Here’s a fun exercise: open your last agency invoice. Do you really know what you paid for?
Most marketing leaders don’t. Traditional retainers bury wasted time inside vague deliverables. Hour-based marketing models expose those inefficiencies—and eliminate them.
Here are 7 time-wasters you might be paying for right now (and how Savage Global Marketing fixes them).
1. Endless Email Threads
Retainers rarely include efficient workflows. Hours are burned clarifying project briefs. With Lionshare.app, 90% of requests are submitted via multiple-choice Q&As, cutting hours of back-and-forth.
2. “Reporting” That Nobody Reads
Agencies love glossy reports, but are they actionable? With hour-based transparency, you see real-time dashboards, not fluff slides.
3. Over-Polishing Low-Impact Creatives
How many times have you seen hours wasted tweaking a banner ad nobody clicks? Hour-based models let you reassign time to high-impact channels instead.
4. Scope Creep Meetings
Retainers force long meetings to renegotiate scope. Hour-based subscriptions? Just move hours where needed—no red tape.
5. Paying for Idle Time
Slow seasons under a retainer mean paying for hours that aren’t used. With hour-based, every hour is value—no more sunk costs.
6. Duplicate Work
Different teams redoing the same tasks = wasted time. Centralized task tracking in Lionshare ensures efficiency and accountability.
7. Guessing What Works
Spending hours on tactics without data is a hidden budget drain. Hour-based models log activity against performance, so weak channels are cut fast.
Savage’s Take
At Savage, we don’t hide time-wasters—we expose them. Clients consistently reallocate 15–25% of hours from wasted activity to growth-driving initiatives within the first 90 days.
Final Word
Your marketing shouldn’t feel like paying for invisible effort. Hour-based subscriptions make every hour accountable—and every hour count.
