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The Agency That Learned to Say No
Studiothink began by trying to do everything. Its sharper business emerged when founder Christine Lobas discovered that the useful part of a full-service agency is not the size of the menu - it is knowing what deserves to be on it.
The Agency That Planned to Stay Small
Angela Krile expected three clients and a part-time practice. Sixteen years later, a Lancaster firm with dozens of clients has built its business by treating community ties as operating infrastructure.
The Field Trip That Never Needed a Bus
A small Ohio PR agency found its sharpest idea in a stubborn constraint: people wanted to see modern agriculture, but farms could not simply open the gate. The answer was a live field trip with no bus, no biosecurity breach and, eventually, an audience of more than 1.6 million.
Dale Wollschleger Put the Pharmacy in the Patient’s Corner
A pharmacist with a taste for building saw that a bag of bottles was not the same thing as care. His answer began with hand-filled packets in the back of a Cleveland pharmacy and grew into ExactCare.