You run the business

We drive the leads

Enterprise-grade Google Ads, lead tracking and website care, built for local and growing businesses at a price that fits. We build campaigns around what people actually search for, then trace calls and form fills back to the ads that earned them.

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A new company

with experienced founders

We are a new company; the founders are not new to the work. Tom has spent ten years managing Google and Microsoft Ads and has worked with hundreds of businesses. Ted has spent two decades building technology and now focuses on marketing technology and automation. You get that experience without an enterprise agency's overhead.

10 years

in digital marketing, with Google and Microsoft Ads strategy

20 years

building technology, now in marketing technology and automation

Hundreds

of businesses Tom has worked with

Premier + Elite

Google Premier Partner and Microsoft Elite Partner status at Tom's previous agency

Sound familiar?

Most owners start here

We work with local and growing businesses in any industry. The details change; the problems rarely do. Owners often reach out after running into one of these.

Paying for clicks that never call

Money goes out every month, and the phone stays quiet.

Ads that match nothing

Someone searches for one thing, your ad says another, and your page says a third.

No idea which ads bring in customers

Spend is spread everywhere, and nobody can say what is working.

Reports full of jargon

Impressions and click-through rates, but no calls, jobs or revenue.

A website nobody looks after

Slow pages, old plugins and a form that may not even send.

One more hat to wear

Marketing squeezed in after hours, on top of running the business.

Here is how

we fix it

We run the ads

Google and Microsoft Ads built around what people actually search, with search terms reviewed regularly and irrelevant clicks cut back.

We keep the website working

Fast, secure, current and easy to edit. Updates, backups and best practices handled.

We track your leads

Calls, forms and booked jobs traced back to the campaign that earned them, reported in plain English.

What you get

when you work with us

Three jobs most agencies treat separately. We run them as one system, so the ad, the page and the report tell the same story.

Ads that put you in front of people ready to call

Search campaigns built around buyer intent, matched to a page that finishes the job.

Google and Microsoft Ads built, run and tuned on a regular schedule

Search terms reviewed and negative keywords added to cut irrelevant clicks

Call, form and booked-job tracking on every campaign

Follow-up automation so new leads get a prompt reply

A site that is looked after, not just launched

Hosting, security and best practices handled for you.

Managed hosting, backups and security updates

Speed, accessibility and search basics checked regularly

Fixes and edits handled, or edit it yourself

Pages matched to the ads that send visitors to them

The software big companies use, set up for you

Marketing automation and clear dashboards, without an enterprise budget.

Marketing automation tied to your leads

Data analysis on your real numbers, in plain English

Automation for repetitive work such as reporting and follow-up

A person reviews anything that matters

See everything we do

Every dot, connected

From search to sale

Plenty of marketers report clicks. We report phone calls, booked jobs and revenue, because that is how you measure your business.

Someone searches

Your ad appears at the moment they need you.

They visit your site

It answers their questions and earns their trust.

They call or book

Every call and form is tracked to its source.

The job is booked

Followed through to the booking, so we see what closed.

Revenue, traced

You see what every dollar of ad spend returned.

Monthly lead report

Last 30 days

Phone calls

142

▲ 38% vs last month

Bookable calls

96

68% of all calls

Booked calls

71

74% of bookable

Cost per lead

22% lower

▼ vs last month

Where booked calls came from

Google Ads

62%

Microsoft Ads

24%

Organic and referral

14%

Sample report, illustrative data

A loop of molten ember glass in the shape of an infinity sign, surrounded by sparks

Then we close

the loop

Booked-job data can go back into Google Ads, so its bidding optimizes toward customers who became jobs, not just clicks. It takes tracking set up correctly at the start, which is part of what we do, and you see the results in your monthly report.

What happens

after you reach out

No mystery and no months of onboarding. Three steps, and you always know which one you are on.

1

Intro call

2

Your plan

3

Launch and grow

Tell us about your business

A short call about your goals, your customers and what is working today. No pitch deck.

We scope it around you

A proposal built for your business and your goals, with a clear price before you commit.

We build, launch and improve

Campaigns and site go live with tracking in place from day one, then get reviewed and improved on a regular schedule.

Two founders

one team

Technology meets the in-person, home-grown way local businesses actually work. Tom brings a decade of paid search experience. Ted brings marketing technology, automation and data analysis. You get both, and you talk to both.

Paid search and strategy

Tom McGlennen, co-founder of Wild Forge Digital

Tom McGlennen

CEO and co-founder

Ten years of Google and Microsoft Ads for hundreds of businesses. Tom learns what sets your business apart, then builds your campaigns around it.

Marketing technology and automation

Ted Schneider, co-founder of Wild Forge Digital

Ted Schneider

CTO and co-founder

Two decades building technology, now focused on marketing technology, automation and data analysis, so your reports rest on real numbers and routine work gets automated.

Meet the founders

Get a plan

built around your business

We will scope a plan around your business and send it for your review before you commit to anything.

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Wild Forge Digital

Get in touch

Tell us about your business

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