Proven Growth Marketing Agency

Trying to test, iterate, and implement proven strategies into your marketing mix can be difficult and confusing. Not only do you need a battle-tested process for identifying the best growth strategies, but you also need an action oriented growth plan to achieve results.

Good news: Tuff has been the go-to growth marketing agency for dozens of startups, scaleups, and established businesses alike, helping businesses find traction by ensuring that every piece of their marketing is working together in sync to drive results. We can manage everything from strategy to execution.

We’ll help you build a growth marketing foundation, with strategic vision and a roadmap, to create sustainable and compounding growth.

Businesses need a strategic vision and a growth marketing roadmap. They need an invested part-time, on-demand, or outsourced team of experts who can set achievable company growth goals and then set about making them happen. We’ve got all that.

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Before Tuff

Strategy without execution, things slip, limited communication, slow turnarounds, it’s tough to see where things stand, and people are running around like headless chickens.

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After Tuff

An action plan, daily communication, focused strategy and execution, a dedicated growth marketing agency, results delivered, organized around KPI’s, small tests with consistent earnings, and a sense of trust sets in.

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“The team at Tuff knows their stuff – and it’s precisely why they are not selling ‘magic’ or any kind of ‘mysterious sauce.’

Instead, they are betting on transparency and experimentation, and it seems to be working well: The agency was warmly recommended to TechCrunch multiple times via our growth marketing survey.”

– TUFF IN TECHCRUNCH (FULL ARTICLE)

Our Framework

This is the five-step growth marketing framework we use when approaching growth for any business. Using this framework,we’ll help prioritize tactics based on return.

OUR PROCESS

Our growth process: learn, activate, analyze, optimize, repeat.

We’re a trim-but-mighty growth marketing agency with a proven track record of helping companies—in nearly every industry at nearly every stage of growth—unlock their path to sustainable growth. We’ve tested on all of the major channels and lean on that knowledge to decide what and how we want to test first to drive results.

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“Tuff has been an incredible value-add to our business

They’re effective, flexible, communicative, and bright. I feel like I have another set of 6+ eyes on the growth of my business at all times.”

– Michael Correo | Founder, Team Bootcamp

On demand full growth marketing stack capability

With a growth marketing strategy, we work day-to-day on the things that have the highest impact on your revenue. At its core, a growth marketing strategy is a giant, prioritized to-do list. You aren’t paying for a channel or a person, you’re paying for a group of adaptable experts who can help your business perform while layering on additional tests, channels, and experiments to drive growth.

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What We Do

You’ve got growth goals? We’ll build the roadmap.

Hyper-growth businesses need a data-driven vision. More importantly, they need a clear, action-packed game plan. We partner with you to strategize, prioritize, link up cross-channel insights, and, ultimately, grow.

Pay Per Click

Prioritizing high-impact PPC campaigns to drive quick wins then scale what works.

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Social Advertising

Campaigns build just for your audience that get clicks and ultimately revenue.

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Search Engine Optimization

Making sure you show up where it matters most.

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Tracking and Analytics

Making sure you show up where it matters most.

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Content Marketing

Ranking higher and winning over your audience with a rock solid content strategy.

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Email Marketing

Auditing (or developing) your existing email flows and getting more people to take action.

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Conversion Rate Optimization

Using data to improve conversion.

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Ad Creative

Creating sticky, scroll-stopping creative that smoothes their path to conversion.

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Proof? We got it.

From big wins out the gate to strategic, measured long-term results, we couldn’t be more excited to talk about our clients’ successes.

CASE STUDY AKKO

Small Pivot, BIG Results: How We Generated a 659% Increase in Non-Branded Organic Site Traffic for AKKO

Here’s how we increased AKKO’s non-branded organic traffic by 659% in just 6 months.

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CASE STUDY TEACHABLE

How These Three Companies Use TikTok for B2B Marketing

Is your B2B brand on TikTok? If the answer is no, you might’ve read that question and thought “No, our target audience is not using TikTok so why would we be”, or, “Isn’t TikTok mainly used by Gen-zs or Millennials”.

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CASE STUDY RENOGY

How We Outranked Home Depot for the #1 Position

When we first took over SEO implementation for all of Renogy’s international sites nobody had previously been maintaining their technical SEO. So wee put together a SEO strategy to increase organic traffic and revenue. This is how we did it.

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CASE STUDY JOYN

Kicking Dynamic Creative Ads to the Curb: How we Decreased CPA by 66% For Joyn

We break down how we dropped CPA by 66% for Joyn by replacing dynamic creative ads on Facebook with non-dynamic creative ads.

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CASE STUDY SABIO

From Google Ads to Reddit: How We Tested 7 Different Acquisition Channels to Get Better Applicants for Sabio

Read about our experimentation process and the original channels we chose to help an early-stage company acquire new users online.

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CASE STUDY DUMPLING

Wait! Come Back! How Our Email Winback Strategy Converted at 27%

At its simplest, Dumpling is a grocery delivery app. But dig a bit further and you’ll see that Dumpling is taking a service that has historically capitalized on the gig economy and flipping it.

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Our Team

Meet the team = your new Growth Marketing Agency

As your business grows, so does the complexity of hiring the right growth marketing agency. We combine the right mix of deep specialism with integrated thinkers and complete finishers into one single team so that you get a prioritized and relative view of the value creation across the funnel rather than a biased view from a specialist orientated in one or two siloed digital disciplines.

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Ellen Jantsch

Founder & Growth Marketer

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John Atkins

Sr. Growth Marketer

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Derek Coleman

SEO Strategist

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Elle Ossello

Creative Strategist

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Chris Alarcon

PPC Strategist

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Kristin Dick

Head of Operations + Growth Marketer

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Richard Meyer

Growth Marketer

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McKenzie Fowler

Social Ads Strategist

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Kate Theobald

Social Ads Strategist

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Megan Trusley

Creative Designer

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Raj Dass

PPC Strategist

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Ethan Broder

Growth Marketer

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Jack DiGregorio

Social Ads Strategist

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Jesse Nasadowski

PPC Strategist

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Lyn Cheuk

Web Designer

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Adli Kilic

PPC Strategist

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David Lawson

Social Ads Strategist

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Travis Buechner

Motion Designer

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Arturo Hurtado

Web Designer

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Elly Tedrow

SEO and Content strategistr

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Kelly Rye

UX Copywriter

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Kayla Barry

Social Ads Strategist

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Adam Fricke

Creative Strategist

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Jenna Anderson

Growth Marketer

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Hannah Burks

Growth Marketer

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Jaclyn Cataldi

Video & Motion Graphics Designer

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Adelle Cron

Creative Designer

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Rebecca Berin

SEO Marketing Manager

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Sean Tremaine

Web Design

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Janie Espinoza

CRO Strategist

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Tim Benson

Growth Marketer

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Hannah Davidson

Growth Marketer

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Max Loyd

Creative Strategist

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Claire Routh

SEO Strategist

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“I view our partnership with Tuff as more like an extension of my team.

We strategize together, ask tough questions, examine the results, optimize – and it just keeps getting better. Exactly what I was looking for.”

– Brad Veach | Vice President of Marketing at Thnks

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