Most marketing agencies lock you into 6-month retainers for work you can't measure and people you'll never meet. Here's why the model is structurally broken — and what high-growth founders are choosing instead.
Most startups assume they need a retainer agency. Here is why the subscription model is faster, cheaper, and more accountable.
Most founders dramatically underestimate what a traditional marketing agency actually costs once you count retainer fees, onboarding time, hidden extras, and the opportunity cost of weak results. Here's the full breakdown — and what the comparison looks like against a subscription model.
MarketingMost startups treat content marketing as a vanity play: publish blog posts, hope for traffic, measure nothing. We worked with a B2B SaaS founder who cut content from her strategy entirely because it wasn't moving the needle on revenue. She was right to question it.
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