Marketing that works as hard as you do
Unlock growth with marketing strategy, execution and tailored support for seed stage startups and scaling businesses.
If marketing was easy, more startups would be successful.
That’s where we come in. By only working with startups, we’ve learnt your biggest marketing blockers and how to solve them. So you don’t take on the cost and complexity of building an internal team too early, or juggle a range of services that don’t connect strategically.
Instead, let’s unlock your growth with the right support, at the right time.
Step 1:
Customised marketing sprint
A set-fee marketing sprint with clear deliverables, tailored to your needs and goals and designed to establish strong marketing foundations. Here are some examples.
All pricing excludes GST. Sprint projects are invoiced 50% on commencement and 50% on completion.
Step 2:
Ongoing support, if you need it
After your marketing sprint, we’re here to help with ongoing support if you need it – available in a few shapes and sizes.
fractional team
All pricing excludes GST. Ongoing support is invoiced monthly.
Strategy & execution in one place. So you can move faster.
Tell us what’s blocking you
Book an initial 30-minute call. We'll ask the right questions to understand your stage, goals and what's holding your marketing back.
We design the right support
No cookie-cutter proposals. We recommend a sprint that fits your situation and timeline with a fixed fee and clear deliverables.
Execute & enable
We deliver the work, embed the thinking and set you up to keep moving, stay for ongoing marketing support or prepare to hire.
Our care promise
We don’t follow bait-and-switch agency practices where experienced people sell you a service and then vanish when it comes to delivering the work. We’re hands-on and invested all the way through, and our clients love how much we care.
Transparent
We know you need transparency, so from our first call we’re upfront about our pricing, process and what we can do for you.
Flexible
We also understand sometimes things change, so if you need to cancel an ongoing retainer, all we ask for is 2 weeks’ notice.
Questions?
No problem.
More questions? Easy.
Speak to the team.
Definitely, we just call our projects "sprints." Each one is fixed-fee and fixed-scope, with clear deliverables agreed up front, so you know exactly what you're getting and what it'll cost before we start. Most run between four and 14 weeks, depending on what you need, from a focused Event Prep sprint through to setting up your full marketing foundations.
There's no obligation to continue afterwards, though plenty of startups choose to. If you've got a particular project in mind, let's talk about the right sprint for it.
Not a chance. A strategy you can't execute is just a nice document and execution without strategy is busy work. Startups need both, which is exactly why we built our sprints and ongoing support options to deliver them together: we set the direction, then roll up our sleeves and do the work to make it happen.
Usually, yes. Every sprint is customised to two things: what you actually need, and what you can invest. If you can give us a rough range, we'll shape a sprint to fit it, and we'll be straight with you if a bit more upfront would mean better results or save you money down the track.
We'd rather tell you that than quietly stretch a budget too thin to do the job properly. And if you're not sure what a sensible budget even looks like, we'll talk you through a few practical ways to set one. Most founders haven't done this before, and that's fine, we can guide you through it.
Often, straight away although good things tend to have a waitlist 😉. We keep our team deliberately right-sized, so when we're at capacity there's sometimes a short wait of 4–6 weeks before we can take you on with the confidence that we’ll be able to hit the ground running. Even if you’re not sure exactly when you’d like to start, book a call with our team sooner rather than later to check we’re a good fit. If you’re keen to go ahead, we’ll lock in your start date and save your spot with a small refundable deposit.
Loved by founders and their teams.
“Stella is a fantastic outsourced marketing function for startups. They’re very easy to work with and have great expertise across marketing.”
“They didn't get bogged down in fancy tactics, but focused on what really turned the sales dial.”
“If we didn’t have Stella Startups, I’d trial and error a gazillion consultants and freelancers who simply do not care as much.”
“The Stella team is brilliant at cutting through a founder's '700 must-haves' to help crystallise a clear, simple message."
“Working with Stella Startups is like a deep sigh of relief. It’s that feeling of: We’re in the right hands.”
“It's so good to know that Stella always has our marketing in hand – keeping us moving, and lifting us out of the day-to-day when we need them too."
Ready to unblock your marketing and unlock growth?
