Social Influence Builder does not have a fancy downtown office or a corporate pitch to lean on. It has a team that knows how to turn your marketing into a client machine. The team stays small on purpose, so you talk directly to the people actually working on your account instead of a call center.
The agency was founded in a basement in Mascouche in 2016, and it has grown from there to 250+ clients served across Greater Montreal, from Laval to the South Shore, the North Shore and Lanaudière. SEO, Google Ads and marketing automation are all part of the work, and every project is tracked so every dollar can be accounted for. Work for businesses elsewhere in Quebec and Canada is done remotely, in English or French.
Marven Salgado founded Social Influence Builder in Mascouche in 2016.
Marven Salgado
Founder and Principal Strategist
Marven Salgado founded Social Influence Builder in a basement in Mascouche, starting with $37, an old laptop and an internet connection that kept cutting out. He had no investor backing him and no downtown office to point to. Before he started the agency, he spent ten years working at Desjardins, and that decade is where most of his marketing experience comes from.
His starting conviction has not changed since then: Quebec SMBs deserve the same level of marketing as large companies get, without having to pay a downtown agency's price tag for it.
Since 2016, Marven has run Social Influence Builder the same way he ran it on day one. He stays directly reachable, answers questions without jargon, and judges his own work by the results it produces rather than the hours it took. When a client calls or emails the agency, he is often still the one who answers, not an account rep passing the message along.
Today, he oversees the agency's work for SMBs in industries as varied as restaurants, medical esthetics, home services and retail, spread across Greater Montreal, from Laval to the South Shore and the North Shore. His philosophy has not moved an inch: treat every client like a partner, not a file number sitting in a queue.
How did Social Influence Builder begin?
Marven Salgado founded Social Influence Builder in Mascouche in 2016.
Social Influence Builder's story starts in a basement in Mascouche, with an old laptop, an unstable internet connection and $37 in hand.
Marven Salgado founded the agency in 2016 to do the opposite of what he kept seeing elsewhere: SMBs paying for marketing built for large companies, delivered by agencies that billed hours instead of results. The agency was built to fix that. Every decision gets explained in plain language, and every result gets measured, not just reported at the end of the month.
The agency now works with SMBs across every sector, from restaurants to medical esthetics to home services and retail, with a clear approach to local growth that does not change from one client to the next. The focus has stayed the same the whole time: your growth, not our vanity metrics.
That way of working has not changed since the early days in that basement. It is still why SMBs across Greater Montreal, from Mascouche to Laval to the North Shore, the South Shore and Lanaudière, keep working with the agency instead of going downtown.
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.
What can you verify about Social Influence Builder?
Marven Salgado founded Social Influence Builder in Mascouche in 2016; the agency has served at least 250 clients.
Based in Mascouche, serving Greater Montreal, Laval, the North Shore, the South Shore, Lanaudière and, as needed, businesses across Quebec and Canada.
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 you give us goes, not a summary at the end of the quarter
Measurable results: no vanity metrics, just leads and sales you can check against your own numbers
Clear reporting: every week and every month, in language anyone on your team can actually understand
Responsiveness: an answer within 24 hours, every time, not just when things are going well
Direct access: you reach us by phone or email, with no account rep standing in between
Clear pricing: you know what you pay and why, before you sign anything at all
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
Treating you like a file number
Leaving you guessing about what is happening with your account
Which businesses have we worked with?
These are businesses Social Influence Builder 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 whether we can help, and exactly how we would go about it, without jargon or pressure to sign anything today. No one-year contract, just a direct conversation about your business.
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.
