The agency operators wish they'd had.
We spent 20+ years on your side of the table - hiring agencies, paying the invoices, and wondering what the reports actually meant. Amped is the agency we kept looking for and never found. Here's what that means in practice.
Six commitments most agencies won't put in writing
Every agency says "results" and "transparency." Here's what we actually mean - specifically enough that you can hold us to it.
Operators, not theorists
Our founders ran a managed technology business for more than two decades - hiring, selling, making payroll, and buying marketing that mostly disappointed. We market your business the way we know one actually wins customers, because we've done the winning ourselves.
Accountable to revenue
Qualified leads, pipeline, and cost per lead come first - rankings and traffic only matter when they move those numbers. If a metric can't be traced to money, we don't chase it. You'll never need a translator to know whether marketing is working.
You own every account and asset
We earn the relationship with results.
You own everything
Your ad accounts, your analytics, your website, your content, your review profiles - all registered to you from day one. If we ever part ways, everything we built keeps working for you. No hostage websites, no ransomed ad accounts, no starting over.
Search-first, operator-led
Search leads the strategy: SEO for the rankings you earn on Google, AI visibility for the recommendations AI assistants make, with web and paid media plugged in when they genuinely move the number. Focused beats bloated, every time.
Honest at every step
We'll tell you when your market doesn't justify the spend, when a channel isn't ready for budget, and when something we tried didn't work. Straight answers with the misses included - because you can't steer a business on curated good news.
What working with Amped looks like
The typical agency relationship goes like this: a polished pitch, a long onboarding, three months of "building foundations," then a monthly PDF of impressions and sessions that never quite answers the only question you have - is this making me money?
Here's our version. We start with an audit, not a pitch - your site, your market, your competitors, pulled apart live on a call whether or not you hire us. If we take the engagement, the first 90 days have named deliverables with dates: what ships, what it's expected to change, and when you'll see it. After that, we work like operators: watching leads, cost per lead, and pipeline influenced, and doubling down on exactly what's moving them.
And when something underperforms, you hear it from us first. A campaign that misses its numbers gets diagnosed and fixed in the open, not buried under a traffic chart. That's not a slogan - it's just how someone who ran a business for twenty years expects to be treated, so it's how we treat you.
The result is an agency relationship that feels less like managing a vendor and more like having a growth partner who happens to have run the same race you're running. That's the whole idea. That's Amped.
We built the agency we could never find.
For 20+ years we sat on your side of this table - running a technology business, hiring marketing agencies, paying invoices we couldn't connect to revenue. Amped is the agency we kept looking for and never found: results do the retaining, everything registered in your name, and the only number that matters is what came in.
When you fill out a form on this site, it comes to us. That's not a support promise, it's just the size and kind of company we've decided to be.
George Romero & Kenny Henao
Founders, Amped Marketing
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Fair questions to ask any agency - including us
Weeks 1-2: full audit and a prioritized plan tied to leads, not busywork. Weeks 2-8: the highest-leverage builds ship - tracking, quick technical wins, the pages or campaigns your market rewards fastest. By day 90 you have visible movement and a clear read on what the next quarter should double down on.
Real SEO and paid work produces artifacts you can point at: pages published, campaigns launched, fixes deployed, links earned. If an agency can't show you last month's list, that tells you everything. Ask us for ours any time; you'll get it.
You'll know as fast as we do - the numbers are in your accounts, which you own. We diagnose in the open, adjust the plan, and if we genuinely believe your budget is better spent elsewhere, we'll say so. And we'd rather fix it or part ways than coast on a retainer.
Big agencies sell process; we sell judgment earned from running a business like yours. You work directly with the people doing the work, decisions take days not committees, and your account is never handed to whoever was hired last month. If you outgrow us, you'll own every asset and every account either way - we build it so you can leave, which is exactly why clients stay.
See it for yourself
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