Meta advertising, managed like capital.

Active Digital Marketing is a performance agency in Freehold, New Jersey, led by Harvard-trained economist Mitch Lawrence. We build, run, and scale paid media for established eCommerce and lead generation brands, with more than $100,000 a day in ad spend under management.

Before you reach out

We're a fit if you
  • Do $25,000+ a month in revenue, or have funding set aside to grow
  • Sell a proven product or offer with real sales history
  • Want a partner measured on profit, not activity
  • Approve creative and make decisions quickly
We're not a fit if you
  • Are shopping for the lowest-priced agency
  • Want hourly time logs instead of results
  • Expect a brand-new product to be profitable in week one
  • Need unlimited work for a fixed monthly fee
Read who we work with
$100K+in ad spend managed every day
10 yearsin paid media and ad management
Harvardeconomics degree, marketing focus
Top Rated Pluson Upwork, with 100% Job Success
4.9 out of 5from 265 client reviews on Upwork

Meta is our core. Everything else is built around it.

Facebook and Instagram are still where most brands find most of their new customers, and Meta’s delivery system has changed more in the last two years than in the decade before. The platform now does the targeting; your creative, your offer, and your data decide what it finds. That’s the work we do every day.

  • Creative strategy and testingAngles, hooks, and formats planned from customer research, tested on a steady cadence.
  • Structure built for today's MetaConsolidated campaigns that give the algorithm enough data to learn.
  • Tracking you can trustPixel plus Conversions API, deduplicated and verified before we scale.
  • Scaling without breaking efficiencyBudget increases paced against contribution margin, not platform ROAS.

Not ready for full management? Start with an audit.

A senior-level look at where your money is going, delivered as a prioritized action list you can act on with or without us.

Ad Spend Leak Audit

Find exactly where your budget is being wasted across Meta and Google, ranked by dollars.

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Ad Account Audit

A senior health check of structure, tracking, creative, and funnel on one ad platform.

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SEO Audit

Technical, on-page, local, and AI search visibility, with a prioritized fix list.

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How we work

A clear path from first conversation to scaled results, with the scope and fee agreed before any work begins.

  1. 1

    Apply

    Tell us about your business, your numbers, and your goals. It takes about two minutes.

  2. 2

    Strategy call

    If it looks like a fit, you'll meet with Mitch to pressure-test the opportunity.

  3. 3

    Audit and plan

    We review your accounts, tracking, and funnel, then present a written plan and a fixed monthly scope.

  4. 4

    Build and launch

    Tracking, structure, creative, and pages go live in a deliberate order.

  5. 5

    Optimize and scale

    Weekly optimization, a clear monthly review, and budget decisions grounded in your margins.

Mitch Lawrence, founder of Active Digital MarketingMLMitch LawrenceFounder, Active Digital MarketingHarvard economics. 10 years in paid media.

Founder-led. Economist-trained.

Mitch Lawrence studied economics at Harvard with a focus on marketing and has spent the last ten years inside ad accounts. He approaches every account the way an economist would: marginal returns, unit economics, and decisions you can defend with data.

You won’t be handed to a junior account manager after the sales call. The person who sets your strategy is the person you talk to.

Mitch holds a 4.9 out of 5 rating across 265 client reviews on Upwork.

Spending seriously on ads? Let's talk.

Tell us about your business, your numbers, and your goals. If we’re a fit, you’ll get a strategy call with Mitch. If we’re not, we’ll tell you why and point you to a better next step.