A small team that answers the phone.
Croes Ave is a New York marketing agency founded in 2013 by Merrick Lee. We run paid ads, email, and automation for established local businesses — and we report everything.
The short version
I started Croes Ave out of a spare room in New York because I kept meeting small business owners who were paying agencies thousands a month and had no idea what they were actually getting. The dashboards were vague, the calls were quarterly, and the results were always “improving.”
So I built the opposite: a firm where every client can see their exact spend, exact cost per lead, and exact return. Where the person on the strategy call is the same person building the campaign. And where you can call on a Tuesday afternoon and someone picks up.
Thirteen years later, that's still how we work. We're intentionally small because the model doesn't work at scale. We take on a limited number of clients so we can give each one the attention they need, and we say no to projects where we don't think we'll move the needle.
What we believe
Transparency by default. Every client gets a live reporting sheet. You see what we see — no curated screenshots, no cherry-picked weeks.
Ownership stays with you. Your Google Ads account, your Meta assets, your domain, your email list — it's all yours. If we part ways, everything comes with you.
Small beats big. You work directly with the people building your campaigns. No account coordinators, no ticket systems, no “I'll check with the team.”
Let's look at your numbers.
A free 30-minute call. We'll audit what you're running now and tell you exactly what we'd do differently.
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