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If your marketing agency (or internal marketing team) can’t show you the...

Noah Fleming

Noah Fleming

May 26, 2025


If your marketing agency (or internal marketing team) can’t show you the revenue impact of their last three campaigns, they’re not marketers. They’re decorators.

One of my clients was spending $40,000 a month on marketing.

Zero qualified leads in six months.

The agency kept pointing to “brand awareness” and “engagement.”

Translation: nothing was working.

We pulled the plug. Reallocated the spend to where real buyers actually hang out.

They closed three major deals in 90 days.

Most marketing fails because it optimizes for what’s easy to measure, not what actually grows the business.

Ask your team this question:

Ask your team this question:

What’s the revenue outcome of our last three campaigns?

If the answer needs slides, storytelling, or buzzwords, they're spinning you, too.

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