Everything between "we might work together" and "the project is genuinely running" - qualifying the lead, gathering enough to scope accurately, and getting a signed client productive. It is the part of agency work with the highest ratio of impact to attention: the first three weeks set a client's expectation of what working with you is like, and an agency that delivers excellent work after a chaotic start spends the rest of the engagement recovering ground it never needed to lose.
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