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**At Part & Sum, we don't do the work for you.

We do the work with you. Here’s why.**

When you’re faced with a challenge, the idea of handing it off to someone else is tempting—especially if that someone claims to be an expert in solving other people’s problems. And frankly, that’s how a lot of agencies operate.

You tell them what the problem is, they go back to their office, and come up with a solution. That solution gets put into action and then they tell you if it worked or not.

If it didn’t, well, you’re back to square one.

The way we see it, this approach has critical shortcomings:

• You miss out on opportunities to study and test what you’ve learned in real time.

• Information and ideas get stuck in silos.

• Your team’s morale sinks if they think their skills no longer matter, or that they have no stakes in growth.

• Data-based insights get overlooked and you decrease your ability to translate future data into goals, hypotheses, and solutions.

• Worst of all, you become dependent on someone else’s expertise instead of building your own. That’s why Part and Sum believes in pairing.

  That means a member of our team and a member of your team works side-by-side—often times literally—to tackle the challenges you face.

  We share what we know, and you share what you know. We share the process. We share the tools. We share the to-do list. We share the data and the insights. If you want, we’ll even share pictures of our pets and kids (they’re super cute).

Pairing means we DO:

• Sit next to you IRL.
• Get to know you…really know you.
• Brainstorm together.
• Figure out the right questions to ask and encourage thinking from new perspectives.
• Listen, react, and adjust based on your team’s feedback.
• Develop clear frameworks for trying new things, iterating, learning from the results, and trying again.
• Help you test ideas in the real world and maximize opportunities from day one.
• Share everything we know on a daily basis, from industry research to our hands-on experience, and show you how it works in practice.
• Make an impact that lasts.

…and it means we DON’T:

• Assume we know more about your business than you do.
• Discourage anyone from speaking up –about anything.
• Dip in and out of your workflow.
• Offer prefab solutions that aren’t truly customized.
• Suggest approaches that aren’t possible (or possible to replicate) given your team, tech, and resources.
• Impose our priorities on yours.
• Add layers of red tape and hierarchy that will slow you down.
• Limit strategy to the theoretical level.
• Focus on short-term or one-off wins instead of long-term success.

Pairing upends what you think you know about hiring someone for marketing strategy help.

We’re okay with that. It’s a proven solution for clients of all sizes, in all kinds of industries, at all stages of growth. It allows you to solve problems now while investing in your ability to solve problems later. And it brings together two powerful forces: our team’s expertise in modern marketing and your team’s expertise in your brand and your customers.