Strategy-Led Growth Agency

You've outgrown the marketing engine that got you here.

We find what's holding your growth back, fix it first, then strategize and execute with a senior team who has done it before. Not a junior team learning on your budget.

Trusted by brands that have already proven the model and need marketing to catch up to it.

Trusted by brands including Fratello Coffee Roasters, High Liner Foods, Libro Credit Union, Vitruvi, Orangetheory Fitness, and Bromwich+Smith.

The pressure to grow never lets up. Your marketing eventually does.

Scaling fast and the team is stretched thin.

Growth stalled and nobody's sure why.

Real business, but marketing still runs on referrals instead of a system leadership can trust.

Different pressure. Same problem. What got you here won't get you there.

The fix isn't more hands. It's applying experience at scale.

You don't need more people in the room. You need the right people in more rooms.

We don't believe in the bait and switch. Our senior team applies their experience to your actual business, not just the pitch — strategy, paid, organic, creative, web, AI, and analytics all in one connected system.

Fewer handoffs. Sharper decisions. Senior experience applied where it actually moves the business, not parked in a deck.

Who we work with

Different pressure. Same outgrown marketing.

We work with brands who are…

Scaling fast, but the system is cracking.

Growth is outpacing the marketing engine built to handle it. You need senior strategy before things break.

Stalled, and nobody knows why.

The old playbook stopped working. Paid is less efficient, reports explain what happened — not what to fix.

Real business, unreliable marketing.

You sell well once the right person is in the room. The problem is getting more of the right people there.

The growth model

A growth model built around what actually moves your business.

Growth doesn't happen in one channel. It happens when the right parts of marketing work together across the full customer journey — paid, organic, search, website, and lifecycle each doing their job.

Strategy

Start with the real growth problem, not the assumed one.

Traffic

Create and capture demand through paid, organic, search, and content working as one system.

Conversion

Turn attention into action through messaging, landing pages, and a website that does its job.

Retention

Get more value from the audience you've already earned — email, lifecycle, repeat purchase.

Measurement

Connect reporting to the decisions leadership actually needs to make.

The team

Senior people, close to the work.

When growth pressure is high, your budget shouldn't be a training ground.

Hale doesn't build client teams around junior staff learning on the job. Strategists and practitioners stay close to both the thinking and the execution. Fewer handoffs. Faster pattern recognition. Sharper calls on what to fix first.

MBMatt Bergmann
MPMichael Perry
LGLindsay Goodyear
CPChris Parsons
DTDave Thomas
JHJeff Hemphill
TCTrevor Carter

Meet the team →

  • Senior people in both strategy and execution
  • Fewer layers between you and the actual work
  • Sharper diagnosis of what's holding growth back
  • Clearer prioritization, not a longer to-do list
  • Execution guided by people who understand business impact

Proof

Trusted by brands that needed more than activity.

+78%

ROAS lift delivered for a wellness & retail brand once strategy, media, and creative pulled in the same direction.

+65%

ROAS lift

Apparel & retail
−41%

cost per acquisition

Wellness & retail
+61%

ROAS lift

Fitness & franchise
−32%

cost of acquisition

Apparel & retail

more creative tested

Apparel & retail
<90d

to measurable impact

Across engagements

The Performance Growth Audit

Find what's actually holding growth back.

A focused review across strategy, media, organic, website, and measurement — with a clear answer on what's working, what's not, and what to fix next.

What we review

  • Growth goals and business priorities
  • Paid media performance
  • Organic visibility and search demand
  • Website and landing-page conversion paths
  • Analytics and measurement gaps
  • Channel alignment and wasted effort

What you get

  • A clear diagnosis of what's holding growth back
  • Priority opportunities across the marketing system
  • Recommendations on what to fix, scale, pause, or test
  • A practical roadmap for the next stage of growth
  • Direct input from senior Hale strategists and practitioners

No obligation. You keep the findings either way.

Get Your Free Growth Audit

The next move is yours

Ready to take the pressure off your growth team?

If you're spending more, working harder, and still looking for clearer growth, the engine needs attention. Not more fuel.

The pressure to grow is real. Here's where to start.

Find What's Holding Growth Back