Disciplined marketing. Local business growth.
VETS Growth Marketing is a veteran-founded growth team for owner-operated local businesses that need the work done, not another employee to manage.
Why we started
Most growing local businesses reach the same point. They need SEO, ads, a better website, follow-up and now AI, but they do not want to hire three or four people to get it. Many have already paid an agency that sent reports instead of results.
We built VETS Growth Marketing to be the alternative: one accountable team, every account in the owner's name, work scoped as projects with outcomes and dates, and no long-term contract holding anyone in place.
The founder
Trevor Shirk is a U.S. Army veteran and former Ranger-qualified engineer officer who served a combat tour leading route clearance. He has spent more than ten years in digital marketing and business strategy, helping local businesses grow.
His strength is diagnosis. In any business there are fifty things you could do. He finds the five that line up with your goal and gets them done.
- Founded: 2016
- Based in: Denver, Colorado
- Team: 5–7 people
How we work with owners
The same four commitments on every engagement.
You own every account
Website, domain, Google profile, ad accounts and CRM stay in your name. Leave anytime and take everything.
Projects, not retainers
Each engagement has an outcome and a date. When the job is done, we move to the next one or step back.
Booked jobs, not clicks
We report the numbers you run the business on: calls, booked jobs and cost per customer.
Founder-led strategy
Every plan starts with a diagnosis from a senior strategist, not a sales rep.
How an engagement runs
- Assess Your profile, site, ads, follow-up and numbers
- Prioritize The few moves with the most impact, with dates
- Execute The work, done in your accounts
- Measure Calls, booked jobs and cost per customer
Then back to Assess with the next priority