Digital marketing in Austin
Your fourth agency in six years
This city has no shortage of marketing talent. What it lacks is anyone who stays long enough for the work to compound, because the good ones keep getting recruited away.
Why nothing compounds here
Churn is the Austin marketing problem
The pattern repeats in almost every conversation we have here. An agency does solid work for a year. The strategist who finally understood the business takes a product marketing role somewhere with equity. A new account manager inherits a folder and a login list. Performance drifts for two quarters, and the search for a replacement begins.
Hiring internally does not escape it. Salaries in this city are set by companies that raise money rather than by companies that earn it, and the marketer you can afford is frequently eight months from a better offer. Every departure takes the reasoning with it, because none of it was ever written down.
Marketing only compounds when somebody holds the thread across years. That is the actual product here. One senior team that stays, under a flat fee, with the strategy, the tests, and the results documented inside assets that carry your name rather than living in one person's memory.
Terms and outcomes
What staying power is worth
Nothing on this list matters in month one. All of it decides where you are in year three.
The same people, still here
No quiet handoff to a junior after the first quarter. Whoever audits your market at the start is running it a year later, which is the entire argument.
The reasoning is written down
What was tested, what failed, and why the current setup looks the way it does, all held in assets you own. No single departure anywhere resets you to zero.
Less than one Austin hire
A full team across site, search, paid, and analytics for under a single mid-level salary in this city, with none of the recruiting risk or the counteroffer.
Flat fee, not a share of media
No % of ad spend. Ever. Our income does not move with your budget, so the advice stays straight when the answer is to spend less.
Market exclusivity
One client per industry per market. Sign in Austin and the competitor you keep running into cannot hire this team while you are here.
Earned monthly
Cancel anytime. Continuity that has to be enforced by a twelve-month agreement is not continuity, it is a collections strategy.
What is included
What full-service covers in Austin
Six programs, one team, one invoice, and a market that punishes anything sloppy.
Conversion website
Fast, mobile-first, and built to justify traffic bought at Austin prices. When clicks cost this much, conversion rate is the only lever with real leverage left. From $5,000, and it is yours.
- Strict speed budget
- Tested conversion paths
- You own the site
Local SEO
Presence that has to hold from the urban core out through the growth corridors toward Pflugerville, Manor, and the Hill Country edge, where demand is rising faster than competition is.
- Profile and category work
- Corridor and suburb pages
- Technical fixes
Paid search and social
Campaigns held to a payback rule rather than a spend target, in one of the most expensive auctions in Texas. Fraud filtering runs on everything.
- Google and Bing
- Meta remarketing
- Click-fraud protection
Event-calendar planning
March, the October festival stretch, and race weekend distort demand, traffic, and pricing for weeks. Budgets and creative are planned around that calendar rather than surprised by it.
- Seasonal budget shifts
- Pre-built event campaigns
Unit economics
Cost to acquire a customer by channel and by suburb, with payback period attached, so spending decisions stop being a matter of taste.
- Channel-level acquisition cost
- Payback modeling
Tracking and reporting
Call recording, attribution, and one weekly report written in closed revenue. Impression counts are not a result and never have been.
- Call tracking
- Weekly revenue reporting
The process
How we take over from whoever was last
Recovering what the previous relationship left behind comes before anything new gets built.
01 /
Get the accounts back
Ad accounts, analytics, business profile, and domain moved into your ownership. After three or four handovers this is rarely tidy and occasionally contested.
02 /
Audit what survived
What is still running, what is duplicated, what is quietly billing, and which history is worth preserving rather than starting again from a blank account.
03 /
Fix the weakest link
Almost always the site and the tracking. There is no sense adding budget to a funnel that loses people between the click and the phone call.
04 /
Run it weekly, for years
One scoreboard, the same team, every week. The value shows up in the third year, which is precisely why so few Austin businesses have ever seen it.
What clients say
Relationships measured in years
Clients from our roster, quoted verbatim. Every metric client-reported.
3Consecutive years / Inc. lists
“Alfonso and ROI Vault rebuilt the entire marketing process while juggling over 30 events a year. We continuously broke records, set new ones, and then broke them again. Year over year growth climbing to Inc. 500's for the last 3 consecutive years.”
Tony AlbeloChief Executive Officer, SWARM Inc. (Inc. 5000)“He said he would get me some new cases and he did. We just launched the third version of our website.”
Donny MarinPartner, The Marin Law Offices9Truck fleet / client-reported
“Alfonso and ROI Vault are the reason I am a millionaire. Our first year we did maybe 25 inspections. Second year with ROI we almost hit 300. My fleet is now 9 trucks.”
Danny NievesOwner, South Florida InspectorsCase study
Three versions of a website, one relationship
The Marin Law Offices
Legal practice, South Florida
- Website versions delivered
- 3
- Cases delivered as promised
- New
across the engagement, client-reported
client-reported
The problem
A practice that needed a steady flow of cases rather than a redesign, in one of the most expensive advertising categories there is. The usual pattern is a new supplier every eighteen months, each one discarding what the last one learned.
What we did
ROI Vault delivered the case flow and then stayed, treating the website as something to keep improving. Three versions shipped across the engagement, each one starting from the evidence the previous version produced.
The outcome
The partner reports the new cases arrived as promised, and the relationship lasted long enough to ship a third generation of the site. For an Austin reader that is the entire point: iteration only compounds if the same people are still there to do it.
FAQ
Questions Austin businesses ask
Usually, and it is among the most common messes we untangle. We recover or rebuild access, move ownership to your name, and protect the spend history that makes campaigns perform. It should never have been theirs to hold.
Because senior marketers here are expensive and heavily recruited, and even a strong one cannot personally build a fast site, run paid search, handle technical SEO, and manage analytics. You get all of that for less than the salary.
There is no bench to hand you to. The senior people you meet are the people who run the account. Our model depends on clients staying, which only works if the work keeps being good.
Frequently better. The corridors north and east have real demand at gentler click prices than a downtown-weighted campaign, and household growth there has outpaced the advertising that chases it.
If you sell locally, yes. March and the October run change traffic patterns, staffing, and click prices for weeks. Planning budget around that calendar is ordinary discipline, and skipping it is expensive twice a year.
Paid campaigns can produce leads within days. Site and tracking fixes often deliver the fastest lift because they convert traffic you are already buying. Local rankings usually need a few months to move meaningfully.
Our own senior team, in house. Nothing goes to an offshore contractor or a white-label reseller. The people on your strategy call are the ones in your accounts every week after it.
$3,495 per month flat, identical for every client in every market, plus websites from $5,000. Media goes straight to the platforms, with $5,000 a month a realistic floor here. All of it is published before you call.
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Stop starting over every eighteen months
One client per industry per market. No % of ad spend. Ever. No contracts. Cancel anytime.
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