Amy and Diana discuss all things theatre, especially those happening in Greater Grand Forks! Join us every month as we talk to our friends in the community and gush about our favorite shows.
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Growing an agency is very difficult, and you might feel unclear what to do next in order to grow and scale your agency. The Smart Agency Masterclass is a weekly podcast for agencies that are wanting to grow faster. We interview amazing guests from all over the world that have the experience of running successful businesses, and will provide you the insights you need. Our podcast is just over 3 years old, and have reached more than a half million listeners in 42 countries.
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Parkrose Life is your ticket to knowing and enjoying the neighborhood! I’m Bryan Atkinson, Realtor and community connector. On this show, I interview guests about their passion for the Parkrose area. Whether you’ve lived here for decades or just days, this show is for you. This is Parkrose Life.
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Are You the Bottleneck In Your Agency? Empowering Your Team with Irwin Hau | Ep# 709
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Are you the bottleneck in your own agency's growth? Does the weight of every decision rest on your shoulders, leaving you overworked and your team underutilized? This guest is a successful agency owner who found himself in the industry after being laid off during the global economic crisis. He turned this setback into an opportunity and started his…
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Achieving Team Alignment with Your Agency’s Goals with Julie Williamson | Ep# 708
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Have you ever felt like a broken record with your team? Do you find yourself repeating the agency's goals and vision, only to be met with glazed-over expressions? Have you effectively communicated the agency’s direction and vision? It’s a common struggle for agency owners to feel they’re desperately trying to rally the troops behind a unified purpo…
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Dear Agency Owners, We Need to Talk - Showing up For Your Agency, with Darby Copenhaver | Ep #707
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What do you think is holding you back from scaling your agency? Have you received coaching? And if you have, have you implemented their recommended measures? On today’s episode we talk about agency owners’ accountability and why reaching out for help can be useless unless you understand what you want. Scaling an agency is hardly something you can d…
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3 Keys to Crafting a Compelling Agency Brand Geoffrey DeStefano | Ep #706
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Are you establishing genuine connections with your target audience and clients? Have you developed a compelling brand narrative that resonates with your audience to cultivate a dedicated following? Our featured guest today played a pivotal role in shaping the iconic brand identity of Red Bull, which has become a benchmark for creating captivating c…
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Mastering CLIENT ACQUISITION for Agency Growth with David Baeza | Ep #705
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Do you have a clear understanding of the client acquisition channels needed to grow your agency? Is your agency vulnerable to leadership or a client leaving? Today’s guest built his agency working with venture capitalists and private equity firms and found great success in that area, so much so that he never worried about client acquisition again. …
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Escaping Operational Tunnel Vision by Focusing on Strategic Agency Growth, with Samantha Martin | Ep #704
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Do you feel trapped in an operation tunnel vision? Are you ready to shift your attention toward strategies for agency growth? Our guest today initially viewed strategy sessions as a luxury she could only afford once her agency had achieved significant success. However, upon receiving guidance from a coach to address alignment issues, she and her pa…
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A $1 MILLION Agency Is Not Always Sustainable, with Amy Littleton | Ep #703
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Are you considering starting an agency but feel like it might be too late to do so? Our featured guest today had a thriving career in PR and successfully managed an agency for nearly two decades before deciding the missing piece in that career was building and growing her own agency. With an extensive client network who already knew and trusted her…
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The Keys to Staying Relevant in a Competitive Agency Landscape, with Marlo Fogelman | Ep #702
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What does it take for an agency to not only survive but thrive over decades? What mindset and approach enabled this agency owner to pivot and leverage new opportunities? In the challenging world of business, most companies struggle to reach the one-year mark, with even fewer making it to the five-year milestone. Hence, for an agency to make it beyo…
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Build a THRIVING AGENCY CULTURE Without Promotions and Titles with Scout Driscoll | Ep #701
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Are you interested in breaking away from conventional agency practices? Do you want an agency structure that best suits your team? Today’s guest established her agency right after college, without any prior experience working in an agency. She designed her agency's structure based on what felt right for her team rather than following standard indus…
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Owning an Agency is an Extreme Sport, with Karley Cunningham | Ep #700
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Is the fear of failure the driving force that keeps you striving towards your goals? For too many agency owners, the relentless stress of this life corrodes their drive, fueling an unhealthy obsession with avoiding defeat at all costs. Putting together a great team and taking the time to stop and figure things out is often the only way to get out o…
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The Path to Becoming a $50 Million Agency, with Phil Case | Ep #699
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to scale an agency from millions to tens of millions in revenue? Or how to successfully pivot from services to products? Today's guest has walked that path - not once but twice. He’s built two successful agencies with the mission to lift brands up, tell compelling stories and recognize new products. As he reflec…
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The POWER of Personal Brands: How Much is Too Much when SELLING Your Agency, with Jason Barnard | Ep #698
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Are you debating the value of building your brand? Perhaps you're wary of the effort needed to establish your identity, only to feel confined to your business once you become the face of the agency. Our guest today specializes in helping clients effectively brand themselves and elevate their agencies. He understands the common fears and reservation…
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Selling Strategy and Building Long-Term Client Relationships, with Molly Baker | Ep #697
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Are you striving to refine your selling strategy and cultivate enduring client relationships that stand the test of time? How can you elevate your approach to not just closing deals but fostering long-term partnerships that drive mutual growth and success? Today's guest started her business with the idea of embodying a strategic dance of trust, val…
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Why Firing Their Biggest Client was the BEST Decision, with Miles Marmo | Ep #696
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Do you treat your team like employees or like people? Every agency owner should recognize the immense value of their team and ensure they are treated with the utmost respect. This may entail parting ways with toxic clients, as the well-being of your team is irreplaceable. Our guest today faced challenging times during the pandemic when they had to …
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Raising the Standards: The Importance of SOPs, with Robert Brill | Ep #695
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Are you prepared to elevate your agency team and pave the path to success? As your agency expands, the need to grow your team becomes inevitable, and having standard operating procedures (SOPs) in place beforehand can save you a lot of headaches. Today’s guest went through a rapid growth phase with his agency and found he was ill-prepared to delega…
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Building The Right Team: Taking Advantage of The Largest Untapped Talent Pool, with Sara Jensen | Ep #694
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Is your agency work affecting your family life? Are you challenged by finding the right talent to assemble a team to take over some of the work? Today’s guest thought she’d always be a solopreneur but as her workload mounted, she realized she needed reinforcements to maintain her level of service and keep clients coming back. Getting the right tale…
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Losing Money as a Business Plan? Forging Long-term Client Relationships, with Kim Lawton | Ep #693
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Do you prioritize new clients or building lasting relationships? Would you be willing to lose money on a client in order to build a long-lasting relationship? Today’s guest has built two successful agencies banking on the power of planning for the long term instead of focusing just on the numbers. She’ll explain how she and her partner formed their…
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What All Successful Agencies Have in Common: How to Separate from the Pack, With Tim Condon | Ep #692
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What sets high-performing agencies apart from their low-performing counterparts? How are you positioning your agency for success? Our guest today is a seasoned business executive with extensive experience in product marketing and sales leadership. In his current role, he collaborates with agencies and gains insights into what separates successful o…
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Fall in Love With The Problem Not the Solution: A Deep Dive with Author, Serial Entrepreneur, and Co-Founder of Waze, Uri Levine | Ep #691
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What would you do if you sold your agency tomorrow? Are you clear enough on your purpose that you could keep on creating value? Today’s guest is the founder of a beloved app that changed the way people drive nowadays. He eventually sold that company but hasn’t stopped looking for ways to improve people’s lives through his startups. He’ll share what…
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Onboarding for Success: Getting it Right in The Beginning, with Noel Andrews | Ep #690
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Does your onboarding process set new hires up for success from day one? Do you believe the hardest part of adding new team members is the hiring process? Today’s guest believes most business owners disregard the importance of the onboarding process, which can affect a new hire’s chances of success in the agency. He goes over the many aspects you sh…
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2000 Episodes over 14 Years: Lessons Pat Flynn Has Learned As Host of The Smart Passive Income | Ep #689
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Is the fear of failure holding you back from taking the first steps to establish your brand? Are you hesitating to start a podcast because you believe it would only be worthwhile if it garners millions of downloads? Our guest today is a true trailblazer in the podcast industry, having successfully built a thriving agency around his initial decision…
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From Zero Employees to Selling An Agency; The Big Picture, with Simon Cristal | Ep #688
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Do you want to sell your agency at some point? Do you know where you want to take your business before you’re ready to search for a partnership? Today’s guest started his agency at just twenty-three years old and was ready to sell ten years later, when his business was thriving and had a solid position in a coveted niche. However, the selling proce…
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Delegate the Outcome, Not the Task: Building a Successful Team, with Torey Azure | Ep #687
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Have you ever doubted your ability to steer your agency toward greatness? Does your team follow your lead on the decisions you make to get there? Many agency owners face this internal battle, questioning if they truly have what it takes to lead their business to new heights. Today’s guest has conquered those self-doubts and forged an unwavering con…
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Avoiding Burnout: Learning How to Let Go, with Brendan Chard | Ep #686
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Do you fear missed opportunities if you define a niche or turn away less-than-ideal prospects? Today’s guest started his agency as a college student and pivoted to digital services as the internet barely became a thing. One of the biggest shifts and struggles in his journey has been overcoming the fear of tuning down revenue and letting go of the n…
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Client Retention: How to Reduce Churn, with Khushbu Doshi | Ep #685
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Are you struggling to keep your clients happy and retain their business? How do you prepare your team to create the best client experience? In today's competitive market, delivering an exceptional client experience is paramount. Our guest today is a true master of client service, leading a team laser-focused on understanding each client's unique ne…
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The Power of Metrics, Communication, and Knowing When to Let Go, with Suken Shah | Ep #684
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Would you say your agency is like your baby? Could you be so emotionally attached to your business that you may be stifling its growth? Today’s guest will share his experience growing an agency and the turning points that allowed him to make real progress in its growth. From learning to communicate his agency's vision in a way that inspired buy-in …
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Content is KEY: From “Publish or Perish” to “Adapt or Die”, with Scott Gillum | Ep #683
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As an agency owner, have you explored the possibilities of content creation? Has it proven effective in building an audience or generating leads? Today’s guest is an agency owner who has been writing books and collaborating with different publications for years. However, he finds that, for marketers, content doesn’t really bring a lot of leads. For…
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Avoiding The Revenue Trap: Putting Profit First, with Robert Berkeley | Ep #682
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Are you fed up with the revenue roller coaster? Ready to get off and build an agency business model focused on sustainable profits? Maybe you’ve heard the saying "revenue is vanity and profit is sanity.” Our featured guest today experienced significant sustainable growth after breaking free from the “revenue trap.” By shifting the focus from revenu…
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Strategy Can SAVE Small Businesses, with Jimmy Newson | Ep #681
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When was the last time you stepped back to evaluate whether your agency's strategy is truly aligned with your core mission and values? Is your team buying into the overall vision? Are they motivated and understand their role in the vision? If not, it’s time you start integrating vision and strategy for more effective results. Today’s guest has set …
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The CRM Designed Specifically for AGENCIES, with Steve Holm of Copper CRM | Ep #680
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Is your agency leveraging CRMs to tailor personalized client experiences and nurture long-term client relationships? Are you tracking customer interactions from first message to delivery? In the dynamic world of agency-client interactions, CRM tools play a pivotal role in streamlining operations and enhancing customer experiences. Today’s guest has…
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Balancing Motherhood and Being an Agency CEO with Audra Brehm | Ep #679
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How do you prioritize between family time and business responsibilities as an entrepreneur and parent? How is that balancing act working out for you? Being an agency owners and a parent can be a bit of a mess and there’s no magic formula to balancing parenthood and being an agency CEO. For some parents, this means a lot of guilt about not spending …
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Becoming the Brand, a Conversation with John Warrillow | Ep #678
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Gary Vaynerchuk and Steve Jobs both became the face of their brand, but could this marketing strategy cost you when it’s time to sell your agency? How can you avoid becoming the brand to build a ‘sellable’ agency? Today’s guest is an entrepreneur who has successfully started and sold four businesses. He discusses the value of personal brands in rel…
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How Alex Rossman 8xed his Agency in 2 Years | Ep #677
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Do you have enough of an appetite for risk to trigger exponential agency growth? Have you considered strategic partnerships as a growth strategy? Today’s guest changed the music scene for entrepreneurship and managed to grow his agency from $2 million to $16 million in just two years. How’d he do it? After getting past common initial struggles like…
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More Important Than Money, A Discussion With Agency Owner Robert Lee | Ep #676
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Would your agency keep running and growing if you had to take a month off tomorrow? Or would it all fall apart? Which systems could you start implementing right now to keep this from happening? Today’s guest went through difficult times last year and his focus wasn’t fully in the business. These struggles proved to be too much for a recent purchase…
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Selling an Agency and Starting Over the Right Way, with Jodie Ball | Ep #675
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Is the wrong prospecting process bringing you clients who are just not a good fit? Are you feeling trapped in a contract with clients you wouldn’t choose to work with again? Building strong connections with clients based on common ground and understanding can significantly impact the success and fulfillment of partnerships in the agency world. Toda…
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Scaling an Agency to $500M, with Dimi Albers | Ep# 674
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Do you dream of running a big agency? What’s your target number and how do you think you’d handle the added stress of an increasingly larger team? Today’s guest is the leader of an agency colossus: an over half-billion-dollar behemoth with around 4,000 employees spanning the globe, a scale very few founders could even imagine. He’ll share invaluabl…
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How Matt Shields Built A $400K/mo SMMA | Ep #673
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Are you looking for motivation to get your agency off the ground? How has your client acquisition strategy evolved since you started? Have you tried building client communities to foster a competitive spirit that will lead to client wins? Today’s guest is a young entrepreneur who turned to marketing as a teen knowing college just wasn’t for him. He…
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How to Stand Out on LinkedIn with Nicole Osborne | Ep #672
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Do you find it hard to stand out on LinkedIn? Have you tried making connections there only to feel bombarded by spam? Our guest today is here to rescue your LinkedIn presence from obscurity. She specializes in coaching agency owners to transform their profiles into irresistible client magnets. During this chat, she goes over some of the most common…
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How Kasim Aslam’s Agency Became the World Authority on Google Ads | Ep #671
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Are you running a full-service agency? Have you already considered niching down? What about broadening your services once you do? Today’s guest built an agency that became a world authority on Google ads. Even though he eventually sold, he now believes more growth may have been possible with patience and the vision to expand his services after nich…
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Agency Website Design Secrets from an Industry Pioneer with Mark Bevington | Ep #670
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Does your agency offer web design services? What is your perspective on creating impactful agency web design? What do you think of how most websites are currently utilized? Today’s guest is an expert in website design with a growth-driven approach to agency web design. He’s been working in web design ever since the early days of the internet and be…
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How Stevie Johnston 10Xed His SMMA To $500K/mo Recurring | Ep #669
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Are you trying to grow your SMMA but can’t get past the referrals stage? What’s holding you back when it comes to continuing your growth and reaching eight figures? Today’s guest may not have written the book on how to start a SMMA, but he sure read it from cover to cover and then threw all the rules out the window. He is a young agency owner who s…
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Navigating Culture Building in a Remote Agency Environment with Jane Crisan | Ep #668
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What kind of culture do you promote at your agency? Do you keep track of things employees say are hitting or not hitting the mark about the culture? How has your culture changed since the pandemic? Today’s guest runs a 260-employee agency and has put great care to ensure that work flexibility and employee happiness are a big part of their culture. …
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Cracking Profitable Agency Growth with Shannon Fitzgerald | Ep #667
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What fears or limiting beliefs hold agency owners back from pricing their services assertively? What critical ingredients are you missing to confidently quantify value? Today’s guest co-founded a small yet highly profitable creative agency in less than four years by starting out with a clear concept of the value she provides. Charging according to …
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A Deep Dive Into The Power of Franchise-Focused Digital Marketing with Alex Porter | Ep #666
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Are you looking for ways to differentiate your agency? Have you considered expanding your agency’s offering with proprietary technology? Today’s guest markets to franchise systems and offers a platform built for their specific marketing needs. It’s a great way to cater to clients’ specific pain points while increasing his agency’s value. He details…
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Embracing Autonomy & Personal Branding with Nicholas Kusmich | Ep #665
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Do you have a hard time letting go of agency operations and overall control? Have you embraced your role as the visionary and taken a step back from minor tasks? If you haven’t, why not? Today’s guest realized at one point that autonomy was his personal core value and that his agency would fail unless he prioritized it. This realization led to a ne…
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Getting to 7-Figures Fast by Juggling Curiosity and Control with Natalie Hogg | Ep #664
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Are you an agency owner or an entrepreneur who wants to take your business to the next level? Do you want to learn how to grow your revenue, profit, and impact in the world? Have you found yourself chasing only the money and feeling dissatisfied later? Today’s guest grew her agency from zero to seven figures in just two years, while also making a p…
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The Power of Surrounding Yourself with the Right People with Ian Garlic #663
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What does it take to succeed in business, especially in the agency world? How do you surround yourself with the right people who can support you, challenge you, and help you grow? How do you overcome the obstacles and fears that may hold you back from achieving your goals? Today’s guest is an agency owner who shares his personal experiences of bein…
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Creating an EXIT STRATEGY when Agency Partners Breakup with Rob Rosasco | Ep #662
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Have you considered bringing on a partner to lighten the immense pressure of solo agency leadership? Do fears around lacking key skills or experience hold you back from taking the entrepreneurial leap yourself? When today’s guest launched his first agency, self-doubt around “going it alone” led him to take on a co-founder partnership. But without a…
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Navigating the Highs and Lows of SELLING YOUR AGENCY with David Rodnitzky #661
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Are you getting ready to sell your agency? Are you looking into potential buyers? How will you protect your interests in an M&A process? Today’s guest has a lot of experience, and even a book, in this area having sold the same agency twice and coming out mostly unscathed from the initial failed deal. He’ll share some of the good, the bad, and the u…
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Why Effective AI Implementation Requires a Dedicated Agency Role with Jeff Lizik #660
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Are you paying attention to the changes AI is bringing to the agency world? How have you been finding ways to incorporate it to streamline processes? Would you consider hiring a dedicated innovation role to keep track of these technological advances and not fall behind? Today’s guest has been in the industry for over 20 years but has been active in…
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