Last updated: May 2023
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Here at Credo, we specialize in helping people just like you find the right marketing company to work with. In fact, we've helped over 6,500 companies since 2015. We are the digital marketing industry's hiring experts and we'd love to help you hire the right company.
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Digital Authority Partners is a creative, data-driven Content Marketing agency that provides solutions to grow your business. We will help you grow your business. Guaranteed. Contact us at (312) 600-5433 to discuss how we can help. We specialize in: SEO – Achieve exponential organic growth on Search Engines PPC – Instantly reach and engage with your target audience Web Development – Achieve massive success with an optimized website. Our results speak for themselves: 800% average increase in organic visitors within…
Your business is unique… You need a unique digital marketing provider. We take a personalized approach to digital marketing. Most agencies provide a cookie-cutter service, simply following the same checklist for every client they work with. We customize everything we do – for every client we work with. Our goal is to cultivate long-term, mutually beneficial relationships, and everything we do is driven by that purpose. Instead of working with a team of people, where different agency employees work on…
We are a Google and Facebook Partnered agency that provides profitable SEO and PPC marketing solutions for lead generation-focused companies – from insurance, health, SaaS, fast-growing startups, to Fortune 500 organizations Back in 2015, Zen Anchor set off on a journey to redesign how digital marketing agencies helped businesses grow. We believed that marketers had a responsibility to do much better. Zen Anchor began as a murmur on Reddit. Eager to see if other businesses had similar frustrations with bloated,…
Our specialty is in utilizing content marketing, SEO, advertising, etc. to drive lead generation. We create the traffic that results in more contacts, foot traffic, and online purchases. In short, we’re successful when the wonderful people that need your products or services can more easily find and connect with you. LocalHero is a digital agency passionate about empowering and educating small businesses by helping them excel in their marketing initiatives. We are proud to be a coveted Thumbtack Pro, Google…
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"When I was tasked with hiring someone to help with our marketing, I turned to Credo. They introduced us to two vetted pros who specialized in what we need. Credo saved us a lot of time and money by getting us the right pros the first time."
"We contacted Credo and after a 30 minute discussion where they asked deeper questions to clarify our needs and current setup (including other agencies we already work with), they introduced us to two agencies who ended up being a perfect fit for us."
"This was my first time using Credo and I will never hire another agency without them. I needed a PPC agency and I needed one FAST. Credo got me 3 discovery calls in a day with some seriously high quality companies. The hardest part was choosing between them. If you're going to hire an agency, use Credo. Seriously."
"All 3 candidates were awesome and I really appreciated the process. Using Credo blew my mind in terms of saving time, 3 super high quality candidates, and we got a lot out of hearing their various approaches."
Credo helps companies find and hire the right marketing partner.
A company can be polished and professional and still not deliver great results, so we specifically ask each network applicant about their clients and results they have driven.
We ask every applicant for:
Quality of work delivered is extremely important to us and extremely important to you.
Our professional vetting involves the following:
Every network applicant must also pass our culture screening to make sure they're aligned with our standards.
This involves a 30 minute call covering:
All Chicago Il Digital Marketing Companies on Credo have passed our initial three step and 28-point vetting process before joining, and are continuously vetted via client feedback. When you speak with the Chicago Il Digital Marketing Companies in our network, you can trust they're the best we can find.
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Prioritize agencies who have experience with the channel or channels you need help with. If you have multiple needs, we recommend prioritizing a full service firm who can do all channels as opposed to hiring individual agencies or contractors for each channel. This will reduce the number of providers you have to contact as well as the management overhead once they are hired.
Note - at Credo we match you with providers from our network who both fit your marketing channel needs and have experience with your type of business (SaaS, Ecommerce, etc). Where possible, we also match you with providers who have experience in your industry.
We recommend speaking with multiple agencies to verify that they have the experience you require and that you like speaking with them. Culture fit between you and your agency is the unspoken factor we find that determines if an engagement will be successful. We then recommend that you conduct longer strategy sessions (about an hour) with 2-4 agencies to dive deeper on your needs with their team.
Note - Credo schedules the initial discovery calls for you with agencies from our network.
Once you’ve gone deeper with 2-4 agencies, ask for proposals that you can review that include scope, timeline, cost, and terms. We recommend that you use our Agency Reviewer resource to make it easier. Some agencies may have a separate contract with terms and conditions, which is fine.
Once you receive proposals, you can negotiate back with agencies. The most common things to negotiate back on are scope and timeline. If ideal budget is above your ability to pay, see if you can reduce the scope to get the project within budget while understanding the tradeoffs.
Finally, make a decision about who to work with and commit for a period of time that is long enough to know if you’re able to get results but not so long that it traps you into something that isn’t working. We recommend that you agree to at minimum a 3 month contract, and ideally a 6 month contract with a three month out.
Make sure healthy expectations are set and your agency fully understands your objectives. The best results are created when you have alignment with your agency around your business goals.
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