Digital Marketing
Marketing run like experiments, not expenses.
Most marketing budgets are spent on faith. Money goes into ads, posts and content, results stay vague, and nobody can say with confidence what worked.
A lab, not a media buyer
We run marketing the way a lab runs experiments. Every campaign starts with a hypothesis about your audience, gets tested against real numbers, and earns more budget only when the evidence says it should. What works gets scaled. What doesn't gets killed quickly and cheaply. The result is marketing that compounds instead of marketing that just costs.
If you're tired of activity that produces impressions but not enquiries, this is the work we do.
What we deliver
Six disciplines, run as one system.
Marketing strategy
Before a penny is spent, we define who you're targeting, what they need to hear, which channels deserve your budget and what success will be measured against. In writing, with numbers attached. Most agencies start with channels. We start with the case for them.
Paid advertising
Campaigns across search and social, built to a target cost per lead rather than a vague promise of reach. We test creative and audiences in controlled rounds, cut what underperforms without sentiment, and scale what proves itself.
Search engine optimisation
Technical foundations, content strategy and keyword work aimed at the searches your buyers actually make, not vanity rankings. SEO is a long game, so we're honest about timelines and show progress against milestones, not just a monthly report of jargon.
Content and copywriting
From the words on your landing pages to the articles that build your authority, everything is written to do a job: rank, persuade or convert. Two standards apply to every piece. It has to sound like you, and it has to earn its place with a measurable purpose.
Email marketing
The channel everyone owns and most businesses waste. We build sequences that turn enquiries into customers and customers into repeat business, tested subject line by subject line, because in email the small things are the big things.
Social media marketing
Presence on the platforms where your buyers actually spend time, with content built from your brand system. We won't recommend five platforms when one done properly will outperform them all, even though five would be easier to sell you.
Our process
Six stages. Evidence at every step.
The same discipline as everything we build: defined stages, defined outputs, and evidence at every step.
- 01
Discovery call
We start by listening. Your business, your goals, where your customers come from now, and what your current marketing is actually returning. By the end of this call we both know whether we're the right fit, and you'll have our honest view either way.
- 02
Audit and research
Before we propose anything, we examine the evidence. Your existing channels and numbers, your competitors' playbooks, and how your audience searches, scrolls and decides. If money is being wasted somewhere, this is where we find it and show you.
- 03
Strategy and targets
We put the plan in writing: channels, messaging, budget allocation and the performance targets each channel will be judged against. You approve the strategy before execution begins, so we're accountable to numbers we agreed together.
- 04
Controlled launch
We don't launch everything at once. Campaigns go live in measured stages, so early data shapes spending decisions before serious budget is committed. It's how a lab works, and it's how your money stays protected.
- 05
Test and optimise
Live campaigns are experiments in motion. We test messages, creative and audiences continuously, scale what the numbers support and shut down what they don't. No campaign survives on opinion alone, including ours.
- 06
Reporting and growth
Every month you see what was spent, what it produced and what we recommend next, in plain English. Reporting here isn't a courtesy at the end of the process. It's the instrument the whole process runs on.
Who we work with
Built for businesses ready to hold their marketing to a standard.
We work best with founders and growing businesses ready to hold their marketing to a standard. Companies done with guesswork, established businesses scaling customer acquisition, and brands whose marketing hasn't kept pace with the quality of what they sell.
If you're after the cheapest possible campaign and a report full of likes, we're not the right lab for you, and we'd rather say so now than disappoint you later.
Why Instict Labs
We've built and marketed our own brands with our own money, which teaches a discipline that spending other people's never does.
Strategy, creative and analysis sit together here, so the people writing your ads are accountable to the numbers they produce.
Every campaign we run answers to one question: did it grow the business?
Ready to make your marketing answer for itself?
Book a consultation. We'll review what you're spending, what it's returning, and tell you honestly where we'd put your budget instead.
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