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Vol. V · The Newsroom Today · Loveland, CO Edition · Senior on Every File

The Newsroom.

Field reports from the operators running the accounts.

Breaking Google ramps AI Overviews in local search · what HVAC + electrical operators do next. · Meta loosens optimization on OFFSITE_CONVERSIONS after Q2 ruleset. · GA4 update changes session attribution for paid traffic. · First-party data plays beat third-party signals in 6 of 7 client tests. · Performance Max asset transparency rolling out to all advertisers. ·
The real cost of an underperforming agency. Lead · Editorial Desk
Lead Story Editorial · Strategy

The real cost of an underperforming agency.

It's not the invoice. It's the year you don't get back. We pulled the receipts from three rebuilds (Three Crowns, Fort Collins H&A, Lemay Barbers) and the math on opportunity cost is uglier than the dashboards ever admit.

The pattern: tracking that doesn't tell the truth, foundation-skipping channel rollouts, and a senior who promised the field and delivered a junior. Here's how to spot it before you sign, and what the rebuild actually looks like.

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The Archive.

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Paid Desk · 1 wk

The conversion tracking audit every agency should run before they take your money.

The five-minute test that exposes whether your last agency was measuring revenue or theater.

SEO Desk · 1 wk

Why money-page depth beat blog volume in every test we ran in 2026.

Eighteen accounts. Same hypothesis. The depth-over-breadth playbook with the data behind it.

Strategy · 2 wks

The Saddle phase, week by week · what we ship and when.

Phase 5 of Road to Scale, unredacted. Plus the trigger conditions that move us into Bullseye.

Web Desk · 2 wks

Headless Storyblok vs. WordPress for home-services operators in 2026.

Performance numbers, build cost, vendor lock-in, and a frank scorecard from our last 14 builds.

Social Desk · 3 wks

Instagram Reels cadence in 2026 · what's compounding, what's flopping.

Three creative formats we test every Monday + the failure rate to expect before something breaks open.

SEO Desk · 3 wks

Local-SEO citations still matter (just not the way you've been told).

Audit before you invest. Which 7 directories drive Rose NeuroSpa's +231% GBP searches, and the 80% we ignore.

Strategy · 1 mo

The 4X ROI in 90 days guarantee, and why we'll put it in writing.

The mechanics behind our Grand Slam offer, the math we run before we accept the engagement, and the no-fluff exit clause.

Brand Desk · 1 mo

Brand voice without the corporate stiffness · a working framework.

Four lenses we run every voice through. Plus the rule that kept Three Crowns sounding human at scale.

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