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Your agency grows clients' pipelines. Who grows yours?

We call, email and message the owners and marketing leaders who buy retainers, qualify them on budget and timing, and put the meeting on your calendar. You keep doing the work that keeps clients.

  • Meetings with buyers who can sign
  • Retainer budget checked before the call
  • Less reliance on referrals
3partners, one runs every account
300+calls a day in a past US role
ET · CT · PTUS business hours covered
TCPADNC scrubbing on every list
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The problem

New business is the job nobody at your agency has time for

Warehouse manager checking a tablet between stocked shelves
We get great results for clients, but nobody is out there prospecting.

Your strategists and account managers are billable. Every hour they spend on outreach is an hour off a client account, so outreach is the first thing to slip when a deadline lands.

Referrals carried us for years. Then two clients left in one quarter.

Referral flow follows your clients' moods and budgets, not your growth plan. When a retainer ends, there is no pipeline behind it to replace the revenue.

Prospects tell us they already have an agency. End of call.

Most good-fit buyers already pay someone. The opening is not on day one, it is when their current agency misses a target or their contract term ends, and that takes repeat touches to catch.

Half our discovery calls have no real budget behind them.

Without qualification, the meetings you do get are often people shopping for cheap help. You lose an afternoon preparing a pitch for someone who could never sign your minimum retainer.

The cost of waiting

The cost of doing nothing about agency new business

75%
of agencies say referrals are their main source of new business

RSW/US 2025 agency survey. Most of the same firms say their growth engine is not strong enough.

$66,260
median yearly wage for a services sales rep, before benefits and commission

BLS, Sales Representatives of Services, May 2024.

3 months
average time for a new SDR to ramp

The Bridge Group, 2025 SDR Metrics Report. Then the average SDR stays 1.9 years.

If one retainer pays for months of outbound, a quiet pipeline is the expensive option.

What we do

How we would run outbound for your agency

Three colleagues laughing together around a meeting table with laptops and charts

We work as your new business desk. You set the ideal client, minimum retainer and the services you want to sell. We do the calling, writing and booking.

01

A list built around your best clients

We study your top three retainers and build lookalike lists by industry, size, location and ad activity. Apollo.io, LinkedIn and public signals like job posts feed the list.

02

Calls to owners and marketing leaders

We call founders at smaller companies and CMOs or marketing directors at larger ones, in their business hours. Every call ends with a next step or a logged reason why not.

03

Email and LinkedIn that sound like a peer

Short notes that reference something real: a new location, a hiring post, a site relaunch. No case study dumps in the first touch.

04

BANT before the meeting

We confirm monthly budget against your minimum, who signs, the problem they want fixed and when their current agency term ends. You only meet people who can say yes.

05

Everything logged in your CRM

HubSpot, GoHighLevel or whatever you run. Every dial, reply and booked meeting is in the record, with notes you can read in two minutes before the call.

How we qualify

What BANT means for Digital marketing agencies

Every meeting we book has passed all four checks. Here is what each one means for your buyers.

Who we call

The decision makers we reach for you

Business owners and founders at companies under 50 staffChief marketing officersVPs and directors of marketingHeads of growth and ecommerce directorsMarketing managers at multi-location brandsFranchise development and franchise marketing leadsGeneral managers at professional practices (dental, legal, medical)
Buying signals we watch
  • New marketing leader hired in the last 90 days
  • Job post for an in-house marketer or paid media manager
  • New location, new product line or market launch
  • Funding round or acquisition announced
  • Website relaunch or rebrand underway
  • Annual planning season (Q3 and Q4) when next year's budgets get set
Bbudget

A monthly retainer the prospect can sustain for at least six months, kept separate from their ad spend, that clears your minimum.

Aauthority

The owner at smaller firms, the CMO or marketing director at larger ones, and whoever else signs the agency agreement.

Nneed

One specific marketing problem in their words, such as rising cost per lead, falling organic traffic or a site that does not convert.

Ttimeline

When they want to start and when the current agency's contract term or notice period ends.

The detail

How it works, in depth

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Who we callWho we call and what we say

Agency buyers come in two shapes. At a company under about 50 staff, the owner or general manager decides on marketing spend and usually picks up their own phone or reads their own LinkedIn. At larger firms, the decision sits with a CMO, VP of marketing or marketing director, and a coordinator or executive assistant guards the calendar.

We do not open with your services list. We open with the prospect's situation. For a multi-location dental group that just opened a new office, the angle is new-patient demand for that office. For a B2B company hiring its first in-house marketer, the angle is what that hire will cost compared with a team that is already built.

What we say depends on the trigger, but the shape stays the same: who we are, why this business, one question that gets them talking. Common objections and how we handle them:

  • "We already have an agency." Most good prospects do. We ask when they last reviewed results and when the contract renews, then book a call for that window.
  • "We do it in house." We ask what the in-house team is not getting to. Paid social and SEO are often the gaps.
  • "Send me something." We send one page and ask for 15 minutes on a specific day, not an open-ended follow-up.
  • "Agencies burned us before." We note what went wrong so you walk into the meeting knowing the scar.
Qualified meetingWhat a qualified meeting looks like for an agency

A meeting on your calendar is only useful if the person can buy what you sell, at your price, soon. Before we book, we confirm four things and write them into the CRM note.

  • Budget. The monthly retainer they can carry for at least six months, separate from ad spend. If your minimum is a set figure, we ask about a range that clears it.
  • Authority. The person who signs. If we are talking to a marketing manager, we ask who else will be on the decision and try to get them on the invite.
  • Need. One specific problem in their words: leads dropped after a Google update, cost per lead doubled on Meta, the website does not convert.
  • Timeline. When they want to start, and when the current agency's notice period or contract ends.

You also get context: their current agency if they name it, the channels they run, the trigger we called on, and any objection they raised. A typical note reads like this: "Owner, 3 locations in Tampa, spends on Google Ads with a freelancer, unhappy with lead quality, contract is month to month, wants a plan before Q1, budget in your range. Wants to see local service ads examples."

Meetings that miss two of the four criteria do not get booked. They go into a nurture sequence with a follow-up date, so the lead is still there when their budget or contract changes.

Sample openerA sample 3-touch opener

Here is the kind of sequence we would test for an agency that sells paid search and SEO to home services companies. We write and test your version during setup.

Touch 1, call (Tuesday, 10:15 a.m. their time): "Hi Mark, this is Sylvia calling for Brightline Digital. I saw you just added a second shop in Plano. I'll be quick: when you open a location, do you push it with Google Ads, or wait for word of mouth to kick in?" Then we listen. If he is busy, we ask for a better time and book it.

Touch 2, email (same afternoon): Subject: Plano location. "Mark, tried you this morning. We help HVAC and plumbing owners fill new service areas with Local Services Ads and search. Worth 15 minutes Thursday to see what your Plano zip codes cost per lead right now?"

Touch 3, LinkedIn (two days later): A connection request with no pitch, then one line after he accepts: "Saw the new shop. If you ever want a second opinion on your ad spend there, happy to set it up."

Brightline is a made-up name for this example. The point is the structure: one real trigger, one question, one clear ask. We track which opener gets conversations and change the losers each week.

Why referrals stop being enough

Referrals come from happy clients, and happy clients refer when they think of it, not when you need it. Outbound gives you a second source you control: you decide the industry, the city and the volume.

How it works

From discovery call to weekly report

About two to three weeks from first call to first dials. The full process →

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Discovery call

We learn your offer, your best customers and what a good meeting looks like for you.

Two colleagues planning at a whiteboard covered in sticky notes02

Lists and scripts

We build your ideal customer profile, pull and verify target lists, and write call and email scripts for your market.

Smiling man on a headset call working at a laptop by a window03

Launch

Calls, emails and LinkedIn go live in your prospects’ business hours, under one partner’s watch.

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Weekly report

Every week you see calls made, conversations held and meetings booked, straight from the CRM.

Before Trifecta

Done before, for US companies

Before Trifecta, Cynthia and Safiya ran B2B prospecting for a creative agency in GoHighLevel, qualifying business owners and booking demos, which is the same desk we would run for your agency.

Cynthia Akubue
Partner track record · before Trifecta

B2B pipeline in GoHighLevel for a creative agency

At a creative agency that sold software solutions to businesses, Cynthia and Safiya prospected by phone, email and LinkedIn, qualified business owners on need and fit, and booked product demos. Every lead, follow-up and stage change lived in GoHighLevel, and pipeline reports went to the sales team.

Calls, email and LinkedInPipeline run in GoHighLevelSoftware demos booked

Led by Cynthia Akubue →

Trifecta is a new agency. These are the partners’ own past roles, shared with their permission and without naming the employer. See the full track record.

Packages

Pick a starting point

Growth SDR fits most agencies: one dedicated SDR on calls, email and LinkedIn, building a pipeline that does not stop when your team gets busy with clients.

Pipeline Starter

For owners who need booked meetings now

  • Appointment setting by cold calling
  • BANT-qualified meetings on your calendar
  • Weekly report
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Best fit for this page

Growth SDR

For teams ready for steady outbound

  • A dedicated SDR
  • Calls, email and LinkedIn
  • List building and script testing
  • Every touch logged in your CRM
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Full Revenue Team

For companies building a sales function

  • Everything in Growth SDR
  • CRM setup and sales automation
  • Reporting dashboard
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Questions

What buyers ask us first

Will prospects know you are not part of our agency?

We introduce ourselves as calling on behalf of your agency, using your name and positioning. We do not pretend to be your strategists. When a technical question comes up, we book the meeting so your team can answer it properly.

Our services are hard to explain on a cold call. Can you really sell them?

We do not try to sell the retainer on the phone. Our job is to find a real problem and a fit, then book the call where your team sells. During setup we learn your offers, your case studies and the questions buyers ask.

We already get some referrals. Why add outbound?

Referrals are great and you should keep them. Outbound adds a source you can turn up or down. When a big client leaves, you are not starting from zero.

Do you work in GoHighLevel? Many agencies run on it.

Yes. Our partners have run pipelines in GoHighLevel, including workflows, SMS and email sequences and calendar routing. We also work in HubSpot, Salesforce and Zoho.

What industries can you target for us?

Whatever niche you serve best. Home services, dental, legal, SaaS, ecommerce and franchise brands are common agency niches. We build the list around the clients you already win.

How do you avoid booking tire kickers?

Every meeting is BANT qualified. We confirm a retainer budget that clears your minimum, who signs, a specific need and a timeline before it goes on your calendar.

Where is your team based?

Our three partners are in Nigeria and work US business hours, so calls happen when your prospects are at their desks. That setup also costs less than hiring an in-house SDR in the US.

Book a strategy call

Stop waiting on the next referral

Book a strategy call. We will look at your best clients, your minimum retainer and the niche you want more of, and tell you how we would build your outbound.

  • 01We look at your offer, deal size and ideal buyer.
  • 02We tell you which channel and package fits, and what volume to expect.
  • 03You get a written quote. No pressure.

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