Today we’d like to introduce you to Mariya Bentz.
Mariya, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I have always loved design and technology. Even growing up, I geeked out over it!
When I was in third grade, email began to be more popular…I would send my friends email newsletters every few weeks which were essentially like a mini-online magazine. Then in middle school, when MySpace was THE social network of choice– I taught myself HTML and began to design my own MySpace layouts. I even had my own MySpace layout website where other users would use my layouts and various HTML codes that I had provided to them on their MySpace profiles. I remember waking up at 5am on a school day just so I can check on my website analytics before going to school. I found so much excitement in being able to design something that others would use!
Fast forward to now, I am the creator and founder of MBM Agency– a digital marketing company which specializes in website design and search engine optimization. What makes us stand out from other website design companies is that we first make sure that your website is able to be found on Google’s search engine, and once a potential customer visits your website– that the layout and the messaging of the site help convert the visitor into a lead.
I originally started working as a freelancer. This was my side hustle in addition to my full-time job as a Marketing Manager. Within just a couple of years, my side-hustle grew. I now manage a team of four, working with the best clients all over the United States!
Earlier this year, I also started an entrepreneurial podcast called “The Marketing Mindset Podcast.” We believe that in order to grow a successful business you need just two things: the right marketing strategy and the right mindset. This marketing podcast delivers actionable strategies and advice from creating a success mindset to creating a marketing plan for your business using social media, email campaigns, blogging, SEO, and so much more. Our hope from our marketing podcast is that you are able to walk away from each episode motivated to grow your business and have the steps in order to do so. I am proud to say we’ve topped iTunes charts as a Top 200 Business podcast, Top 200 Entrepreneurial podcast, and we were on their charts under New Business New & Noteworthy our first few months.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
The simple answer is no, it has not been a smooth road. But is it ever? I think that every entrepreneurial journey has its difficulties.
In the beginning, it could be difficult to sign on new clients. But then as you grow– while it is very exciting– there are always growing pains in new seasons.
A growing pain that I went through recently is creating better workflows in our company as we started to grow the team. I started as a freelancer, so I continued running my company in a “freelance process” as I started adding on to the team. But quickly realized that if I wanted to scale my company in the way that I wanted too, I had to find another way.
I knew I had to create better systems and processes internally. So for about a month and a half (in addition to the client work I had) I spent many late nights and weekend creating a better workflow. Using a project management system, we created a simple 7 step process from the point of when someone signs the contract to have us design their website for them, all the way to the final email. Each step has various subtasks that have more detailed instructions and has a “stage” that we select each step of the way. The stages are: not started, working on it, approval needed, and done. Now, any new client we sign on– they all go through the same system and process. It is easy for my team to follow the system and easier for myself to see where we are each step of the way.
Makes my life as the owner MUCH easier!
MBM Agency, LLC. – what should we know? What do you do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
If you’re a business owner, this might sound familiar to you: You paid a designer to create a beautiful website– or maybe you even designed it yourself– and you felt so proud of it when it was finished, and you just couldn’t wait to hit that publish button. You just imagined what your life would look like once your website was live and once you had an influx of leads coming in. But once you hit that publish button– all you heard was crickets. You were not getting any traffic to your website, and worst of all you were not getting any leads in your inbox.
Unfortunately, this is a common problem for many businesses. Maybe you hired a website designer before, or maybe you have tried to design it yourself. But you haven’t seen it move the needle in your business. The truth of the matter is that it just wasn’t done right.
What I am most proud of MBM, is we don’t just design beautiful websites. We design profitable websites.
Our website design company takes the guesswork out of optimizing our client’s websites for search engines so that they can focus on doing the work they actually enjoy.
While the design of your website is important to capture a potential customer’s attention…it is how the website is formatted to be able to appear on the first page of search results. Then once the customer is on your page, it is the wording that will actually convert a viewer into a lead.
Our website design company offers website packages that includes an extensive SEO plan. If we design your website, we want to make sure that your target audience is able to find you through any search engine.
But once your potential customer finds you through a search engine, we want them to resonate with your message. We have a strategic formula for how we structure your homepage. We aim to take the viewer through a storytelling process where the user will instantly grow to understand what problems you will help them solve, why you have the authority to help them, and why they should trust you versus a competitor.
Our website design company strives to help you clarify your message on each page so that you are able to capture the attention of your ideal customer as soon as they land on your website. Every design and formatting decision is made with your target audience in mind.
I’m so proud of our client’s results! This is the results our clients have had the last few months alone:
54% INCREASED ORGANIC MONTHLY WEB TRAFFIC
46% INCREASED ORGANIC MONTHLY LEADS
Is there a characteristic or quality that you feel is essential to success?
A few characteristics that we stand by at MBM Agency is that we meet our deadlines, we are very responsive to our clients, and produce quality work. Surprisingly, our clients have told us that this is what makes us stand out from others in the industry.
Pricing:
- Basic Website & SEO – $1500
- Business Website & SEO – $2300
- Complete Website & SEO – $3500
Contact Info:
- Website: www.mbmagency.com
- Phone: 949-813-8342
- Email: mariya@mbmagency.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariyabentz
- Other: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-marketing-mindset-podcast/id1454840383
Image Credit:
Elena Cherry; Billy Little
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