Our Process

Marketing is not magic.
It is a repeatable system,
run by senior people,
in plain English.

Five phases, seven days from the kickoff call to live campaigns. Same playbook for a $2,000-a-month local business as a $200,000-a-month national e-commerce brand. The version below is the actual one we run, not a sanitised version for the website.

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A short transcript

What other agencies say. What we say back.

Other agencies

"We will review your analytics in the first month."

Digital Choice

"You will see the audit findings on day three. In writing."

Other agencies

"Your account manager will pass that on to the team."

Digital Choice

"The strategist on the call is the one in your account every week."

Other agencies

"Give it 90 days, then we can review."

Digital Choice

"Spotted a problem on day 14? We fix it the same week."

Other agencies

"Standard 12-month engagement, then we can talk renewal."

Digital Choice

"Month-to-month. Walk whenever. We earn it every 30 days."

Other agencies

"Here is the standard playbook we use for clients in your industry."

Digital Choice

"Here is the plan written for you, off your data, after a real audit."

The 5-phase playbook

From kickoff to compound growth, in five chapters.

Every Digital Choice engagement runs the same sequence. Same rigour, every channel, every client size.

01
Days 1-2 Discover

Audit everything. Find the truth.

Before we propose a single thing, we dig. Full teardown of analytics, ad accounts, Search Console, competitor landscape, and customer data. The honest picture, not the pitch-deck version. If something is broken, you will hear it.

Deliverable: Written audit with prioritised fixes, not a sales deck.
02
Days 3-4 Strategise

Build the plan. Get alignment.

We send the strategy document before the meeting, not after. You read it cold. Then we walk it through together. You push back, we refine on the call. By the end of day four, you have a 90-day roadmap with every channel, budget allocation, KPI, and testing priority signed off.

Deliverable: 90-day channel and budget roadmap, plus measurement spec.
03
Days 5-6 Build

Assets, tracking, accounts. Locked in.

Campaigns built to spec. Landing pages copywritten and designed. GA4 events wired to revenue. Server-side tagging where it counts. The unglamorous work most agencies skip is the bit that stops you wasting money in month one.

Deliverable: Live campaign builds, working tracking, dedicated landing pages.
04
Day 7 Launch

Go live. Watch every number.

Launch day is a marathon, not a fire-and-forget. Your strategist is in your accounts hourly for the first 72 hours, watching pacing, spend, CPA, and creative fatigue. Fast fixes, small bets, no surprises in your inbox on Monday.

Deliverable: Staggered launch, 72-hour hyper-care, week-one performance call.
05
Month 2+ Optimise

Compound. Scale. Repeat.

Month-on-month we run the testing calendar: creative refreshes, bid strategy shifts, audience expansion, landing-page experiments. Every win documented, every loss learned from. Quarterly we step back and rewrite the roadmap together.

Deliverable: Weekly internal review, monthly strategy call, quarterly roadmap reset.
Operating principles

Six rules we refuse to break for anyone.

Not bonus services. Not upsells. The minimum bar. If we are working together, all six are on by default.

  1. 01 You own your accounts. Google Ads, Meta, GA4, your CMS. Every platform created in your name, with you as owner. We are admins, nothing more.
  2. 02 Senior-led, always. The strategist on your first call is the one in your account every week. No junior hand-off after sign-up, no "let me check with the team".
  3. 03 Revenue over vanity. If a metric does not connect to pipeline, revenue, or retention, we do not report it. Impressions are not currency.
  4. 04 Test small, scale proven. Disciplined 10 to 20 percent test budgets. Winners get scaled, losers get killed fast. No sacred cows, no pet campaigns.
  5. 05 Month-to-month. Always. No 12-month contracts, no exit penalties. If we are not earning our keep, you walk. Keeps us honest, keeps us sharp.
  6. 06 Answer the phone. Same-day response by Slack, email, or call. If it is urgent, we pick up. No ticketing queues, no support-portal mazes.
Stuart effortlessly breaks down complex concepts, ensuring we have full visibility into the work he is doing and the value he is providing. His transparency is a refreshing change, and it sets him apart from other agencies.
Niena, B Free Australia
Niena, B Free Australia
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The stack we run on

Enterprise tools, already in the price.

No surprise software fees. The platforms we run day-to-day are part of every engagement.

Google Ads / Meta Ads Manager / Microsoft Ads / GA4 / GTM (server-side) / Looker Studio / Ahrefs / Screaming Frog / Search Console / Hotjar / Optimizely / Klaviyo / HubSpot / Shopify

A note from Digital Choice

Week one starts with a call, not a contract.

Book a 30-minute discovery call. We will walk through your current marketing, the gaps we would fix first, and give you an honest read on whether we can help. No sales pressure, no obligation.

If we are not a fit, we will tell you. If we are, you will see live campaigns inside seven days.

Stuart, Digital Choice North Adelaide, SA