Best Kim Flynn Podcasts (2024)

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The POWER of Personal Brands: How Much is Too Much when SELLING Your Agency, with Jason Barnard | Ep #698 29:18

1h ago29:18

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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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43: Making money from field to fork: farmers Liam and Justina Gavin, Roscommon 52:44

1h ago52:44

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Liam and Justina Gavin own Drumanilra Organic Farm on the shores of Lough Key, Co. Roscommon. When they took over the farm in 2012, they had two ambitions: to feed their family with home grown food, and to generate a sustainable and independent income from the farm by supplying food directly to the public. They tell Brigid how they've done it.…

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Selling Strategy and Building Long-Term Client Relationships, with Molly Baker | Ep #697 24:28

12m ago24:28

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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 28:02

5d ago28:02

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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 25:40

1h ago25:40

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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 17:20

17h ago17:20

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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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Absence | Accidents - with Ali Lewis 1:02:35

11d ago1:02:35

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Send us a Text Message. Staring at the mark on the wall where that painting once hung? Wondering why the moon, seen by others, has been hidden from you? You've entered the world of Absence (Cheerio Poetry 2024) by Ali Lewis. He guides us through this exceptional first collection, from the painful ache of lost love, to the possibilities unleashed by…

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Losing Money as a Business Plan? Forging Long-term Client Relationships, with Kim Lawton | Ep #693 36:07

13d ago36:07

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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 23:00

8d ago23:00

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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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42: On fungi and farming, with Thomas O'Connor 18:44

21d ago18:44

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Thomas O’Connor farms 25 acres in the Gleann na nGealt valley near Camp, Co. Kerry, and sells his fresh organic produce in a farm shop, Manna Organic Store, in nearby Tralee. He talks about how fungi is the basis of everything he produces on his land.By Farming for Nature

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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 38:14

12d ago38:14

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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 21:59

23d ago21:59

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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 25:01

19d ago25:01

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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 29:07

22d ago29:07

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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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Testaments | Troubles - with Roy McFarlane 1:06:57

28d ago1:06:57

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Send us a Text Message. Hop aboard. No time to idle in green pastures here, instead let’s follow Roy Mc Farlane as he guides us through his collection Living by Troubled Waters from Nine Arches Press weaving the toxic legacy of slavery in the complexity and warmheartedness of his own personal history. Plus we glance at a gorgeous poem, Leaves, from…

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Delegate the Outcome, Not the Task: Building a Successful Team, with Torey Azure | Ep #687 37:20

26d ago37:20

37:20

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 26:38

29d ago26:38

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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 17:53

1M ago17:53

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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 28:09

1M ago28:09

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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 23:59

2M ago23:59

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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 28:28

2M ago28:28

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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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Rapture | Reality - with Seán Hewitt 1:03:50

2M ago1:03:50

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Send us a Text Message. We’re back with global ambitions for World Poetry Day. First we skip over to Dublin to interview Seán Hewitt about his gorgeous second collection Rapture’s Road, published 2024 by Cape. Enriched by the traditions of Irish poetry, Seán’s work speaks unflinchingly to contemporary issues as well as conjuring moments of absolute…

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Strategy Can SAVE Small Businesses, with Jimmy Newson | Ep #681 19:21

2M ago19:21

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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 13:57

2M ago13:57

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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 24:32

2M ago24:32

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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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41: Bruce Thompson, dairy farmer & dung beetle expert 20:18

2M ago20:18

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Bruce Thompson is an intensive dairy farmer from Laois. He has a particular interest in reducing animal remedies through prevention, and is a strong advocate for the urgent need to protect our dung beetle populations.By Farming for Nature

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Becoming the Brand, a Conversation with John Warrillow | Ep #678 33:37

2M ago33:37

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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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Archive - Inua Ellams from March 2021 33:32

2M ago33:32

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Send us a Text Message. A classic interview from the archive: Inua Ellams talking about his extraordinary book The Actual (Penned in the Margins, 2020), a powerful, personal and often very funny collection that pokes a sharp stick at the legacy of British Empire, foolish machismo, hero culture, relationships and much more. Support the Show. Planet …

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How Alex Rossman 8xed his Agency in 2 Years | Ep #677 28:09

2M ago28:09

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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 30:32

2M ago30:32

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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 20:29

3M ago20:29

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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 40:34

3M ago40:34

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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 40:50

3M ago40:50

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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 24:41

3M ago24:41

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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 38:15

3M ago38:15

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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 25:14

3M ago25:14

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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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Sorrow | Stored - with Paul Stephenson 57:10

3M ago57:10

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Send us a Text Message. Go on. Press the button. Paul Stephenson guides us through a choice of his varied, formally diverse and moving elegies in his Carcanet collection Hard Drive -- written in the years following his partner's sudden death -- and find a curiously life-affirming exploration of grief and its aftermath. Robin and Peter also make the…

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How Stevie Johnston 10Xed His SMMA To $500K/mo Recurring | Ep #669 35:02

3M ago35:02

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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 20:51

3M ago20:51

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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 27:35

3M ago27:35

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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 26:32

3M ago26:32

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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 35:17

3M ago35:17

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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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40: How to make Biochar, with Kildare farmer Kim McCall 23:56

4M ago23:56

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Brigid speaks to Kim McCall about why and how he makes biochar. Kim and his wife Mireille own a 214-acre mixed livestock stock farm in Calverstown, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare with a herd of 75 pedigree suckler cows, a flock of 80 sheep, as well as a few pigs in the summertime.By Farming for Nature

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Getting to 7-Figures Fast by Juggling Curiosity and Control with Natalie Hogg | Ep #664 25:18

4M ago25:18

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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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Darkness | Discovered - with Tamar Yoseloff 1:01:45

4M ago1:01:45

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Send us a Text Message. We are back and delighted to bring you more wonderful poetry in 2024. So let's illuminate the new year with Tamar Yoseloff, whose long engagement with visual art has created a poetry that blazes out against a black backdrop. We’ll hear poems from two Seren collections A Formula for Night her New and Selected poems and The Bl…

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The Power of Surrounding Yourself with the Right People with Ian Garlic #663 30:23

4M ago30:23

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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 21:12

4M ago21:12

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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 24:16

4M ago24:16

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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 39:56

4M ago39:56

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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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Archive | Kim Moore from October 2022 30:29

5M ago30:29

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Send us a Text Message. Happy New Year! We're on our festive break, but wanted to share with you another classic interview from the archive. Here's Kim Moore talking about her Forward Prize-winning collection 'All the Men I Never Married' from Seren Books. Support the Show. Planet Poetry is a labour of love, paid for out of our own pockets. If you …

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