We Help Startups and SME Businesses Achieve Exponential Growth.
No Fees. No Contracts. No BS.
Work one-on-one on a pay-for-performance basis with a digital marketing maestro, backed by the SEAL Team Six of media planners and buyers.
Meet Our Maestro...
Hi, I'm Greg
I’ve got 22 years of successful Digital Marketing experience working with clients of all sizes. If you’re fed up with big promises and little results then we should talk. If we accept you as a client we’ll be working together one-on-one and you won’t pay a dime unless you’re seeing measurable, undeniable results.
Greg Jerum
Principal - Net Return Marketing Inc.
Performance-based
Who's this for?
We definitely march to the beat of different drummer, which is not for everybody.
Might be for you if...
- It makes your stomach hurt to spend money on ads that don't convert.
- Your obsessive about your business and consistently disappointed that agencies just don't "get it".
- You need to grow almost as much as you need air.
Definitely not for you if...
- Your easily impressed by marketing awards or flashy lists of fortune 500 clients.
- You love to be "pitched" and are easily swayed by glossy presentations and a smooth sales team.
- You've got a "branding" mindset and are primarily looking to pile up millions of impressions without concern for tracking actual sales.
What we do
We cover ALL phases of the marketing cycle...
From Initial research all the way to advanced optimization. We've got you covered.
Market Map: Who are the players in your market and what is their strategy? How can we most powerfully and uniquely differentiate you?
Empathy Path: What is your target customer seeing, hearing, saying and thinking? This forms the bedrock of creative and ensures it will truly speak to your customer (in their own voice!).
Customer Personas: Who are your target customer(s)? What are their age ranges ranges / genders? What are their interests, hobbies, family makeup, income etc...? What else is important to understand about your best prospects? We'll figure it all out.
Google Ads, Facebook Ads or both? What about Native Ads? Don't forget about Youtube! How should we initially allocate your budget? What is your optimal funnel and conversion flow? These are all important considerations which need to be worked through in this phase.
The bedrock of any marketing campaign but often overlooked and not setup properly. We insist analytics are setup as accurately as possible from day 1. So they say, measure twice and cut once!
The ultimate destiny of your marketing program is determined by how we'll your team analyzes and optimizes based on the data collected. Over the long-term extraordinary results are built incrementally from optimization processes which are improved over and over again!
Why work with infantry grunts when you can have The SEAL Team Six of media planners and buyers.
Unlike most agencies we don't stack our team with interns and newly minted marketing and advertising grads. In fact, just the opposite. We ONLY work with deeply seasoned pros who are subject matter experts. Some don't even have college degrees (shocking!).
ANY OF THESE SOUND FAMILIAR?
The Three Biggest Reasons Why Most Marketing Agency Clients Fail.
Fell for a Slick Sales Pitch
Everything sounds wonderful during the sales process. But, when game time comes your media planners and buyers seem fresh out of college, have no real business experience and have been doing digital marketing for less than a year.
Account Representative "Hell"
Even worse you never even meet the people working on your ad accounts and get stuck in account representative "hell" battling through inane explanations of why you’re not seeing results. This is when you start getting the sinking feeling that you understand digital marketing better than your account team.
Hired a Tech. Not a Strategist
You hired an agency on who on paper sounds amazing. They're really good at pushing buttons in your ad accounts but nothing seems to move the needle? Here’s a secret for you. 98% of digital agencies are staffed almost exclusively by technicians. They typically have almost zero real-world business experience. Ad planning and buying is the easy part. At least 80% of your success is predetermined by the strength of your business model and unique positioning of your creative.
Client Video Reviews
Meet Ryan Jordan
Successful serial entrepreneur & all around great guy.
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Our secret sauce - Part 1
We've Combined The Agency and Freelancer Models to Bring you the Best of Both Worlds...
Our Model - Best of Both Worlds
We've turned the agency pyramid upside down and placed the founder right next to the client as their single point of contact. This allows us to bring the full energetic weight of our entire organization into laser focus ensuring the highest levels of expertise, strategy and accountability get applied to every client project. By design, this limits the number of clients Net Return can work with, so it's critical that each relationship be as successful as possible for us to prosper.
Additionally, we escape the short comings of the one man show free-lancer model by leveraging our founder with a highly specialized and experienced team of optimizers (media planners and buyers) who work under his close supervision. As as well as, a deep bench of specialists who can be flexibly engaged to solve more exotic one-off issues that pop up.
our secret sauce - Part 2
A Spear is Only as Effective as It's Tip is Sharp. With Our Guidance Your Spear Will Be Deadly...
I know digital marketing but more importantly I know business. I’ve profitably spent over $500,000 dollars promoting my own businesses. There are very few digital agencies who can make that claim and even fewer who are taking clients.
How this Works...
01.
Get in Touch
We’d like to help everybody but we can’t. Just know that whether we accept you as a client or not we’ll give you honest feedback that will have value for your business and future pursuits. Our founder (Greg) responds personally and promptly to EVERYONE who contacts us via this page.
Please be honest and open in telling us “How We can Help You”. This gives Greg the best chance of giving you the level of help you really need.
02.
Evaluation
First, you’ll have an initial conversation with our founder, Greg, to assess the current state of your business and goals. This will be followed by initial research and a follow-up conversation to review the findings.
The type of client partner we are looking to accept into this program goes far beyond just data. We've consistently found that at least half of our clients' success depends on the quality of our relationship. It’s essential that we like, respect, and align with each other on key business questions.
03.
Proposal
We’ll create a custom performance-based proposal tailored to your most important metrics and highest-priority business goals.
Once the program begins, we’ll start planning your creative and setting up your media accounts without any upfront compensation (no fees, no escrows—nothing). You won’t pay anything until we’ve surpassed our mutually agreed-upon performance baselines, and the compensation will only be in proportion to your results.
They Love Us...
What They Say
Net Return’s program sounded too good to be true.
Net Return’s program sounded too good to be true. I kept asking myself where's the downside? As decisions go, this was one of my better ones.
George TemPLE - SermonSpice.com
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I've been a client for over 5 years. I count on Greg to deliver results, and, he always does.
Liz Miller | Havasuareahomes.com
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Greg has done a super job for us. Has gotten our clients a great return on investment.
Steve Orlando | XNEffect.com
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We've been a client for almost a decade. Greg is focused on return on investment - a rarity these days.
Dr. Otis Plunk | privatemdLabs.com
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We don't know where we'd be today without Greg's Google Adwords Expertise.
Chadd Schomburgh | MyDebtAdvisors.com
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Great company. Easy to work with. Trustworthy. Greg is a man of integrity.
omar brown | aquion360.com
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The results we’ve achieved are amazing. More leads, less cost per lead. More money and profit for us – less money for Google.
Luis colon | mrwindowshouston.com
success Stories
Ecommerce Originator
Market: Cornhole (bean bag toss game)
Market Description: From casual tailgating to a professional league (with regular airings on ESPN and NBC) Cornhole has become one of the fastest growing sports / past times in the US.
Business Description: All Cornhole has become the market leader in the manufacturing and sale of premium (and patented) cornhole bags and boards.
Time in Program: 6.5 Years
Annual Revenue at Start of Program: $67,000
2023 Revenue: $8,000,000
Big Goal: 50 Million in annual sales.
Status towards Big Goal: On track (projected to reach by end of 2027)
Fast growing builder
Market: Custom built homes
Market Description: If the American dream is to own your own home then the American fantasy is to own your own custom built home.
Business Description: Value Build is a fast growing regional builder in the North / South Carolina area. Their innovative home building model brings high quality custom built homes at affordable prices on individually owned lots.
Time in Program: 2 Years
Annual Revenue at Start of Program: $10,000,000
2023 Revenue: $25,000,000
Big Goal: 100 Million in annual sales (and thousands of dreams fulfilled!)
Status towards Big Goal: On track (projected to reach by end of 2028)
REal Estate Disruptor
Market: Flat fee residential real estate listings
Market Description: The advent of online MLS listing services has massively changed how people shop for houses and the relationship between buyers, sellers and brokers.
Business Description: Unlike almost all of their competitors (who are solely lead generators) List With Freedom is a real estate brokerage. Over the last two years they have emerged from being a local market player to executing a 50 state strategy offering low cost (and high value) flat fee MLS listings and related services.
Time in Program: 3 Years
Annual Revenue at Start of Program: $100,000
2023 Revenue: $2,200,000
Big Goal: 10 Million in annual sales.
Status towards Big Goal: On track (projected to reach by end of 2025)
Limited Time Opportunity
March, 2025: For the first time in two years we have availability for new clients. Do you have an underperforming business or bold startup with great potential? If so, let's talk!
Greg Jerum - Founder