Marketing that brings you customers, not just clicks
Search, ads, and social media for Fraser Valley businesses, planned and run by real people in Abbotsford who measure what it earns you.
Most marketing problems start at home. Before we spend a dollar on ads, we look at your website the way a customer does: Can they tell what you do in five seconds? Can they find your phone number in two clicks? Does the site load fast on a phone? If the answer is no, ads just pay to send people to a page that loses them. Fixing that first is the cheapest marketing you’ll ever do. And if the site itself needs work, that’s what our website development team is for.
From there, it’s a question of speed versus staying power. Organic SEO builds rankings that keep sending you traffic long after the work is done, but it takes months. Google Ads and social media advertising put you in front of buyers this week, for as long as you fund them. And social media management keeps your brand present between purchases. Most businesses need some mix. We’ll tell you plainly which pieces are worth your budget and which aren’t.
The last piece is follow-through. A marketing plan that nobody executes is a document, not a strategy. We’ve been doing this for Fraser Valley businesses since 1998, and the clients who win are the ones who pick a plan and stick with it. That’s the part we handle.
Marketing Services
Four ways to get found. Pick one or combine them.
Common Questions
Where should I start with online marketing?
Start with your own website, because that’s where every ad and every search click ends up. If visitors can’t tell what you do in a few seconds or find your phone number quickly, marketing just pays to send people to a page that loses them. Self-Edit looks at your site first and tells you plainly whether it’s ready. If it needs work, our website team handles that before you spend a dollar on ads.
Should I invest in SEO or paid advertising first?
It comes down to speed versus staying power. Organic SEO builds rankings that keep sending traffic long after the work is done, but it takes months; Google Ads and social media advertising put you in front of buyers this week, for as long as you fund them. Most businesses do best with some mix, and we’ll be honest about which pieces deserve your budget and which don’t.
How do you measure whether marketing is actually working?
By the business it brings in. We report in plain language on the numbers that matter: what you spent, the traffic and enquiries it produced, and what a new customer actually cost. No burying you in impressions and vanity metrics. If something isn’t paying for itself, we say so and change course.
Do you only do marketing for Fraser Valley businesses?
No. Self-Edit is based in Abbotsford and most of our clients are in the Fraser Valley, but everything we do (search, ads, social) works the same at a distance, and we’ve served remote clients for years. You still get real people you can call, wherever your business is.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Tell us about your business and we’ll tell you which of these is actually worth your money.