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Vol. IRunning with Strategy
§05 · Work

Work

Seven case studies. Real engagements. Real results.

Studies
7 + Paid Ads soon
Reach (total)
12M+ views
Era
2023 – 2026
Industries
7 verticals

he work is mostly invisible from the outside.

A lot of what I do happens before any marketing goes live: sitting with a founder until I can see their business the way they see it, looking at numbers nobody else is reading, and listening for what's being said and what's missing. By the time the work shows up as a finished campaign, the hard part is already over. More on how I work →

What follows are seven case studies across industries, platforms, and business sizes. Some clients named with permission. Others kept private out of professional discretion.

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Case Study One — Large-Scale Ecosystem

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Elena Cardone and associated brands

Social media strategy and campaign management for an ecosystem of accounts totaling 500,000+ followers across Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Scope included

  • Social media strategy and planning
  • Campaign execution support
  • Strategy for main pages and associated communities
  • Email and funnel oversight for awareness and conversion

Increased leads and revenue across the ecosystem. Demonstrated the studio's ability to manage growth not just at the content level, but across broader ecosystems, audiences, and campaign structures.


Case Study Two — Rice & Rice Attorneys

Stronger messaging, clearer pain-point communication, real growth.

Rice & Rice Attorneys, a 50-year Indiana elder law and estate planning firm, needed sharper content direction and a real growth strategy. This wasn't about posting more. It was about clarifying the message so the content could actually perform.

Scope included

  • Social strategy rebuilt from the ground up with audience clarity at the center
  • Messaging refinement to sharpen pain-point communication and brand clarity
  • Content direction and positioning around consistent themes that built authority and trust over time

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Rice & Rice Attorneys Facebook analytics dashboard showing 3 million views and 379% growth in 90 days under Running with Strategy management
3M views · +379% · 90 days · Facebook
Rice & Rice Attorneys audience growth chart showing 2,800 new Facebook followers and 356% audience increase over 90 days
+2.8K new followers · 356% audience growth

Case Study Three — Grandparenting A-to-Z + Multi-brand

A consistent strategic framework, applied across separate platforms for the same founder.

Worked with the same founder across more than one brand and business, including Grandparenting A-to-Z. Strengthened messaging, content direction, and audience growth. Strategy translated across different brand environments. This is repeatability and scale, not luck.

Results across 90 days

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Grandparenting A-to-Z Facebook page analytics showing 3.8 million views with 1000% growth in 90 days under Running with Strategy
Facebook · 3.8M views · 1000% lift
Grandparenting A-to-Z Facebook net followers and engagement growth chart with 6,500 audience and 51K engagement
Facebook · 6.5K audience · 51K engagement
Grandparenting A-to-Z Instagram insights view donut chart showing 755,696 views with 93.3% reach to non-followers
Instagram · 755K views · 93% non-followers
Grandparenting A-to-Z Instagram followers dashboard showing 4,803 followers with 92.3% growth in 90 days
Instagram · 4.8K followers · +92.3%

Case Study Four — Personal Brand Breakthrough

Message depth and Truth change performance.

The challenge: content was being posted from a place that didn't fully match the founder underneath, and the performance reflected that. Once the messaging became more truthful, more emotionally resonant, and more honest, performance changed dramatically.

People don't just respond to content volume. They respond to resonance.

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Personal brand Instagram and Facebook insights snapshot with 2.5 million views, 228.1K interactions, and 228 new followers from soul-led messaging strategy
2.5M views · 228K interactions · 228 new followers

Case Study Five — Christina Fanitzi, Mrs. New York 2025

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Christina Fanitzi: strong potential, limited visibility, transformed in three months.

Personal brand for Mrs. New York 2025, transformed through strategic content direction and intentional positioning over approximately three months.

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Qualitative results

  • Stronger clarity. The brand knew exactly what it stood for and how to say it
  • Stronger internal confidence in the strategy as results compounded
  • Authority established in a competitive space within 90 days
Christina Fanitzi Mrs New York 2025 Instagram views chart showing 1,096,637 views over 90 days with 493.4% growth in accounts reached
1M+ views · 261K reached · +493%
Christina Fanitzi Instagram professional dashboard with 532.5K views, 6.9K interactions, and 446 new followers over a single month
532K views · 6.9K interactions · 446 new followers

Case Study Six — Real Estate Broker, Multi-Platform

Momentum across multiple channels, simultaneously.

Platform versatility and the ability to create momentum across multiple channels, demonstrated through consistent results for a real estate broker working across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

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Beyond the numbers: stronger authority, stronger confidence, stronger positioning, and increased momentum across every platform touched.

Real estate broker Facebook analytics dashboard showing 1.3 million views with 996% growth and 8.2K interactions in 90 days
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Real estate broker Facebook audience growth chart showing 576 new followers with 2000% audience growth over 90 days
Facebook audience · +2000% growth
Real estate broker TikTok analytics dashboard showing 392K post views, 4,060 profile views, 38K likes, 11K shares with growth percentages over 800%
TikTok · 392K views · +832% · 38K likes

Case Study Seven — Aqilla Sportswear · AI System Build

Custom AI marketing system built for Aqilla, a performance sportswear brand.

A client of mine had been running her business for a few years before we worked together. She had a real product, a real audience, a real brand. She had also been running her own Meta ads for most of that time, spending real money, without ever knowing whether the campaigns were actually working.

The first month was diagnostic. I went through her campaigns, her creative, her audience targeting, her funnel, and her business numbers in the kind of detail nobody had done with her before. I found ads that had been quietly dying for weeks. Audiences that looked fine but were bringing in the wrong customers. A cost per purchase that needed serious recalibration.

Then we built the system.

The system runs her Meta ads with AI-accelerated execution. Every morning, she gets a text message with the previous day's performance compared against the prior seven days. The system tracks ROAS, cost per purchase, click-through rate, frequency, ad fatigue, best-performing headlines, and best-performing creative angles. It catches problems before they compound and gives specific optimization recommendations based on her actual numbers.

She still creates her own creative assets. But the daily monitoring and optimization work (the kind that used to require a full-time media buyer) now happens automatically, on her phone, before her first cup of coffee.

This is the future of marketing for most businesses under a certain size: the founder is the brand, AI handles the execution, and a strategist sits at the top of the stack making sure everything is pointed in the right direction.


Paid Ads Case Studies

In progress

On the way.

Detailed Paid Ads case studies are being prepared for this page. In the meantime, references and specific results from past paid media engagements are available privately on inquiry.


What these results have in common.

Across all of this work, the same core pattern shows up, every single time:

Better strategypurposeful planning, not random posting

Clearer messagingthe right thing said to the right people

Audience-aware executioncontent built around real behavior, not assumptions

Stronger content directionthemes and formats that actually perform

Consistencyshowing up with discipline over time

Intentional positioningauthority built layer by layer, not all at once

Not random posting. Not empty trends. Not surface-level account management. Every result above came from the same strategic approach, applied consistently across different brands, industries, and platforms.

Private references

Additional work available on inquiry.

Additional case studies, client references, and detailed work samples shared privately in conversations with potential partners. Want to talk through similar work the studio has done in your industry?

The next step

Want results like these on your work? Tell me what you've built.

— Chloe

Founder · Miami, FL