Award Winning Digital Marketing

The Post and Courier Charleston's Choice winner
Spark Awards winner
Best of Charleston award
Best advertising agencies in charleston, by expertise.com
SC Biz News Empowering Women Award

Built for companies that treat marketing as an investment, not an expense.

Our clients aren’t looking for someone to “run their social media.” They’re looking for a strategic partner who builds the systems that drive leads, pipeline, and revenue. Month after month.

We work best with companies that have proven product market fit and are ready to scale. That means you’ve got revenue, you’ve got ambition, and you understand that great marketing takes time to build but pays off for years.

An extension of your team, not an outside agency

We work as an extension of your team. Same goals, same urgency, same accountability. Just without the overhead of building it all in house.

Long-game mindset

You're not looking for a quick win. You're investing in 6 to 12+ month partnerships, not one-off projects.

Growth goals, not vanity goals

Leads, revenue, pipeline. Not just likes. You care about metrics that actually move the business forward.

Tired of fragmented marketing

You're done juggling freelancers and disconnected tools. You want one team, one strategy, one engine.

The problem we solve

Most growing companies don't have a marketing problem. They have a fragmentation problem.

One person running ads. Another posting to social. A freelancer on the website. An SEO “guy.” None of it connected. None of it building on itself. And nobody looking at the full picture.

We replace that chaos with a single, integrated growth engine. Branding, organic and paid social, search, SEO, content, email, and conversion focused web development, all working together inside one strategy. One team. One plan. Real results.

Growth marketing agency in Charleston SC
Matchstick Social partners strategize marketing solutions

How we build it

Every engagement follows a proven framework designed to create momentum that keeps building, not just campaigns that run.

01

Identify the Opportunity

We audit your current marketing, study your competitive landscape, and find the highest-leverage gaps between where you are and where revenue lives.

02

Build the Growth Engine

We architect an integrated strategy across channels (paid, organic, content, web, email) then build the creative and systems to execute it.

03

Optimize for Efficiency

Monthly reporting, testing, and iteration. We continuously refine what’s working, cut what’s not, and make every dollar work harder.

04

Scale with Purpose

Once we’ve found the formula, we scale budget and effort into the channels that are driving real returns. Not just activity.

Services

Everything your marketing needs, built around growth.

Growth Marketing Retainers

Our core offering. A dedicated team executing your full marketing strategy month over month. Paid media, organic social, content, email, and reporting tied directly to business goals.

Includes

Social media strategy & management · Paid social & Google Ads · Content creation · Email marketing · Monthly analytics & reporting · Dedicated strategist

Brand Identity & Development

Visual identity and messaging built to resonate with the customers you actually want. We go deep on positioning, voice, and design so your brand conveys authority before you ever say a word.

Includes

Brand strategy & positioning · Logo & visual identity · Brand guidelines · Messaging framework · Brand photography & video

Web Design & Development

Your website shouldn’t just look great. It should be your highest performing sales asset. We design and develop conversion focused sites built to capture, nurture, and convert.

Includes

UX/UI design · Custom development · SEO architecture · Conversion optimization · Ongoing performance support

Our Recent Work

Strategy and creative that actually performs

A few examples of what happens when branding, content, paid media, and web all work together under one roof.

Results that matter

We measure marketing in revenue, not reach.

312%

Increase in Qualified Leads

Integrated paid + organic strategy over 8 months drove 3x the qualified inbound pipeline compared to the prior year.

B2B SaaS Client

4.2x

Return on Ad Spend

Strategic paid social and Google Ads management consistently delivered above-benchmark ROAS across campaigns.

E-Commerce Brand

10+

Year Client Relationships

Our longest client partnerships span over a decade. When the work keeps performing, people stick around.

Multiple Clients

From our clients

The companies we partner with tend to stay.

“Our growing SaaS company has been with Matchstick Social for years now. We highly value their leadership and lateral thinking when it comes to consistently driving growth for our business. We would not be in the stable and profitable position we are in without their effort.”

Wyatt B.
VP Product Development & Marketing, MassageBook

“Matchstick Social is the best and always bring fresh, engaging ideas to our company. They are a true business partner and have helped in so many ways to articulate our message to our customers.”

Joseph C.
CEO, Charleston Regional MLS

Their data driven approach is impressive and they consistently provide detailed reporting while also scheduling time to review it with us. They are instrumental in honing our brand and delivering coherent messaging.”

Vanessa B.
Realtor, The Dede & B.V. Team

“Gerald’s Tires and Brakes has been partnering with Rachel and Matchstick Social for many, many years. The way Matchstick helps us personalize our team of 140 people with the use of photos and videos on social media is a huge success story.”

Robert D.
VP Marketing & Customer Service, Gerald’s Tires and Brakes

Brands we've worked with

We're a great fit if...

✦ You’re serious about marketing investment and expect a strategic partnership in return.

✦ You want one integrated team, not a patchwork of vendors and freelancers.

✦ You think in quarters and years, not days and weeks.

✦ You care about leads, revenue, and pipeline. Not just content calendars.

✦ You’re ready to treat marketing like the growth lever it actually is.

We're probably not the right fit if...

– You’re looking for the cheapest option or one-off project work.

– You want to “try social for a month and see what happens.”

– You measure marketing success primarily by follower counts.

– You need to see ROI in the first 30 days or you’re pulling the plug.

– You want to approve every post before it goes live and micromanage creative.

Ready to stop piecing it together and start building?

We take on a limited number of retainer clients at a time so every partner gets the strategic attention they deserve. Let’s talk about what growth looks like for your business.

Matchstick Social marketing team in their office in Charleston South Carolina