Growth
Fire Your Marketing Agency (8 Signs)
Your $18K/month agency set up three campaigns and watched the algorithm work. That is not strategy—it is babysitting. Here are 8 signs it is time to move on.
For SaaS Founders
I run growth marketing for B2B SaaS where every dollar traces to pipeline — not leads your AEs ignore.
Join 50+ companies that scaled with profit-led growth marketing
Your agency sends a monthly report full of MQLs. Your AEs say the leads are garbage. Your SDRs spend half their day disqualifying whitepaper downloads from six months ago.
Meanwhile, your board deck shows CAC trending up and nobody can explain which channel is actually driving closed revenue.
They're running your LinkedIn like a display network. Google is eating budget on branded terms you'd convert organically. Meta is optimizing for the cheapest form fill — not the $40K ARR deal that takes 90 days to close. They've never opened your HubSpot.
You tried a fractional CMO. They built a roadmap, hired two people, and added a layer between you and results. You're spending more on the growth team than on growth.
They report on leads. Your business runs on revenue.
I connect ad spend to pipeline stages in your CRM — Salesforce, HubSpot, whatever you run. When your board asks what paid media delivered, you show them sourced pipeline, influenced revenue, and CAC by channel. Not a Google Ads screenshot.
ABM campaigns on LinkedIn targeting your actual ICP by title, company size, and tech stack. Google capturing high-intent searches from buyers actively evaluating. Meta running demand gen that feeds your SDRs qualified demos — not ebook downloads.
One operator who's scaled SaaS companies from Series A through exit. Not a junior buyer following a playbook. I understand why a $500 lead that converts at 20% beats a $50 lead that converts at 1%.
$10,000/month + profit share
Aligned to your pipeline, not my hours.
Demand gen, pipeline attribution, and media buying — one operator who reads your CRM.
Account-based campaigns targeting your ICP by title, company size, and tech stack. Matched audiences from your CRM. Pipeline-aware bidding.
High-intent search capture for buyers actively evaluating. Brand spend separated and reported honestly. YouTube for top-of-funnel demand gen.
Campaigns optimized for qualified demos and trial signups — not whitepaper downloads your SDRs will never call.
Server-side tracking tied to your pipeline stages. See which campaigns drive SQLs, opportunities, and closed-won — not just clicks.
CAC, LTV, payback period, and net revenue retention mapped by channel. Growth models built on your actual economics, not benchmarks.
I work inside your HubSpot or Salesforce. Lead scoring, pipeline reporting, and closed-loop attribution that your RevOps team can trust.
Fast onboarding. Real numbers. Your board will notice.
I map your sales cycle, win rates, deal sizes, and attribution gaps. You get clarity on what a customer actually costs — and what it should cost.
Server-side tracking connected to your CRM pipeline stages. A dashboard your board can read: sourced pipeline, CAC by channel, payback period.
Campaigns go live. Daily optimization against pipeline metrics — not platform ROAS. Weekly async updates via Slack and Loom. No standing calls.
Kill channels that generate leads but not revenue. Scale what converts. Feed closed-deal signals back into targeting. Results compound quarter over quarter.
Deep dives on the ideas behind this approach.
Growth
Your $18K/month agency set up three campaigns and watched the algorithm work. That is not strategy—it is babysitting. Here are 8 signs it is time to move on.
Philosophy
I have hired, run, and competed against agencies—here is the truth. They pull 70-80% gross margins on your retainer. Thirty cents of every dollar does work.
Founder Story
20,000 customers. $1,500 LTV. 20:1 LTV/CAC. Zero salespeople. The self-serve growth engine that scaled to exit—and how to know if this model fits you.
Straight answers. No spin.
One operator. No layers. No vanity metrics. Cancel anytime.