Bay Area marketing agency.
SFMA stays inside San Francisco, the Bay Area, and Silicon Valley rather than using local pages to sell a national category.
Marketing strategy and execution for startups and growth companies across San Francisco, the Bay Area, and Silicon Valley.
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. SFMA provides strategy and execution across positioning, paid acquisition, websites, SEO, AI visibility, branding, messaging, conversion, and lead generation.
SFMA works with Bay Area and Silicon Valley companies that need marketing strategy and execution to work together. Startups and growth companies are the preferred fit because positioning, demand generation, websites, paid acquisition, and sales follow-up often have to move in one sequence.
The six marketing offers are fixed-scope, fixed-price marketing review engagements. Each produces a specific document. Each self-selects a different commercial problem. The marketing offer model exists to make the first engagement low-risk and fast. The marketing review either identifies the architecture that makes execution compound, or it surfaces why it has not. Either outcome is valuable. No open-ended retainer is required to find out.
The preferred audience is startups and growth companies: SaaS, AI, fintech, and other companies building demand in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Established regional businesses in construction, legal, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, and real estate may still fit when the marketing problem is local or regional.
Every strategic engagement covers the same four commercial axes. The specific depth on each axis depends on where the marketing review finds the strongest opportunity. The document your team receives maps recommendations across all four, with 30-60-90 day sequencing for execution.
Category narrative, product narrative, ICP definition with firmographic and psychographic criteria, claim architecture with proof hierarchy, and competitive narrative map. The foundation under every word the company writes, says, and ships. When this axis is wrong, execution cannot fix it.
Price strategy, packaging structure, margin architecture, and buyer willingness-to-pay analysis by ICP. Most companies leave measurable revenue unclaimed at this layer because pricing has not been revisited since the ICP moved. This is often the highest-priority and most undermanaged axis.
Distribution channel portfolio, sales-marketing alignment, buyer stage sequencing, and motion definition - inbound, outbound, partner, or product-led. The commercial architecture that connects marketing activity to revenue. Defines what success looks like at each stage before execution begins.
Paid acquisition audit by channel, content investment architecture, PR and thought leadership prioritization, AI visibility, and measurement framework with attribution boundaries. The execution layer - with a measurement structure that lets the other three axes receive signal from what actually happened in the market.
SF Marketing Agency operates as a brand under Stan Consulting LLC. The brand stays deliberately firm-led, but the work is not anonymous inside an engagement. Clients receive a written review, source notes, decision logic, and a scope boundary they can inspect.
Claims in strategy work are tied to page evidence, ad accounts, CRM data, sales notes, buyer interviews, or public research when a public citation is used.
The firm does strategy, positioning, paid-media architecture, conversion review, and AI visibility reviews. It does not sell search-ranking retainers.
Engagements are reviewed through Stan Consulting LLC methodology before delivery, with founder-level escalation available when the problem belongs outside marketing.
Public examples stay anonymized unless a client has explicitly approved public use. Private client material is not used as public proof.
SF Marketing Agency operates inside a focused network of specialist practices. Each property handles a distinct scope. When an engagement falls outside our lane, it points to the right specialist in the network. Not referred. Sent. The difference: we know where it lands.
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SF Marketing Agency operates under Stan Consulting LLC. Strategic engagements are executed by the SF Marketing Agency team using the firm's established marketing process.
For founder-level strategic advisory beyond the marketing function, private engagements are available at stantscherenkow.com.
The marketing offer model exists because the first engagement should be low-risk and specific. Each offer addresses a different commercial problem. Each produces a document your team owns. No open-ended retainer is required to start.
SF Marketing Agency is operated by the team at Stan Consulting LLC. Engagements are executed using the firm's established marketing process. For engagements with a business coaching component beyond marketing, Stan Tscherenkow is available directly.
SF Marketing Agency serves companies in San Francisco, the Bay Area, and Silicon Valley. Engagements may be conducted remotely or on-site depending on scope. An out-of-area inquiry may still fit, but it does not change SFMA's Bay Area and Silicon Valley focus.
SF Marketing Agency operates under Stan Consulting LLC as the 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.
The firm operates under a brand, not an individual. This is intentional. The output of every engagement is a document your team owns and executes. The value is in the work, not in the personality of the person who produced it. Clients who need to know who is doing the work can review the methodology and the cases. Clients who want a named individual as the relationship can engage Stan Tscherenkow directly.
Pre-revenue companies without product-market-fit signal. Companies seeking search ranking services, ranking retainers, or execution vendors for running campaigns without strategic architecture above them. Companies at or below $500K ARR that have not validated a repeatable commercial motion. Direct-to-consumer and ecommerce companies (those engagements are handled by Stan Consulting LLC). Companies that need a named individual as the primary relationship rather than a firm with a documented methodology.
The firm does not take engagements with direct competitors - companies with materially overlapping products, ICPs, and go-to-market motions. Within the same broad vertical (for example, two B2B SaaS companies in adjacent categories), engagements proceed only when the strategic positioning overlap is minimal and both clients consent. This is disclosed upfront, not retroactively.
The most common first engagement is the Marketing Strategy Review. $5,000 flat. 10 business days. A written strategy document your team owns in perpetuity.
SFMA stays inside San Francisco, the Bay Area, and Silicon Valley rather than using local pages to sell a national category.
A written decision path matters because pages, campaigns, tracking, and handoff have to change after the strategy is approved.
The site presents its own systems, pages, maps, and implementation work instead of borrowing client logos or invented outcomes.