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When small business owners decide it's time to get serious about marketing, they usually face the same crossroads: hire an agency, bring someone in-house, or try something in between. The "in between" is where fractional marketing lives. But there's a lot of confusion about what that actually means -- and how it compares to a traditional agency. What a Marketing Agency Does A traditional agency sells capacity. You hire them to produce things: ads, content, social posts, designs, campaigns....

You built the website. You're getting some traffic. But the leads aren't coming in. This is one of the most common frustrations we hear from small business owners in Vancouver. And it's not a traffic problem. It's a conversion problem. Here's the thing about websites: they don't generate leads just by existing. Traffic is just the first step. What happens after someone lands on your page is what actually determines whether that visitor becomes a potential client. Your Homepage Is Doing Too...

Hiring a marketing agency or a fractional marketer is a real commitment of budget and trust — and most of the bad fits could have been caught before signing. Here are the seven questions worth asking any marketing partner before you hire them, including us. 1. What will you actually deliver in the first 30 days? A credible partner can describe concrete first-month deliverables, not just vague 'strategy sessions.' If they can't tell you what week one looks like, they haven't done this enough...