Creative DSM Marketing Agency FAQs
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How is Creative DSM different from other digital marketing agencies?
Proudly rooted in the Midwest Best, Des Moines, Creative DSM uniquely services small businesses that are looking to grow their digital presence. We have 10 years of experience launching small businesses in Los Angeles, Miami, and right here in Des Moines. We have the ability to scale organic growth and the passion to nurture your clients needs.
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What kind of services do you offer?
While we offer basic monthly retainer packages for digital marketing, PPC and SEO content management, most of our clients prefer the customized plans built after a short discovery call. We also offer one time services for website builds and coaching sessions. View our full product list here.
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How does the process work?
Well, we’re glad you asked. Unlike some competitors, we don’t outsource black-hat backlink work. We review your target market, implement the strategies ourselves, and send you optimization reports. We believe in transparency for all of our clients and friends. Check out our detailed guide about how we do digital marketing.
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What kind of clients do you service?
Our clients range in size, here at Creative DSM. We love supoorting and helping out small businesses—as we are one ourselves. We also serve mid-sized businesses as we continue to expand as a company.
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Do you manage social media accounts?
Yes, as compliment to search engine optimization, we offer social media management and optimizations. However, if you are strictly looking for social media help, we have some great references for you.
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How do your strategy sessions work?
When scheduling a coaching session, you will be asked to fill out a form that guides us through the goals you want to achieve. From there we will go through the process outlined, with a focus on your business goals.
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What kind of organic marketing content do you use?
Organic marketing is an approach to digital marketing strategies that establish brand recognition and engage with potential customers through unpaid methods. Such as SEO, blog posts, video content, social media, and email marketing.
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How do you stay on brand with multiple clients?
Before initiating creative work, we collaborate with clients to create a brand guidelines packet, covering elements like logo usage, colors, and tone of voice. Once approved, this packet becomes the foundation for creating content, ensuring consistency and alignment with the client's brand across various projects. This approach guarantees a unified brand presence and authentic communication across diverse campaigns and accounts.
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Why does Creative DSM believe in human led analytics?
We provide context, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of business goals, ensuring that analytics align with strategic objectives for each client. This helps us make informed decisions about our strategic approaches.
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Let’s Talk Marketing Budget
Spoiler Alert: How Much You Should Spend on Marketing Varies Depending on Your Goals!
Budget is an important initial conversation to have when exploring the benefits of outsourced assistance
Listen we could give you the normal stats that Google can quote you-"your marketing budget should be a percentage of your revenue. A common rule of thumb is that B2B companies should spend between 2 and 5% of their revenue on marketing. For B2C companies, the proportion is often higher—between 5 and 10%."
We could also give you the normal "working with us gifts time back to your day to focus on what you do best" pitch.
But at Creative DSM we admit that marketing isn't rocket science, but hiring and staying up to date on the latest trends and algorithm changes just might be.
Ultimately, we are focused on a bigger picture. Our clients rely on us as a steady partner to relieve the headaches that come with managing a large team, and hyper focus our efforts into expert marketing strategies.
Our marketing engagements range from $1000-$6500, with our basic website builds starting at $4,000.
But that first step is to book that discovery call and let us customize a quote for you!
Our Marketing Services
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Custom Website Builds
Whether it’s rebuilding your website or starting from scratch, we can help with SEO focused content, CRM setup, funnel building and so much more.
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Staff Augmentation
As we are an outsourced marketing agency, you won’t have to worry about hiring any other staff for the work you need done—we do it all in-house.
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Marketing Analytics
Gaining better knowledge on your social and web analytics can help determine any fixes necessary. We also provide pay-per-click analytics and campaign audits to meet your needs.
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Content Generation
Our team is equipped with skills like keyword focused blog writing, social media and photography to reach a unique approach for your company—without extra work from your team.
What Industries Do We Work With?
Spoiler Alert: We don’t work with everyone, but we aren’t a copy and paste marketing agency.
This is one of my favorite topics, because at Creative DSM we REFUSE to niche down!
In fact, we believe that refusing to niche into a certain sector forces us to make a more creative approach than your normal cut and paste marketing strategy.
We look for partners that are interested in long term results, and want the attention of a full marketing team at the fraction of the cost.
Listen, we don't work with everyone, and our agency is certainly not for every organization.
Because we're consistently learning new trends in various industries, we are front seat to the changes happening throughout the marketing world.
So, if you're ready for a TRUE CREATIVE approach to your marketing, let's talk and see if we're a good fit!
So if you’re ready for a true creative approach to your marketing, let’s talk and see if we’re a good fit!
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What Makes Creative DSM the Right Choice?
Spoiler Alert: We show our work, and are proud to provide human led analytics.
Here at Creative DSM, data collecting is our forte. With weekly interactions to your business's analytics, we can manually go in and edit areas that may be lacking or needing improvement.
Beyond just testing our marketing methods, and proving ROAS (return on ad spend), our clients rely on us to provide pertinent information to make business decisions.
For instance, we have assisted in providing search information that has led to new profitable sectors of business, and also provided investment analytics for association sponsorships.
During our discovery call, we'll discuss these benchmarks, and make some suggestions on what we would recommend to watch for your unique organization goals.
So if data-driven creativity is what you’re looking for, let’s talk and see if we’re a good fit!
Don’t Take it From Us, Listen to Our Clients:
How Often Should We Communicate?
Spoiler Alert: That’s Up to You!
After years of research (mostly focused on the try and tweak method), we've found that most clients want a monthly report in their inbox, and to otherwise have the option to reach out on their own timeline.
Our clients are confident in our strategies because of our transparency in human benchmark reporting on a weekly basis. This report can be accessed through your customer portal on our website, and is consistently updated with comments from our team.
Now, this doesn't mean that we only communicate electronically. If you prefer, ask about our in person monthly benchmark meetings during your discovery call!
In Our Experience, a Monthly Review of Marketing Benchmarks Creates an Efficient and Productive Result for Our Clients.
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Do We White Label Marketing?
Spoiler Alert: We do it all in house, in fact, other agencies outsource to us when it comes to SEO.
We have an expert in house team that performs all of the services that we provide.
We don't use white label providers, or off site account managers that silo work. In fact, each account is touched by every member of the team.
Beyond that, we touch your account AT LEAST once a week, depending on your engagement level, providing human generated reports that measure benchmarks that are pertinent to your account.
In our weekly agency team meeting, we review marketing analytics that need improvements and wins from the week prior. From there, combine our full resources to creatively curate each strategy.