Algarve Marketing Team · by the team behind DTC Mode
That is the whole job. We get your business seen by the people already looking, turn them into customers, and grow what they are worth to you. We handle the complicated part. You get something simple to say yes to.
Based in the Algarve · clients worldwide · no 12‑month lock‑in
Found on Google, on social, on maps, and now inside the AI tools people ask before they ask anyone else.
Turning that attention into enquiries, bookings and orders rather than people who look and leave.
Better customers, spending more, coming back. Not impressions, not followers, not a nicer logo.
That is our other company, DTC Mode. We run it from here in the Algarve, advising brands that turn over hundreds of millions, and Algarve Marketing Team exists to bring the same thinking to businesses on our doorstep.
the company behind this
DTC Mode is a growth strategy and advisory company for consumer brands, built around brand equity and profit rather than vanity numbers. We work alongside founders and marketing teams in the US, the UK, Singapore, Malaysia and across Europe. Algarve Marketing Team is the same team, doing the same thinking, for businesses here at home.
brands we have worked with at DTC Mode
Casetify
Accessories & travel
Casamara Club
Functional drinks
Eve Bliss
Functional drinks
Anom Cafe Club
Coffee
Our client roster has spanned countries, continents and categories, from health, wellness and beauty brands turning over hundreds of millions to start-up coffee and functional drinks brands.
what you are actually paying us for
Everything else on this page is just a method. If something will not move one of those three, we will tell you, and we will not sell it to you.
01 / why us
Our day job is building marketing strategy for large consumer brands in some of the most crowded markets in the world. That work is difficult, expensive and quite technical. Our job here is to take what we learn from it and turn it into something a local business can actually use.
Selling online is the toughest school there is. Every click has a price, every promise gets tested, and the numbers tell you within days whether you were right. That is where we learned, and it means we care about what works rather than what looks busy.
Marketing is really just understanding why people say yes. What they already believe, what they are worried about, what would tip them your way. Get that right and everything else gets easier and cheaper.
We do not start with a campaign. We start with who you are selling to and what would have to be true for them to choose you over the place down the road. Then we build backwards from there.
Large brands pay us for the plan, not the posting. The thinking is the expensive part, and it is the part most local businesses never get offered. Here it comes as standard.
Our clients have marketing teams of ten, twenty, thirty people, and some of them are as advanced with AI as anyone in the world. Being in those rooms every week is how we stay ahead. You get the benefit without the head count.
Tens of thousands of marketers read what we publish and download our frameworks. You cannot fake that for long, and it keeps us honest about actually knowing our subject.
02 / who listens to us
You should not have to take an agency's word for it. The easiest test is whether people who do this professionally bother to listen, and whether serious brands keep paying. On both counts, here is the honest picture.
where our clients are
03 / about us
Algarve Marketing Team is two people, Tom and Chace, and it exists for a fairly simple reason. We love where we live and we think the businesses here deserve better marketing than they are usually offered.
We have lived in the Algarve for a number of years now, and it is changing. It is getting more popular, more people are finding it, and that means more opportunity for the businesses here than there has been in a long time. The businesses that get their marketing right over the next few years are going to do very well out of that. We wanted to make sure the good ones are among them.
Our day job is DTC Mode, a growth strategy and advisory company we run from here, working with large consumer brands in the US, the UK, Singapore, Malaysia and across Europe. Tom built his own seven-figure consumer brand before that. Between us we have managed millions in advertising spend and generated considerably more than that back in revenue for the brands we work with.
But this is home, and we care about it. That puts us in an unusual position: international experience at the top end of consumer marketing, plus a daily understanding of the local customer that no agency flying in from somewhere else can match. We are not applying a template to the Algarve. We live in it.
So the plan is straightforward. Take what we know from working with the best brands and teams in the world, point it squarely at the Algarve, and use it to build better businesses here. We are starting with our own, so you can watch it working before you trust us with yours.
Better quality services, better standards, better results. That is what we think this place deserves as it grows, and it is the only thing worth building.
04 / local knowledge
Big-brand playbooks are only half of it. The other half is knowing this market, and that part cannot be researched from another country.
We live here. Not a satellite office and not a monthly visit. We are here in February when it goes quiet and here in August when everything is full, and the gap between those two is most of the job.
We understand the customers here because we see them every day, we talk about them every day, and we sell to them ourselves every day through our own businesses. Expats and locals. Holiday-home owners and year-round residents. People paying in euros and people converting from sterling. They do not behave the same way, and marketing to them as if they do is why so much money gets wasted here.
That is the combination almost nobody in this market has: proper strategy from brands selling difficult products in crowded categories, plus a daily feel for who actually buys around here.
And when we say we can build a brand here from nothing, you do not have to take it on trust. We are doing it in the open, with our own money, just down the road.
See the proof →05 / showcase
Any agency can talk. So rather than only showing you other people's work, we are building businesses of our own in the Algarve and doing it in the open. The first is Algarve Cleaning Crew: premium positioning in a market that competes on price, a brand that looks nothing like its competitors, and a website and enquiry journey built with exactly the thinking on this page. Go and have a look at it, then judge us on it.
algarvecleaningcrewQuinta do Lago · Algarve
algarvecleaningcrewThe crew
algarvecleaningcrewVilamoura Marina
algarvecleaningcrewVilamoura
“Excellent service. Friendly, punctual and very attentive to detail. Great value for money. Highly recommended for professional cleaning services in the Algarve.”
We are passionate about this place, and part of that is bringing better quality services to it. Algarve Cleaning Crew is us doing that ourselves rather than talking about it: our own money, our own brand, our own reputation on the line, in the same market as you and selling to the same customers.
It is the most honest showcase we can give you. Everything we would do for your business, you can already see us doing for ours.
See Algarve Cleaning Crew →06 / what we do
Most businesses here are not short of effort. They are short of a system, and short of anyone honest enough to tell them what to stop doing.
Paid and organic pulling in the same direction: search, social, email, and the offer that finally makes people act. Planned around what you actually make on a sale, not around reach.
views + customers + revenuePeople now ask ChatGPT and Google's AI for a recommendation before they open a map. We make sure your business is one of the answers instead of a missing name. Almost nobody in this market is looking at this yet, which is exactly why it is worth doing now.
more viewsPlenty of sites win the click and lose the sale. We fix the path from first visit to booking, enquiry or checkout, and take out every step that gives someone a reason to give up.
more customers + revenueGoing out and finding customers rather than waiting: a properly targeted list, messages that sound like a person wrote them, and follow-up that does not go quiet after one email.
more customers07 / how it works
We check how findable you are today, where your enquiries leak away, and what your competitors are doing better than you. You keep the findings whether you hire us or not.
What we would fix first, what it costs, and what it should bring back. If there is no case for paying us yet, we will say so rather than sell you something.
Built, launched and measured every month against those same three numbers. Explained in plain English, not a dashboard you never open.
08 / who this is for
If your customers compare two or three options before they commit, we can help. If nobody is searching for what you sell, we will tell you honestly and save you the money.
09 / start here
Fill this in and we will come back with what we would look at first. No pitch deck, no pressure, no 12-month lock-in.
