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High-Risk Marketing Agency

We understand your business, don’t ask questions, and make it grow.

01 Industries 19 verticals served

If you work in a restricted industry that Stripe does not allow, Facebook bans, Google deranks, and other agencies refuse — you still can get expert marketing services. We do that. And do that well.

02 Why Despite Numbers we hold ourselves to

We don’t try to work around restrictions, limitations, and risks. We work despite them. Running ad campaigns in verticals that Facebook prohibits, driving SEO traffic to products Google AI warns against, and bringing expert marketing services to industries that usually are on their own.

8yrs
In the field

Before this, we ran a whitehat agency for real-estate and home-reno clients — and on the side, built and sold grey-area eCommerce and info sites. Now we offer the unique part of that expertise across 19 industries.

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Average sales growth

Our clients average six-and-a-half times more revenue twelve months in, with marketing built around bypassing restrictions — not avoiding them.

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Losses in case of a main-site ban

Grey-area sites get banned and seized. Often. With our Code Red setup, recovery is in minutes — not days — and losses are negligible. Everything is saved.

$250k
Average client revenue

We work with high-stakes businesses in high-risk verticals. Unlike other agencies, we understand that a single hour of payment-processing downtime costs you thousands. We optimise to avoid it.

Ban-proof

Grey-area money sites get seized and banned. While others see it as a risk and panic if it happens, we see it as an inevitable event with an unclear deadline that your infrastructure has to be ready for.

Grey-Only

We don’t do BBB accreditations, conventions, and personal brand strategy on LinkedIn. Our pipeline is designed to bring buyers, not the unwanted attention. And if asked, we’ve never worked with you.

Niche-Ready

We can talk about Piracetam longer than a 4-year-old can talk about Triceratops, cite Llewellyn’s Anabolics better than Bible, and know Fadiman and McKenna better than ChatGPT. AI would refuse to talk about it anyway.

03 Services 10 categories / 37 sub-services

Whitehat agencies call it 360 Digital Marketing. In simple terms, we have a team that’s ready to do it all: a dedicated in-house specialist for SEO, for PPC, a department to handle tech setup, and experienced marketers for setting the right direction. Not a one-man show — an operation that’s ready for your scale.

04 Signature Four standing engagements

High-risk digital marketing implies being prepared for all things out of the ordinary. Things that would make other agencies panic and cut their losses are built-in in our way of work. Simply because your business needs a different treatment than a lawyer or a sneakers shop.

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Code Red Setup

If your site goes down, you come back in minutes.

  • Mirror site on standby domain, pre-configured
  • Daily DB backup & DNS failover
  • Live Domain Tracker page (always ranks for brand)
  • Pre-written email, SMS, push, community templates
  • One-page break-glass document
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Payment Processing Setup

Your customers want to pay by card, not Bitcoin or Interac.

  • High-risk merchant accounts placed directly with acquirers
  • Approval engineering for niches even Stripe has banned
  • Documented, safe, and secure underwriting files
  • Low commissions — no per-volume agency cut
  • Card-first checkout; crypto and Interac as fallback only
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Hands-Off Growth

You watch sales grow. We do the rest.

  • Dedicated team: strategist, ops, content, paid
  • All channels under one P&L
  • Weekly dashboard, monthly review call
  • Vendor management & escalation
  • Crisis handling without your involvement
  • Single invoice, single point of contact
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Strategy & Consulting

When you need an opinion you can trust.

  • Strategic roadmaps & growth models
  • Channel mix & budget allocation
  • Founder personal brand & thought leadership
  • Compliance posture & narrative coaching
  • Quarterly strategy intensives
05 Engagement Three structures / your choice

Flexible, by design. If you need a marketing partner you can trust, we’re ready to commit. If you want to avoid commitment, we can do it project-based. If your team handles 90% of the work great, we can do the remaining 10% just as good — and not try to sign you up for more.

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Retainer

Full-service engagement under monthly fixed-fee terms.

  • Scope locked at engagement
  • Monthly fixed fee
  • KPIs agreed and tracked
  • End-to-end execution by our team
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Project

Scoped delivery against a defined objective.

  • Defined vertical, channel, or timeframe
  • Payment tied to delivery, not retained capacity
  • No long-term commitment
  • Joins your in-house or agency setup
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Partnership

Embedded as your in-house marketing function.

  • Our team becomes part of yours
  • Joint planning and execution
  • You retain operational control
  • Commercial terms agreed case by case
06 Reviews Anonymised at client request

They got us back online in 38 minutes. The agency we’d had for two years took six weeks to find a new processor. We switched the same day.

Founder / Online pharmacy / [redacted]

We’d been ghosted by three agencies before someone in a Telegram group pointed us here. They took the meeting that week. The audit document alone was worth the engagement.

Director of growth / Adult platform / EU

The Code Red Setup paid for itself the first time we got pulled. We were fully back online before our biggest client noticed we’d gone dark.

CMO / Peptide brand / North America

We’d run through four agencies in six years. None of them understood the vertical, all of them disappeared at the first compliance request. Despite was the first one we didn’t have to educate.

Founder / Cannabis brand / Canada

I came to them with a single problem — Stripe had frozen us. They gave us back access in eight days, then quietly told us all the other ways we were exposed. The audit alone changed how we run.

COO / Supplement brand / United States

They built our entire ban-recovery infrastructure before we ran the first ad. Six months later, when Meta pulled us, we were back online before standup had finished.

Head of growth / Kratom retailer / EU
07 Get in touch Reply within 24h

Ready for custom challenges.

If your business doesn’t fit anything you’ve read above, we’ve probably seen the shape of it before. Tell us what you’re actually trying to do.

  • Verticals not listed on this page
  • Crisis briefs (frozen processor, takedown, account ban)
  • Project work with no long-term commitment
  • Audit-only engagements before deciding on retainer
  • Partnership for in-house teams that just want the gaps filled

Or write directly: contacts@despitemarketing.com. Telegram @despitemarketing. Signal @despitemarketing.

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08 FAQ The questions that come up first
01 What engagement modes do you offer?

Three. Retainer is full-stack monthly — you get a marketing department. Project is scoped delivery — a Stripe migration, an SEO recovery, a 90-day launch — paid on outcome, no commitment. Partnership is where your in-house team is solid and you just want us plugged into the gaps. Most engagements start with the three-week audit. After that you can walk. Most don’t.

02 How is SEO for high-risk niches different from any other SEO?

SEO for white-hat businesses is a coworking space with millennials drinking lattes, kind, well-paid mentors all over YouTube, dedicated support, and openly discussed tactics. Google is acting as your partner, algorithm updates help good content rank, AI cites best sources. SEO for steroids or SEO for psychedelics is a chaotic Wild West saloon with silent operators who keep to themselves at best, or run negative-SEO attacks on each other daily at worst. Google is acting as the sheriff who wants you out, now. Every update is aimed to kill your site, AI warns users to stay away from you. That’s about the difference.

03 How is client confidentiality handled?

With respect. Our clients don’t want others talking about them, and we understand it. We won’t ask you to write us a review (our first clients already did, anonymously), won’t try to add you on LinkedIn, won’t share your documents with “Open for All” access on Google, won’t publish your logo on Behance, won’t bring you up as a case study, and won’t ask where you spent your weekend in small talk. Instead, we’ll use aliases on calls, Signal or Telegram for messaging, keywords to avoid mentioning products directly in chats, one-time crypto addresses for payments, and treat your privacy as a part of business operations.

04 What happens if we get banned?

It’s not IF. It’s WHEN. For most businesses in grey verticals like steroids, psychedelics, and adult entertainment, domain seizure or some other form of “we’re cooked” is a matter of time. That’s why we’ve been ready for it since week one. Mirror site on standby domain, DNS failover at a registrar that actually moves, daily DB backup, one-page break-glass document that tells whoever’s at the keyboard what to do next. Cold-from-zero with no Code Red pre-deployed is two weeks of rebuild — with Code Red, it’s usually under 30 minutes.

05 What jurisdictions do you operate in?

We’re global, though most of our experience comes from working with businesses in the USA and Canada. With clients from the UK, we have some experience — though it has to be clear that these are not our primary markets. With clients from the EU, some level of R&D might be needed during the early steps of onboarding.

06 How are retainers priced?

By the work, not by the hour. A peptide retainer is not a CBD retainer is not an adult retainer — different acquirers, different platforms, different recovery cost when something goes sideways. We don’t quote until the audit is done. Anyone quoting before the audit is guessing, and your inbox already has plenty of those.

07 Crypto, Interac, wire — what do you accept?

And the answer is — only crypto. Always.

08 How do you set up payment processing if Stripe has banned us before?

There are ways. Even if you were banned before (or if it’s clear you won’t get a green light), introducing Pay by Card is often still on the table. Very important note, though: we don’t do payment processing, we do the setup. As in — we’re not the ones processing your funds, we’re the ones who introduce you to people who do that, and set everything up on your website (and other websites) so it works.

09 What won’t you work on?

We’re a grey-area marketing agency, not a dark-area one. Trafficking, CSAM, darkweb marketplaces, ransomware, hacking, scam operations — we’ll skip. The filter is in harm and consent, not legality.