Agencies deliver value
Chief Experience Officer, The Starr Conspiracy·Last updated:
It starts before the engagement begins. Most agency relationships fail because expectations weren't aligned upfront. The client thinks they're buying strategy. The agency thinks they're selling execution. Six months later, everyone's frustrated.
We solve this by being explicit about outcomes from day one. Not deliverables. Outcomes. What will be different about your business in six months? What decisions will you be able to make that you can't make today? What capabilities will you have that you don't have now?
Then we design the engagement backward from those outcomes. If the outcome requires a rebrand, we do a rebrand. If it requires a content engine, we build one. If it requires fixing your sales enablement, we fix it.
The deliverable isn't the point. The deliverable is evidence that the outcome happened.
“Most agency relationships fail because expectations weren't aligned upfront.”
“Not deliverables — outcomes.”
“The deliverable isn't the point. The deliverable is evidence that the outcome happened.”
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