Digital Marketing Gold Coast

Campaigns that move the needle.

SEO, Google Ads, Facebook and Instagram ads, email and social media, planned as one strategy and run by one Gold Coast team, with one report that shows what each channel returns.


Websites built
3,500+

Websites built

5 star reviews
100%

5 star reviews

Years experience
20+

Years experience

Digital Marketing
Websites built
3,500+

Websites built

5 star reviews
100%

5 star reviews

Years experience
20+

Years experience

Graphic Design Gold Coast

A digital marketing agency on the Gold Coast, under one roof

Thrive is a full-service digital marketing agency in Burleigh Heads, delivering digital marketing Gold Coast businesses can measure. Our marketing team sits beside our designers and developers, so the people running your campaigns can also fix the page the campaign lands on. Nothing is outsourced: the strategist you meet is the person managing your account.

We are a Google Partner agency and accredited partners with Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Trustpilot, Shopify and WooCommerce. We work with Gold Coast businesses and brands across Australia, and we would rather tell you which channel to skip than sell you all of them.

Meet your digital marketing team

Jon Blackwood

To Jon it's business and it's personal. Along with building a strong working friendships with our clients Jon loves to build personalised and strategic campaigns to help your business thrive online.

Jon Blackwood

Jon Blackwood

Senior Digital Strategist

Anton Martin

Our very own SEO and SEM guru who brings a wealth of experience in the digital space and delivers amazing results for our clients.

Anton Martin

Anton Martin

Digital Growth Specialist

Karissa Gregory

Karissa's unique blend of creativity and analytical thinking makes her an exceptional addition to our growth marketing team. With expertise spanning from Google Ads to SEO, she possesses a diverse skillset to help your business thrive.

Karissa Gregory

Karissa Gregory

Digital Growth Specialist

Katherine Ramirez

Katherine wields a multi-discipline approach to her work, being both a degree qualified marketer and blooming graphic designer.

Katherine Ramirez

Katherine Ramirez

Designer / Marketing

Rochelle Holdsworth

Experienced copywriter with a passion for writing, marketing, and research. Whatever the topic, Rochelle will work closely with you to develop content that is engaging and tailored to your business.

Rochelle Holdsworth

Rochelle Holdsworth

Copywriter / Marketing

Our digital marketing services

Search engine optimisation

Rank for the searches your customers make, and keep ranking. SEO on the Gold Coast.

Google Ads

Search, Shopping, remarketing and YouTube campaigns, managed by a Google Partner. Google Ads management.

Facebook and Instagram ads

Meta campaigns that create demand and follow it up, run in-house. Facebook and Instagram ads.

Email marketing

Campaigns, automations and list growth on Mailchimp or Klaviyo that turn one sale into repeat sales. Email marketing.

AI search optimisation

Be found in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Gemini as well as the ten blue links. AI search optimisation.

Social media and LinkedIn

Content plans, copy and creative, monthly management and LinkedIn marketing for businesses that sell to other businesses.

How the channels work together

Most businesses buy marketing one channel at a time and wonder why the pieces do not add up. The channels do different jobs, and the results come from running them as one plan.

  • Search catches demand. Google Ads gets you in front of people who are looking right now; SEO does the same job without paying per click, but takes months to build.
  • Social creates it. Facebook and Instagram reach people who have not started looking, and remarketing brings them back when they do.
  • Email keeps it. A customer who buys once is the cheapest customer to sell to again, if someone is talking to them.
  • The website converts it. Every channel ends on a page. If the page is slow or unclear, every channel pays for it.

We work out which jobs matter most for your business, in what order, and report on them together so you can see where the next dollar should go.

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Who we work with

Thrive has run Gold Coast digital marketing campaigns for over twenty years, and the industries we build websites for are the industries we market. That matters: a lead for a tradie is a phone call within the hour, a lead for a law firm is a considered enquiry, and an online store needs return on ad spend, not leads at all.

We also work with medical and allied health practices, NDIS providers, builders, schools and professional service firms, locally and across Australia. If your market is competitive, that is usually where we do our best work.

How we work

1. Audit

We review what you are doing now, what your competitors are doing, and where the enquiries actually come from.

2. Strategy

A plain-English plan: which channels, in what order, with what budget, and the targets we will be measured against.

3. Build

Tracking, accounts, campaigns, creative, automations and any landing pages, set up properly before a dollar is spent.

4. Optimise

Weekly work on the live campaigns: bids, audiences, creative, content and the pages they land on.

5. Report

One monthly report across every channel, with cost per lead, what we did and what we are changing next.

Reporting you can actually read

Marketing reports tend to be forty pages of charts and no answer to the only question that matters: what did it return. Ours is one report across every channel we run for you, built around leads, sales and cost per lead, with the actions we took and the ones we are planning.

You own every account, the Google Ads account, the Meta ad account, the email platform, and you can see the raw numbers any time. We would rather you check our work than take our word for it.

Digital Marketing

"I am lucky to be a long-term client of Thrive for all things digital marketing. Thrive are very good, but more importantly they can be trusted. Choosing a business partner requires a leap of faith. Choose the Thrive team with confidence. Or at least give them the chance to pitch. The coffee is good too!"

Paul Byres

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Got questions?

Digital Marketing FAQs

What does a digital marketing agency actually do?


It works out where your next customers are, chooses the channels that reach them, runs the campaigns and reports on what came back. At Thrive that covers search engine optimisation, Google Ads, Facebook and Instagram ads, email marketing, AI search optimisation and social media management, planned together rather than sold separately. Because our web team sits in the same studio, we can also fix the website the campaigns land on.

Which channel should I start with?


If people already search for what you do, start with Google Ads for immediate enquiries and SEO for the long term. If you are creating demand for something people do not search for yet, Facebook and Instagram ads come first. If you have a customer list and nobody is emailing it, email marketing is the cheapest win on the table. We will tell you which applies to you in the audit, including the channels not to bother with.

How much does digital marketing cost?


Two parts: management fees and media spend. Management is a fixed monthly fee per channel, based on the size of the work. Media spend, the money paid to Google or Meta, is separate and paid from your own accounts, so you always know which is which. We recommend a budget after the audit, and most channels run on a three-month minimum term because that is how long it takes to test and reach a stable cost per lead.

Do you outsource any of the work?


No. Your campaigns are planned and run by our in-house team in Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast. That means the strategist you meet is the person in your accounts every week, and you can sit across a table from them.

Who owns the accounts?


You do. Your Google Ads account, Meta ad account, email platform and social profiles belong to your business, and you grant Thrive access to manage them. You can revoke that access at any time. If you do not have an account yet, we set it up in your name.

What reporting do I get?


One monthly report across every channel we run, built around leads, sales and cost per lead rather than impressions. It lists what we did, what it returned and what we are changing next. You also have direct access to the accounts, so the raw numbers are never hidden.

How long until I see results?


It depends on the channel. Google Ads and Meta ads produce data from the first week and consistent leads within the first few months. Email marketing returns quickly if you already have a list. SEO takes months to build and then keeps delivering. A plan that mixes fast and slow channels gives you results now and compounding results later.

What accreditations do you have?


Thrive is a Google Partner agency, and we are accredited partners with Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Trustpilot, Shopify and WooCommerce. We have been a Gold Coast digital agency for over twenty years.

Do you do social media management and LinkedIn marketing?


Yes. We offer monthly social media management with content planning, copy and creative, and LinkedIn marketing for businesses that sell to other businesses. These sit under this page rather than having their own, so ask us for a social media plan when you get in touch.

Can you fix the website the campaigns land on?


Yes, and it is often the first thing we do. Thrive designs and builds WordPress and eCommerce websites, so landing pages, speed fixes and tracking are handled in-house by the same team, not handed to a third party.

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