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A marketing dashboard should answer one question in 90 seconds: is the marketing working. Here are the 5 numbers that matter, in what order, and the 35 widgets you can ignore.
Google Business Profile optimization is the highest-leverage local SEO work you can do this weekend. The 12-point checklist below takes a Saturday afternoon and moves local pack rankings within 30 days.
Ecommerce email marketing through Klaviyo flows produces 30-40% of revenue for brands doing it right. The 5-flow stack: welcome, browse abandonment, abandoned cart, post-purchase, winback. Full setup, copy templates, and revenue contribution per flow.
Server-side tracking with GA4 + Meta CAPI is non-negotiable for any meaningful ad spend in 2026. The full step-by-step setup, what most agencies install wrong, and the post-iOS 14.5 attribution reality.
Net revenue retention, logo churn, add-on attach rate, expansion revenue. Most marketing agencies measure none of this. Why running the retainer book like a SaaS company changes the entire business.
Dogfooding (using your own product on your own business) is the highest-signal proof an agency can ship. We run every Snack Club tool on snackclubmarketing.com first. Here is why that matters more than any case study.
Most marketing agency tools are resold third-party software (Podium, HubSpot, AgencyAnalytics) with margin baked in twice. Why agencies that build their own tools change the economics, the speed, and the accountability for clients.
The standard marketing retainer requires a 12-month contract. That contract protects the agency, not the client. Why month-to-month works for both sides and how it changes the way the agency operates.
Digital marketing agency pricing comparison. A traditional agency plus the 5 SaaS tools they make you buy costs about 45% more than a productized agency that ships the software bundled. Here is the full breakdown.
Roofing SEO and storm-response marketing system that captures 5-10x normal lead volume in the 30 days after a hail or wind event. The full pre-storm setup, what fires when the storm hits, and how to track it.
Real estate lead generation through Zillow Premier Agent costs 35% of every closing. Owned pipeline through search, Meta, and email pays back in 1-2 quarters and keeps paying. The full playbook for solo and small-team agents.
Restaurant marketing in 2026 is dominated by Google Business Profile and Maps, not Meta and Instagram. The math, the channel mix, and the order of operations for independent restaurants.
Most dental practices run generic family-dentistry SEO and waste their budget. The real upside is procedure-led dental SEO: implants, Invisalign, cosmetic, sleep dentistry. The full playbook for 2026.
Generic chiropractic SEO is saturated. Specialty chiropractic (scoliosis, sports, prenatal, pediatric) has 5-10x better keyword economics and higher patient intent. The full chiropractor marketing playbook we run in 2026.
HVAC marketing is the highest-volume local-service vertical and one of the most misunderstood. The 7 mistakes most agencies make on HVAC channel mix, seasonality, and lead cost math, plus how to fix each one.
A restoration marketing case study. Commercial restoration company built from zero: brand identity, website, GA4, and Google Ads in one engagement. The full scope of the free-website-plus-retainer model.
A tech pack template is the highest-leverage SEO asset a B2B apparel manufacturer can build. 1,600+ monthly searches, KD 0, and the searcher is an emerging brand that needs a manufacturing partner. The case study and playbook.
A Shopify redesign case study from a niche diesel-conversion parts ecom site. Full site rebuild plus a Google Ads relaunch in 10 weeks, with mobile cart abandonment cut from 40% to 18%.
An industrial marketing agency case study. B2B retail design and manufacturing firm running the full growth stack including a custom Pipedrive analytics dashboard. The proof case for the productized agency model.
A medical practice marketing case study for a specialty clinic. Site, SEO, and Google Ads for a Twin Cities naturopathic doctor. The playbook for high-trust health practices in a regulated category.
HVAC lead generation case study from a 30-year east-metro HVAC company. We moved budget from Google Ads to Local Services Ads and cut cost per booked call by 38% in 60 days. Here is the playbook.
The right organic social media strategy for a niche apparel brand is to celebrate the customer, not sell to them. The Aviator Gear case study: how we run the organic side while the paid agency handles hard sells.
A real B2B SEO case study. Civil engineering firm in MN and CO migrated from Wix to a programmatic 73-page custom site in 10 days. What we built, the technical bar, and the SEO outcome.
A unified inbox that pulls email, SMS, chat, Facebook DMs, Instagram, GBP, and Google reviews into one queue. Built for one-operator businesses, not 30-person support teams.
A Twin Cities HVAC company was missing every after-hours call. We replaced the $1,200/mo human answering service with an AI voice agent and recovered 12 booked jobs in the first 30 days.
Most agencies still ship a monthly marketing report as a PDF. The numbers in it were already stale before you opened it. Why live dashboards win, and what to look for when you switch.
Review velocity, not total review count, is the lever that moves the local pack. Here is the review automation playbook we use to get clients from 1 review a month to 6+ a month.
A chat widget for your site that captures leads, AI-summarizes the conversation, and costs a tenth of Drift or Intercom. Built for small businesses, not enterprise SDR teams.
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