As a small or medium-sized business (SMB) owner, you already know that marketing is essential to growth. But how much should you spend? Where should that money go? How do you create a marketing budget that adapts to your business scales? A marketing budget isn’t just a number you plug in once and forget. It…
Marketing is an essential investment for any business, but measuring return on investment (ROI) isn’t always straightforward for service-based businesses, professional service firms, and SaaS companies. Unlike businesses selling physical products, service-based companies deal with longer sales cycles, relationship-driven revenue, and intangible value, making it harder to pinpoint exactly how marketing contributes to growth. So, what’s…
Jessica Scanlon, the CEO of Hot Dog Marketing, joined the Agency Unfiltered podcast to share her team’s journey in moving from conventional retainers to an agile retainer approach. As Jessica explains, by using the agile methodology, the production sprints and planning cycles of her team’s retainers have become more flexible and responsive and are generating…