The Bern Blog

Unlocking Your Brand's Digital Potential

Written by Mathew Bernstein | Jan 21, 2026 8:06:40 PM

Let’s go back to high school physics for a minute. Remember "Potential Energy?" It’s the energy stored in an object,  like an arrow ready to be launched from a bow or a boulder at the top of a hill. It has massive power, but it isn't moving.

We audit dozens of companies every quarter at Bern Digital. And almost every single time, we see the same thing: Massive potential energy and growth opportunity that is just waiting to be capitalized on.

You have the product. You know the customers are out there. You have campaigns in market. The fuel is in the tank, but the car isn't moving fast enough.

That isn't a "resource" problem. It’s a conversion problem. You aren't converting Potential Energy into Kinetic Energy (aka revenue).

Seeing Between The Reports

It’s hard to read the label when you’re inside the jar.

We spend our days popping the hood on businesses, from scrappy startups to enterprise giants. We look at the ad accounts, the messy CRM data, and the tracking pixels that haven't fired correctly since 2023.

Take a client of ours, Saltery, a brand transforming the culinary world with high-quality sea salts. They had a solid website and incredible products, but their paid campaigns were burning cash without delivering profitable growth.

  • The Audit: The "friction" here was in the connection between creative and conversion. Previous attempts to scale were hitting a wall of rising costs.
  • The Unlock: We worked with their creative agency to overhaul their paid creative so it actually tells a story and tightened up their landing pages to align with the key messages. We didn't just set it and forget it; we iterated constantly on what hooked the audience.
  • The Release: The dam broke. We drove 288% ad revenue growth and 167% new customer growth in the first year, all while increasing their ROAS by 31%.

That is Kinetic Energy in action.

The unspoken part? The brand had the courage look past the "safe" strategies, which keep the boulder on the top of the mountain, and explore new approaches that get it rolling down the side.

Converting Potential to Profit

Unlocking this growth isn't magic; it’s mechanics.

It requires an independent set of eyes to look at your business as a machine that is currently jammed, find the blockage, and apply the right amount of pressure.

We love seeing that release. There is nothing quite like watching a founder realize that the growth they were chasing was sitting right there in their own assets the whole time, they just needed someone to show them how to tap into it.

Stop Guessing. Get an Audit.

You suspect the growth is there. You just can't quite get to it.

Stop wondering.

We perform Growth Audits all the time for this exact reason. We dig into your data, your strategy, and your execution to give you a candid, honest, and completely independent perspective on where you’re leaving money on the table.

No fluff, just a raw look at your potential and a roadmap to release it.