Finding the right
marketing agency

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Agency matching

Identify your marketing priorities

Especially for small to medium-sized businesses, finding the right marketing agency can be a daunting task. Time and time again, we've seen business owners and even marketing directors need help identifying agencies that truly understand their industry, growth journey, and budget conditions. The mismatch often leads to wasted resources, frustration, and missed opportunities.

As a business owner or CMO, what problems might you encounter?

Hiring a marketing agency without a good understanding of how to get the best out of your agency is like building a LEGO set for the first time without a manual. For those who don’t care for LEGO, it’s like putting a piece of IKEA furniture together without the manual and the Allen key.

We mean, you can try, but chances are that you’ll end up hours later frustrated, tired, and ready to throw in the towel when the thing that you’ve been attempting to build looks nothing like the picture on the box.

Having worked for decades in agencies and as a client, we have seen and heard too many horror stories of destructive client-agency relationships. Enough is enough.

This is where we come in. Think of us as the LEGO instruction manual or the IKEA Allen key. We’re here to guide you, give you the ‘instructions’, and prepare you well before engaging a marketing agency so that you end up with a solid relationship bolted in with trust, alignment, and peace of mind.

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If you run a marketing agency, what challenges might you face?

We have been digital marketing agency owners and have had many years of experience working in agencies of all shapes and sizes. So we get it.

Much as we love having the ‘right fit’ clients, it doesn’t always work out that way. We can sometimes spend hours servicing clients only to realise that they aren’t quite ready to work with an agency. Or if a client has been burnt by a previous agency experience, we end up spending time and energy earning back their trust when we could be spending time doing the work and getting them great results.

In a nutshell; it doesn’t matter whether you’re a client looking for a fantastic agency or an agency looking for amazing clients; you’re both ultimately wanting the same thing:

A win-win, trusted, and thriving working relationship that will give you the ROI that you’re after.
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We are the conduit

If you are a client who...

Needs an agency that understands your industry and aligns with your budget?
Is looking to engage an agency for the first time but need help figuring out where to start?
Has an existing agency or left a previous agency but needs to engage another?
Has an internal marketing team ready to engage an agency to help with strategy and implementation?

If you are an agency who...

Is looking for another client prospecting channel in addition to your internal Biz Dev. team?
Is looking to work with more ‘right fit’ clients?
Is ready to work with clients with clear briefs, expectations and budgets?
Is prepared to ‘wow’ clients by providing impeccable business and is invested in a long-term client-agency relationship?
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Partners & brands we work with

How it works

1

Schedule a meeting with us

Pick a date and time that works best for you via our calendar link. Please complete the short questionnaire when you book your meeting. This questionnaire will provide us with the initial information we need to know before we meet.
2

Free discovery meeting to discuss your needs

During your free 45-minute discovery meeting, we’ll discuss your requirements before matching you to your agency or specialist. We want to ensure clarity on your goals, understand your business and way of working, budgets, and timeframes before we match you with the right talents.
3

We connect you with your ideal agency partner/specialist

Once we are aligned on your requirements, we’ll send you a selection of marketing agencies or specialists whom we think will suit the bill. Send us your shortlist and we’ll make the introductions. Once a match is made, it’s over to you and your newly appointed agency/specialist to create magic together.
4

Relationship health checks

We’ll meet with you and your agency separately after the first 3 months to see how you’re both going. If everything is going swimmingly, that’s great! If not, let’s use this opportunity to address any feedback.
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For clients

We’ve seen it happen too many times. Business owners and marketing directors wasting thousands of dollars and hours working with an agency that hasn’t delivered on expectations. They receive poor service, minimal communication, a lack of understanding, and a promise of underwhelming results.

Working with us, you’ll be saving lots of time, heartache, and money. We’ll help get you ‘agency-ready’ so that you get the best out of your agency.

We'll work with you to

Determine if you're ready to engage an agency or if a marketing specialist would be a better fit.
Run a ‘health-check’ on any existing relationships (whether it’s with an agency or with contractors) to uncover what is working and what isn’t.
Set or refine your marketing activities, objectives, goals and budget so that you have crystal-clear briefs ready for your agency. The secret to a thriving agency relationship is to get the brief right and reasonable expectations set from the get-go.
Match-make you to a ‘Jumpstart-vetted’ agency or marketing specialist based on your specific marketing needs and budget.
Conduct a 3-month check-in to see how you’re traveling with your agency or marketing specialist.

For agencies

We assist you in getting the ‘right-fit’ clients. We’ll work with prospective clients to get them ‘agency-ready’ so that they have clear briefs and reasonable expectations.

There’s no wastage of time and resources working with clients that are not aligned with your services, values, and fees.

We’re also an additional lead source for your business. We’re not here to replace your Business Development team but to complement what they do.

We'll work with you to

Find out what your ‘right-fit’ clients look like.
Match-make you to ‘Jumpstart-vetted’, agency-ready, awesome clients.
Conduct a 3-month check-in to see how you’re traveling with your client.

Feedback from those we’ve assisted

The team helped us infuse new life into a dormant brand with a comprehensive digital marketing strategy, that helped to turn around the franchise.

Robbert Rietbroek, Former CEO, PepsiCo ANZ

The JS team is helping business owners to attain a positive return on their investment, saving them both time and money. Business owners that attend a mentor for growth session are provided with clear steps that they can take or investigate to help them address their business challenges and opportunities – saving them from potentially going round in circles unsure of what advice to seek, or who to seek it from.

Nicole Schossow, Senior Program Manager Mentor For Growth, Queensland Government

Jumpstart Collective delivers an incredible amount of passion and energy to everything they work on.

Iain McDonald, Founder, 8seats/Razorfish/PetCulture

From the founders

At Jumpstart, we deliver the expertise you need to elevate your business.

Navigating your industry and finding the right partners is a major challenge for any business. That’s why we founded Jumpstart. Our model connects you with agency experts who possess deep industry knowledge, will work with your budgets, focus on tangible results, and understand your strategy and road to success.

With over 20 years in marketing, including experience with major brands like Apple and Microsoft, we know what it takes for both clients and agencies to develop a strong, healthy and happy working relationship right from the get-go.

Throughout our careers, we’ve heard too many horror stories of clients having had bad experiences with agencies. Being one who take so much pride in growing and building amazing client relationships, it really bothered us that there are agencies out there who are taking their clients for a ride.

From an agency’s perspective, it takes two hands to clap. For an agency to thrive and succeed, clients will need to be clear on their briefs and set reasonable expectations with their agencies. Clients will also need to play their part such as responding with feedback promptly, be open to ideas and be willing to be guided by their agency.

We can help you avoid the pitfalls from both a client and agency perspective so that it doesn’t become an "it’s too late" painful scenario when both parties have invested large sums of money and resources. Collectively, we have decades of experience. We know what it takes to succeed and we are here to deliver that expertise to you through our Jumpstart Collective.

‍Ali & Martin,
‍Founders of Jumpstart
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