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
Every report leads with qualified leads, pipeline, and cost per lead - then shows the rankings and traffic behind them. If a metric can't be traced to money, it doesn't headline the report. You'll never need a translator to know whether marketing is working.
No long-term lock-in
Month-to-month, full stop. Long contracts protect agencies that stop performing; we'd rather be judged on last month's work every month. Our retention has to be earned - which is exactly the pressure you want on your agency.
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.
One connected system
SEO, PPC, social, content, and web run by one team against one strategy - so your ad data teaches your SEO, your content feeds every channel, and nobody blames another vendor when a number dips. Coordinated beats siloed, 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. Plain-English reporting 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. Every month after, you get the scoreboard in operator language - leads, cost per lead, pipeline influenced - plus exactly what we're doubling down on next and why.
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: month-to-month because results should do the retaining, everything registered in your name, and reporting that leads with 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
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 a working scoreboard, visible movement, and a clear read on what the next quarter should double down on.
Every monthly report includes the shipped list: pages published, campaigns launched, fixes deployed, links earned. Real SEO and paid work produces artifacts you can point at - and if an agency can't show you last month's list, that tells you everything. Ask us for it any month; 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. Month-to-month terms mean you're never trapped paying for underperformance.
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.
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