"We'll just hire someone in-house, it'll be cheaper.' It's one of the most expensive sentences in business. Not because hiring in-house is always wrong, but because most businesses make this decision based on the salary line and nothing else. The real cost of in-house marketing is hiding in places most business owners never think to look. Let's do what nobody else in this industry wants to do: run the actual numbers, side by side, with no spin. Because the answer to 'which is