Austin james kettelhut

Small Business Digital Marketing Solutions

Marketing Tailored to Your Business

For the past decade, I have assisted small and mid-sized businesses in optimizing their digital marketing efforts without the hassle of agency bureaucracy or a one-size-fits-all approach. My experience spans strategy development, Google and Meta Ads, email marketing, copywriting, and just about everything in between.

Having now worked with 30+ businesses and helped scale a small software startup, I understand the complexities of managing growing operations and teams. To navigate the many unknowns we’ll encounter, I prioritize clear communication, a flexible process, and tangible results to measure our success.

— AJ

Services

Digital Strategy

Most small businesses I encounter have fragmented marketing efforts, wasted ad spend due to improper conversion tracking, no clear marketing plan, and/or simply don’t know where to start. I’ll help you narrow your focus, identify where your core customers are online, define a clear strategy, and launch on a firm, scalable foundation.

Google & Meta Ads

Building a company on organic traffic alone is not impossible in 2026, but it is harder than ever. With AI chatbots cannibalizing the top of Google Search and organic impressions on Meta Business Pages having essentially gone extinct, paying for ads has become almost a necessity on both platforms if you want to continue reaching customers there. As your Ads Manager, I view my role as the protector of your budget, as these platforms will chew through it quickly with no guarantee of an ROI. My focus is to only spend on traffic that converts into leads or sales, and I deliver the data to prove it.

Email Marketing

Often, the easiest place to grow your revenue in the short-term is by investing in your existing customers and email lists. Through value-based newsletters and promotions, I help you stay in front of the people who already know you and keep them coming back over and over. For targeting audiences who don’t yet know you, cold email outreach is still a great way to make a personable first impression right in someone’s inbox. I’ll help you build out multi-step email flows that convert and grow your customer base.

Copywriting

With a B.S. in Journalism and two+ years working at a newspaper in Fargo, N.D., I have a background in storytelling and print writing. Although I left university and the newspaper world many years ago, I use the skills I learned in those settings to help my customers better tell their stories. This can come in the form of blogs, articles, website copy, case studies, and more. I’ve written for business in a wide variety of industries, including but not limited to health & wellness, outdoors, industrial equipment, travel, and agriculture.

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Client Reviews

“Austin has played a critical role in our company’s growth over the last year. His experience and expertise in Digital Marketing has been a key factor in our growth strategy while accommodating his services to fit our needs. The two specific areas that Austin has helped Float the most are Ads (Google, Faceook/Instagram) and SEO. On top of his valuable skillset, Austin is a genuinely great person. I would highly recommend working with him.

— Jake McHenry | Float

“Austin is a pleasure to work with. I’ve known him for several years and have hired him on project-based work on and off with both of my eCommerce companies. He is a jack of all trades and has done many things, including analytics analysis, implementation, platform migration, QA, copywriting, SEO, and more. His communication is crystal clear, he’s respectful of budgets, hours limitations and proactively solves issues on his own. I will absolutetly keep hiring him moving forward and highly recommend him to anyone looking for digital help.

— Luke Huebner | Mile Four & Zip Scanners

“Austin helped launch and lead our digital strategy for Voyager. He was our voice and helped in finding the vision for our brand. Highly recommend working with Austin!”