Before you sign an agency contract, ask them to show you the last campaign that did not work and what they learned from it. Watch what happens.

Every marketing agency brings their shiny case studies to the sales presentation. They show you their best work, their biggest client wins, and their prettiest charts.

It’s all staged to look perfect.

If you want to know what working with an agency will really be like, ask them this during the pitch: “Show me the last campaign you ran that failed, and tell me exactly what you learned from it.”

Then sit back and watch what happens.

A amateur agency will freeze up, get defensive, or claim they’ve never had a failed campaign (which is a lie). A true veteran partner will smile, walk you through a real case where things went off track, explain how they spotted the issue, and show you how they fixed it.

You aren’t hiring an agency for when things go right. You are hiring them for their ability to diagnose and fix problems when things go wrong.

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