About Us

The Full-Stack Digital Marketing Agency for Brands that are Ready to Scale

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Upgrow is a “full-stack digital marketing agency” meaning we provide end-to-end solutions for generating qualified leads and sales online. 

This starts with building a marketing strategy to understand your target customer, their challenges, and your solution.  We then translate that into high-performance paid search, paid social, SEO, display, ad and landing page design – with web analytics to test and refine over time.

Our focus on data-driven performance marketing allows us to optimize all points of the marketing funnel.  Our team has the experience and processes in place to drive results faster with more efficiency and less learning curve.

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Growth+ROI is in our DNA

When Upgrow’s Founders, Danny Ng and Ryder Meehan, launched Upgrow in 2017, they understood why so many marketing campaigns fail.

Each having spent more than a decade managing digital marketing for brands like eBay, Samsung, and Fossil, they recognized the need for a true performance agency.

One that couldn’t not only execute but understood strategy and all the pieces that needed to come together to see breakout results.

It goes back to the dawn of time for marketing:

  • Right audience
  • Right time
  • Right offer

And so while there are countless marketers and agencies able to turn on a basic Google Ads campaign or write some SEO meta titles, the secret sauce was to take a step back and appreciate these timeless marketing basics.  And then bring in all the components from not just expertly managing ads and SEO operations, but also creating ads that actually got noticed, setting up incredible landing pages that convert, and using robust analytics to attribute everything. 

This combined experienced strategy with flawless execution, which is what we’ve set out to deliver for our clients.

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Traditional Approach

  • Keyword/Audience Research
  • Ad Copy Writing & Design
  • Choosing Existing Landing Page
  • Report & Optimize for Leads
  • Basic Keyword/Audience Expansion
  • Low-Touch Automate Bidding
  • Limited Channel Expansion Opportunities

Our Approach

  • Brand Discovery
  • Positioning/Differentiation
  • Dream Client Persona Creation
  • Problem/Solution Development
  • Plan Audience Stages and Offers
  • Landing Page Optimization/Creation
  • Keyword/Audience Research
  • Ad Copy Writing & Design
  • CRO and Landing Page Testing
  • Report & Optimize on for Qualified Leads/Opps
  • Advanced, Diverse Keyword/Audience Expansion
  • Strategic Manual Bidding & Rules-Based Automation Once Data Volume is Reliable
  • Comprehensive Expansion Opportunities

Meet the Team

We know an agency is only as good as the people working on our client’s accounts.  That’s why we rigorously recruit, coach, and empower incredible Upgrowers with all the resources they need to perform.

Get to know who you could be working with: 

Victoria Dondanville

Paid Media Specialist

David Dasilma

Paid Media Specialist

Ryan Hartwick

SEO Specialist

Nichole Hine

SEO Manager

Baldwin Diep

Senior SEO Specialist

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Our office is located in the heart of the downtown Financial District in San Francisco, CA.