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Full-Service Brand Development Agency

An Alaska marketing and creative agency running a proprietary strategy process, with a mix of recurring retainers and project work and a COO ready to step up.

Business Highlights

  • Proprietary strategic process spanning market research, brand positioning and campaign activation
  • A COO is in place and prepared to assume the president role after a sale
  • Revenue mixes recurring retainers with project-based engagements rather than being purely project work
  • Three consecutive years of revenue growth
  • Service range covers brand strategy, paid media, social, web design and video production

Considerations / Questions to Ask

  • What proportion of revenue is recurring retainer versus one-off project work?
  • How concentrated is revenue among the largest clients, and what notice do retainers carry?
  • The COO is central to the plan. What are their terms, and is that commitment documented?
  • Anchorage is a small market. How much of the client base is Alaska-based versus remote?
  • The owner would stay three to five years. Is that a requirement of the deal or an option?

Opportunities

  • An agency delivering remotely is not limited by its home market, and the client base has room to widen geographically
  • Retainers are the higher-quality revenue and already exist to be grown against project work
  • A COO ready to take over means a buyer can acquire without becoming the operator
  • The proprietary process is a differentiator that most small agencies cannot claim