Los Angeles
Digital Marketing Services in Los Angeles.
CRTE is a Los Angeles digital marketing agency that grows brands through SEO, paid media, social, and email working as one system — not scattered tactics.
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- Investment
- $2,500–$8,000 per month
- Turnaround
- Kickoff within 10 business days
- Great for
- Los Angeles companies running several channels with no single owner · Businesses replacing a bench of freelancers with one accountable team · Multi-location and multi-line brands needing one reporting view
Who this is for.
This program suits a business past its first revenue and into the problem of coordination. Typically there is a website that converts adequately, an ad account someone set up two years ago, a social presence maintained inconsistently, and an email tool nobody has opened in months. None of it is failing outright, which is exactly why it is hard to fix — there is no obvious fire, only a plateau. What is missing is a plan that says which channel carries acquisition, which carries retention, and how creative gets made for both. It also suits companies who have outgrown a freelancer bench and need one accountable party. It is a poor fit if you want a single channel executed cheaply, or if you need a brand built from nothing; the first is better served by our SEO or PPC retainers, the second by a studio and identity engagement before any media is bought. The Los Angeles market shapes how we sequence that plan. Almost every category here is contested by well-funded competitors buying the same keywords and the same audiences, so paid channels rarely stay cheap for long and a programme resting entirely on them is exposed to auction prices you do not control. At the same time the region is large and fragmented enough that geography matters: a Westlake Village clinic and a Downtown showroom compete for different people even when they sell the same service. Our plans account for both facts by pairing a channel that can compound over time, usually search or editorial, with a channel that can be turned up when demand needs capturing now. The other constraint is internal. Coordination problems are usually organisational before they are technical, so we establish who approves creative, who owns the customer list and where reporting lands before we touch a channel. Where a client already employs someone capable, we work through them rather than around them, since a programme that depends on the agency for every small decision stalls the moment we are waiting on an answer.
The channels we run.
A program is assembled from the disciplines below rather than sold as a fixed bundle. Which ones you get depends on where your revenue actually comes from, and we would rather run two channels properly than five badly. Every channel in scope gets an owner, a measurement definition and a place in the monthly report. Channels outside scope are named explicitly in the agreement so there is no expectation that they are quietly being handled.
Channel planning
A written ninety-day plan that names which channels carry acquisition, which carry retention, what each is measured on, and who owns it on both sides.
Paid media management
Search, social and retargeting run on a flat scope-based fee. Your media budget goes to the platform, not through us, and we take no percentage of it.
Lifecycle marketing
Email and SMS flows for onboarding, repeat purchase and win-back, built once and then revised against actual open, click and order behaviour.
Creative supply
The static, photo and video assets your channels consume each month, produced on a calendar so campaigns are never waiting on creative.
Measurement
Conversion tracking audited and rebuilt where needed, brand and non-brand separated, and one reporting view instead of four platform dashboards.
Scope discipline
Written scope before kickoff, channels outside scope named explicitly, no performance guarantees, and third-party costs billed to you directly.
How an engagement runs.
The first month is diagnostic on purpose. We would rather spend four weeks establishing what is true than launch campaigns on numbers nobody trusts. From month two the program settles into a working cadence: planning at the start of the quarter, execution and review inside it, and a written recommendation at the end of it. You get working sessions with the people doing the work, not a monthly presentation from someone who was briefed that morning.
- Step 1Weeks one and two — access, account audit, conversion tracking review and a baseline nobody disputes.
- Step 2Weeks three and four — a ninety-day operating plan naming the channels, budgets, creative needs and owners.
- Step 3Month two onward — execution against the plan with a scheduled review at the cadence your package includes.
- Step 4End of each quarter — performance against the plan, what we are stopping, and the next ninety days proposed.
What changes as scope grows.
The practical difference between packages is not effort applied to the same work — it is how many channels are coordinated, how much original creative the program consumes, and how often we sit down with your team. A single-channel program can be reviewed monthly without losing momentum. A three-channel program with a shared creative calendar cannot, which is why the cadence tightens as scope grows.
| Dimension | Focused | Connected | Full-funnel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Channels coordinated | One primary channel | Two to three channels | Acquisition, lifecycle and retention |
| Working cadence | Monthly review | Bi-weekly working sessions | Weekly operators, quarterly planning |
| Creative supply | You supply assets | Shared creative calendar | Production built into the retainer |
| Reporting | Channel performance review | Consolidated cross-channel view | Executive reporting |
| Team | Named operator | Operator plus channel specialists | Senior strategist plus operators |
Scope and packages.
Three monthly packages. Focused Growth runs one priority channel end to end and expects you to supply creative. Connected Growth runs two to three channels off a shared creative calendar with one reporting view. Full-Funnel Partnership is for multi-market or multi-line brands running always-on programs alongside an internal team. What moves the number is the count of channels running at once, how much creative is produced each month, how many data sources the reporting has to reconcile, the number of markets or locations in scope, and the media budget under management. Advertising media spend and software licences are billed by the vendor directly and never marked up by us.
$2,500 – $8,000 per monthMedia spend and software licences billed separately, never marked up.
| Scope | Focused Growth | Connected Growth | Full-Funnel Partnership |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting point | From $2,500 / month | From $4,500 / month | From $8,000 / month plus media |
| Best for | One channel, one decision-maker | Two to three connected channels | Multi-market, always-on programs |
| Planning | Quarterly roadmap, 90-day plan | Shared calendar across channels | Full-funnel plan and quarterly offsites |
| Included setup | Conversion tracking audit and cleanup | Consolidated reporting dashboard | Dedicated operators per channel |
| Not included | Extra channels, original production | Brand identity, multi-market rollout | Media, licensing, software development |
Questions we get asked.
These come up on nearly every scoping call. If your question is not covered, raise it before you sign rather than after — the answers do not change once there is a contract.
No. Paid channels are managed on a flat fee based on scope. Your media budget is paid to the advertising platform directly, and we do not mark it up or take a share of it. That means our fee does not rise simply because you decided to spend more.
Deliverables.
- Account and channel audit with a disputed-assumptions list resolved
- Conversion tracking review and cleanup across the channels in scope
- Written ninety-day operating plan naming channels, budgets and owners
- Ongoing management of the channels named in the agreement
- Reporting at your package cadence against one shared definition of a lead or order
- Quarterly performance review with the next ninety days proposed in writing
Where to go next.
- PPCThe paid acquisition half of a program, available as a standalone retainer.
- SEOThe organic half, when search is your primary route to qualified demand.
- CROImproves what the traffic does once a program is already producing visits.