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Running with Strategy

Case studies.

Seven clients. Numbers first, the full story if you want it. Ads, branding, and social, 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 cases, numbers first, most with the screenshots to back them.

  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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    The full story

    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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    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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    The full story

    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

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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Chloe Nelson, founder of Running with Strategy

— Chloe

Founder · Miami, FL