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Stop buying marketing by the piece.
Duct Tape Marketing sells a different starting point: find the constraint, write the strategy, and give the business a system it can own.
Avalaunch Media Found the Missing Middle Between a CMO and a Campaign
Most agencies sell hands. Consultants sell advice. Avalaunch built its pitch around the awkward space between them - then joined Amplēo to make that space its main business.
The Small Agency That Made Measurement Its Main Character
The Shepherd Group began with writers and production people. Three decades later, it sells something harder to package: a chain of evidence from the first question to the final business result.
The Client Crossed the Table - and Built the Agency He Could Never Find
After three decades buying agency work, Joe Toubes knew exactly what was missing: people who understood the business before decorating the message. His answer was a small B2B firm built to sit unusually close to the client.
The Marketing Agency That Began as a Volunteer Habit
A mentor asked Andrew Exler why the work he did for free was not already his job. Six years later, the answer had become a full-service agency built for organizations too small for a giant marketing department and too ambitious to wing it.
The Marketing Department That Refused to Stay Outside
Crux KC found a lucrative space between the expensive executive and the disconnected agency: put the strategist inside the room, then bring the whole department with them.
The Agency He Couldn’t Hire
Jose Escalera went looking for a marketing partner and found a market full of specialists. So he bought a 1973 agency and began rewiring it around one unfashionable idea: all the parts should talk to one another.
The $1.1 Million Bet Against the Old Agency Clock
C-360 began as a public-relations shop. Then it renamed itself, bought into an AI strategy engine and tried to make the agency clock run from months to weeks - without removing the people who know why a message matters.
The Agency That Refuses to Learn Your Industry on Your Dime
Most agencies bill you while they learn the category. Seroka built a business around skipping that chapter - and turning four decades of mortgage fluency into a practical head start.
The Quiet Crew Behind Tech’s Noisiest Moments
Red Fan Communications does its best work before the bell rings, the deal closes, or the crisis lands. Its product is not publicity so much as preparedness - a senior team, a shared story and fewer ways for an important moment to go sideways.
The Sacramento Agency That Turned 100 Franchise Openings Into a Marketing System
DTMA began as a relationship-driven creative shop. Its more interesting second act is a lesson in operational leverage: automate the agency, standardize the launch, and let local businesses borrow an entire marketing department.
Bhava Found a Better Way to Launch Tech: Prove the Problem First
A small San Francisco agency has spent 15 years translating difficult technology into stories people can repeat. Its neatest trick is simple: before announcing the answer, prove the problem is real.
Parcon Put a Marketing Department Behind the Fractional CMO
The Orange County firm has a tidy answer to fragmented marketing: pair a virtual CMO with the people who buy the ads, make the content, shape the message and fix the path to purchase.
Never Enough asks who’s keeping your brand’s promises
A marketing consultancy with a recruiter’s instincts, Never Enough connects the stories companies tell with the experience of working for them. Its founder’s projects move from mobile ads to employee podcasts - with a lot of listening in between.
BABCO wants your brand to catch up with your product
The product works. The market still needs convincing. Olivia Batraski’s design studio works in that awkward gap, where a name, a website, and an empty state can all make the same company easier to believe.
The Fund That Runs Your Marketing Before It Writes You a Check
Fiat Ventures started as a fintech growth shop, not a checkbook. That order - consulting first, capital second - is the whole pitch, and it is why founders let the firm into the room before the term sheet.
The Company That Rents You a C-Suite - Then Leaves You the Engine
Chief Outsiders built a business around an awkward mid-market truth: companies can outgrow their marketing and sales leadership long before they can justify permanent chiefs. Its answer now combines fractional executives, an on-demand delivery team and software designed to make the work survive the consultant.
The 30-Year-Old Internet Franchise That Learned to Sell AI
WSI was franchising websites before Google existed. Three decades later, its local-owner, global-network model is being repurposed for a harder assignment: helping ordinary businesses make sense of AI.
MarketerHire
MarketerHire is a San Francisco-based talent marketplace that connects companies with pre-vetted, on-demand marketing experts - from fractional CMOs to paid-media specialists - typically matched within 48 hours via its proprietary MarketerMatch algorithm.