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Running with Strategy

Case studies.

Nine case studies. Numbers first, the full story if you want it. Ads, branding, social, and websites, all from the same approach: clear message, right audience, a system that keeps it running.

What results has Running with Strategy produced?

3 million views in 90 days for a 50-year law firm, 3.8 million for a founder with two brands, over 1 million for a personal brand, and a Meta ads account rebuilt into a system the founder runs from her phone. Seven social and ads cases, numbers first, most with the screenshots to back them, and two websites below.

  1. Aqilla SportswearAI ad system build

    A media buyer's job, on her phone, every morning.

    Rebuilt the Meta account, then built the system that manages it. The install we sell today came out of this.

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    The full story

    The founder had been running her business for a few years before we worked together. Real product, real audience, real brand. She had also been running her own Meta ads for most of that time, spending real money, without ever knowing whether the campaigns were working.

    The first month was diagnostic. We went through her campaigns, creative, audience targeting, funnel, and business numbers in the kind of detail nobody had done with her before. Ads that had been dying for weeks. Audiences that looked fine but brought in the wrong customers. A cost per purchase that needed serious recalibration.

    Then we built the system. Every morning she gets a text with the previous day's performance against the prior seven days. It tracks ROAS, cost per purchase, click-through rate, frequency, ad fatigue, and the best-performing headlines and creative angles. It catches problems before they compound and tells her what to do about them.

    The daily monitoring and optimization work, the kind that used to need a full-time media buyer, now happens on her phone before her first cup of coffee.

  2. Rice & Rice AttorneysSocial strategy, 50-year elder law firm

    3M views in 90 days.

    Rebuilt the social strategy around audience clarity. The message got sharper, and the content started performing.

    3M
    views, 90 days
    +379%
    views growth
    +2.8K
    new followers
    +356%
    audience growth
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    A 50-year Indiana elder law and estate planning firm needed sharper content direction and a real growth strategy. Posting more would not have fixed it. The message had to get clearer before the content could perform.

    We rebuilt the social strategy from the ground up with audience clarity at the center, refined the messaging to sharpen pain-point communication, and set content direction around consistent themes that built authority and trust over time.

    Rice & Rice Attorneys Facebook analytics showing 3 million views and 379% growth in 90 days
    3M views · +379% · 90 days · Facebook
    Rice & Rice Attorneys audience growth chart showing 2,800 new Facebook followers and 356% audience increase over 90 days
    +2.8K new followers · 356% audience growth
  3. Elena Cardone and associated brandsEcosystem-scale social strategy

    500K+ followers, one strategy.

    Social strategy and campaign management across an ecosystem of accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Leads and revenue up across the ecosystem.

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    The full story

    Scope: social media strategy and planning, campaign execution support, strategy for the main pages and associated communities, and email and funnel oversight for awareness and conversion.

    The result was growth managed not just at the content level but across broader ecosystems, audiences, and campaign structures.

  4. Grandparenting A-to-Z and a second brandOne founder, multiple brands

    3.8M views on Facebook. 755K on Instagram. 90 days.

    The same strategic framework applied across two brands for one founder. It translated. That's repeatability, not luck.

    3.8M
    Facebook views, +1000%
    755K
    Instagram views, 93% non-followers
    6.5K
    Facebook audience, 51K engagement
    +92%
    Instagram followers
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    The full story

    We worked with the same founder across more than one brand and business. Messaging, content direction, and audience growth all strengthened, and the strategy held up in different brand environments.

    Grandparenting A-to-Z Facebook analytics showing 3.8 million views with 1000% growth in 90 days
    Facebook · 3.8M views · 1000% lift
    Grandparenting A-to-Z Facebook net followers and engagement growth chart with 6,500 audience and 51K engagement
    Facebook · 6.5K audience · 51K engagement
    Grandparenting A-to-Z Instagram insights showing 755,696 views with 93.3% reach to non-followers
    Instagram · 755K views · 93% non-followers
    Grandparenting A-to-Z Instagram followers dashboard showing 4,803 followers with 92.3% growth in 90 days
    Instagram · 4.8K followers · +92.3%
  5. Christina Fanitzi, Mrs. New York 2025Personal brand

    1M+ views in 90 days.

    Strong potential, limited visibility. Strategic content direction and intentional positioning (who you are, who you serve, what you say) over about three months.

    1M+
    views, 90 days
    261K
    accounts reached, +493%
    532K
    views in a single month
    446
    new followers, one month
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    Beyond the numbers: the brand knew exactly what it stood for and how to say it, confidence in the strategy grew as results compounded, and authority was established in a competitive space within 90 days.

    Christina Fanitzi Instagram views chart showing 1,096,637 views over 90 days with 493.4% growth in accounts reached
    1M+ views · 261K reached · +493%
    Christina Fanitzi Instagram dashboard with 532.5K views, 6.9K interactions, and 446 new followers over a single month
    532K views · 6.9K interactions · 446 new followers
  6. Real estate brokerThree platforms at once

    1.3M views on Facebook. 392K on TikTok. Same 90 days.

    Momentum across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok simultaneously, with stronger authority and positioning on every platform touched.

    1.3M
    Facebook views, +996%
    +2000%
    Facebook audience growth
    392K
    TikTok views, +832%
    38K
    TikTok likes
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    The full story

    Platform versatility and the ability to create momentum across multiple channels, demonstrated through consistent results for a real estate broker working across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

    Real estate broker Facebook analytics showing 1.3 million views with 996% growth and 8.2K interactions in 90 days
    Facebook · 1.3M views · +996%
    Real estate broker Facebook audience growth chart showing 576 new followers with 2000% audience growth over 90 days
    Facebook audience · +2000% growth
    Real estate broker TikTok analytics showing 392K post views, 38K likes, 11K shares, growth over 800%
    TikTok · 392K views · +832% · 38K likes
  7. Personal brand breakthroughMessaging

    2.5M views. 228K interactions.

    Content was being posted from a place that didn't match the founder underneath. Once the messaging got honest, performance changed.

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    People don't just respond to content volume. They respond to resonance. When the messaging became more truthful and more emotionally honest, performance changed dramatically.

    Personal brand Instagram and Facebook insights with 2.5 million views, 228.1K interactions, and 228 new followers
    2.5M views · 228K interactions · 228 new followers

Websites

What websites has Running with Strategy built?

Recent builds, each written first and built second, with a screenshot here and the pages, the flows, and the stack on its case page. The Website Build is from $4,500.

  1. OpenGate Counseling & ConsultingWebsite build, Wyoming counseling practice

    Twenty-seven pages, written to be found, cited, and called.

    A new website for a Casper, Wyoming substance use counseling practice, built around the questions courts, attorneys, and clients ask before they call.

    27
    pages, written and built
    100
    Lighthouse SEO, live home page
    100
    Lighthouse accessibility, live home page
    The damonlaird.com home page on a desktop screen: a headline about the next step after a charge involving alcohol or drugs, with a phone number button
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    OpenGate Counseling & Consulting is Damon J. Laird's substance use counseling practice in Casper, Wyoming. Courts, probation officers, and attorneys refer people to it for alcohol and drug evaluations, education, and outpatient counseling. The practice needed a site that answered the questions those people ask before they call, could rank for Wyoming evaluation searches, and could be cited by an AI assistant when an attorney asks where to get a court-ordered evaluation.

    We wrote and built the whole site: a home page, the service pages, a page for attorneys, an intake page, an about page, a resources section with nine guides, and the legal and client-rights pages a healthcare practice needs. Every service page carries the credentials, the Wyoming geography, the phone number, and a set of question-and-answer FAQs, so each page stands on its own when someone lands on it from a search.

    MedicalBusiness, Person, Service, FAQ, and breadcrumb schema sit on the pages that need them, and a public llms.txt describes the practice to AI assistants. Contact is a phone call or an email. There are no third-party forms, no plugins, and no database to maintain.

    The site went live on damonlaird.com in August 2026. It was handed over with the code, the hosting, the domain, Search Console, and the Google Business Profile all in the practice's own accounts, with a one-page guide to publishing a change. A Lighthouse run on the live home page in October 2026 scored 95 for performance and 100 for accessibility, best practices, and SEO.

  2. Dorie Nelson Real EstateWebsite pieces, seller reports and a CRM assistant, real estate team

    Custom pieces on the site she had, seller reports that write themselves, and a CRM assistant on her phone.

    A Casper, Wyoming real estate team kept its CRM website and got the pieces it was missing: custom-coded sections and a seller's guide page, weekly seller reports and client documents that generate from the numbers, and an AI assistant connected to the CRM.

    The Wyoming Home Seller's Guide page on dorienelson.com on a desktop screen: a navy hero with the guide title and a button to get the free guide
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    Dorie Nelson Real Estate is a Coldwell Banker team in Casper, Wyoming. Its website runs on Lofty, the CRM the team uses for leads, listings and drip campaigns, so the site had to get better without leaving the platform. Beyond the site, the team was doing by hand every week what a system should do: writing seller updates, building listing presentations and market analyses, and keeping the CRM current after every call.

    On the website, we custom coded the pieces the team needed inside the Lofty site: a trust bar with the team's real numbers, a four-card call-to-action band, a buyer and seller journey stepper, a Google reviews marquee, and the Wyoming Home Seller's Guide page with a five-question FAQ, FAQPage schema and a two-field form. A submission tags the lead in the CRM, the guide goes out by email at once, and a thank-you page offers the PDF and a booking link.

    For the documents, we built three generators in the team's brand: a seven-page About Us presentation, a six-page comparative market analysis, and a weekly seller marketing update. Each one renders as a branded PDF and a private web link for the client. The seller reports run on their own: the week's numbers go into one table, and every Friday the system writes each listing's report with the change from the week before, publishes the links, and sends the team the summary.

    For the CRM, we built a custom AI assistant that runs on its own server and is connected to Lofty. Every weekday morning it reads the lead list and sends the team a digest: new leads, leads active again, and the day's calls with an opener for each. During the day the team texts it. It logs a call or a note on the lead, adds a task, answers whether a lead has been contacted from the real CRM timeline, sets reminders, and moves a lead's stage only after the team confirms. The same system drafts the team's two monthly newsletters for review before they go out through the CRM.

    The seller's guide page has been live since September 2026, with the form, the email and the thank-you page tested end to end. The weekly seller reports have gone out on Fridays since August 2026, and the assistant has sent the morning digest every weekday since late September 2026. The team's leads, notes and follow-ups stay inside the CRM it already uses, and the work that used to take a person's week now takes the team a few minutes of numbers and a few text messages.

Paid ads

Where are the paid-ads case studies?

Being written up now. Specific results from past paid media engagements are available privately in the meantime: ask on a call and Chloe will walk you through the accounts, the spend, and what came back. The Aqilla case above shows the system those results run on.

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Founder · Miami, FL