing Strategy Review

Use this when paid, content, referrals, and vendors are active but nobody can explain which motion should create qualified pipeline.

 San Francisco digital marketing agency comparison Compare before you hire another agency

Use this when you need a second opinion on fit, scope, accountability, and whether an execution agency is the right next buy.

 Website conversion review Fix traffic that does not become leads

Use this when people visit the site, but the offer, proof, pages, forms, and next steps do not turn attention into sales conversations.

 Paid media audit for wasted ad spend Find the paid channel constraint

Use this when spend is live, reports look busy, and leadership still cannot see the CAC, quality, or payback logic.

 AI visibility audit Check whether AI answers can find you

Use this when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or AI Overviews answer buyer questions and your brand is absent, unclear, or misdescribed.

 Positioning sprint for unclear differentiation Make the buyer reason obvious

Use this when the team cannot say why you, why now, and why a serious buyer should choose you over safer-looking alternatives.
The Work

See what the team receives before deciding what to build.

90d
Marketing Strategy Review · written repair plan

A decision-ready sequence for positioning, pages, channels, proof, measurement, and the next 90 days.

30d
Paid Media Audit · implementation roadmap

A stop, keep, fix, and sequence list tied to channel setup, landing proof, lead quality, and budget decisions.

14d
Positioning Sprint · message system

A sharper category, buyer reason, proof order, and message hierarchy the website and sales team can use.

7d
Conversion Review · page and form priorities

A written review of the offer path, proof, pages, forms, and the changes most likely to reduce buyer friction.

The Pattern We See

Your team is busy. The buyer path is still unclear.

You have a marketing team. You have paid channels running. You might have a fractional CMO, a retained agency, and three freelancers. Each is doing their job.

What is missing is the commercial spine: who you are for, why buyers should believe you, which channels deserve budget, which page should convert, and what sales should receive.

Without that spine, execution gets expensive and results feel random. With it, the same team, budget, and channels have a clearer job.

See the Marketing Strategy Review →
Signs you need the constraint found first

Six symptoms buyers usually recognize before they contact us.

  • Your board questions CAC but you cannot locate the strategy document that defined your CAC target.
  • Your retained vendors deliver monthly reports, but none of them answer whether you are on track.
  • Three of your last four hires were execution roles. Strategy remains unstaffed.
  • Your last marketing plan was a list of tactics, not a sequencing of priorities.
  • Your team cannot articulate your positioning in one sentence, consistently.
  • Competitors with simpler marketing are winning better-fit deals while your team keeps adding tactics.
Six Fixed-Scope Marketing Offers

Six clear buys for six different marketing problems.

Each offer is fixed-scope and fixed-price. Each produces a specific document your team can execute from. Choose by the problem you need solved first.

Recommended start

Marketing Strategy Review

$5,000 · 10 business days

The default first buy. A 20-to-30 page strategy document, a 90-minute executive session, and a 90-day priorities roadmap for teams with active spend and weak pipeline clarity.

Full scope →
Paid media

Paid Media Architecture Audit

$2,500 · 5 days

For companies spending $10K+/mo on paid media without confidence in CAC, lead quality, payback, or the campaign-to-sales handoff.

Scope →
Positioning

Positioning & GTM Sprint

$7,500 · 14 days

For pre-launch, re-launch, or companies that cannot answer "why us, why now" in words a buyer would repeat.

Scope →
Website conversion

Conversion Architecture Review

$3,500 · 7 days

For companies whose traffic is working but whose site and funnel are not converting it.

Scope →
Ongoing strategy

Marketing Partnership

$4,500/mo · 3-mo minimum

A strategic retainer for companies that need ongoing partnership without a full fractional CMO engagement.

Scope →
AI visibility

AI Visibility Audit

$2,500 · 5 days

For companies whose category gets chosen in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews answers, and whose name never appears.

Scope →
What Gets Checked

Before you spend more, find the leak.

Every review looks at the parts of marketing that decide whether buyers trust you, understand you, and know what to do next.

The point is not to admire the funnel. The point is to show which constraint deserves the next dollar, meeting, hire, page, campaign, or vendor decision.

Positioning

Positioning and proof

What you say, who it is for, why the buyer should believe it, and where the proof belongs.

Buyer and market

Offer and packaging clarity

What you sell, how the buyer understands it, and whether the first commercial step feels concrete enough to choose.

Channels and handoff

Channel and sales handoff

Where qualified buyers should come from, what sales receives, and which handoffs are currently leaking value.

Demand and visibility

Demand and answer visibility

Paid acquisition, content, partner signals, AI visibility, and the answer blocks that help buyers shortlist you.

Bay Area Authority

What SF Marketing Agency should be found for.

SF Marketing Agency is a San Francisco and Bay Area marketing agency for companies that need clearer positioning, paid acquisition discipline, conversion-focused websites, AI visibility, and a stronger path from buyer attention to qualified pipeline.

Marketing strategy buyers can act on

The work connects positioning, offer clarity, channel allocation, and demand generation into a written plan the client's team can execute from.

Built for Bay Area and growth-stage B2B

The strongest fit is AI companies, B2B SaaS, fintech, PE-backed companies, and established Bay Area businesses that already have market signal but need clearer pipeline logic.

AI visibility buyers can verify

The AI Visibility Audit evaluates whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews can identify, extract, and cite the company correctly. The public Voice and AI Answer Readiness layer covers voice-style questions, extractable answer blocks, FAQPage markup, and citation-ready proof.

Industries Served

Different buyers need different proof.

The strategy stays disciplined. The vocabulary, proof, buying committee, and conversion path change by market.

Technology and Growth-Stage
Vertical

AI Companies

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B2B SaaS

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Vertical

Fintech

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Vertical

PE-Backed

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Established Practices and Enterprises
Vertical

Construction

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Vertical

Legal

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Healthcare

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Manufacturing

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Financial Services

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Real Estate

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90
Days of priorities · sequenced for the team
Marketing Strategy Review output

A written commercial map. Not another slide deck that leaves the decision open.

The review connects positioning, buyer path, channel logic, conversion, proof, and measurement in one strategy document.

The 90-day roadmap names the decisions, owners, dependencies, and order of work so leadership can approve the next move and the team can execute it.

Frequently Asked

The questions before you buy.

Written answers that match what prospective clients actually ask, in the words they actually use.

What is SF Marketing Agency?

A local and regional marketing agency for San Francisco, the Bay Area, and Silicon Valley. Startups and growth companies are the preferred audience, with strategy and execution available across the marketing work.

What kind of marketing agency is SFMA?

SFMA is a Bay Area and Silicon Valley marketing agency that provides strategy and execution across positioning, paid acquisition, websites, SEO, AI visibility, branding, messaging, conversion, and lead generation.

What does a marketing strategy review cost?

The Marketing Strategy Review is $5,000 flat, delivered in 10 business days. Output is a 20-to-30 page strategy document, a 90-minute executive session, and a 90-day priorities roadmap. Five other marketing offers range from $2,500 to $7,500.

Who does SFMA serve?

Startups and growth companies in San Francisco, the Bay Area, and Silicon Valley are the preferred audience, including SaaS, AI, fintech, and other technology companies. Other regional companies may also fit.

Is SFMA a marketing agency?

SF Marketing Agency is a Bay Area marketing agency. Work starts with a fixed-scope marketing review or strategy project, then moves into retainer or project execution when it makes sense.

Where This Starts

Know what is broken before you buy more marketing.

Six marketing offers. Each priced. Each fixed-scope. Each built to turn a messy commercial problem into a decision your team can act on.

Marketing Strategy Review · $5,000 → See all six marketing offers
Commercial path

From local attention to a qualified inquiry.

01 · Name

Start with the failure the buyer can see.

Weak pipeline, wasted spend, unclear positioning, low website conversion, or missing AI citations each need a different first page.

02 · Inspect

Show the work before asking for a call.

Owned work pages expose the page logic, measurement path, handoff, and decision rules behind the service.

03 · Route

Keep the buyer's intent through the form.

The chosen offer, service, source page, and referrer remain attached to the inquiry and the lead event waits for confirmation.

Inspect the owned work Describe the problem