Why Hiring A Marketing Agency Still Makes Sense Even If You Have An Internal Marketing Team.

Internal Teams Are Close. That’s a Strength. And a Risk. Internal teams carry the day-to-day load. That proximity creates speed and accountability. It also creates blind spots. Over time, even strong teams can become buried in production. Messaging evolves incrementally. Assumptions go unchallenged. Strategy becomes reactive. An external agency brings distance. And distance creates perspective. […]

How to Know If Your Website Is Structured for AI-Driven Search

Most companies still judge their websites the way they did five years ago. Those questions are still relevant. But in 2026, they are incomplete. The more important question is this: Is your website structured so AI systems can understand and confidently categorize your authority? Search engines are no longer simple indexing tools. AI systems crawl, […]

How a 3-Day Conference Reinvigorated Our Outlook on Business

Dale Sprague just returned from the International Executives Association (IEA) Business Innovation Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia. The theme was Rethink Your Business, Develop Profitable Relationships and Transform Your Business. The keynote and interactive sessions centered around accountability, problem solving, the global economic outlook, surviving the great talent resignation, surprise-proofing your business and the human […]