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Marketing & Ad Management

You’re open. Now let’s fill the place.

You built the destination. Now let’s build the presence that brings people to it — across search, Maps, social, AI and paid media, then all the way through the door.

The part after opening day

You already bought the dream. We’re here for the reality.

The branding is done. The website is live. The menu is printed. The staff is scheduled. The lights are on.

So where is everybody?

Maybe you’re posting and nobody seems to see it. Maybe you Google your own business and the competition keeps showing up first. Maybe weekends are fine but Tuesday feels like a ghost town. Maybe you’ve boosted posts, tried ads, changed the offer and asked everybody you know to share it — and you still don’t know what is actually moving the needle.

Then somebody starts talking about SEO, PPC, AEO, ROAS, CTR and PMax.

Meanwhile, you have a much simpler question: How do I get more people in here?

Good. Let’s start there.

We’re not selling you another dream. We’re working toward a better reality.

Your problem is not a marketing acronym. It is a business problem. We start by figuring out where the path is breaking before we ask you to spend more money sending people down it.

Can’t find you?We work on visibility.
Finding you, not clicking?We work on the message.
Clicking, not converting?We work on the destination.
Wrong customers?We work on targeting.
Ready, but too quiet?Now we turn up the traffic.

And if we don’t know yet? We figure it out before we start throwing your money at it.

The whole path matters

We don’t sell traffic. We build the path from attention to your front door.

PLACE→PRESENCE→PEOPLE

Your brand gives people something to remember. Your website gives them somewhere to go. Search gives them a way to find you. Advertising puts you in front of people actively looking. Social keeps you in the conversation. SEO and AEO strengthen discovery. Your landing experience gives them a reason to choose you. Your business gives them a reason to come back.

That’s the system we work on — not one ad floating by itself.

Paid media, handled seriously

When it’s time to spend your money, a specialist is holding the wheel.

Your campaigns are led by a Google Ads certified professional — not somebody who learned paid media as an agency add-on. Strategy starts with the business: the market, the competition, what customers are searching for, where you show up now and what happens after somebody clicks.

Because we’re not interested in paying to expose a problem we could have fixed first.

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One team. Fewer handoffs.

Your marketer shouldn’t send you somewhere else every time marketing exposes a problem.

If the campaign uncovers a weak landing page, confusing offer, inconsistent brand, missing content, poor local presence or conversion problem, Acquired Taste has people who can work on it.

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The goal isn’t to sell every service on the menu. The goal is to get the business moving.

What working with us actually means

We’ll give a damn.

We’ll learn the business. We’ll listen to what you want it to become. We’ll study what’s working and what isn’t. We’ll challenge ideas when the strategy says we should — and run with yours when they’re good.

We’ll test. Adjust. Create. Research. Rebuild. Try another angle. Watch what customers do. Pay attention when the numbers change. And when something isn’t working, we don’t hide behind marketing terminology. We start figuring out why.

Because this isn’t just another account on a dashboard.

There’s a person behind that business.
There’s payroll.
There’s rent.
There’s somebody who put money, time, reputation and probably a ridiculous number of sleepless nights into opening those doors.

We understand what you’re trusting us with.

Not another vendor

You need people in your corner.

Tell us the crazy idea. Tell us what you’re afraid isn’t working. Tell us about the customer you want more of. Tell us what you tried before. Tell us what you think might work. We’ll listen — then bring strategy, advertising experience, design, search, content, technology and creative thinking to the table and figure out the next play with you.

We want to become the marketing department you call when something needs figuring out.
Local discovery · digital footprint

You built the destination. Let’s put it on the map.

Your customers move between the physical and digital world all day. They search. Scroll. Ask AI. Check reviews. Tap a map pin. See an ad. Hear about a place from a friend. Then they decide where to go.

Your customers aren’t living in one channel. Neither should your presence.

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The metric that matters

We don’t celebrate until you do.

Not because the ad launched. Not because impressions went up. Not because we sent a report full of green arrows. Your win has to look like a win in the real world: the phone ringing, a reservation coming in, an inquiry worth answering, somebody saying they found you on Google, a customer tagging the business, a table getting filled, a regular coming back, a slow day becoming less slow.

When you do good, we do good.

When you’re ready for ongoing growth

Strategy first. Packages second.

We’ll talk about what the business actually needs before forcing it into a package. Ad spend is separate. Both packages include a separate one-time initial setup fee, scoped after we review the account, tracking, landing pages, locations and what already exists.

Growth

Established Growth Business

$1,500 / month
  • Google Ads management
  • Campaign optimization
  • Monthly performance report
  • Ongoing communication, strategy updates & recommendations
  • AEO + SEO page optimization
  • Google Business Profile optimization
  • Landing-page optimization
  • Content / creative support
  • Website performance support

One-time initial setup fee applies. Ad spend is separate.

Talk about growth →

Larger multi-location programs: hotel groups, chains and complex accounts are scoped separately.

No jargon required

Ask the question the way you actually ask it.

I’m open. Why am I still not getting enough customers?

There is rarely one universal answer. We look at discovery, local presence, paid traffic, message, offer, website experience, conversion path and measurement to identify where attention is being lost.

Should I start with Google Ads, SEO or AEO?

It depends on what the business needs now. Paid search can create immediate visibility while SEO, local search and AEO strengthen longer-term discovery. We use the mix that fits the problem instead of treating every channel as mandatory.

Can you guarantee a #1 Google or Maps ranking?

No. Nobody controls organic rankings. We improve the technical, content and local signals we can control, compete intelligently and measure what changes.

Do you handle what happens after the ad click?

Yes. Landing pages, websites, creative, brand, content and conversion work can stay inside Acquired Taste Studios so the campaign and destination are built to work together.

Can you manage multiple locations?

Yes. Multi-location strategy can include market segmentation, location-aware campaigns and pages, local profile work and reporting by market. Scope depends on the number of locations and channels.

Remember this place?

The lights were already on.
It needed visitors.

You did the dreaming. You built the destination. Now let’s work on the reality — a busier place, a memorable place, a talked-about presence, and a business people can actually find and choose.

WE DON’T CELEBRATE UNTIL YOU DO.

No jargon required. Tell us what’s happening in the business. We’ll start there.

Because success is an Acquired Taste™.