THE GHOSTLY LABS TEAM
The Team Behind Ghostly Labs Marketing Agency
Most agencies are run by marketers who never ran a P&L. We're operators who built and sold businesses before we built this one. That's the difference you feel on every call.
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TENURE
15+ years in digital marketing
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DEAL VOLUME
$100M+ commercial real estate transactions closed
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TOGETHER
$90,000 in new business closed in 30 days at our last venture
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FOUNDED
Ghostly Labs launched June 1, 2023
WHY THIS TEAM
Two Operators. One Marketing Agency.
Most marketing agencies are run by marketers. People who studied campaigns and never ran a business. People who sold strategies they never had to live with.
We started Ghostly Labs because we'd lived on the other side of the table. Built businesses. Closed deals. Watched bad marketing burn real money. Rebuilt the marketing ourselves because no one else would.
That's the lens we bring to every engagement. We don't run tactics. We run businesses that happen to be marketing agencies. Then we build yours the same way.
THE GHOSTLY METHOD
How a Real Web Design Agency Approaches a Build.
Ghostly Labs runs every project through the same four stages. It isn't a checklist. It's the order things have to happen to ship a high performing site that ranks, converts, and stays maintainable after launch.
CO-FOUNDER
JOSHUA SHAMPO
15+ years in digital marketing. Two prior agencies built to 7-figure annual revenue. Co-founded Ghostly Labs on June 1, 2023.
Built or co-architected every product Ghostly Labs ships. Hollow (WordPress theme). Shade (Shopify theme). Orb (150+ Beaver Builder modules). Omen (WordPress SEO plugin). Specter (AI-powered WordPress management). Haunt (CRM). PRE (WordPress-native real estate platform).
Owns SEO strategy and technical implementation.
CO-FOUNDER
ROBERT DEATON
Built and exited a gym business. Closed over $100 million in commercial real estate transactions. Co-founded a landscaping business with Josh that booked $90,000 in new business inside 30 days. Co-founded Ghostly Labs on June 1, 2023.
Owns CRM, automation, and B2B nurturing.
HOW WE BUILD
How Two Operators Run Foundation-First Marketing.
Every engagement runs through both founders. Two operators looking at the same plan from two angles.
Josh owns the build. Audit, technical foundation, SEO, content, ranking infrastructure. He's the one inside the implementation.
Rob owns what happens after the build. CRM, automation, follow-up, B2B nurturing, conversion paths. He's the one making sure traffic turns into customers.
The split keeps strategy honest. Tactics never run without someone asking what they produce. Conversion never gets ignored because someone's only counting rankings.
Marketing without operations is theory. Operations without marketing is a phone that never rings. We run both.
REAL CLIENT WORK
Real Client Results from the Ghostly Labs Team.
Four engagements. Four industries. Names anonymized. Numbers are not.
CLIENT 01
Industrial Manufacturer
CLIENT 02
Luxury Menswear Portfolio
CLIENT 03
Heritage Menswear · Shopify
CLIENT 04
Wedding Photography Studio
WORK WITH US
Book a Strategy Call With the Ghostly Labs Team.
When you book a call with Ghostly Labs, you talk to the people doing the work. Not an account executive. Not a junior. The owners.
We map what's running, show you the gaps, and walk you through what a real plan looks like.
No pitch · No pressure · Just the plan