Digital Advertising

Website analytics resulting from Hermleigh Digital's advertising campaigns for small businesses in Richmond, VA.

Strategic, data-driven advertising built for small businesses.

Digital advertising done right is about spending smarter. We handle the strategy, creative, targeting, and optimization so the dollars you put into ads come back to you as customers.

What Digital Advertising Management Includes

Every engagement is fully customized to your business:

  • Strategy and goal setting. Awareness, website traffic, leads, sales, email signups. Different goals call for different campaigns. We build to the goal first.

  • Platform selection. Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and others. We advertise where your customers are.

  • Tailored ad creative. Copy and visuals built for the platform and the audience. The ad that works on Instagram is not the ad that works on Google.

  • Audience targeting. Custom audiences, lookalike audiences, retargeting, geographic targeting. Targeting is where most small business ads fall apart, and it is where we put the most care.

  • Ongoing optimization. We watch what is working, kill what isn't, and shift budget to the ads that earn it.

  • Reporting in plain English. Impressions, clicks, cost per click, conversion data. Explained so you understand what is working and why.

A Note on Ad Spend

Your ad budget is separate from our management fee. You set the spend with us based on your goals, and that money goes directly to the platforms (Google, Meta, etc.). Our job is to make every dollar of that budget work harder than it would on its own, resulting in significant return on ad spend (ROAS) for you, our client.

Most clients start somewhere between $500 and $1,000 a month in ad spend, and ramp up once we’ve identified strategies that work. Think of it like a faucet, just as you can increase or decrease the water pressure, you can also increase or decrease the amount of funding you put into your ads, depending on your goals, bandwidth, and other business priorities.

We are here to help you think through these decisions.

Who We Work With

Our digital advertising services are the right fit if you are:

  • A small business owner who has tried boosting posts or running ads on your own and didn't get the return you expected.

  • Ready to commit a real ad budget but want a professional managing it rather than guessing at it yourself.

  • Running a local service business where reaching the right people in the right ZIP codes matters more than casting a wide net.

  • An e-commerce business ready to scale beyond the customers who already know you.

Frequently Asked Questions

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