Eyler Creative

Your marketing department.Without having to build one.

Eyler Creative is an outsourced marketing department based in Towson, Maryland. We bring strategy, website design, search visibility, advertising, creative and reporting together around your business goals — and carry out the work.

Based in Towson, Maryland Working across Maryland and beyond No long-term contracts You own your marketing

The problem

You don’t have to figure it out alone. That’s our job.

Most businesses arrive with the tactic already chosen.

  • “We need a new website.”
  • “We need better SEO.”
  • “We need Google Ads.”
  • “We need help with social media.”

You may already know what you need, or you may need help deciding. Either is a fine place to start.

You know your business better than anyone. We connect the request to your goals, review what is already working, and recommend an appropriate scope — whether that is the thing you asked for, something narrower, or a different starting point altogether. That judgment is part of what you are hiring us for.

The model

One relationship. Your Eyler Creative marketing team.

You get a Marketing Director who knows your business, and the strategists, designers, developers, search specialists, advertisers and content team behind them. One agency. One coordinated marketing team.

We start from the business rather than the channel — where you want to be, what is in the way, and what marketing can realistically move. Only then do we decide what the marketing should actually do.

How we work, and who does it

Proof

Real businesses. Real numbers.

Four Maryland companies that don’t run marketing departments — and what that produced.

Actual client results. Leads are counted as lead form submissions and phone calls, spam excluded, with the same tracking in place across both periods. Performance varies by market, competition, budget and strategy — which is exactly why we study your business before telling you what to expect from it. How these were measured, and what we manage for each of them

Your business doesn’t stand still. Neither should your marketing strategy.

Markets shift, competitors move, and what worked last year stops working. Because the team is already in place, we review priorities as your business changes and agree any adjustments to scope, budget and timing with you.

Execution

Strategy is useless without execution. So we do the work.

Once we know where your business needs to go, we have the people, technology and capabilities to put the strategy into action.

All six capabilities in detail

Strategy & Direction

Know where to focus your marketing — and why.

We learn your business, your customers, your competition and where you want to grow. Then we build a marketing strategy around the opportunities most likely to move your business forward.

Strategy & Direction in detail
Web & Technology

Turn more of your website visitors into customers.

We design and build the websites, landing pages and technology your business needs, as a defined project with an agreed scope. Ongoing improvement, hosting and support are available afterwards and scoped separately — a build does not commit you to them.

Web & Technology in detail
Search & AI Visibility

Help customers find and evaluate your business.

SEO, local search, content development and technical optimization — the information and technical foundations that help search engines and AI-powered search discover and understand your business. We measure the visibility and inquiries we can observe.

Search & AI Visibility in detail
Advertising & Acquisition

Reach prospective customers with campaigns built around your goals and capacity.

We plan and manage Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, paid social and retargeting — connecting targeting, creative, destination pages and measurement. Our management fee is separate from the advertising spend, which goes to the platform.

Advertising & Acquisition in detail
Creative & Content

Give people a reason to notice, trust and choose your business.

Brand identity, graphic design, copywriting, photography, video, email and social content — one identity and core message, adapted to the audience, platform and purpose of each piece.

Creative & Content in detail
Analytics & Intelligence

Know what’s actually working for your business.

Analytics setup, tracking audits, dashboards, CRM connections and competitive research. We connect marketing records to what happened afterwards where your systems allow it, agree consistent definitions, and make the remaining gaps visible.

Analytics & Intelligence in detail

Who we work with

Different businesses. Different challenges. The strategy should be different, too.

From nonprofits and owner-led businesses to growing regional companies and established organizations, we work across industries because good marketing starts with understanding the business — not applying the same playbook to everyone.

NonprofitsOwner-led businessesGrowing companiesEstablished organizations

Explore marketing for your industry

Explore our approach to your industry, including client examples where available. Don’t see yours? We start by learning your business rather than forcing it into someone else’s playbook.

Need the whole department? Or support for your internal team?

Most of our clients rely on Eyler Creative as their marketing department — the strategy, the execution and the accountability for what it produces.

It is not the only way in. A defined project with an agreed scope and an end — a website, an audit, a campaign setup — is a normal way to start. So is support alongside an internal team, where we take the parts they do not cover.

Whichever it is, we work as part of the team.

Two ways to do this

You could build your own marketing department. Or hire us to do it.

An illustrative six-role hiring model — one way to staff these capabilities internally. Plenty of businesses run on a generalist or two, a smaller internal team, or a mix of employees and outside help. The right team size depends on your workload and your business.

Illustrative staffing costs. An agency engagement provides an agreed scope, not equivalent full-time staffing.

Build your own team

An in-house marketing department

Six roles, hired one at a time — recruited, paid, managed, and replaced when they leave. One model among several.

RolePer month
Marketing Director$8,649
Web Developer$7,771
Content Strategist$7,749
Marketing Analyst$6,425
Graphic Designer$4,633
SEO Specialist$3,729

$38,900+ / Month

In base salaries alone

Before payroll taxes, benefits, recruiting, software and management — and before adding paid media expertise.

Your internal team’s capacity and skills need to match the work. Additional needs may be covered through hiring, training or outside support.

Capacity and skills have to match the work.

Average Baltimore-market base salaries as published August 2026, converted to a monthly figure — about $467,000 a year across the six roles. Sources: ZipRecruiter salary data for five roles; Built In for SEO Specialist. Assumptions: base pay only, one full-time person per role, Baltimore market. It excludes payroll taxes, benefits, recruiting, software, management time and paid media budget, and published averages move over time.

Your Eyler Creative team

A marketing department that’s already built

Six capabilities, one team — already hired, already working together on your plan.

Capabilities availableSelected to match your scope
Strategy & Direction
Web & Technology
Search & AI Visibility
Advertising & Acquisition
Creative & Content
Analytics & Intelligence

Pay for the work. Not the payroll.

Scoped to what you hire us to do

There’s no fixed headcount to carry. You pay for the strategy and the work you hire us to do, under an agreed scope — and when your business changes, we propose the adjustment and agree it with you before anything moves.

The mix of expertise can change with what your business needs, without you rebuilding a team to do it.

Scope, availability and a start date agreed before work begins.

Our people

Real people. Who know your business.

We’re based in Towson, Maryland, working with businesses across the state and well past the state line since 2015.

Your engagement is led by a marketing director, senior enough to run your marketing, drawing on the specialisms of the rest of the team.

Justin Eyler Lindsay Clark Elaine Sauer Kennedy Schenking Christina Taylor Meet the team →

Insights

What we’re paying attention to. And what it means for your business.

We write about what’s actually changing in search, web and marketing — and what a growing business should do about it.

Read all insights New thinking on search, web, advertising and strategy.

Questions

What people ask us before they get in touch.

What does an outsourced marketing department actually do?

It replaces the need to hire and manage marketing staff. One team owns the strategy and the execution — learning your business, deciding where marketing can make a difference, then doing the work across web, search, advertising, content and analytics.

Is this only for businesses that want the whole department?

No. There are three ways in, and the right one depends on what you already have. A defined project has an agreed scope and an end — a website, an audit, a campaign setup — and you are handed the work with no requirement to continue. Ongoing management is the outsourced-department arrangement: we own the plan and the execution and are accountable for what it produces. The third is support alongside your internal team, where we take the parts they do not cover.

Most of our clients are in the second group. Arriving with a specific project in mind is a normal way to start, and our service pages set out what each one includes.

What if we already have someone doing marketing?

Plenty of clients do. Some rely on us as their whole marketing department; others have internal marketing people and bring us in for the strategy, execution and capabilities they don’t have in-house. Either way we work as part of the team.

Do we have to sign a long-term contract?

No. There are no long-term contracts, and you own your marketing — your accounts, your data and your history. The work continues because it’s working, not because you’re locked in.

Who owns the website and the work when we’re finished?

You own the website once it is paid in full, along with your domain and your accounts — analytics, advertising and anything else set up for you. If you leave, you take it with you, including the history in those accounts.

The qualification is third-party material: themes, plugins, stock imagery, fonts and music are licensed rather than owned, and those licenses carry their own terms. We tell you what is licensed and on what basis.

What does it cost?

It depends on the scope — what the strategy calls for and how much ongoing execution your business needs. There is no fixed headcount to carry, so the investment reflects what you actually hire us to do, agreed in advance rather than adjusted as we go.

One thing worth stating plainly: where advertising is part of the work, the media spend is separate from our fee. The spend goes to Google, Microsoft or Meta; our fee is what you pay us to plan and run the campaigns. Neither is a percentage of the other.

What kinds of businesses do you work with?

Nonprofits, owner-led businesses, growing companies and established organizations across construction and home services, manufacturing, healthcare, law, finance, staffing, real estate, hospitality, education, retail and B2B technology. We’re based in Towson, Maryland and work across Maryland and beyond.

Start here

Tell us where you want your business to go. We’ll start there.

You don’t need to know whether you need SEO, a new website or another campaign. Tell us what you’re trying to accomplish. We’ll start there.

  • Where do you want your business to be in twelve months?
  • What’s getting in the way of that today?
  • What kind of work do you want more of?

Tell us about your goals, your current marketing and where you need help. We’ll discuss priorities, explain how we could work together and tell you if we are a good fit. No cost or obligation for the initial conversation, and you will usually hear back from us within one business day.

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