No contracts.
No account managers.
No bloat.
Senior strategists running your ads and SEO, month to month, at a flat $95 an hour. Built for businesses that are done being the small account at a big agency.
These are the people who'll run your account. Every one of them has managed seven-figure budgets. Meet the team
Certified partner of the platforms your budget runs on
Businesses that have outgrown their marketing.
If you're spending under $500 a month on ads or looking for a one-off website, we're probably not the right fit, and we'll tell you so on the first call.
- You're spending $500 or more a month on ads across Google, Meta, ChatGPT, or LinkedIn, and you need better performance insight.
- Your current agency has stopped performing or stopped communicating, and you're tired of being treated like a small account.
- Your in-house marketer has hit a ceiling and you need senior-level execution without senior-level cost.
- You're a 3-to-100-person company doing $1M to $50M a year, B2B or B2C, and you want to scale your marketing profitably.
The usual model, and ours.
Most agencies are built to sign clients, not to keep them. We built ours the other way around.
The best strategists at most agencies work on the top 5% of accounts. Here, that's everyone.
We don't have a junior bench to hand smaller accounts to. Every client works with someone who's managed seven-figure budgets, because that's the only kind of person we hire. Read the full argument
What we do
One focus, done well. Every account is run end to end by a senior strategist who handles both the strategy and the execution, and answers your email personally.
Paid search
Google and Microsoft Ads, from account build-out to weekly optimization. Search, Shopping, Performance Max, Local Services.
PPC managementPaid social
Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube campaigns built around the creative that converts, not the creative that wins awards.
Social advertisingSearch engine optimization
Technical fixes, content that ranks, and links you'd be comfortable showing a client. Measured in leads, not keyword counts.
SEO servicesAI search optimization
Getting your business cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI Mode when someone asks who to hire. Also called generative engine optimization. The newest thing we do, and the fastest growing.
AI SEO / GEOHow it works
No proposal theater. We look at your accounts before we ask you to decide anything.
A 30-minute call
You tell us what's working and what isn't. We tell you honestly whether we can help, and if we can't, who might.
We look under the hood
With read-only access, a strategist reviews your accounts by hand and walks you through what they found on a live call. No canned report.
Start month to month
If the plan makes sense, we get to work at $95 an hour. Monthly reviews in plain language. Leave any time; most clients don't.
The work
Clients explaining what changed, in their own words. About two minutes each.
“Maybe 30 to 50 clicks, and now we're at 200 to 300 a month.”
“We dropped my clients' cost per lead from $1,000 to under $100.”
“Four times return on ad spend, month one.”
“We went from 30 signups a day to 1,000.”
Want numbers like these on your account?
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. We'll tell you if we can help.
You talk to the people running your account.
Seven people. No account managers, no junior bench, no sales team. When you call, you get someone who has run accounts like yours for years and will be the same person next month.
That's the whole business model: stay small enough that every client gets the senior person, and price it so we never have a reason to push you to spend more.
“Evan and his team have been invaluable to our marketing. They've helped us take our online advertising to the next level, and they're always happy to explain what they're doing and why.”
“We've worked with a lot of agencies. Ernst Media is the first one where the person on the call was the person doing the work.”
Straight answers.
Do I have to sign a contract?
No. Everything is month to month. We'd rather keep you by performing than by paperwork.
What does it actually cost?
$95 an hour, flat, for every service. Hours depend on the account, not the budget, so we estimate after looking at what you're running, and you see actual hours on every invoice.
Who owns the ad accounts?
You do, always. We work inside accounts you own, and you keep every campaign, audience, and report if you ever leave.
How soon will I see results?
Paid campaigns usually show a clear direction within 30 to 60 days. SEO and AI search take longer, typically three to six months to move meaningfully. We'll tell you which is which on the first call.
Do you work with businesses outside Washington?
Most of our clients are outside Spokane. We work with companies across the US and a few beyond it; everything happens over video and shared dashboards.
Is there a minimum ad spend?
We're most useful to businesses spending at least $500 a month on ads. Below that, the management cost usually outweighs the gain, and we'll say so.
Tell us what you're working on.
We read every message the same day. If it looks like a fit, the next step is a 30-minute call, not a sales sequence.
