Growth
When to Fire Your Marketing Agency
Your $18K/month agency set up three campaigns and watched the algorithm work. That is babysitting, not strategy. Eight signs it is time to fire your agency.

For Lead Gen Businesses
We run lead generation where every lead is measured by whether it booked, showed up, and closed — not whether it filled out a form.
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Your agency sends a report showing 200 leads last month at $15 each. Sounds great. Your sales team says 150 were spam, 30 were tire-kickers, and 20 were shopping on price. You closed 3. Your real cost per customer is $1,000, not $15.
They're running Google Ads with broad match keywords that attract people searching for "free estimates" and "cheapest near me." Your Meta campaigns target everyone in a 50-mile radius. Your landing pages ask for a name and phone number with zero qualification.
You've been through three agencies in two years. Each one promises better leads. Each one delivers the same thing — volume without quality. Your sales team is burned out calling people who don't answer, don't qualify, and don't close.
They sell you leads. You need customers.
We build lead gen systems that optimize for booked appointments and closed deals — not form submissions. Every campaign is measured against your actual close rate, revenue per customer, and cost per acquisition. If a lead doesn't close, it doesn't count.
Multi-step qualification before the lead reaches your team. Landing pages that pre-qualify on budget, timeline, and scope. Call tracking that records and scores every conversation. Your sales team only talks to people who are ready to buy.
Senior growth engineers who understands lead gen economics — cost per lead is meaningless without close rate. A $50 lead that closes at 20% is worth 10x a $5 lead that wastes your team's time. We optimize for the math that matters.
$10,000/month + profit share
Aligned to closed customers, not lead volume.
Client work and operator experience. Every number is real spend, real revenue.
Generated $2.4M incremental revenue in 3 months.
Increased ROAS from 2.1x to 2.7x while scaling spend.
Fixed tracking and account structure to reduce CAC by 25% in the first 30 days.
Scaled from $0 in DTC sales to over $1M in 6 months from a cold start.
Reduced Meta Ads CPA by 60% in the first 90 days.
Fixed tracking and reduced customer acquisition cost by 38% in 3 months.
Turned net new subscription growth from negative to positive in 3 months.
Grew the total customer base by 100% in less than 6 months.
Reduced customer acquisition cost by 36% in the first 90 days while scaling spend.
Deployed LinkedIn In-Mail Ads and founder content to grow enterprise pipeline.
Scaled from $1.2M to $3.8M ARR in 18 months.
Took Boosted Boards from $500k to $10M in their first year.
Acquired and activated 50,000+ API users and developers in 12 months.
Qualified leads. Booked appointments. Customers that close.
High-intent keyword campaigns targeting buyers ready to hire. Exact match, negative keyword management, and geo-targeting down to zip code.
Lead form campaigns with built-in qualification questions. Instant forms for speed, landing pages for quality. Optimized for booked appointments, not form fills.
Pay-per-lead with Google Guarantee badge. Dispute management, review optimization, and budget allocation by service category.
Landing pages and forms that pre-qualify leads on budget, timeline, project scope, and readiness. Your team only gets leads worth calling.
Every call recorded, scored, and attributed to the campaign that generated it. See which keywords and ads produce calls that close, not just calls that ring.
CRM integration that tracks from ad click through booked appointment to closed deal and revenue. Real cost per customer by campaign, not estimated cost per lead.
Fast onboarding. Lead quality from day one. Customers that close.
We map your current lead sources, close rates, and true cost per customer. You get clarity on which channels produce customers — and which just produce noise.
Call tracking, CRM integration, and multi-step qualification forms. A dashboard showing cost per booked appointment and cost per closed customer — not just cost per lead.
Google and Meta campaigns go live with qualification-first targeting. Daily optimization against appointment and close metrics. Weekly async updates via Slack and Loom.
Kill keywords and audiences that generate leads but not customers. Scale what closes. Feed closed-deal signals back into bidding. Cost per customer drops as the system learns.
"They cut our CAC 25% in the first 30 days. For the first time, Marketing and Finance are looking at the same numbers."
"The most actionable recommendations we’ve received from any outside partner—from technical details through creative."
"Elevated our digital presence, nearly doubling our customer base in 6 months."
"They think like owners — took us from zero DTC revenue to over $1M in 6 months. They don't care about vanity metrics, just profit."
"Technical, innovative growth marketers. They deliver clear, actionable recommendations and execute."
"Incredible GTM partners. The perfect balance of execution & strategy. A wealth of knowledge, experience, and energy."
No lock-ins. We earn it every month.
Month-to-month. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice. No penalties, no fine print.
Profit share means we only make more when you make more. Your growth is our growth.
Real-time dashboards, shared ad accounts, and direct Slack access. You see everything we see.
Ad accounts, tracking infrastructure, dashboards, creative frameworks. If you leave, you keep it all.
If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you. If something isn't working, you'll hear it from us first.
Deep dives on the ideas behind this approach.
Growth
Your $18K/month agency set up three campaigns and watched the algorithm work. That is babysitting, not strategy. Eight signs it is time to fire your agency.
Operations
The 3-layer post-cookie attribution stack — server-side tracking, incrementality testing, and media mix modeling — with budget-tier implementation guides.
Philosophy
Agencies pull 70-80% gross margins on your retainer — thirty cents of every dollar does actual work. The real economics behind marketing agency pricing models.
Straight answers. No spin.
Get a senior growth engineer who manages your ads like they own the P&L. Results in 90 days or walk away — no contract.