Who we work with

We love helping small, dedicated teams build intentional and sustainable growth.

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We have worked with teams in nearly every industry, from individual founders who are self-funded, to large established players with multi-million dollar ad budgets.

This diversity puts us in a position to learn at a high speed and make a significant impact.

Startup

Quickly identify the highest ROI channel and then scale it.

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Scaleup

Get the revenue you want with the communication you deserve.

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eCommerce

Grow your store on demand with data-backed campaign strategy and execution.

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Accelerators

We work with your founders. You supercharge your portfolio.

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Strong, purposeful partnerships

At Tuff, we believe the future of growth agencies is in being value drivers, rather than service providers. Sure, we have a number of top-notch services we regularly execute. But, it’s bigger than that. A great partnership is also about people. We team up with companies to deliver actionable strategies on how to attract and keep more engaged customers.

As a growth marketers, we build and optimize our process to do our best work with your team. Here is a sample of some of our work.

Startup

How To Run Paid Acquisition Campaigns For Your Subscription Business

eCommerce

Google Ads: How Tuff Optimizations Turned $172 of Extra Ad Spend into $192,853 More in Sales

Startup

How to Grow Your Startup’s Email List

B2B

How to Build Conversion Focused Landing Pages That Drive Leads

Direct to Consumer

Onboarding Emails: Three things that increased clicks by 50%

Startup

16,945 App Installs Later: 8 Simple Ways to Grow Your App Installs With Facebook and Google Campaigns

eCommerce

How Tuff Partnered with EZ Lifestyle on Facebook and Instagram to Increase Revenue by 50%

“Tuff is amazing. For about 11 years, I’ve always been involved with or owned some element of a brand’s marketing efforts. I’ve been given teams that already existed or tasked with finding the right partner. Tuff is honest the first time someone/s REALLY nailed it. I mean completely nailed it! They understood us quickly. They report in weekly and the reports make sense to me. They have awesome ideas and follow through.

I feel completely at ease that they are in charge of that critical part of the our SaaS business. They truly know everything there is and give amazing advice, direction, and take action constantly on our behalf.”

Kristi Anderson
ThalamusGME

Engagements at every stage.

We have found success working with teams in nearly every industry, from early traction startups to large enterprises. The most basic guidelines: our best fit is anyone looking to acquire new customers and scale their company through modern channels, tools, and frameworks: primarily founders and business owners.

We get our best results when we work with clients looking for a strategic, proactive team that values transparency, communication, and shared KPIs.

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FAQ’s

Finding a full-time hire is a great option for many companies. But they come with their own set of pros and cons when compared to a plug-in growth marketing team.

The major benefit is the expertise and time they bring to the team. The biggest downside is the high cost. Full-time hires can easily cost $100,000+ per year and it takes work to find the right fit. You need someone who can set the marketing roadmap and execute on a variety of channels. If you know the channels that work for you and just need someone to help you refine and grow those 1-2 channels, a full-time hire can work great.

However, if you’re tight on budget and your primary goal is building a foundation for growth, testing acquisition channels to start getting traction, etc. then we generally recommend finding a growth marketing agency like Tuff. We’ll work with you to produce the same results as a full-time hire, at a lower cost and flexible monthly contract.

We start with a three month contract and then move to monthly. This gives us enough time to integrate as a team, run multiple experiments, and deliver meaningful results. We don’t like long-term contracts or trapping anyone into an agreement if they are unhappy.

While we prefer short-term contracts, we enter every partnership as though it’s a long-term relationship. Our average partnership is 12+ months and we work to fold into your company as an extension of your team. To learn more about our working relationship with clients, hear directly from them.

While sometimes we only focus on organic channels, ads are generally part of the overall strategy. While a budget of $5-7K is typically enough to gauge the potential of 2-3 different ad channels, we tailor the budget to your goals within the first week of working together.

If you can only put aside $1-3k for ads, instead of testing 2-3 channels at once, we’ll customize your strategy so you focus on the single ad channel most likely to succeed. Either way, we like to start lean, learn fast, and scale up from there.

Here’s what a typical week looks like with our team:

  • We start the week with a shared priority list: what did we accomplish last week, what are we working on, how are we pacing towards our goals.
  • We meet to discuss the focus areas and review data from recent campaigns.
  • We connect via Email, Google Drive, and Slack for asynchronous communication throughout the week.

You’ll be working with a small, dedicated team of marketing experts built to fit the needs of your company.

Each client has a primary growth lead that they meet with weekly. Then, depending on the channels we are testing, you’ll also work with channel experts on a regular and on-going basis.

From a founder with early traction to large enterprises and everything in between, we have worked with teams in nearly every industry. Our team is a fit for anyone looking to acquire new customers and scale their company through modern channels, tools, and frameworks: primarily founders and business owners.

We get our best results when we work with teams looking for a strategic, pro-active team that values transparency, communication, and shared KPIs.

To serve you as effectively as possible, we focus on services provided rather than hours worked only. Instead of paying us an hourly rate, you pay us a fixed rate, and then we allocate our time, people, and resources that make the most sense for your strategy at that point in time.

We also have a performanced-basd pricing model for specific partnerships. This typically is a lower fixed rate + an agreed percentage of top line revenue from our campaigns. If you’re unsure on how this works, we encourage you to schedule a call with our team.

Hire us to be your plug-in growth marketing team.

We like to share these case studies to articulate how we help businesses grow. But, a great partnership is also about people. Ready to learn more?

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