Contact The SME Lab

Still on the fence about contacting The SME Lab team?

We’re a small, but specialist team of marketing experts with specific knowledge and skills in Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC), specifically with regards to the setup and management of Google Ads (Adwords) and Facebook Ads. We can also help businesses with Local SEO, Small Business SEO, Technical SEO (on-page) along with creating WordPress Websites (like ours) for clients.

We literally live and breath Digital Marketing, we read about it, we keep our skills and knowledge up to date and we do it for a living helping both clients and working on our own projects. What can we say? We love and enjoy what we do so much, it’s literally a hobby that pays the bills! That isn’t to say we will do half arsed job of the work we do for you, it just means that it’s never a chore, more so a labour of love.

The great thing about working with us, rather than going to a Marketing Agency, is you’re working with a key stakeholder in your project rather than an employee of the agency who probably won’t be any more bothered about your account than the agency owner. Agencies employ sales staff to keep a steady stream of businesses coming through the doors. So there is no motivation to keep clients on-board, especially if you don’t have a big budget campaign. There are always bigger fish out there to hook in and win work from.

It’s different when you work with us because we’re not selling machines! In fact, none of us are natural salesmen who will wow you with sales patter designed to woo you in with promises of fantastic results and promises of moving Heaven and Earth to get you results. Lets face it, if you’re here and you’re reading this now. Chances are, you’ve been burned by these promises before and starting to doubt the sales machines promises.

We’ve all worked in various Agencies over the years and now we all work in-house and in that time. We’ve all listened to numerous sales teams and agency owners making promises, spinning tall tales about results that weren’t true and listened to how they create a web of half truths and promises in order to get perspective clients signed up to 12 month contracts, so that if and when things started to go sour, they were locked in!

We’re not a sales machine, we’re not working with dozens of new clients every few months. There is no churn and burn, we build relationships with our clients and consider their websites to be our own and work hard to ensure they get the care and attention we would give to our own websites. We’re invested in their success because we’re not all one man sales machines! We’re not out pitching new clients with promises every day.

We rely on our website to do the talking for us and for our happy clients to recommend us to friends, family and business acquaintances, etc. We find the best clients are those who choose to work with us because they want to work with us. Not simply because we talked the talk in a sales pitch giving them the blind hope that this time, it would be different.

You see we have no contracts, if we didn’t live up to your expectations, there’d be no reason for you to stick around! As so, we have a vested interest in making this partnership work far more than any Agency Account Manager ever would do, since their only motivation is ensuring they continue to pick up their monthly salary. Not to ensure that you’re getting value for money and the best help and advice to improve your business online.

In fact, the Sales Teams and Agency Owners main motivation is not you, the client on a new 12 month contract. It’s the next business debating whether to sign on the dotted line. Once you’re in the system, once you’re setup with monthly invoicing, you’re no long important to them! They’re on to the next perspective client and the next sales pitch!

So your choice… Do you want to get tangled up in the sales machine, signed up for 12 month contracts and stuck paying even if you realise you made a mistake?

Or do you want to avoid the sales hype altogether and do something different? Work with a team of freelancers who’s had enough of the agency life, been fed up of trying to live up to the claims and expectations from the sales team. Who now focuses on doing his best work for every client and ensuring that we never over sell something, if it plain won’t benefit my clients!

What are you waiting for? Fill in the contact form and lets talk about your project…