Brisbane Digital Marketing Agency
Search, ads, websites and content for Brisbane businesses, run by the two senior people who actually do the work. No account-manager relay, no report full of numbers that mean nothing.
You're a business owner. You know digital marketing should be bringing you work, and you also know most agencies are better at selling it than doing it.
I'm Ben, and I founded Matter Solutions in April 2000, back when most "web guys" were still arguing about table layouts. Since then we have done the lot for Brisbane businesses: SEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads, websites and content. The channels keep changing. The rule has not: marketing only counts if it brings you work.
We run as a micro agency on purpose. Day to day, your campaigns are looked after by Victoria, our Client Director, with me involved as strategist whenever you or she need me. Two senior people who actually do the work. No juniors, no hand-offs, no jargon. And we spend your budget the way we spend our own.
Why a Brisbane agency?
One team that has done every part of digital marketing, for a quarter of a century, based right here in the city. We treat your business like it is our own, because that is the only way we know how to work.
- Founded Matter Solutions in April 2000
- Link building since 2001, SEO for clients since 2004
- Google Ads qualified since 2008
- WordPress expert since 2008
- Brisbane based, became an Aussie in 2016
- MBA (2004), Master of Aeronautical Engineering
- Victoria leads your account day to day
Everything that brings you work
SEO
The long game that keeps paying. We earn you rankings for the searches that turn into enquiries, then defend them. Content, technical work and honest link building, no shortcuts that get you penalised later.
Google Ads
Enquiries this week, not next quarter. Search, shopping and remarketing built and managed by someone Google Ads qualified since 2008, with the tracking set up properly so you know what every dollar returns.
Meta Ads
Facebook and Instagram campaigns that reach the right people with the right message. Audience strategy, creative and management, aimed at leads and sales rather than likes.
Websites
The engine the rest of it runs on. Fast, SEO-ready WordPress sites that turn visitors into customers. We have built websites since 1998, so the marketing is designed in, not bolted on.
Content
Writing that answers real questions and earns trust, for humans first and search engines second. Our writers create it, our technical people check it, and you approve it before it goes live.
Strategy
The part most agencies skip. We work out which channels actually fit your business and your budget, in what order, so you are not paying for activity that was never going to move the needle.
Not sure which of these you need? That is the conversation to have first. Let's talk it through.
Do any of these sound like you?
Scattered Sam
I have a bit of everything running. Some Google Ads, a Facebook page, an old SEO job someone did years ago. None of it talks to each other and I could not tell you which part is actually bringing in work. I need one plan, not five half-finished ones.
Burned Bianca
I paid an agency for a year and got a lot of activity, a monthly dashboard, and no more enquiries than I started with. When I asked what they were actually doing I got jargon. I want to work with people who will tell me the truth, even when it is not what I want to hear.
Growth-ready Greg
The business works and I am ready to scale. I do not want to manage a website person, an SEO person, an ads person and a writer who all blame each other. I want one senior team that owns the whole thing and moves quickly.
Whichever one you are, we have been there with clients just like you. Let's have a conversation.
What growing with one team looks like
Fifteen years, one partner
A Brisbane steel fabrication business first called us in 2010. We started with their website. As they grew we grew with them: SEO to bring in the searches, then ads, then help when they opened a new depot, added a new product line, and moved into ecommerce.
That is the value of one team that knows your business, rather than a new agency every eighteen months learning it from scratch. When something changed, Ben was the first person they called. Victoria kept the day to day on track. The work compounded instead of restarting.
Busy is not the same as effective
Plenty of agencies will keep you busy. Reports full of impressions, reach and rankings for phrases nobody searches. It looks like progress and it bills like progress. It just does not put enquiries in your inbox.
We would rather do less and have it work. That means telling you when a channel is not worth your money yet, pointing your budget at the thing most likely to pay, and measuring the number that matters: leads and sales.
What Brisbane businesses say about working with us
"Since 2010 Matter Solutions has worked with our team to grow our marketing. Ben was the very first person we called when we opened a new depot, added a new product line and began looking at ecommerce."
"Ben and his team have been super helpful throughout the three website builds. Far more cost-effective and faster than our in-house option. We're excited to begin SEO and Ads for these new websites."
"Thanks for all your consulting and guidance, our team know what to work on now."
Teaching Brisbane digital marketing since 2010
Ben started running digital marketing training for Brisbane businesses back in 2010. From 2016 to 2019 we ran monthly Digital Marketing Workshops in Brisbane City and Sydney. Some of the people in those rooms became clients, and some are still clients today.
We would rather you understand what you are buying before you buy it. So we keep publishing: on the blog, on YouTube, and in every proposal we write. Ask us to explain something and we will, in plain English.
YouTube: askMatterSolutions
150+ videos covering SEO, ads and the mental models we use to explain how the channels fit together.
The Blog
300+ articles with practical guides on SEO, Google Ads and websites.
Custom Training
One-to-one, small group and corporate sessions to fill the gaps in your team's knowledge.
Brisbane first, and beyond
Brisbane
We are based in the City of Brisbane on Adelaide St. Most of our clients are in the City, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane Metro and South East Queensland. We know the city, we know Queenslanders, and we like meeting clients face to face.
Gold Coast
We have clients on the Gold Coast and we are keen to help more. Ben and Victoria drive down every fortnight to get campaigns underway. Local knowledge, without the local agency price tag.
Beyond Queensland
Good marketing does not need to sit in the next suburb. Through our Sydney workshops we began working with some of the largest names in consumer electronics and digital printing. If you are outside Brisbane and want senior people for a fair price, we would like to hear from you.
Digital marketing questions, answered honestly
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