Your next agency client just posted a job for their first marketing hire.
Companies are posting their first Marketing Manager role right now, a full salary budgeted for work your agency already does better. Every morning by 7am, we send you those companies with the decision maker’s contact and outreach drafted in your voice.
Our first client got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. Read the case study
Why a Marketing Manager posting is your best lead signal
A company posting its first marketing hire is telling you three things. Budget is approved. The need is public. And nobody is hired yet. They set aside a full-time salary for the exact work your agency sells. We watch job postings every night on LinkedIn and the hiring systems companies post through, like Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby. We filter out staffing agencies, recruiters, reposted ghost listings, and other agencies chasing the same titles. What lands in your inbox is companies you can actually win.
Marketing Manager
Ironwood Capital Group
“Ironwood Capital Group is hiring our first Marketing Manager. You will own everything: website, content, email, events, and paid channels. We are a 100-person financial services firm that has grown on referrals, and leadership wants a real marketing program this year.”
Why this is a lead:
Ironwood just budgeted $80K or more for one generalist to do five jobs. That posting went up days ago and nobody is hired yet. Your agency can cover the whole list, strategy through execution, for a retainer near the cost of that single salary, and start in weeks instead of the three months a search takes.
Job titles we monitor:
Sound familiar?
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Referrals come in waves and you cannot control when the next one lands
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Cold outreach to random companies gets ignored because there is no reason to talk right now
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By the time a company asks agencies for proposals, four competitors are already in the deal
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You keep finding out a good-fit company built a marketing function after they already hired someone
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The "an employee will care more" story is hard to beat without a timing hook
The math: hiring vs. your firm
Hiring full-time
Marketing Manager
$70K-$95K/year
- 60 to 90 day recruiting timeline
- Benefits cost on top of salary
- Single point of failure
- Stuck with headcount when things slow down
Your firm instead
Marketing Agencies
$4K-$10K/month
A first marketing hire runs $70K-$95K a year before benefits, tools, and three months of hiring and ramp. And it is one person learning on the job. An agency brings a strategist, a writer, a designer, and a media buyer for a retainer that often costs about the same, and the work starts in weeks.
See the leads in your market before you pay for anything.
We'll run the real engine on your market, free, for seven days. Real reports, real postings, real contacts. Then it stops.
One firm per market
We only work with one marketing agencie firm per market.
Every lead in your market goes to you and nobody else. When your metro is taken, we turn the next firm away. That keeps the leads worth having, and it's the honest reason to decide before a competitor does.
$497 a month. That's the whole pricing page.
Daily Lead Delivery
$497/monthEvery morning: the companies that just posted for a role you replace, with the decision-maker's contact and outreach drafted in your voice. No setup fee. No contract, cancel anytime. And one firm per niche per market. If you're the fractional CFO firm in Denver, nobody else gets Denver fractional CFO leads.
60-day money-back guarantee. Not satisfied? Full refund, no questions asked.
One client covers years of this. One owner's rep project, one CFO retainer, one managed IT contract. Any single one pays for Hidden Client many times over.
Get Started Risk-FreeFrequently asked questions
Why would a company hire my agency instead of the marketing manager they posted?
Do the math with them. A first marketing hire costs $70K-$95K plus benefits and tools, takes about three months to find, and is one generalist covering five jobs. Your agency covers all five with specialists for a similar monthly spend and starts in weeks. If the posting is a VP of Marketing or CMO, that is usually a sharper fit for a fractional CMO, and we have a page for that too.
What about ghost jobs and reposted listings?
We filter them out before your report goes out. Reposted and stale listings, staffing agencies, recruiters, and other agencies posting the same titles all get dropped. Every lead shows when the posting went up and why it scored, so you can judge freshness yourself.
How many leads should I expect?
Most mornings 2 or 3. Some mornings 6, some mornings 1. We would rather send you three companies worth a real email than twenty you skim and ignore. If volume feels off, one-tap feedback on any lead or a quick email gets your config changed the same day.
What does the outreach look like, and who sends it?
Each lead comes with a message drafted in your voice that references the exact posting, like "I saw you are hiring your first Marketing Manager." You send it from your own email, so replies come straight to you. Edit it or send it as is. Most take under a minute to review.
Will my competitors get the same leads?
No. One firm per niche per market. If we work with your agency in your market, we do not sign another agency competing for the same companies. First come, first served.
What if it does not work for my agency?
Start with the free week. We run the same engine for 7 days, real reports with real companies, then it stops unless you subscribe. After that it is $497 a month, no setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime, with a 60-day money-back guarantee.
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From the Founder
Why I built this
I built Hidden Client because I kept seeing the same thing: a company posts a job, interviews for two months, and the firm that could have done the work never hears about it. That felt fixable with software, so I fixed it.
It's just me here, and I read every reply. If your leads are off, email me and your setup gets corrected the same day. That's the whole support department, and it's faster than most.
Jeremy Olken
Founder, Hidden Client · jeremy@hiddenclient.com
The postings are already up. The clock is already running.
Somewhere in your market, a company posted the role you replace this week. Signup takes about five minutes, and your first report lands tomorrow by 7am.
$497/mo. 60-day money-back guarantee.
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