Questions, answered plainly.
Everything people usually ask before the first call. If yours is not here, ask it directly.
Working with us
What does Elite Créatif actually do?
- Three things, as one system: we build the landing page the click lands on, we make the ad creative that earns the click, and we buy the media on Meta and Google that places it. The same senior people do all three and are judged by one number per client, usually cost per qualified lead or per booked appointment.
Who is a good fit?
- Companies between $10M and $200M in revenue with a funnel that is already spending money, usually $25,000 a month or more in media, and a number they are accountable for. We have the most experience in specialty pharmacy, infusion clinics, restaurants, private education, and film production.
Who is not a good fit?
- Pre-revenue companies, brand work with no number attached, anyone who wants a free proposal in exchange for a pitch, and anyone looking for a vendor to blame. We would rather say no early than take an account we cannot move.
Where are you based, and do you work remotely?
- Our studio is at 9017 Reseda Blvd, Suite 210, Northridge, in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. Most clients are in Southern California and we shoot on location here. Media buying and strategy work is done for clients anywhere in the United States.
Who will actually work on my account?
- The people on the People page. There are no account managers and no hand-off to a junior team. The person who plans your funnel builds it, and the person in your ad account is the person you can call.
The Audit
Why is the Audit paid?
- Free audits are sales pitches with a checklist attached. A paid audit is work: senior time, real access to your accounts, and a written document you keep and can hand to any team. The $4,500 fee is credited in full against your first retainer month if we go on to work together within 30 days of the presentation.
What do I receive?
- A written diagnosis of your landing pages, ad creative, and media accounts; a rebuilt funnel map; and a 90-day plan with budget, creative volume, and expected cost ranges by month, presented live to you and whoever else needs to hear it. If the audit finds nothing worth fixing, we say so and return the fee.
How long does it take?
- Three weeks from kickoff. Week one is access and learning the business, week two is the teardown, week three is the presentation. Audits begin within two weeks of signing, subject to how many accounts we are carrying.
What access do you need?
- Read access to your ad accounts, analytics, CRM or booking system, and the pages you send traffic to. A summary is not enough; the leaks are in the accounts.
Retainers and fees
What do retainers cost?
- Retainers begin at $12,000 per month and cover the page, the creative, and the media as one system. Production for a shoot is quoted separately per shoot. Fractional CMO engagements are scoped by how much access you want to give, from a monthly advisory session to a seat in your leadership meeting.
Do you require long contracts?
- No. Retainers run month to month after the first term, with 30 days' notice either way. You own every account, page, and asset we build.
Is media spend included in the fee?
- No. Media is paid directly to Meta and Google from your own ad accounts, which you own. Our fee covers the work of building, making, and buying.
How do you report?
- Monthly, in writing, against the one number we agreed on, with the diagnostic numbers underneath it: spend, cost per result by creative and by campaign, tracked calls and forms, and what changed and why. The excerpt on the System page is a real example.
Creative, pages, and media
Do you shoot the creative yourselves?
- Yes. Stills, short vertical video, and brand film are produced in-house, on location at your business, by the same people who see the numbers the next morning. Ads are made in volume so the account is never waiting on a vendor.
Do you build full websites?
- We build landing pages and funnels for campaigns, with tracking and attribution set up end to end. If your main site is the problem we will say so in the audit, and we can build the pages that matter for conversion. We are not a general web design shop.
Which platforms do you buy media on?
- Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and Google (Search, Performance Max, YouTube) are where most of our clients' qualified leads come from. We have run TikTok, Snapchat, and LinkedIn where the audience justified it.
Do you do SEO?
- For clients on retainer we handle the SEO that affects paid performance: landing page speed, structure, tracking, and the content that supports conversion. We built the search layer for a specialty pharmacy and the results are on the Work page. We are not a link-building agency.
How fast can we start?
- Every engagement starts with the Audit, which begins within two weeks of signing. Retainer work typically starts the week after the audit presentation, once the 90-day plan is agreed.