Marketing Guardians
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Hi! Nice to meet you We’re Marketing Guardians, your Monthly Subscription-Based Marketing Agency.
Most companies don’t have the right internal marketing resources and don’t know where to start. Our “On-Demand” Managed Marketing Solutions give you the freedom to once again focus on serving your clients.
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18 customer reviews
Kristi Hyson
I highly recommend Marketing Guardians for your company’s marketing needs. I started working with Marketing Guardians in 2017, I was in desperate need of a new website. By the time I connected with Marketing Guardians, I was exasperated with companies that sell one thing and deliver another. I am not personally a fan of that type of sales tactic and have certainly learned my lesson. I found myself in a situation where the company that was hosting my website was hacked and I lost my website, with no backup! On top of losing my website, it was listed as malicious on Google if someone searched my name or site. I needed help, Stephen and his team listened to me and presented solutions. Stephen, Melissa, and their team are an absolute treasure to work with. Stephen helped me endlessly to fix my issue on Google, he recommended an SSL cert for the new website they were building and was able to host my site at a reasonable cost that backs up my website daily. In case of any issues, there is always a backup copy of my website. Marketing Guardians work with integrity, they mean what they say and follow through with their actions. I have been a client for 6 years and I will continue to be a client for as long as I am in business. More...
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Wilfred Ovedhe
Marketing Guardians is a relationship driven organization that is wrapped up in a family-like environment. So you have a work-family that integrates into your operations to form a work-client-family, making it possible to receive a quality of service and seamlessness that would easily match and even exceed what you might receive from a team of in-house employees. This is an innovative level of 360 degrees marketing services provision! More...
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Stephanie Beaulieu
As someone who always tries the do-it-yourself approach, I greatly appreciated the done-for-you marketing work by Marketing Guardians to prepare the landing page for the release of my new book for visitors and customers.
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Shane Stirling
We’ve been working with Marketing Guardians for years. Their monthly subscription model fits perfectly to support our needs. Even with our office being 1000km apart, they have worked to be a vital part of our team. More...
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Kim Lozinski
Stephen, Maja and the Marketing Guardians team were top notch. They always went above and beyond to help me and my team. I wouldn't think twice about using their services! More...
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Jeremy Hein
Stephen and the team at Marketing Guardians helped bring our vision for our website and marketing materials to life. We are extremely happy to have a talented team like Marketing Guardians working for us as a partner!
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Community Productions
We've been working with Marketing Guardians since December of 2020 and have nothing but good things to say. The team is organized and professional, always giving great direction, communicating effectively and very knowledgable.
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Kim
Stephen, Maja and the Marketing Guardians team were top notch. They always went above and beyond to help me and my team. I wouldn't think twice about using their services! More...
Shane Stirling
We’ve been working with Marketing Guardians for years to support our marketing needs. They’ve helped us rebrand, build a new website and add updates as our company has grown and added new divisions.
They have always been there to support our growth by creating new marketing and sales collateral, maintaining our social media, and sending out important customer announcements.
Their monthly subscription model fits perfectly to support our needs. Even though our offices are in Fort St.John, Grande Prairie, and Dawson Creek, and theirs based in Calgary, they have been a vital part of our team. Whenever we needed new ideas or marketing tools they were there to support us.
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Derrick Nason
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There flexible approach to listening to your needs and providing a clear professional proposal is top notch. Both Stephen and Melissa have tons of experience to successfully catapult your marketing plan to success.
Reagan Pflug
Office Guardians is a professionally minded company that cares about doing things right from the beginning. They understand your business in depth before they build a plan. They know how to market your business and position it to get results. More...
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Nick Bonoff
Thanks Office Guardians.
Great service with Great results.
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Kym Simon
Office Guardians have been so helpful in starting up our business websites and are very knowledgeable in the latest technologies for social media. Thanks so much!
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Shelby Ulrich
Office Guardian is great to work with. They are detailed and organized. They built a beautiful website that will help me assist Brides plan their ideal weddings!!
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Gilbert Nanlohy
Office Guardians is comprised of passionate people who will fight for your business. I had the privilege of working with the owners of OG for several projects as the interactive lead. They are incredibly creative, strategic and intuitive when it comes to elevating your ideas - whatever your business needs, Office Guardians will find a way to get your audience. I've seen them rise to challenges time over time. Give them a call or an email, they will be your Office Guardian :) More...
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Mr Paul Benson
I would highly recommend working with office guardians…. Melissa and the leadership team have great integrity and good communication… Their knowledge in the industry is simply awesome . Above and beyond all that is their heart and commitment to getting things done to perfection… They are hard-working and lighthearted .Give them a shot at your next project and they will delight you… More...
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Tina-Marie Yenna
Stephen, Melissa and their amazingly talented team at Office Guardians took our business to a whole new level. The unique design and branding of our company was created with thorough and articulated interest in our individualized product. They were attentive to our needs as customers and worked tirelessly on creating a website with a personal touch. The Office Guardians were ALWAYS there to answer a question or assist in any way we needed and completely surpassed our expectations! A big thanks from Porta Ice Ltd. More...
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Keshia Whyte
The team at Office Guardians are professional, friendly, and genuinely care about the success of your business. A lot of people don't know where to start in terms of marketing or branding for their new businesses, but Office Guardians makes it easy to get your online and offline presence going with their startup package. You don't have to be a startup to work with them either! You can already be established and just need a new website, a brand refresh, or some new print material, they do it all! I highly recommend them. More...
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What makes a great website?
There’s no silver bullet for creating a great website. But, if you stick to these 7 principles when creating your next blog, ecommerce site, portfolio or business website, you’ll find creating a good website is easier than you think.
Clear purpose – Make sure you know what your site is for, and importantly, not for
Clear audience – Identify who your site is aimed at. Do you know what your audience looks like? What they enjoy? Do for work? How old they are? What other sites they use? All of this information, and more, is crucial for building the best website.
Straightforward navigation – Is it easy to work out how you get around your site?
The right style – Your site should be unique and distinctive, whilst still appealing to your users
High quality imagery – If your images aren’t good, your site won’t look good, either
The right fonts – Make sure your font matches the general style, and is legible
The right words – Your site can look amazing, but if none of the words make sense, design won’t matter
What questions might you ask a client when starting a new project?
We want to know what you do and why you do it.
What's your competitive advantage?
What's your objective?
What have you done so far and are you aware of how it has worked - have you tracked and do you have metrics.
Describe your creative process.
This graphic perfectly illustrates our creative process from start to finish -https://www.dropbox.com/s/g9ysfi3rizqgs5z/MarketingGuardians-Process.png?dl=0
What information do you need from a client before you can start work?
Our goal is to always get a potential client into a personal meeting where we’d be able to talk deeply about the project and about how our agency works.
Therefore, our main goal for the first email reply (or phone call) is to set up a meeting.
We always want to introduce ourselves and Marketing Guardians: our procedures, what we can do, why can be good to work with us, what the client should expect. It's always good to try and match the expectations from the beginning.
We need a client's objectives, timelines and budget.
But most of all we want their commitment to the process.
What do you love most about your job?
Marketing is about relationships and the way we work is always with the goal of building relationships. People buy from people they trust and they trust people they are in a relationship with?
We love being able to support a client towards achieving their true goals. It's just as important to us as it is to our clients.
What inspired you to start your own business?
Marketing Guardians was started by Melissa and Stephen Ramkissoon because they care about small business owners like the ones that have inspired them to go into entrepreneurship themselves. Marketing Guardians was born out of a desire to build companies through creativity, story, strategy and great marketing. It was born out of a desire to build teams that become a second family, where people from diverse backgrounds and stories, can find home, fulfillment, respect, appreciation and support in a way that they never knew they could expect out of a job. It was born out of a desire to pursue marketing through relationships, where a client becomes a friend.
What’s in the name? Well, we think every company deserves protection, more-so, every company has a brand and that brand should be guarded, protected and fought for. So let’s define it, your brand refers to the perception customers have about that product or service. As a marketing agency, we want to protect and build your brand. Our logo contains a Phoenix. The Phoenix symbolizes a rebirth or rise from the ashes as a better stronger version and that’s what we want for all the clients we’ve ever partnered with – to see them evolve into an even better version than they previously envisioned. So the name and logo represent us fighting for your brand as we protect the process of your company’s growth into its best version yet.
Why should our clients choose you?
We help established companies nail brand story strategy. You’re looking for more sales, more visibility, more leads, more brand clarity – getting your story down paves the way. Your brand story is the “soul” of your business and your greatest marketing asset. If this makes us a B2C or B2B corporate storytelling company, then great. We use your story to make your brand memorable, as our mission is to build inspired trust between you and your audience.
We’ll never lead with solutions that you should pursue, instead, we lead with active listening and inquiry. We listen to you and your story, your successes, the work that is meaningful and excites you and then to your pain points. We listen first to connect, and then to create new possibilities.
We want to create a marketing presence that influences, a brand that connects, and collateral that converts. – We’ve combined strategy, creativity, technology, messaging, and design & development into a streamlined process specifically for small businesses. No fluff and complications, just a company poised for growth.
Can you provide your services online or remotely? If so, please add details.
We are a full-service digital marketing agency that works with international clients. We would love to discuss your next challenge. We are happy to meet in person with clients close to us, and if proximity does not permit, we utilize several digital technologies that allow us to communicate seamlessly, remotely.
What changes have you made to keep your customers safe from Covid-19?
WE'RE HERE TO HELP. WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER!
At Marketing Guardians, we don’t pretend to have all the answers but we want you to know that we’re in your corner and as entrepreneurs, leaders, coworkers, parents, family, friends and neighbours, we understand how you feel - if you feel stuck in your business, wondering how you respond to the daily changes in the industry, what to do when projects dry up or you have to close your doors to keep people safe or have your teams work remotely - let’s talk. Here’s a link to schedule a free half-hour where we can chat together and brainstorm creative solutions that will allow you to thrive in this environment - we’re all in this together and we’ll give you our best.
https://calendly.com/stephenatmarketingguardians/covid-eo-marketing-support
Monthly Subscription Marketing Services
It functions just like any of the monthly subscriptions you use on a daily basis, but instead of a streaming service like Netflix or Spotify, you get an entire marketing agency at your disposal. We create a plan and working structure based on your monthly needs. As part of your monthly package, you get access to our entire team. This includes strategists, copywriters, web developers, graphic designers, social media experts, and videographers etc. Whatever skillset your projects require, we have the resources to support your projects. You have the ability to introduce new projects or change priorities on a month to month basis. No need to look for specific freelancers with specific skills, or hire multiple professionals or marketing agencies. We streamline the entire process. With our scalable monthly marketing plan in place, your business can finally get ahead.
Marketing Strategy based on a Story-Telling Approach
Creating a winning strategy can be difficult. We’re huge fans of a process called StoryBrand; it’s a proven 7-part process that we use to create a marketing strategy that works. The process was developed to build relationships with customers so they want to buy from you. We don’t just want to tell your story, we want to invite your customers into the story – the problem is that most times we’re not telling the story in the way customers are tuned to hear. With a clear message and framework to follow, effective marketing becomes really simple. After all, people don’t buy products and services, they buy transformation.
Web Design & Development
Your website is digital real estate for your business. By providing premium web design we're making sure it shows your business in the best possible light.
Every detail your users see or cannot see matters and everything on your website should have a purpose. Let our web development services take you further than you imagined you could get.
CDAP Digital Advisor (Canada Digital Adoption Program)
The Government of Canada, as part of the 2021 federal budget, announced the Canada Digital Adoption Program (CDAP). The goal of the CDAP program is to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to meet the challenges of the digital age and reach their full potential. Eligible businesses can leverage this grant to pay for the services of a digital advisor (who has to be pre-approved for this by the gov’t). The advisor will work with companies to recommend digital pathways and strategies to help them achieve their business goals and increase their competitiveness in the digital economy.
Introducing The Boost Your Business Technology Grant:
The grant covers up to 90% of the eligible cost of retaining the services of a digital advisor (that’s us!), up to a maximum grant value of $15,000, to develop a digital adoption plan. Businesses also have the opportunity to secure up to a $100,000 0% interest loan from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) to facilitate the acquisition of new technology. You can also apply for a wage subsidy of up to $7,300 to hire a student or recent graduate to help achieve your digital adoption goals through a funded work placement program.
If you’re interested in learning more about this, Marketing Guardians is an approved CDAP Digital Advisor and can help you apply for the grant if your business qualifies and can build your Digital Adoption Plan.
You can visit this page on our website for more information: www.marketingguardians.com/cdap/
