Yancey’s Marketing Agency
We’re built for the long arc — so your category presence keeps building each quarter instead of starting from zero every time.
— Les Yancey, Founder · Disabled Navy veteran
The familiar story
Pretty decks. Reports thick with screenshots no one acts on. A nice account manager who can’t quite tell you what actually changed this month. Six months in, you’re still asking the same question you asked six months ago — what’s actually different?
Here’s the part nobody says out loud: the months you waste don’t come back. Every quarter your competitors invest in marketing that builds on itself is a quarter that the gap widens, and the work to catch up gets harder. Not impossible — just harder than starting today.
What we hold to
If a channel isn’t going to work for your business, we’ll tell you on the strategy call — before we send a contract. Reports tell you what actually happened, not what’s flattering. Performance honesty is built in. We’d rather have the hard conversation than soften it for comfort. The hard conversations are cheap; avoiding them isn’t.
Your fees pay us. Your ad budgets pay the platforms — through your accounts, with your card, under your name. We don’t profit from your media spend, and you can see every dollar of work in your dashboard. Every recommendation cites the data underneath it. The platforms are the platforms — we don’t warrant their performance, outcomes, or availability. Those decisions belong to Meta, Google, and the rest, not to us. If you ever want to know why we suggested something, the answer’s in your dashboard, not buried in a sales pitch.
Operators built this agency. The senior team that scopes your work stays involved throughout. No junior bait-and-switch where you meet the principals at the pitch and never see them again. No surprise handoffs without your knowledge. The work shows up because the senior team that scoped it stays involved in delivering it.
Marketing rewards what compounds. We’re built for the long arc — quarterly business reviews instead of monthly screenshot decks, multi-year client relationships instead of high-churn rosters. We’d rather be your last marketing decision than your next one.
Who we serve
The Main Street shop that’s been running the same family business for two generations. The online founder past their first quarter-million who’s still answering customer emails at 4pm on a Tuesday. The contractor who’s the best in their county but invisible the moment someone searches the next county over. The business you walk past with the unmarked door — the one everyone in the neighborhood swears by but nobody outside the neighborhood has heard of.
If you’ve been burned by agencies before — overpromise, underdeliver, opaque billing, the whole show — we’d want a conversation regardless of whether we end up working together. Either way, the conversation is worth your thirty minutes.
You build yours.
We market it.
The next step
Thirty minutes. We learn the business, the numbers, what’s actually broken, what’s actually working. If we’re not the right team for the work, we’ll tell you on the call — and likely point you toward someone who is. If we are, we’ll show you what the next step looks like.
Either way, the conversation is worth having.
Marketing outcomes depend on offer-market fit, execution quality, and platform conditions that vary across businesses. Specific results are discussed and calibrated to your situation during the strategy call.
