Metro Manila has no shortage of agencies. It has a shortage of ones that can show you what your money produced. We build the website, run the search and ads, and tie every peso to the inquiries that came back.
Whoever picks up your account stays on it. You will not be passed to a junior once the contract is signed.
900+ businesses grown in Denmark. Now working with businesses in Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao and across the Philippines.
Buyers here compare several suppliers before they contact any of them, and your competitors are already advertising. By the time your phone rings, most of the choosing has already happened.
Buyers in Metro Manila check three or four options, read reviews and look at websites before anyone gets a message. Most of the selection has already happened by the time your phone rings.
More advertisers bidding on the same searches means a higher price per click than anywhere else in the country. Wasted budget is more expensive in Manila, which is why tracking what converts matters more here.
Plenty of Manila businesses have already paid for a site that did nothing, or a report full of reach and impressions. The bar is not creativity, it is being able to explain where the money went and what came back.
You get cut before you are contacted.
By the time a Metro Manila buyer messages anybody, they have already searched, read the reviews, opened three sites and quietly ruled out most of the market. Nobody tells you that you were dropped. The shortlist just gets made without you, and the only symptom you ever see is a quiet phone.
Few businesses here need all four at once. In a market with clicks this expensive, the usual first move is fixing what you already pay for before adding anything new.
Your page is almost never read alone. It is read in a tab next to two competitors, on a phone, in a hurry. Speed, a clear price position and an obvious way to make contact are what decide which of the three tabs gets closed last.
Metro Manila is the one market in the country where paid search gets genuinely expensive, and where a business can end up renting every visit it gets. Ranking is the asset that lowers that bill over time instead of raising it.
More competitors bidding means a higher cost per click, so the win comes from exclusion as much as targeting: blocking the searches that never buy and concentrating on the districts and services that do.
Server-side tracking as standard, so inquiries and revenue are attributed properly rather than guessed at after iOS and ad blockers have taken their cut. When someone asks what the marketing returned, you have an answer with a source.
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In every one of these, the buyer has compared you against two others before you hear from them. Here is what decides that comparison.
Manila shoppers abandon slow checkouts and compare prices in another tab. Speed and trust signals decide the order.
See how we do itPatients search the symptom, read three clinics, then book the one that answered the question best.
See how we do itIn a city this dense, the nearest clinic is not the one that wins. Reviews and clear answers are.
See how we do itBusiness and leisure guests both book after comparing. Rates, photos and a working booking flow close it.
See how we do itPeople search for food near their office or their route home, and pick from whoever appears first.
See how we do itDiscovery happens on Maps and Instagram. Being current on both is most of the work.
See how we do itMost people searching for an agency here have already narrowed it to two: put somebody on the payroll, or sign with one of the large agencies in Makati or BGC. Both are defensible. Both leave out something that only becomes obvious in month six.
Somebody who is yours, who learns the business properly, and who is there when you turn around and ask.
A full team, an account manager, a monthly fee, and meetings you can take in person across the metro.
We are the second column without the last two lines. Your domain, website, Google Business Profile and ad accounts stay in your name, and the monthly report opens with how many people got in touch and what each one cost. If meeting in person is the deciding factor, hire inside the metro, and we will tell you so on the first call rather than after you have signed.
Four steps, and the plan names what we are cutting as clearly as what we are starting. Nothing begins before the price in pesos is agreed.
Step 1
We look at where you already sit against the competitors you would name, what you are paying per click compared with what the searches are worth, and what your tracking is failing to record. You get it in writing and it is yours whatever you decide.
Step 2
In a market this expensive the plan is as much about what to stop as what to start, so it names the searches and audiences we are dropping and what that frees up. Nothing begins until the price in pesos and the order of work are agreed.
Step 3
Tracking is fixed before spend goes up, because scaling on a broken measurement is how Manila budgets disappear. Site in 4 to 6 weeks, ads live in 1 to 2, and the accounts are opened in your name from the start.
Step 4
Each month the report leads with inquiries, bookings and revenue against cost, by channel. You can hand it to a finance director without translating it, and you will hear about a channel that stopped working from us first.
One contact who knows your numbers, one invoice, and one team answerable for the site, the listing, the ads and the reporting, so nothing falls into the gap between two suppliers.
Everything stays in your name
Domain, website, Google Business Profile and ad accounts registered to you, checkable today rather than promised. It is the single thing that decides whether leaving an agency costs you a month or costs you everything you have built.
Tracking built for a market with expensive clicks
Server-side tracking as standard, so conversions still get recorded after ad blockers and browser restrictions have taken their share. Where a click costs what it costs in Manila, measuring badly is not a reporting problem, it is a spending problem.
We count inquiries, not likes
Each month you see calls, Messenger inquiries and booked jobs. Not reach, not impressions, and not how many people reacted to a boosted post that brought in nothing.
We will name the thing that is not working
If a channel has stopped paying for itself you hear it from us before you find it yourself, including when the honest answer is to cut something we are paid to run. That is easier to promise than to do, which is why every account has one person answerable for it.
These come up on nearly every first call in Metro Manila, including the sceptical ones. Put yours to us directly.
Book a free 30-minute video call. We check what your tracking is failing to record and what you are paying per click against what the search is worth, whether you hire us or not.
