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How to Crush Client Churn and Streamline Delivery for Digital Agency featuring Shaun Clark of HighLevel
Shaun Clark is the CEO and co-founder of HighLevel, a full suite platform for agencies. They bring all the tools an agency needs such as a CRM, funnel builder, marketing automation, content delivery, calendar, membership platform, etc., into one place, as well as...
SOTR: Trading Hours for Dollars is a Terrible Way to Grow Your Agency, Switch to Value-Based Pricing Instead
We're back with another exciting episode of the Sales on the Rocks segment with me and JJ Russell, my Senior Client Advisor over at Sales Driven Agency. Today, we talked about value-based pricing, communicating your value effectively, and why you should never, ever,...
Productizing, Raising Prices and Charging What You’re Truly Worth as a Badass Digital Marketing Agency CEO featuring Marty McDonald of Bad Rhino
Marty McDonald is the co-founder and CEO of Bad Rhino Inc, an award-winning, full-service social media marketing and digital agency based in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Among Bad Rhino's clients are specialty food companies, craft beer manufacturers, restaurants, golf...
SOTR: Casting Nets or Fishing with Spears? Off the Cuff Sales Discussions with Joey and JJ
In this episode, we look back on how JJ and I first met, how he became my Client Advisor for my company, Sales Driven Agency, addressing common sales objections, account-based selling, founder-based selling, and the Trust Transaction Ladder. Whether you're the CEO or...
Scaling Up Without Burning Out — Handling Explosive Growth in Your Digital Agency featuring Brian Onorio of Walk West
Brian Onorio is the Founder and CTO of the full-service digital-first marketing agency Walk West, based in Raleigh, NC. He founded the privately-owned company in 2007 and today, the company specializes in research discovery, web design and development, social...
How Strategic Alliances Can Skyrocket Your Digital Agency’s Growth featuring Chris Dreyer of Rankings.io
Chris Dreyer is the Founder and CEO of Rankings.io, a digital marketing agency focused on SEO (search engine optimization) and helping elite personal injury law firms land serious injury and auto accident cases through Google’s organic search results. As a personal...
Scaling your Agency through Outsourcing and Delegating featuring Robert Nickell of Rocket Station
Robert Nickell is the Founder and CEO of Rocket Station, the leading provider of outsourced staffing and process management for the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. Operating in Dallas Ft Worth since 2013, Rocket Station helps small to mid-sized businesses...
Merger and Acquisition Traps Your Digital Agency Must Avoid featuring Justin Christianson of Conversion Fanatics
Justin Christianson is the co-founder and President of Conversion Fanatics, a full-service conversion rate optimization company, helping companies improve their results. They focus on delivering top and bottom-line performance for leading e-commerce...
Driving Long-Term Agency Growth by Setting Goals featuring Kevin Planovsky of Vert Digital
Kevin is the co-founder and Principal, Account Strategy at Vert Digital, an award-winning, full-service digital marketing agency based in Atlanta Georgia. They specialize in paid media, website design & development, social strategy, & email marketing. In...
Generating Predictable Revenue for Your Digital Agency through SEO and Link Building featuring Travis Bliffen of Stellar SEO
Travis Bliffen founded Stellar SEO, a US search marketing agency based in Franklin, Tennessee specializing in link building and inbound for competitive niche markets. He has spent several years working in the field of online marketing and has a strong background in...
Becoming the Fearless Leader Your Digital Agency Needs featuring Mel Carson of Delightful Communications
Mel Carson is the CEO and founder of Delightful Communications, an award-winning B2B Technology Marketing Agency based in Seattle and London. It specializes in Video Production, Content Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media...
The Greatest Investment You Can Make in Your Digital Agency featuring Jacques Spitzer of Raindrop
My guest today is Jacques Spitzer, CEO and Founder of the San Diego-based full-service branding and advertising firm Raindrop. Over the past decade, Raindrop has helped more than six direct-to-consumer brands grow by millions in just months and are responsible...
Building an $11 Million Agency Through Emotions, Dreams and Realities featuring Brantley Payne of un/common
Brantley Payne is Partner and Executive Creative Director at Sacramento creative agency, un/common. He started his career as a graphic designer in the early 90s and was hired as a junior art director of the former Glass Agency under the mentorship of Bob...
Empowering your Team to Turbocharge Your Agency’s Growth featuring Steve Wiideman of Wiideman Consulting Group
Steve Wiideman is the CEO and President of Wiideman Consulting Group based in the Greater Los Angeles area, specializing in inbound marketing strategy for multi-location and franchise brands and provides innovative solutions for search engine optimization...
Driving Digital Agency Growth Through SEO and Acquisitions featuring Casey Meraz
Casey Meraz is the founder of Juris Digital, which offers full-service law firm marketing, including web design and development, search engine optimization, and content marketing. Over the years he has assisted hundreds of law firms in increasing their case...
Scaling Your Digital Agency with SOPs and Sales Playbooks featuring Will Perry
Will Perry is the CEO and CMO of Orlando-based Reason Agency, a direct response ad agency focusing on apparel brands, health and wellness, and healthy food spaces within e-commerce. They help scale up growth-stage ready brands drive significant revenue through paid...
Growing your Agency Responsibly Through Partnerships and Client Retention featuring McCain Kennedy
My guest today is McCain Kennedy, founder and owner of Set Fire Creative, a digital marketing agency based in Orem, Utah. Set Fire Creative works with small to midsize businesses and specializes in marketing funnels including social media management, paid social...
Treating Your Agency Like Your Most Important Client featuring Robb Fahrion
My guest today is Robb Fahrion, co-founder and partner of Flying V Group, a digital marketing and strategy agency based in Orange County, California. Flying V takes a comprehensive approach to creating digital marketing strategies for their clients by providing...
How to Keep Your Agency's Best Clients featuring Corey Morris
In this episode, I interview Corey Morris, Chief Strategy Officer of Voltage, a digital marketing agency based in Kansas City. Voltage partners with clients to create award-winning strategies focused on design, development, search engine optimization, paid search, and...
Building a Thriving Agency Through Massive Adversity featuring Jon Franko
My guest today on the show is Jon Franko, co-founder and partner at Gorilla 76, an industrial marketing agency based in St. Louis, Missouri. From being a 6th grader who wanted to play professional basketball, Jon went on to attend the Journalism School of the...
Building a World Class Agency Team with the Profit-Sharing Model featuring Mike Belasco
In this episode, I interview Mike Belasco, the President and CEO of Inflow, a Denver-based eCommerce marketing agency. Inflow provides cutting-edge eCommerce inbound marketing and search engine optimization services including conversion optimization and paid search...
Scaling a Boutique Agency to 7-Figures featuring Will Haire of Bellavix
Will Haire is the successful co-founder and CEO of BellaVix which is a full-service Amazon Agency that helps brands grow their business by offering different levels of support depending on the client’s needs. Coming from a family of veterans, Will enlisted...