About Tarko
We ask the uncomfortable questions early.
Because the expensive version is asking them after the campaign has run.
The short version
Tarko exists because good businesses keep buying the wrong marketing.
A business with a real product and real customers hires an agency, spends a year on content and ads, and ends up with more traffic and roughly the same revenue. The work was competently executed. It was just pointed at a story the market did not find compelling.
We built Tarko to sit one step earlier in that process. Before anything is produced, we get precise about what you sell, who genuinely needs it, what they are comparing you against, and the single reason someone chooses you over the obvious alternative. That answer is the brief for everything after it.
It is not a glamorous first month. It involves a lot of questions about pricing, margin, and the deals you have lost. But it means every dollar spent afterwards is spent on a message that already works.
If your team cannot say it in one sentence, your customer will not repeat it in one either.
Who we work with
Owner-led businesses where the founder is still close to the sales conversation. Professional practices that have outgrown referrals. Teams mid-rebrand, mid-launch, or midway through a rebuild that stalled.
We are deliberately not for everyone. If you already have a sharp position and a working funnel and simply need more output, an agency or a freelancer will serve you better and cost you less. We will say so on the first call rather than take the engagement.
Engagements run in defined milestones. You are invoiced after a milestone is delivered, revised as reasonably needed, and approved — never in advance. Fees are quoted and billed in CAD.
How we operate
Three principles we do not trade away.
Say the difficult thing
If your positioning is weak, your pricing is wrong, or the project you are asking for will not move the number you care about, you hear it on the first call. Agreeable consultants are expensive.
Decide, then produce
Strategy that never turns into a shipped campaign is a document, not a result. Every engagement ends with something live, measurable, and owned by you.
Earn the invoice first
No deposits, no retainers for undelivered work. We are paid after a milestone is complete and approved, which keeps the incentive exactly where it belongs.
Where we are
Based in Maple Ridge. Working across Canada.
Our office sits on Fern Crescent at the eastern edge of Maple Ridge. Most engagements run remotely over scheduled calls and shared documents, and we meet in person where it earns its place — workshops, stakeholder sessions, and the first scoping conversation when you are local.
- Office23697 Fern Cres, Maple Ridge, BC V4R 0J4
- Phone437 600 9980
- Emailinfo@tarko.ca
- MeetingsBy appointment, in person or remote
Next step
One conversation is enough to know.
The first consult costs nothing. You describe the situation, we tell you what we think is actually wrong and whether we are the right people to fix it. If we are not, you leave with a clearer read on the problem regardless.