The Agency Growth Podcast
The Agency Growth Podcast
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Jason has the story almost every agency owner is after. He grew his first agency to $5m and sold it. Then started a second one and within 5 years, he was at $5m in revenue again.
After another 5 years, his agency was at $20m.
Jason sold his $20m law firm agency to a private equity firm and took a seat on the board yet still continues to lead his own agency.
Some crazy facts about the legal space: law firms are spending $100k per month...
If you're in the SEO industry, you know Darren Shaw and his company, Whitespark.
If you're not... well you're still in for a good episode as we barely even talk about SEO!
We go deep into how Darren is able to run a 7-figure agency and equally sized SaaS that is well recognized in the SEO industry. On top of that, we talk about he's still able to find the time to remain a subject matter expert in the SEO field, make all these YouTube...
**Cold Open (Cloudflare Down Again and AI Stuff)**
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6 Months ago we decided to dive into the world of email marketing. The problem was that we couldn't find a Email Service Provider (ESP) that catered to agencies.
We needed subaccounts and a pricing structure that didn't absolutely drain our bank accounts.
That's where we met Gyula from BlueFox.
Gyula has designed an email platform specifically for agencies...
**Cold Open (Cody's Too Sexy for His Shirts)**
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As we've been diving into integrating AI into our agency, we've realized that everyone on the internet seems to be lying about how they're using AI.
When we ask about specific operational applications outside of spamming prospects or scraping lists, we're met with a mix of content production applications and crickets.
We don't think AI is nearly where people ...
**Cold Open (Colorado and Dream Crushers)**
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Kinsta (a WordPress hosting solution) reached out to us to be an agency partner. We had to break the news to them that our agency is transitioning to the Wix Studio platform.
Roger Willams from Kinsta challenged us on that decision and before we let him keep talking, we asked him to duke it out with us on the podcast in an unfiltered and unedited debate.
Wix St...
- Clients unable to access Google Drive because they don't have Gmail...
- Clients unable to send files because they don't have Dropbox...
- Responding to, organizing, and taking feed back from cluttered email responses and Google Docs...
- Knowing if clients and prospects actually viewed your pitch deck
These are some of the inefficiencies we've been dealing with in our agency and just a few of the things Tiiny Host solves.
This week,...
**Cold Open (Ninja Forms bugs, swag, and the great email fiasco)**
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This week, we dive into something every agency owner eventually faces: what happens when you and your clients grow, but not always in the same direction.
We break down the difference between growing with clients versus growing apart, how productization sharpens those shifts, and why "but I’ve been with you for years" cannot be a free pas...
Real estate, real estate, real estate... We see so many newer agency owners and freelancers trying to target or go after real estate agents.
Thinking about this on our own... it doesn't seem that viable to us just off of our own basic knowledge of the industry.
So we brought Matt Johnson with MicroFamous™ onto the podcast who has an extensive history in the agency space dealing specifically with real estate agents.
Is this actually a ...
**Cold Open (The dentist and Jake's old man habits)**
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We received an email from a client a few days ago that part asked and part dictated strategy. This didn't sit well with us and it led Jake to ask Cody if we should list our prices on our website.
It sounds completely unrelated, but we position ourselves as a productized agency and not a boutique agency. That means our services are rigid and we are tr...
We have been deep into the AI ecosystem looking for solutions to operational problems both in our own agency and for our clients.
We've also noticed other agency owners and SaaS businesses jumping on the AI bandwagon and building their own AI tools and reselling them wrapped as a service.
Tony Small from HeyLibby joins us on this episode and gives us insight into why and how he started his AI call agent and receptionist, why he posit...
"Hey, I heard you guys don't like GoHighLevel.I got something you might like instead."
That was the email Chris Willow with SPP sent us when he first reached out. Naturally, we were intrigued.
After diving more into Service Provider Pro, we realized that Chris really understands the essence of the productized agency model and what tools actually need to do for productized agencies.
Leave out all the fluff and make the features it does...
**Cold Open (Jake is mentoring high school kids in entrepreneurship)**
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This week, we tackle a topic we've kind of flipped on... the power of personal branding for agency owners.
Previously we've advocated for “building the agency brand first,” now we share why the game has changed and why your personal brand could be your most valuable asset.
Check out our thoughts on why personal brands drive credibilit...
**Cold Open (We're Switching to Invoice Billing with Google Ads)**
**Skip the Cold Open at 10:37**
What if you could sip pina coladas on a beach without a multi-million dollar agency? It's possible when you stop chasing the wrong goals. This week, we talk about the difference between setting monetary milestones and building toward lifestyle goals.
We explain why we think true agency success isn't about hitting a revenue number. It's ...
We have talked extensively about optimal agency operations on this podcast because it's probably the most important thing in the profitability and scalability of your agency.
Gray Mackenzie has been helping multi-million dollar agencies for the past 13 years find higher profitability in their operational procedures through his company, ZenPilot.
Gray is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to agency operations and Jake has attempted t...
**Cold Open (Everyone gets swag wrong)**
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We've been seeing a lot of new "agency owners" the last couple of months and the questions that are being asked are not ones we'd expect to see new business owners ask.
They're ones that are fundamental in understanding how, not just an agency, but literally any business works.
This episode transcends advice for just agency owners and targets anyone looking to star...
**Skip the Cold Open at 11:39**
Most people will probably say that having fewer clients that pay more is clearly better. For over 6 years. we've thought the opposite. That having more clients is more stable and the loss of those clients impacts the business less.
As we've grown the last (almost) 7 years, we've picked up on a few nuances where... yes, we're right... but to an extent we have to acknowledge that favoring client acquisit...
**Cold Open (Jake's been travelling / Jake's internet issues)**
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Lately Jake has been getting some absolutely whacky sales calls and has had to deal with some... unique sales objections as well as some common red flags.
In this episode, we break down our most common client red flags as well as go into some of the wild sales objections we've been getting lately.
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**Cold Open (Follow up on listener problem from Episode #165)**
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It's been a few years since we've talked about what we'd do differently if we were to start an agency over right now.
However, the landscape has changed more in the last year than it has in the last 5 years. Additionally, we are not the same people we were in 2019.
Over the last 6-7 years, we have learned a lot about ourselves, we've gained c...
We get tired of hearing about all the awful "setters and closers" out there. But one of our listeners put us up for the challenge of trying to find a legitimate appointment setting agency and grilling them on the podcast.
So we did just that.
We found Steve Fair from Sponge:NB who has been in the industry for over 2 decades. Steve not only explains how to do appointment setting right, but pulls the curtain completely back on the shif...
We've touched on our personal experiences with AI at our agency in this podcast as well as with other guests, but it's been a while since we've had a dedicated episode on the topic.
Emily Thompson from CoSchedule joins us to go over their survey report on The State of AI in Marketing.
We go over the various finding in this report and weigh in on each finding. Things like:
- Whether marketers feel that AI gives them a competitive adv...
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