
What Our Own Search Data Says, Including the Parts That Don’t Flatter Us
An agency publishing its own search data is unusual, because most of it is bad. Ours is too. What the stack found…
We work as a fractional CMO and COO inside your business, alongside your team, starting with how you generate customers today.

How We Grow Businesses
We find what's already generating customers in your business, evaluate the process from inquiry to sale, then bring the strategy, systems, and data to scale it profitably. Our expertise runs deep across marketing, technology, and operations.
Why Clients Stay
One engagement at a time, for as long as the numbers keep improving. We come to the table with a plan built from a real audit of your business, reviewed together before anything gets built. Then we deliver on it, with every decision backed by data, so each initiative has a reason and a return.
The Flywheel Effect
Attribution is the part most marketing skips: tracking which ad produced which sale, not just which click. Once you have it, it tells the ads what to bid on, search what to target, the site what to fix, and your follow-up who to call first. Every pass around the loop is sharper than the last.
Google, Meta, YouTube, and organic search bring the right people in, aimed at what actually closes.
A faster, clearer site turns more of that traffic into real inquiries instead of bounces.
Every inquiry lands somewhere, gets followed up fast, and is tied to the person who sent it.
Closed sales trace back to the ad that started them — and that data goes straight back into steps one, two, and three.
What We’re Publishing

An agency publishing its own search data is unusual, because most of it is bad. Ours is too. What the stack found…

Ad copy testing works in a small account and stops working in a large one. What changed when every ad group got…

Nobody reads the search terms report past a certain account size. We built something that reads every term every week and judges…


When growth stalls, acquisition costs climb, or funnels break, the problem rests on your shoulders — but it shouldn't be solved in isolation. We embed as your fractional leadership team, where your revenue targets become our targets and your bottlenecks become ours to solve.
We bring the full Flywheel team to it — customer acquisition, lead intelligence, automation, and the custom development our own engineers deliver — bridging executive strategy, creative, and technical execution into one connected effort.
We can make that offer because our founder didn’t advise on a nine-figure company — he cofounded it and built it end to end from zero: the website, the ads, the call-center technology, the back-end systems and the team behind them, with click-to-close attribution on every dollar. That operator’s system has been refined on every account since — across hundreds of businesses, and on Google’s own stages and expert panels — which is why we know where to look and what to build in yours.
Paid media, websites, sales systems, automation, creative, and fractional growth leadership. Most clients don't start with all of it, and we wouldn't suggest they should — but the compounding only happens where the channels connect, so whatever you start with, we build it to connect to the rest.






Most businesses don't need AI everywhere — they need it in the right places. We help you identify the workflows, decisions, and bottlenecks where AI creates real leverage.
Talk to Evelyn. She's a real example of applied AI — a custom AI agent built for one specific job, handling it around the clock with every conversation reviewed by our team. Ask her to run a Google PageSpeed Insights check on your site, talk through strategy, or book time with our leadership team. Narrow scope and human review are what keep it accurate and on-message.
The questions we get asked most, answered plainly.
Flywheel is a performance marketing agency and fractional CMO/COO growth partner. We start by understanding how your business already wins customers today — ads, events, affiliations, referrals, reputation — and what your marketing spend is actually returning. Then we grow what already works: strengthening the bottom line, streamlining the systems and data pipeline that turn a prospect into a customer, and applying digital where it moves the needle. Every recommendation is backed by data, so you know what to invest, where, and the return to expect — and we lead direction, strategy, and execution across the entire funnel.
Usually because the work is running in separate boxes. Ads get judged on clicks, because clicks are what the ad platform reports. The site gets built once and nobody measures what it costs you. Search work gets judged on rankings instead of customers. When we connect those pieces, the same budget starts producing more: a faster site raises your Quality Score, which is Google's rating of how relevant and usable your ad and landing page are, and a higher score means more clicks for the same spend. That click data then tells us what to target in search.
We embed like part of your team — close enough to understand how your business really works and find what actually grows it. Strategy and execution sit with the same people, so what we learn running your ads feeds straight into the site, the search work, and the automation — and back into the plan. Engagements are structured around measurable outcomes — and because we work this closely, clients lean on us well beyond the original scope.
Then we won't push them. We start by finding what already drives your new business — referrals, events, affiliations, reputation — and grow that first. Ads are one lever we use only where the data shows they will pay off; sometimes the bigger win is improving your systems, your follow-up, or the channels already working. The goal is profitable growth, not more ad spend.
Technical SEO is the foundation everything else builds on. If search engines can't crawl, index, or quickly load your pages, even great content and ads underperform. We fix crawl and indexation issues, Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP) — Google's measurements of how fast and stable a page feels to load — redirect and canonical architecture, and schema markup first — then layer on content and authority — so the whole site ranks and converts more efficiently.
AI works best in specific, well-defined jobs rather than everywhere at once. Most of the value is process automation — eliminating manual data entry, keeping systems in sync, and moving work through your pipeline without someone rekeying it. Conversational agents are the visible layer on top: voice and chat agents that qualify leads, cover after-hours calls, and hand off to your team with the context already gathered. All of it is purpose-built around your services and integrated with your CRM and phone systems.
No. We're headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with deep roots in the local market — see our Columbus digital marketing services — but we're fully remote-capable and serve growth-stage clients nationally.
We work best with established businesses already investing in growth. Our deepest track record is in mortgage and financial services, real estate, and professional services such as law, advisory, and consulting — and we help industrial and manufacturing firms modernize their websites and back-office systems. We select clients by fit — a real sales process, decision-makers who can act, and room to scale — more than by industry label.
We offer project work for defined-scope deliverables (site builds, audits, campaign launches), monthly retainers for ongoing management (paid media, SEO, AI maintenance), and a hybrid model — active project delivery alongside ongoing channel management — which is the most common fit for growing clients, and advisory engagements for teams that already execute well in-house and want direction plus access to our frameworks. Every engagement starts with a discovery and strategy phase to align on goals and success metrics before execution.
Our sites run on a proprietary, performance-first framework we have developed over years. That means faster load times, better Core Web Vitals and search performance, cleaner conversion paths, and a site that's genuinely maintainable and built to integrate with the rest of your marketing system.
They're custom inbound and outbound phone agents, built on our proprietary voice-agent platform, that answer calls, qualify prospects with structured screening logic, schedule appointments, cover after-hours, and warm-transfer qualified callers to your team. For one mortgage client this meant fewer unqualified calls reaching loan officers and recovered leads that previously went to voicemail.
Paid media can drive qualified traffic and conversions almost immediately once campaigns and tracking are properly structured, while SEO compounds over months — for example, a real estate client established local keyword rankings within about 60 days of launch. We set measurable KPIs from day one and report honestly on what's working and what needs adjustment.
Fifteen minutes, your business, your question. We’ll spend it answering instead of pitching.