The results marketing agency
Vancouver digital marketing agency that grows your revenue.
The booked-out calendar. The record sales month.
The scalable return on your ad spend. The number you’ve been chasing. Engineered from a detailed strategy that maps out your customer buying journey, to first-class execution that turns marketing strategy into real revenue for your business.
Bring your goals and challenges. We’ll bring the data.
577% ROIin 67 days
$224,219 in camp enrolments on $33,100 of ad spend. Pear Tree Camps — Education · Summer camps
Strategy first. Flawless execution.
Results that compound.
10 Years in Business$100M+ revenue generated500+ clients
B Corp Certified
Google Partner
- Channel Partner
- Claude Partner
“They're professional, personable…”
“…great to work with!”
“Highly recommend!”
“The whole process was smooth…”
“Working with the team was so easy…”
B Corp USA“They are true professionals…”
“This team is awesome!”
“…a huge positive on our end.”
“We are beyond thrilled…”
“It's just handled.”
“…it’s great quality.”
“You made yourselves part of Charlo.”
“Responsive, responsible…”
“…a thrill to work with.”
“They are very good at adapting.”
“The team's awesome.”
“…professional yet down-to-earth…”
“…very efficient with their time.”
“…an extension of our team.”
“…creative and fast responsive.”
Here’s the short version → Setsail is a Vancouver digital marketing agency helping growing organizations win more customers through paid media, SEO, conversion-focused websites and creative.
- For:
- Growing businesses · trades & construction · ecommerce · pro services · health · public sector
- What we do:
- Paid media · SEO · websites · creative · automation
- Engagements:
- Fixed-scope projects + month-to-month retainers
- How we work:
- Research → strategy → build → launch → optimize · fixed timelines, fixed deliverables, fixed pricing
- Where:
- Based in Vancouver · Canada + US
- Proof:
- $100M+ generated · 500+ clients · 10 years · B Corp
Trusted by governments and 500+ businesses
Proven numbers that do the talking
577%
Pear Tree Camps' ROI in 67 days. $224,219 in camp enrolments on $33,100 of ad spend.
Education · Summer camps
2,500%
Return on ad spend for NH New Horizons Staffing, with 292 job applications in 30 days.
Healthcare staffing
$20M
In sales by DŌST Bikes. We built the brand, the store and the marketing it ran on.
E-commerce · E-bikes
Our services
Everything you need to grow. One in-house team: ads, SEO, websites and more.
We run paid ads, SEO & GEO, websites, email marketing, social media, video & photo, branding, website care and cold outbound. Your Growth Strategy call shows where to focus first, based on your customers and financial goals.
Paid ads: Google, Meta & more
Your next customers, this month. Campaigns on Google, Meta and beyond that turn ad budget into booked jobs and orders, not just clicks.
Explore paid ads
Lead gen & e-comm websites
Built to do one job: capture leads or drive orders. Fast, tracked, and yours outright from day one.
Explore websites
SEO & GEO: rank on Google and in AI answers
Be the business Google ranks and AI recommends. Buyers find you first, and keep finding you for free.
Explore SEO & GEO
Email marketing
Repeat buyers on autopilot: campaigns and flows that turn one-time customers into your most profitable ones.
Explore emailSocial media marketing
A feed that sells for you: content that builds trust around the clock and turns followers into enquiries.
Explore socialVideo & photo
Scroll-stopping creative that pays for itself: video and photo at the volume e-commerce demands.
Explore video & photo
Branding
The multiplier: a brand system that makes every ad, page, and post convert better.
Explore branding
Website care
Keep your website cared for: hosting, updates and fixes handled within your agreed care plan.
Explore website care
Cold outbound lead generation
Booked conversations with the exact buyers you want.
Explore cold outbound
Setsail’s own team does all the work. Nothing is subcontracted.
The route
When we understand why people buy → the path to growth is clear.
Most businesses waste months, and thousands of dollars, guessing what will work. You won’t. Starting with strategy gives you the fastest, most efficient path to your goals, mapped out before you put a dollar into execution. Then every 90 days, we tune the plan so your results keep climbing.
Without a strategy
Marketing becomes guesswork and wasted spend.
Problem arises
A new opportunity or challenge pops up.
Guesswork
You try things without a clear plan.
Set & forget
Campaigns run with no real direction.
Spend stops working —
and nobody can say why.
With a strategy
A clear route from insight to impact.
Strategy refresh · every 90 days
01 Discovery call
Align on your goals, challenges and context.
02 The deep dive
Research, customer insights and analysis.
03 The strategy
A clear plan tailored to how your customers actually buy.
04 The build
Turn strategy into campaigns, content and systems.
05 The launch
Go live, measure and drive results.
In their words · Reviews ★★★★★
Trusted by governments and 500+ businesses in North America and worldwide
From political campaigns to nationwide rebrands and massive product launches: an in-house team that moves fast and delivers, across North America and worldwide.
“If I have a client who needs something up in three weeks, you guys will just do it… I never hear no, or ‘it can’t be done’.”
Theodora Jean
Founder & CEO, Coldwater Communications
“Everything that Setsail has designed for us, we try to incorporate that now in all of our presentations, including investor materials.”
Dorthy Cheng
Executive Assistant, CleanDesign
“You made yourselves part of Charlo. You made yourselves part of my story.”
Lia Psomiadis
Founder, Charlo
“We changed our direction of our business and Setsail has been matching that pace each and every time that we made that adjustment.”
Blake Voyer
Microworks Handyman
“I’ll immediately hear from somebody… It’s just handled. It’s just white glove considerate handled without a white glove price tag.”
Melanie Clarance
Co-Founder, AetherEV
“Creating a real strategy with KPIs that aren’t out of touch… this isn’t a pie in the sky story, this is an actionable work plan.”
Lucas Ens
Economic Development Officer, City of Prince George
“We’ve been working with Setsail for 7 years for all our marketing materials, website design, product design, videos, photos. They’ve been great. Responsive, responsible, great materials.”
Larry Knurik
VP Logistics, GVA Brands
“It’s been really easy, smooth, and it’s been a great time, and I’d recommend it to anyone.”
Antonio Zivanovic
Founder, ElektraFi
“Tom and Jason are a thrill to work with… The direction and strategy that they bring to the table is top notch.”
Gordon Lai
Surface 604
“If you’re looking for a marketing team that really gets it and delivers outstanding results, Setsail Marketing is the way to go.”
Sam Atakhanov
Founder, DŌST Bikes
We study the market and experiment relentlessly. And we love sharing our findings.
Steal our homework. We insist. Fresh research, real experiments, and what we’re learning across hundreds of accounts, from the team that runs yours.
A note from the founder
“10 years and 500 clients in, the thing I'm most certain of is that marketing rarely fails because the ads were ugly. It fails because nobody did the work to understand the person on the other end of the sale. So that's why we start with customer journey every single time, and we validate data before you pay us.”
Jason Atakhanov
Founder & CEO, Setsail
Book a Growth Strategy call if any of this sounds like you
- You want more business than you’re getting now, and you’re ready to do something about it.
- You’re not happy with your digital presence, the site, the ads, the socials, and you believe it could be producing a lot more.
- You’re already spending on marketing, and you can’t say for sure which part of it brings in work.
- You’ve never hired an agency, and you’d rather see a plan you can hold in your hands than sign a retainer on faith.
- And once things are running, you want to see the data, read the reporting, understand the tweaks being made, and know someone’s on top of it, without having to chase anyone.
- You’re a public-sector or B2B team that needs a documented, defensible strategy before budget gets approved.
Book a Growth Strategy call
30 minutes, free.
Start with a call. We’ll dig into your business, your market, and what’s holding your numbers back, and you’ll leave knowing exactly what to fix first. If it makes sense to go further, our strategists then build your full Growth Strategy and present it with the complete plan.
10 years · $100M+ revenue generated · 500+ clients
Before the call, we run a 200+ point audit of your full online presence, so we arrive already knowing your starting point. On the call, we’ll walk you through:
- What we found and what it means for your business
- Where your competitors are outperforming you
- Your top priorities — what to fix first
Bring your goals and challenges. We’ll bring the data. No commitment required.
Not ready for a call?Get a free digital audit covering your website, search visibility, competitor ad activity and conversion setup.We do not share or sell your information. Your details are used to build your audit and share it with you.
Setsail is a digital marketing agency in Vancouver, British Columbia, with a 30+ person in-house team running paid ads, SEO, websites, email and social for owner-led businesses across Canada and the US.
Performance creative so good it could be your new favourite show.
Get creative that’s proven to drive revenue and profit: in-studio shoots, on-location productions, animation and design, all made in-house.
FAQ
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Setsail Marketing
- Years In Business
- 10
- Average client relationship
- 7+ years
Vancouver + Beaverton, OR