Marketing Consultant & Studio
Strategy.
Creative.
Performance.
Fully integrated marketing. Human, built on experience and modern efficiency.
Based in Coconut Grove, Miami, we're a founder-led marketing consultancy and studio serving small and mid-size businesses across South Florida.
hello@vboadv.comMiami, FL / Founder-Led / Studio / Consultant
What we run
Senior level taste and strategy, done at enterprise speed and accuracy.
Paid ads on Google and Meta, to reach new customers or remind others to purchase again.
Search Engine & LLM Search, so you get found without paying for every click.
A modern website people will remember when they land on it, with brand and creative to match.
Reporting that tells you what each of those actually did.
The Brands We Build With
Our growing roster of brands we're partnered with
Each client getting the attention it deserves. No Riff Raff.
The Approach
Integrated marketing for small and mid-size businesses in South Florida.
We align brand, budget, channels, and measurement into one creative and disciplined system. No scattered tactics. No reactive spending. No fragmented execution.
Direction is defined first. Execution follows.
Your Marketing becomes creative, measurable, and performative.
What We Do
Who shows up when you hire VBO.
Senior Level Marketer
Collaborates on strategy, sets your direction, and runs your program.
Nothing gets handed to a junior after the kickoff call, because there are no juniors.
One System
A cutting edge system connected end to end. Modern tools carry the busywork of a traditional junior team, allowing senior hours to go into your business. You keep the savings.
And where a job needs specialist hands, we bring in people we trust rather than pretending we don't need them.
A Few Clients and a Personal Touch
We take on a few clients at a time on purpose. Small and mid size businesses able to access marketing support that typically is priced out by traditional agencies.
If the fit isn't there, we'll tell you on the first call.
The work should look this easy.
Industries and Services
Different Industries, Same Services, Same Way of Thinking.
Custom sites, redesigns and Shopify stores, built to be found and fast on a phone. We built and launched the site for IPPE Soccer Tours.
For when you want an answer, not a retainer. Someone senior reviews what's running and hands you a plan you can act on. Scoped, with an end date.
A senior marketing head, part of the time. Same seat and the same responsibility for where the money goes, on a share of the hours.
Paid media and search run together on the same store. Collection pages, product feeds and catalog structure, where Shopify money quietly leaks.
Making your business readable and quotable for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers. We run all of it on this site first. You're welcome to check.
Meta, Google Search, Google Shopping and Performance Max. A small number of accounts with senior hands on all of them, which is most of the difference.
How the work gets done, not something we sell you. Modern tools handle the repetitive parts so the senior thinking gets your attention. A person still decides.
Tracking installed before the first dollar goes out, so results get counted instead of guessed at. Then a short written update you can read in two minutes.
Brand and campaign work: identity, design, ad creative, photography for social. We rebuilt the IPPE Soccer Tours brand alongside their site.
The calendar, the copy, the design and the shooting, planned as one feed. Run with everything else, so the posts match what the ads and the site are saying.
Apparel sells in seasons and the marketing has to move on the same calendar. Spend hard in the weeks that matter, then collect the demand that never stops.
A considered purchase is a different job. For a buyer who takes weeks to decide: a site that holds up to scrutiny and advertising paced for the wait.
For a small food brand, the maker is the brand. The site and the story get built around the person, and the advertising is sized to what the kitchen can serve.
When a parent is the buyer, trust comes before price. Real detail on every program you run, and tracking that shows which trips turn into inquiries.
Your whole market lives within a few miles, so the job changes. Getting picked on the map, looking as established as you are, and earning the fortieth visit.
Nobody hires a law firm off an ad alone. The site answers what people are nervous to ask, and search keeps you visible on the narrow terms that matter.
Med spas, dental practices, financial advisors. Selling judgment the buyer can't inspect first, so the work is making the expertise visible and easy to trust.
Non-profits market to families and to funders at once, in two messages that can't contradict each other. Spend gets weighed against the mission it came from.
The development, the landing site, the store listing, and the marketing that gets it downloaded. We shipped our own app, Sidefoot, to the App Store.
Read our take on strategy, creative, and performance in the VBO Insights blog.
About
Strategy. Creative. Performance. Your Marketing Success.
VBO is a founder-led marketing consultancy & studio built on experience and efficiency. Our clients are our priority, we are not a high-volume agency. We are not a trend-driven shop.
We operate with structure, using the best modern tools that drive efficient performance for your business.
We are serious about outcomes.
Not serious about ego.
The Founder
Tim Bailey, founder of VBO, is a passionate marketer with over 10+ years helping some of the largest brands in the world achieve their goals. He specializes in simplifying complex marketing goals into clear, revenue-driving strategies and systems.
Tim has had the pleasure of working with large and small businesses during his career. Clients range from large brands like McDonalds, Formula E, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Park West Gallery and Bilzin Sumberg, to small businesses like Caricap, Plant Athletic, Purple Patch Fitness and Beckham Financial. An avid runner and guitar player, Tim is based in Coconut Grove with his young family.
