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What We Do

We solve problems. We don’t sell packages.

Most agencies hand you a menu and hope you pick the expensive thing. We do the opposite. You tell us what’s going wrong, and we figure out what it will actually take to fix it.

Most people can’t name the problem when they call. They just know things aren’t growing, everything feels slow, or they have no real visibility into what’s working. Here are the problems we get hired to solve most often. Almost nobody arrives needing just one.

Common problems we solve

Pick the one that sounds like you ↓

“I’m spending on ads with nothing to show for it.”

You’re paying for clicks, or boosting posts, or running campaigns someone set up a while ago, and you genuinely cannot tell whether any of it is working.

Usually the ads aren’t the real problem. The tracking is broken, the campaigns optimize for the wrong thing, or the traffic lands somewhere that was never built to convert. We find out which, fix it, and run advertising that answers to revenue, not vanity metrics.

What this usually involves

Google Search, paid social, and the tracking and landing pages behind them. Scoped as a project, with ongoing management if it makes sense.

“My website looks fine, but it doesn’t bring in customers.”

A website can look perfectly nice and still do nothing for the business. No leads, no bookings, no sales, and no clear reason why.

We build sites designed to convert, that talk to your CRM and your email, and that you can update without calling a developer. Sometimes that’s a fresh build. Sometimes it’s rescuing a site that’s broken or locked — a rescue, which is how Auntie Snorkel first became a client.

What this usually involves

New builds on the right platform for your business, and rescues of sites that are broken, locked, or stranded. Scoped as a project.

“My tools don’t work together, and I’m the one holding it all together.”

You have a CRM, a booking system, a payment processor, an email tool, and a spreadsheet or three, and none of them talk to each other. So you’re the integration, copying data from one to the next, running the same manual steps every week.

This is where most agencies tap out. We don’t just use these tools, we build and connect them. CRMs, automation platforms, payment systems, external APIs, custom work when needed. Then we automate the repetitive work. An operation that runs itself, instead of one that runs through you.

What this usually involves

CRM builds and integrations, automation and API connections, payment and tool integrations, workflow automation, and AI woven into the operation. Scoped as a project, with optional ongoing support.

“I need a senior partner running this, not another freelancer.”

You don’t need more hands. You need someone who owns the marketing and the technology the way a seasoned executive would. Sets the direction, runs the systems, and is accountable for results, without the cost of a full-time hire.

That’s our fractional marketing and technology leadership: strategy and execution, run as an ongoing operation that learns your business more deeply every month. A full-time leader who could do this is $90,000 or more a year with benefits, and you can’t dial them down. This is that leadership, fractionally, from a partner already inside your systems. The longer we work together, the more valuable we get, because we’re not relearning your business every time. We already know it.

What this usually involves

Ongoing fractional marketing and technology leadership, on retainer. This is the work we do for Think Hawaiian.

The difference

Anyone can run your ads.
We transform your business.

The island is full of agencies that’ll run your ads, manage your Yelp, and get you a few more customers. A dime a dozen. We can do that work too, but it’s the floor, not the ceiling. The clients who keep us do so because we go further than any agency can.

Most agencies stop at the surface. The moment the work requires actually building something, configuring the system, connecting the tools, writing the automation, they bring in someone else or tell you it can’t be done.

We’re technologists. That’s the difference. We don’t just use the tools, we build on them. We connect the systems that don’t natively talk to each other, get them working together, and then make them work on their own.

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Case file · Auntie Snorkel, Rescue
Locked out of their own website by a former developer, with the entire business on the line.
The work it took to get them out and rebuild everything wasn’t marketing. It was engineering. Ask any other agency on this island if they could have done it.
Read the Auntie Snorkel story →

Fluent across the tools that run your business.

We choose technology around your needs, not our preferences. These are the categories of platform we work in every day.

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Not sure which one you need?

That’s the normal case — and it’s exactly what a conversation is for. Tell us what’s going on, and we’ll help you figure out what will actually move the business.
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What it costs

Priced up front. No hourly meter.

Every engagement is scoped and quoted at a fixed price after a short discovery. Most start with a project or an ad program and grow into an ongoing retainer.

See how we’re engaged →
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Let’s talk story.

Tell us what’s going on. We’ll tell you straight whether we can help.

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