Struggles?
Want more from your marketing, but don’t want to deal with the marketing agency headaches?
Solved.
Marketing advice, services and help right-sized just for you.
Our goal is simple.
We want to work with smart people who are building cool brands, making awesome products and delivering amazing services.
But agency life complicates things. There is so much overhead, so many unnecessary processes, pointless ego and noise that gets in the way of being able to deliver great work that clients want and need. That’s why we started to rebel and create an anti-agency to free us to be able to do great work, plain and simple.
What can we do for you?
Because we are a fully stacked team of creatives, creators, strategists, developers and marketing leaders – we have organized everything we do, into 3 simple departments – each designed to meet you where you are in your business.
Sometimes you will need a lot of support and a bunch of different services – and there will be many times, where you just need help organizing your ideas, coming up with a plan and making it easier for you to go and execute more confidently.
We love what we do, we just want to do more of it and spend less time on all the boring, back-office stuff.
Growth Department
Launch Department
Manage Department
Welcome to The Simple Department.
We use our knowledge, experience and capabilities to help you get awesome marketing stuff done.
That’s it. That’s all.
The marketing industry and all of those gurus, ninjas and wizards are trying too hard to make you believe they know everything. We definitely don’t know everything, but we do know a lot and collectively we do some amazing work – and we want to do that, for you.
But, we don’t want to make it unnecessarily complex and slow like all of those big annoying agencies and their silly overhead and painful processes – we think marketing relationships can and should be, plain and simple.
Need help planning out all of the amazing content you have?
We can do that with a Strategy Session.
Need to build a website?
We definitely can do that with our Off the Shelf Websites.
Trying to figure out how to get creators on TikTok talking about your brand and product?
We can connect the dots with our Creator Campaign product.
Struggling to scale your business to the next level?
Then a Fractional CMO is what you need.
Want us to plan and schedule all of your content?
We can do that with our Content Planning Services.
FAQ
Why should we hire you?
We know what we are doing and our team has worked on brands/businesses that are pretty big and also brands/businesses that are still ideas on napkins. We have super talented people in each discipline and we properly manage your project using our big agency tools and processes.
What industries does The Simple Department work in?
Almost anything that is legal and ethical. We generally avoid politicians and political campaigns as most of those people are vapid and fake and have nothing real to say and are not trying to accomplish real change.
What size of companies does The Simple Department work with?
Any company that can afford us. You could be a solo-prenuer trying to build yourself the dream job, not a full company – and that is perfect. OR you could have a team of 25 and are looking to double every year for the next 5 years – and we would be excited to strap ourselves to that rocketship.
Do you work with clients in other countries?
Yep! We work with any English speaking client/brand that is looking to actively market in an English speaking country and Western culture. Other markets and cultures will take some specialized knowledge and resources that don’t fit our simple pricing model and scaling services.
How much does it cost to use The Simple Department's services?
All of our prices are listed for instant purchase and for price shopping your cousin Greg who says they know everything about Google.
What should my marketing budget be?
30% of revenue if you want to grow. 10% if you want to stay steady. Anywhere between if you want to test out new markets, ideas or products.
Not sure where to start?
Well, do any of the questions/statements below match where you feel stuck right now?
I have a bunch of content, but I am not sure where, how or why we should publish it….
We would point you here as the best place to start.
I have a really basic website, but our business has grown a bit and we want to create something that works and looks better, but also helps our business grow….
We would point you here as the best place to start.
We want to start advertising to grow our sales, but don’t know where to start and we are hearing that Facebook is getting too expensive – where else can we advertise and drive sales?
We would point you here first, but possibly here too.
We have been running ads on Facebook and Instagram, but we are not generating a lot of sales and I am seeing and hearing that other brands and stores are doing super well with their ads – what are we doing wrong?
This feels like the best place for you to begin.
I feel like we are wasting a lot of time and money with our ads and social media content, we need a strategy and a plan to do things smarter.
Definitely go here.