50 Digital Marketing Business Success Stories [2023]

Hey Everyone, my name is Rahul Alim and I am the founder of Custom Creatives, a Digital Marketing Agency that helps connect business owners with their dream client, AKA, The Peoples Agency.

Monthly revenue is often the indicator many people use to determine the success of an agency or individual. While I don’t disagree, I put more emphasis on the success of our clients and the fact that we retain clients for many years, and in our case, many for over a decade. We have consistently been over 7-figures year over year.

My name is Keith Lynch and I am the Founder and CEO of Qwantify, a digital development, and marketing agency based in Miami, Florida. We develop, market, and monetize profitable e-commerce websites for aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners worldwide.

Since our launch in late 2016, we have continued to grow and scale to become the professional, full-service provider that we are today - a multi-millionaire dollar per year digital development agency.

My name is Kevin Roy, I grew up in Beverly, a small coastal city on the North Shore of Massachusetts. I am the co-founder of GreenBanana SEO and with our kick-ass team, we have built the Pay For Performance SEO (page one on a Google search for the keyword phrases you choose if you don’t pay) company and full-stack results-driven digital marketing agency.

We have had the privilege of being listed on the Inc 5000 for the last 3 years and twice as one of the fastest-growing companies in Massachusetts. When we started 12 years ago it was just my partner and I working on a beer pong table in a tiny office billing out just enough to pay our bills. We reinvested in technology and staff and now we have 16 employees and about 6M in revenue.

Hello Starter Story readers! My name is Jacob Dazzeo and I founded Watson Digital. We are an innovative online marketing company that focuses on three main products to help businesses grow their online sales funnel.

Our core products are Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Pay-Per-Click Advertising (PPC), and Social Media Remarketing (SMM). In less than one year I was able to completely replace my corporate salary while cutting my work week down to mirror the Tim Ferris’ 4-hour workweek.

Hi, my name is Jeff Carrier and I helped launch a digital marketing agency dedicated toONLY the disaster restoration industry. Our goal was to provide industry-specific knowledge to local restoration companies for their digital marketing and SEO needs.

We started helping other restoration companies with a similar process that we used with our own restoration company and now we generate more leads than we can handle each month and $25,000/month and increasing.

In alphabetical order, we’re Alex, Courtney, and Jared - the three founders of the digital marketing agency Intellitonic. We help organizations improve their sales by implementing and iterating on campaigns for search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (via Google Ads and Microsoft), and paid social media (Facebook and Instagram) for medium to large for-profit businesses and non-profit organizations.

We also partner with organizations that don’t have digital marketing in-house by white-labeling our services. In less than five years, we’ve grown to a team of eleven (and counting), offer full-benefits and 401K matching options - all without taking investment or feeling as if we’ve had to compromise our values.

I'm Eric Berman, and when I look back on my career, I have been an entrepreneur since the beginning. After graduating from college, I was always finding myself in the middle of starting businesses and, over time, getting more enamored with taking an idea and building a business from it.

I am Angelo Frisina, Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sunlight Media, LLC., located in Los Angeles, California. We are a digital marketing company specializing in web design, app development, and various digital marketing services. These services include Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC), social media marketing, email outreach, and more.

Sunlight Media LLC is continuing to expand in terms of revenue, enterprise productivity, and brand value. The company began under my direction as a founder and is currently running operations with multiple departments such as marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), web and mobile application development and design, videography, and more. We are assisting and managing projects for numerous clients daily while expanding our networks beyond our local geographical region. Additionally, our focus will be to continue to grow domain authority for our website and our clients, showcase our values to customers through online reviews, testimonials, and optimize our workflows to improve overall productivity.

Hello, my name is AJ Tatum, and I'm the founder of Tatum Digital Agency (TDA), a digital presence management agency.

Since launching TDA in May 2021, I've maintained an average income of ~$10k a month.

Hi there, my name is Robb Fahrion and I am the Co-Founder and Partner of Flying V Group, a digital marketing and advertising company located. We service clients all across the globe and help them grow their business through the power of the internet. My passion is for business and there is nothing more rewarding than helping others grow their businesses and share in their successes.

Today, Flying V Group employs 12 people, has worked with over 300 clients, operates internationally, and is on pace to double revenue for the second year in a row. Crazy to think about being here when my brother and I both got up and quit our corporate jobs and put $5k into the project to get us started!

Hello, My name is Michael Borgelt and I’m the Founder & Owner of 51Blocks (Est. 2009) and BionicWP (Est. 2020), two agencies focused on helping other agency owner’s offer quality digital marketing and hosting solutions to their clients and small businesses a quality marketing experience.

Since customer service is what we’re most passionate about, we currently have a customer LTV of 2.5+ years (in an industry where it’s 6-9 months) and make 2.6M in annual revenue (216k/mo.).

Hello, My name is Hasan, the founder of H-educate, H-supertools, and some other websites and services. I began working on H-supertools 2 years ago and launched it four months afterward.

Today, we have more than 80K Registered Users on the platform and more than 300K Visits each month, which, in a sense, is a high achievement for a new platform that took less than two years to build.

Hi, I’m Barb Ferrigno, and I started Concept Marketing Group – a full-service marketing company. I started in 1978 working solo out of my home, and I grew the company over the years to 6 employees and 8 subcontractors.

I downsized the company to 2 employees and 4 subcontractors as I’m looking to retire within 4 years. What do we offer? Direct Mail Lists, Email Marketing Lists, Specialty Directories, Consulting, Writing Services, Business Coaching for the Executive Staff, Sales Team Coaching, Social Media Services, PR Services. I have 8,000 clients both global and international with new clients coming on board every week. We average 25 to 50 new customers a month.

My name is Lars Helgeson and I am the founder of GreenRope, a CRM and marketing automation platform. Our company started in 2000 as an email marketing SaaS and in 2008 decided to focus on the challenges that businesses face in managing sales, marketing, customer service, and operations.

GreenRope has over 1,000 customers in over 20 countries, ranging from startups to universities and municipalities.

Hi guys! My name is Joon K Lee and I am the CEO at Inquivix. To be honest, I started this agency as a little side project back in 2017 when I was working for another company in Korea. (Of course, my bosses supported my venture and they let me work after hours) And ever since then I put my heart and soul into all the work that Inquivix has become today.

Now, I am beyond proud to say that we have diversified and grown to great lengths and will continue to aspire and grow with our experts and, in time, Inquivix as a company, would love to be recognized for the love and passion into our projects and work by the whole world.

Hey, I’m Anshul Sharma and I run a digital marketing company known as BrandBurp. We work on delivering the best outcomes by helping businesses get traffic through SEO. Our team of around 175 helps in promoting businesses online via SMO. In short, we ensure that your brand gets world-class recognition.

Some of the brands for which we have done branding and promotion work include Harley-Davidson, Blemil Plus, Laureate University, Coca-Cola, and Supreme. More than 250 Apps associated with BrandBurp ranked number 1 on Google Play Store and Apple App Store and 2000 websites have been awarded the esteemed Webby Awards.

Lucas founded Growth Cave, an agency that helps businesses get new clients through Facebook ads. Through UpWork and word of mouth, he got lots of clients.

Hi, I’m Vikas Chawla - founder of Social Beat - a digital growth partner for hyperscaling startups & top brands.

In the last 9 years, we have had an amazing journey. We now have a 300+ member team of growth experts and partner with top brands in India and Asia to offer integrated digital marketing solutions. We manage 3% of the digital media investment in the country and have an MRR of $400,000.

Hi - my name is Derryck Strachan and I’m the founder of Big Star Copywriting. We are one of the UK’s leading copywriting agencies. We work with a wide variety of clients in both B2B and B2C and from start-ups to multinationals. Although our main focus is on copywriting - mainly web pages, blogs, product descriptions - we support that with digital marketing services including SEO and Paid Search. Current and previous clients include Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, New Era, Lloyds, Handy.com, Screwfix, and many others.

After a difficult time due to Covid, we’re back on track and currently approaching revenues of approx. $30,000 per month and growing.

Hi, my name is Joachim Brouckaert, I’m 24 years old and I started Add Value 1 year ago. Today, Add Value is a growth marketing agency. We’re focused on full-funnel marketing. Performance marketing, building landing pages, websites, funnels, email marketing flows. We do it all!

Currently, we are working with a team of 5 people for our customers and on our growth. But we are once again looking for an extra Growth Marketer! When we talk about turnover, we do an average of 30k per month. This fluctuates, as we sometimes take on larger, shorter projects. On average, we work for 18 active clients per month. Our retention is generally good, but short projects such as an analytics audit or building a website cause this number to fluctuate.

Hi! My name is Austin Houser, and I'm the founder of Base Coat Marketing, a full-service digital marketing agency exclusive to the professional painting industry.

The gamble appears to have paid off. Just three months after launching, we're already on track to exceed last year's revenue under my previous agency, which at the time was 13 years old. Today we are generating $30,000 in monthly recurring revenue with roughly a 50% profit margin.

My name is Joshua Hurley, and I am the owner of 930TECH, a company that provides businesses with digital marketing and technology solutions. My company and I reside in Knoxville, TN. I have lived and worked in East Tennessee all of my life.

Hey! My name is Dylan Ogline and I am the founder of Ogline Digital. I run a digital marketing agency that is focused on helping companies scale and grow with proven direct response marketing strategies.

Hello, My name is Roger Sievers, and I founded Sievers Creative. Sievers Creative is a full-service marketing agency located in Red Wing, MN. We are a marketing and design agency in Minnesota that helps local businesses gain a competitive edge in today’s crowded market.

Hi there, I'm Aida, and I'm CEO & Co-Founder at ProDigi. Let me tell you our story.

Hello! My name’s Jeremy Kanne and I founded Smart Yeti, a creative agency that helps technical companies in their messaging and marketing.

We’re still small and focused on exceptional quality in service, regularly taking in $8k/mo, but growing in revenues on average $1-2k/mo in 2019. This is thanks to technical companies loving that we speak their language.

Hey! I’m Brice Gump, the founder, and CEO of Major Impact Media, a hybrid agency/education company.

We’ve worked with dozens of companies over the years – from business coaches to international personal development gurus – to implement traffic systems that have acquired thousands of customers and generated over $5,800,000 in online sales for their businesses.

Hi! We’re Chris and Camila, founders of Social Ktchn, a digital marketing company. Our main service is providing Facebook and Instagram paid ads for our clients, who range from small to midsize businesses, in lead gen but mostly in the eCommerce space.

Our annual revenue is typically around $300-$400K, which is quite a jump from the $40K we made in our first year!

Hey all, my name is Tyler Pigott and I founded Lone Fir Creative back in 2015, starting with $300. Our company operates in two different areas. The first is helping brands get their strategy in place, how they want to be perceived by their customers, who they are going after, what their story is, and then rolling that out to all that branding and marketing materials. Then the second area we focus on is amplifying that message and brand to get in front of more of their customers.

As far as, how far have we come? We should do about $3.5M-$4M this year, growing one client at a time steadily over the past 7 years.

My name is Chris Uzzo and I am the CEO and Founder of Zero Gravity Marketing (ZGM). Founded in 2012, ZGM is a digital marketing agency specializing in SEO, paid media management, social media marketing, email marketing, website design Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), content marketing, and creative services. We service customers in all industries focusing primarily on medium to large-sized businesses in need of ongoing growth and support.

We offer the best digital marketing services because of our data-driven approach and our commitment to recruiting the best team members and providing them with ongoing training and support. We were proud that last October (2021), ZGM received a top workplace award based on quantitative employee feedback.

Hi, my name is Steve, and my wife Stephanie started a Digital Marketing Agency ‘Fruity Llama’ based in Darwen, Lancashire. Our main services are web design, SEO, and Branding.

We are only 3 months into our business journey and currently make around £7,000 per month.

• Ryan Stewart founded WEBRIS, a Miami, Florida-based digital marketing firm. This business utilizes the SEO Sprint Methodology to assist businesses in gaining more customers organically from Google.

• Ryan is a serial entrepreneur and a genius in digital marketing. He is a renowned and experienced marketing professional with a preference for growing online businesses.

• WEBRIS is regarded by many of Ryan's contemporaries as his most fruitful project to date. Over the course of a little more than a year, he built and expanded the SEO and digital marketing firm to $1.1 million ARR.

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Hello, my name is Emmanuel Iroanya, aka "Mannie". I’m the Managing Member & Founder of theta, a civic & government focused digital & management firm based in Baltimore, MD, working to create a world where tech works for everybody.

In the seven years since starting theta., we’ve had the opportunity to serve more government agencies and work on important missions that impact our daily lives as members of this country than we ever could have imagined. Some of those agencies include the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the US Department of Education (ED), the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Ross Hudgens is the founder of Siege Media, a content marketing business specializing in SEO.

The company is completely remote, has a nationwide reach, and works with some of the largest businesses on the internet.

Siege Media's sales process is now fully based on an inbound funnel. Besides SEO, the company also provides graphic design, content creation, and link-building services.

Ross began with a specialty and then expanded his knowledge. He got his first job scanning papers for a pharmaceutical business after graduating from Chapman University in Orange County with a degree in Business Marketing and Creative Writing.

He had been blogging on the side, so he was already familiar with SEO writing and the process of content marketing. That experience later helped him in the development of his content marketing agency.

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Stephane Guérin is the creator of DashThis, an automated marketing reporting tool created to help marketers save hours of work and create their reports in the blink of an eye.

Stéphane, an IT nerd and entrepreneur, was motivated to develop DashThis by his struggles with monthly reporting at his digital agency.

Since Stephane founded DashThis, he has shifted his attention to the strategic side of the company.

This automated reporting tool was built to help marketers save hours of strenuous work to make the reports in no time.

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Hello! My name is Daniel Thompson. I am the owner of Salt Water Digital, a digital marketing agency with an emphasis on SEO, PPC and Website Development.

This is me (glasses), my business partner Steve (beard), and our web developer Jenn (gal) at Disneyland. Oh and Connor, he was part of an e-commerce brand we built and sold in 2020

Rumit is a computer science engineer, and Shamreen comes with a strong graphic design background. This dynamic duo established Dad of Ad in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak.

The agency is composed of a young team from diverse backgrounds. However, everyone has a holistic approach to creatively catering to the client’s requirements. This feeling of interconnectedness and explicability makes Dad of Ad stand out among the crowd.

Hi, we’re a couple, Robyn Mays and Richard Eltringham, the co-founders of Digital Butter. 5 years ago we started our profitable digital marketing agency by doing things for free.

We have a full-time team of 4 and 2 part-time team members. We’re based in South Africa and have worked with clients in more than 10 different countries. We’ve grown almost completely through the act of generosity and based on word of mouth.

• Billy Wilson is the founder and CEO of 6 Figure Agency, a social media marketing company he started at 18 years old.
• He offers an in-depth course about how to start, grow and automate an SMM (Social Media Marketing) agency. Within his first year, Wilson had achieved a six-figure run rate.
• Billy has successfully coached thousands of business owners so far to help them grow their online presence and generate new leads and sales.

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• Harsh Agrawal, a professional blogger based in Delhi, is the founder of ShoutMeLoud. He is on a mission to help those who want to succeed in this rapidly evolving online environment.

• ShoutMeLoud is an online platform that enables millions of people worldwide to make a living through digital marketing.

• ShoutMeLoud developed into one of India's top blogs and was even recognized with the "Best Indian blog by Indiblogger" award in 2013.

• The website has managed to build a community of more than 1 million subscribers worldwide. ShoutMeLoud guides and supports its subscribers in generating earnings from their blogs.

• Subscribers will also learn useful tips on how to boost website traffic and sales volume, plus, YouTubing & Podcasting tricks to increase traffic and sales.

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• Noah Kagan founded AppSumo, a platform that 1 million+ entrepreneurs rely on for all the resources they need to build successful businesses.
• AppSumo is the top online marketplace for business owners. They help businesses reach 1,000,000+ customers by listing their digital products for free.
• Noah made the decision to create a platform to support other business owners by advertising the best tools at fair prices.
• It is a rapidly expanding team of more than 150 people based in Austin, Texas, and they won't be slowing down anytime soon.
• In October 2021, this brand had more than 2k products listed and over 1 million monthly site visitors.

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• Adam Enfroy is the founder of his own company named Adam Enfroy.
• Adam helps others start and scale their businesses and blogs.
• His website has grown to 500k monthly readers
• This blog made over $1 million in under two years with zero dollars spent on advertising.
• He has 50.5k subscribers on his YouTube channel.

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Hi, my name is M Waseem Aziz, the founder, and CEO of ArrowUpz. I started this company to help people who need some digital work to be done by some of the greatest remote workers.

So my flagship products spin around different digital services. I remember the first payout for being a graphic designer was around $250. However, adding other services boost my revenue to $5K/mo.

Hi, Chris Anthony here, am the Founder/ Head Of Growth of Wealth Ideas Agency, a digital marketing agency specializing in helping business owners accelerate growth and scale online fast through a combination of effective digital marketing strategies.

Hi there! My name is Claire Ficek, and I am the CEO + founder of Altar’d Socials. We are a social media management company that works with small businesses to elevate their brand presence on social media. My team consists of young and creative women who are passionate about helping YOUR business succeed with the amazing tool of social media.

Being young is my strong suit when it comes to running a social media management company. I grew up using these platforms almost every day, so I naturally understand the importance of social media as well as what people on the apps are looking for.

• Matt Bowman is the founder of Thrive, a full-service digital marketing agency that provides SEO, PPC, social media, web design, and more.

• Matt started as a website developer in 2005 before switching to a digital marketing agency in 2012.

• Based in Arlington, Texas, thrive builds custom WordPress websites, optimizes e-commerce tasks, handles social media marketing, and provides search engine marketing strategy, content writing, and video production services.

• Since 2005, Thrive has been providing site design and internet marketing services and has built a reputation for excellent customer service and a track record of success.

• Started as a small team, it has since developed into a full-service digital marketing firm with over 220 workers worldwide. Thrive today employs staff in 34 states across the United States.

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• Woww is a Cape Town-based award-winning digital agency formed in 2016 by Felix Norton to assist businesses and startups in growing and thriving online.

• To assist businesses in developing an online presence, the organization provides skilled services such as WordPress Web Design, SEO, E-commerce, Hosting, Online Marketing, and Graphic Design. Businesses can simply rely on their affordable, high-quality online services to improve their online visibility.

• Felix Norton is the company's founder and managing director. He is a professional digital management consultant and an aspiring entrepreneur who works with various digital channels.

• At UCT, he studied computer science and game design. Before Woww, he was the MD of Teach Me 2, Succinct Design, and the co-founder of Smart Speakers.

• Woww currently has around 450 active monthly clients and a team of 24 members who efficiently handles the company operation. Cape Brewing Company, Panasonic, Ogilvy & Mather, Old Mutual, City of Cape Town & University of Cape Town are some of the popular clients of Woww.

• From 2017 to 2019, Woww acquired a top three position for the search word 'web design' on Google in South Africa. Over the past three years, Woww has secured the number one spot.

Few Important facts about Woww:

• The founder started building websites while in college as a side hustle.
• He bootstrapped his business straight after college, and his first customer was his dad.
• The founders leveraged SEO to find their first paying customer.
• They paid their employees based on performance.
• As of November 2022, Woww had 450 active clients monthly.
• The company hopes to hit $200,000 in monthly recurring revenue by the end of 2023.

Ryan Levesque is the founder and CEO of ASK Method, a rapidly growing education company in the US.

This Austin, Texas-based company has a diverse team of more than 50 men & women around the globe to provide quality support to their international customers and clients.

The Quiz Funnel Masterclass, the company's flagship product, has helped thousands of business owners launch six- and seven-figure online campaigns.

The company has been listed in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies for 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021.

Ryan is also a co-founder and investor in bucket.io®, a popular quiz funnel software used by more than 30M people annually.

He is also the name behind the number one best-selling book in the country, "ASK," and has been featured in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and NBC News.

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