Month: January 2026

Engagement Yield: How Every New Client Opportunity Becomes An Agency’s Compounding Asset

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Your agency signs a new client engagement. A project, a retainer, an audit, a major campaign. Revenue is what you get paid. Engagement Yield is everything else you gain from the engagement: the proof, leverage, relationships, and referrals, the things that make future growth easier. I’ve been thinking about this concept because it explains a pattern I’ve seen over nearly two decades in the agency business: why some agencies seem to compound their advantages while […]

2025: An Annual Review

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This marks my fifth annual review in this format. Check out 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021. In my 42nd year on this planet, I’m reminded that each year can speed by in a blur and easily bleed into the next. But taking a few hours here and there to pause and reflect, to revisit photos, journal entries, or my calendar can, momentarily, slow time down and zoom in close enough to see the textures of […]