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If you feel your business is stuck, it's often not your vision. It's how your positioning gets translated—or not—by agencies. There's a subtle shift that changes everything. You hand off a crystal clear idea. By the time it hits the feed? It’s weak. Diluted. 📉 I see this constantly. You aren't losing because the market is "too crowded." You're losing because of the handoff. The copywriter guesses. The designer guesses. And you pay for the confusion. That's expensive friction. We have to stop treating communication like a relay race where everyone drops the baton. You need continuity. One brain. One system. You need me. When the strategy actually informs the output... the noise just stops. Does this resonate with your current setup? DM me 'CLARITY' if you want to fix the architecture. #businessowner #marketingstrategy #positioning #growth #agencyproblems #midmarket https://www.leadbuildermarketing.com/is-your-business-stuck/

Youtube Marketing: It will replace your website. YouTube is quietly replacing cable in Dallas–Fort Worth, and most local businesses are still treating it like a side project. In the next few years, your YouTube channel could actually become more important to your business than your website—if you use it strategically. DFW Business Owners: Your YouTube Channel Will Beat Your Website (If You Start Now) Right now, people in Dallas–Fort Worth are spending hours every day on YouTube—on their phones, on their laptops, and on their TVs instead of traditional cable. In the next five to ten years, your company’s YouTube channel could be more important to your business than your website. And for most DFW businesses, that’s a massive opportunity—because your competitors are not ready for it. In this video, I’m going to show you how to turn YouTube into a local client machine for your Dallas–Fort Worth business, without turning you into a full‑time video producer. Stay with me to the end, and I’ll...

Two companies- same market, same capital. One thrives, the other barely survives. The difference- it's rarely strategy. It's how they fundamentally frame marketing's role. Most see it as a line item. A necessary evil you try to minimize, like paying the electric bill. But the ones winning? They treat it as infrastructure. I've seen this pattern destroy growth plans that looked perfect on paper. The budget was there. The talent was there. But the intent was transactional. When you treat communication as an expense, you look for the cheapest way to get loud. You buy ads. You rent attention. And the second you stop paying, the silence is deafening. That is high-entropy marketing. It dissipates the moment the check clears. Infrastructure is different. You build it once, and it carries value forever. Think about it. If you spend $10k on ads, that money is gone. Burned fuel. If you spend $10k building a content engine that articulates your core methodology... that asset works...

Youtube Marketing: It will replace your website. YouTube is quietly replacing cable in Dallas–Fort Worth, and most local businesses are still treating it like a side project. In the next few years, your YouTube channel could actually become more important to your business than your website—if you use it strategically. DFW Business Owners: Your YouTube Channel Will Beat Your Website (If You Start Now) Right now, people in Dallas–Fort Worth are spending hours every day on YouTube—on their phones, on their laptops, and on their TVs instead of traditional cable. In the next five to ten years, your company’s YouTube channel could be more important to your business than your website. And for most DFW businesses, that’s a massive opportunity—because your competitors are not ready for it. In this video, I’m going to show you how to turn YouTube into a local client machine for your Dallas–Fort Worth business, without turning you into a full‑time video producer. Stay with me to the end, and I’ll...

The Agency Graveyard: Why You Keep Firing Partners and Hiring the Same Problem I've watched this pattern repeat for years. A business owner sits across from me, frustrated, explaining how their last three agencies failed them. The stories sound different on the surface, but the structure is identical. "They didn't get our vision." "They couldn't execute what we needed." "The relationship just stopped working." Here's what I've learned: the agency wasn't the problem. The problem was sitting in the chair telling me about the agency. The Briefing Blind Spot Let me show you something that stopped me cold when I first saw it. Research from the BetterBriefs Project surveyed over 1,700 marketers and agency staff across 70+ countries. They found that 80% of marketers think they write good briefs. Only 10% of creative agencies agree. That's not a small perception gap. That's a canyon. The same research revealed something even more...

The Lead Generation Advice Industry Has an Execution Problem I've spent two decades watching the gap between what people say works in lead generation and what actually produces revenue. The distance between those two points keeps growing. Here's what I've observed: the people creating most of the lead generation frameworks you're following have never had to hit a quota under their own name. They've never felt the pressure of a pipeline that needs to convert by Friday or the business doesn't make payroll. They've never had to look a client in the eye and explain why the strategy they sold didn't produce the leads they promised. They build theories. You live with the consequences. The Credential Gap Nobody Talks About Walk through any marketing conference. Scan the speaker lineup. Count how many of those experts offering lead generation advice have actually generated leads as their primary revenue responsibility in the last three years. Not managed a team ...