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FocalGroove Wins 2026 New Business of the Year — Cabarrus Chamber

We're honored to have been recognized by the Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce. Here's what the award means and what we're building next.

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From the Meetups

AI Agents in Production: What Working Developers Told Us

Notes from the July session of Concord Software Developers: live agent deployments, the security conversation nobody's having loudly enough, and why you're still the architect.

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Marketing

Ranking #1 on Google Isn't the Same as Closing Deals

A client of ours holds the top local ranking for their service — and still finds selling in their hometown ten times the work. What that gap taught us about visibility versus trust.

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Social Media

We Posted Less on Social and Engagement Went Up 25%

A client's posting volume went down in January. Interactions went up 25%. The data behind quality-over-volume, and the test we now run on every post.

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The Groove Studio

Before You Launch a Podcast, Answer These Five Questions

We sat through two podcast planning sessions this spring — one for a personal brand, one for a community organization. Different shows, same five questions.

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Web

Your Website Is a Snapshot of Personality, Not a Filing Cabinet

A creative director gave us the best website brief we've heard in years: don't show everything we've done — show how we think. It applies to far more than creative studios.

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