Marven Salgado founded Social Influence in a basement in Mascouche, with $37 and an old laptop. Since 2016, he has led a team that helps SMBs across Greater Montreal, from Laval to the South Shore, get more customers without going through a downtown agency. No fancy office, no corporate pitch: just measurable results.
Marven Salgado is the founder and principal strategist of Social Influence.
Marven Salgado
Founder and Principal Strategist
Marven Salgado founded Social Influence in Mascouche, in a basement, with $37, an old laptop and an unstable internet connection. Before that, he spent 10 years at Desjardins and had 10 years of marketing experience. He had no investor and no downtown office, only the belief that Quebec SMBs deserve the same level of marketing as large companies, without paying for it.
That belief became the guiding principle of Social Influence. Marven has run the agency the same way since 2016: he stays directly reachable, answers questions without jargon and judges his work by results rather than billable hours.
Today, Marven oversees Social Influence's work for SMBs across Greater Montreal, Laval, the North Shore and the South Shore, in industries as varied as restaurants, medical esthetics, home services and retail. His philosophy has not changed: treat every client like a partner, not a file number.
How did Social Influence begin?
Marven Salgado founded Social Influence in Mascouche in 2016.
Marven Salgado's story starts in a basement in Mascouche, with an old laptop, an unstable internet connection and $37 in hand.
Marven watched Quebec SMBs pay for marketing built for large companies, delivered by agencies that billed hours instead of results. He founded Social Influence to do the opposite: stay directly reachable, explain every decision in plain language and deliver measurable results instead of reports nobody reads.
That way of working has not changed since 2016. It is still why SMBs across Greater Montreal, from Mascouche to Laval to the North Shore and South Shore, keep working with Social Influence.
I built a specific philosophy into how we treat clients. We do not market at your customers, we treat them like guests invited to a party. Every touchpoint is planned, every message is personalized, every result is measured.
Our journey
2016
Marven Salgado founded Social Influence in Mascouche.
How do we work with small businesses?
The agency explains its decisions, reports measurable results and keeps direct contact with clients.
What we do
Full transparency: you see exactly where every dollar goes
Measurable results: no vanity metrics, just leads and sales
Direct access: you reach us by phone or email, and Marven answers personally
What we refuse
Non-cancellable one-year contracts
Reports full of jargon nobody understands
Promising the moon without delivering
Hiding our prices
Handing your account to an intern
Which businesses have we worked with?
These are businesses Social Influence has worked with.
Ready to work with an agency that delivers results?
Tell us what you are trying to accomplish. We will tell you honestly if we can help, and how.
We'll look at your online presence, reviews, website and ads. Then we'll tell you what is holding back calls and bookings for your business, whether you're in Mascouche, Greater Montreal or elsewhere in Quebec.
20 minutes, no obligation, and we'll tell you if it's not a fit.
