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B2C growth · lead gen & ecommerce
A force multiplier is a small input that makes a much larger system dramatically more effective. Not a bigger team, a sharper one. Four to six senior specialists working inside your business, with two specialisms: lead generation for purchases people agonise over, and ecommerce for brands that live on the second order.
- B2C growth
- Lead gen + ecommerce
- 4–6 senior operators per account
- Austin → everywhere
Currently working with
- A1 Surety Bonds
- TitleBonds.us
- NoRepairCost
- Empire Auto Protect
- N FL Land & Home
- Bathroom Design Center
- The Window Upgrader
- JT Builds Colorado
- Columbia Falls Mini Storage
- SafeMind Storage
- SuperSenses
- Festive Decor
- Sojourn Supply Co.
Why we exist
Why Force Multiplier Digital exists
Mostagenciesoptimisethenumberthatmakesthemlookgood.Weoptimisetheonethatmakesyoumoney.Thosearerarelythesamenumber,andthedistancebetweenthemiswheregrowthbudgetsquietlydie.
Platform ROAS is reported by the company selling you the ads. Last-click gives all the credit to the final touch. Blended averages hide the fact that your cheapest inventory is subsidising your worst. Every one of these is a number you can present to a board and still be wrong.
So we start every engagement by rebuilding the read: incremental contribution margin, cohort economics, holdout-tested truth. Two weeks, not a quarter. Small teams move at a speed large ones cannot buy. What you get out of it is the version that survives scrutiny, and the only foundation on which compounding is possible.
Two specialisms
B2C, run two different ways.
Consumer marketing splits into two problems that look similar and behave nothing alike. We work in both, and we are precise about the difference, because the tactic that wins one quietly loses the other.
Lead generation
A purchase someone researches for weeks, discusses at the kitchen table, and buys once. Windows, bathrooms, land and home, warranties, bonds.
- The lead is worth nothing until someone picks up the phone.
- The sale closes offline, weeks after the click that caused it.
- A cheap lead that never books is the most expensive thing in the account.
- We optimise
- Cost per sold job
- Not
- Cost per form fill
Ecommerce
A direct-to-consumer brand where the second order decides whether the first one was profitable, and creative supply sets the ceiling on spend.
- Contribution margin is the only honest read on a channel.
- Second-order rate sets the acquisition cost you can afford.
- Platform ROAS is reported by the company selling you the ads.
- We optimise
- Incremental contribution margin
- Not
- Platform-attributed ROAS
Most of our book is lead generation, and some of it is ecommerce. Several clients are both at once, a transacting storefront in front and a consultation-closed sale behind it, and the two halves need handling separately inside the same account.
How each discipline splitsHow we're built
The advantage your competitors can’t see.
A force multiplier is a small input that makes a much larger system dramatically more effective. That is the whole idea behind the name, and the whole design of the company: not more people on the account, but the right few: senior, fast, and pointed at the two or three things that actually decide the outcome.
Small
Six accounts at a time, firm. We have turned down work every quarter since 2021 rather than dilute a team. Scarcity is not a sales tactic here. It is the product.
Fast
Days from decision to live, not quarters. Speed is not a personality trait, it is a structural advantage: fewer people to convince, no approval chain, no committee.
Disciplined
Every move carries a hypothesis, a measurement plan and a stop rule before it ships. Nothing runs on instinct, and nothing keeps running because someone is attached to it.
Quiet
We do not put client logos on billboards. Most of what we build is meant to be the advantage your competitors cannot see, and that only works if we keep it that way.
The agency you have worked with before
This one
Forty people on the org chart, four on your account, and you meet the other thirty-six once, in the pitch.
Four to six senior operators, named. The people in the pitch are the people in your Slack on Monday.
A quarterly planning cycle, so the thing you noticed in March ships in July.
A weekly operating rhythm. Decision Monday, in market Thursday, read by the following Tuesday.
Layers between you and the work: account manager, strategist, specialist, contractor.
No relay race. You talk directly to the person whose hands are on the account.
Replaces your team, then quietly makes itself indispensable.
Multiplies your team, then documents everything so you could run it without us.
Six clients at a time means we are either a very good fit or no fit at all. Both answers are useful, and you will get ours in the first conversation.
How we workCapabilities
Six disciplines. One operating system.
Each one runs differently depending on whether you are generating leads or selling direct, and every service page states exactly how. Sold separately when that is what you need, compounding when run together, because follow-up sets the cost you can afford to pay for a lead and measurement decides whether any of it was real.
- 13
- Clients, named on this site
- 9
- Categories, from surety to seasonal retail
- 6
- Disciplines, all in-house
- 1 day
- Reply to every enquiry, from a partner
Answer engine optimization
Your next customer will ask a model, not a search box.
The model will name two or three brands in a paragraph. There is no position four to fall back on. That matters most in exactly the categories we work in, from windows and remodels to warranties and bonds, where the buyer opens with a question rather than a product name. Being one of the named brands is a structural problem: entity consistency, retrievable content, third-party corroboration. All solvable.
- 150–400
- Buyer prompts tracked weekly, per client
- 5
- Assistants monitored: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, AI Overviews
- Weekly
- Mention rate, citation rate, position and sentiment, reported monthly
How we operate
No discovery theatre. Four moves.
Every engagement runs the same sequence, because the failure mode we see most often is an agency executing tactics before anyone established what was actually broken.
- 01
Forensics
Weeks 1–3
We rebuild your read before we touch anything. Contribution-margin model net of returns, shipping and fees. Cohort curves by channel. A tracking audit and a baseline holdout. You receive the unflattering version first. It is the only one worth having.
Growth diagnostic + margin model
- 02
Thesis
Week 4
One page. The constraint holding the business back, the two or three moves that relieve it, what each is worth, and what we expect to be wrong about. If we cannot make the case in a page, we do not understand the business well enough to take your money.
Growth thesis + 90-day plan
- 03
Build
Weeks 5–12
Account architecture, flow architecture, measurement infrastructure, creative pipeline, revenue-path redesign: whichever the thesis called for, shipped rather than presented. Everything is built in your accounts, under your ownership, documented as we go.
Systems live, in your accounts
- 04
Compound
Ongoing
Weekly operating rhythm, rolling experiments with pre-registered stop rules, monthly reallocation against marginal return, quarterly re-forecast. The compounding is the product. Everything before this was setup.
Weekly rhythm + quarterly re-forecast
Who we work with
Hard categories, high-ticket decisions.
Surety bonds, vehicle and RV warranties, land and home packages, bathroom remodels, replacement windows, custom home building, self storage, and two direct-to-consumer brands. Not an easy portfolio, which is the point. Two clients each in surety, warranty, home improvement and self storage, because category depth beats a longer logo wall.
Detailed results are shared under NDA on a first call, not published as decontextualised percentages. We will walk you through the numbers, how they were measured, and what we got wrong on the way. Ask for a walkthrough.
Straight answers
The questions you were going to ask anyway.
Pricing, process, contract terms and the honest limits of what this work can do, all published rather than saved for a sales call.
Read all answersForce Multiplier Digital (FM Digital) is a small growth marketing agency in Austin, Texas, working with high-consideration consumer businesses across home improvement, housing, warranty and surety, alongside direct-to-consumer ecommerce brands. It combines paid media, answer-engine optimization, lifecycle marketing, conversion design, creative and measurement into one accountable system.
FM Digital was founded in 2017 and works with consumer brands typically between $5M and $150M in annual revenue. Engagements start at $12,000 per month and run on a 90-day initial term, then month-to-month.
The name is literal. A force multiplier is a factor that makes an existing capability dramatically more effective without increasing its size. That is the brief we hold ourselves to: the same budget, the same team, materially more output.
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Engagements from $12,000 / month · 90 days, then month-to-month