We built this because
local brands deserve better.
Signal Rise Media exists because too many great local businesses were getting generic strategies and real bills from agencies that had never eaten at their restaurant or walked through their door.
Marcus Webb, Founder
Marcus Webb spent a decade working inside large marketing agencies in Atlanta, watching them bill local businesses for generic deliverables that didn’t move the needle. He’d sit in meetings where the strategy was clearly designed for a Fortune 500 brand, then handed to a family-owned restaurant with a $2,000/month budget and a prayer. The playbooks didn’t fit. The results didn’t come. And the clients renewed anyway, because they didn’t know what good looked like.
In 2019, he left. He came back to Birmingham with a clear idea: a marketing agency built from the ground up for the South, for restaurants, local shops, service businesses, and community organizations that deserved real strategy, real systems, and real results from people who actually gave a damn about the outcome. No boilerplate content calendars. No vanity metrics. No agencies that couldn’t find their client’s city on a map.
Signal Rise Media opened its doors with three clients, a shared office, and a reputation built entirely on results. No long-term contracts, because good work doesn’t need them. Today, the team serves 150+ brands across the South, with a 98% client retention rate and a growing list of businesses that have gone from invisible to undeniable in their local markets. That’s the only metric that matters to us.
The people behind your brand.
We’re a small team that takes big brand problems seriously. Every client gets direct access to the people doing the work.
10 years in agency marketing before founding Signal Rise. Obsessed with brand clarity and the kind of strategy that actually shows up in a business’s bank account.
Former brand consultant from Atlanta. She writes every positioning statement like it might be the most important sentence a business ever says about itself, because it usually is.
Nashville-based cinematographer who left commercial work to focus on local business storytelling. Believes the best brand video is the one a customer can’t stop watching.
Charleston native who grew up in her family’s restaurant. She knows what it feels like to own a local business and fight for every customer, which is exactly why she’s so good at this job.
Four things we refuse to compromise on.
Strategy First
We don’t create content or run ads until we understand your brand, your audience, and your goals. Tactics without strategy is just expensive noise.
Real Relationships
We work with clients who want a partner, not a vendor. We pick up the phone, give honest feedback, and celebrate your wins like they’re our own, because they are.
Measurable Results
We track everything that matters and ignore everything that doesn’t. If the numbers aren’t moving, we change the approach, not the excuse.
Southern Integrity
We say what we mean and we do what we say. We treat your marketing budget like it’s our own money. No jargon. No runaround. Just honest work from people who give a damn.
Want to work with people who actually give a damn?
We take a limited number of new clients each quarter. Free discovery call, no pressure, just a real conversation about your brand.