Podcast

Agency Life

Real stories from digital agencies about their journeys, the successes that defined them, and the failures they overcame.

About

Do you choose the Agency Life? Or does it choose you?

Agency work is unique. If you’ve made a career in this space, it’s like being part of an exclusive club full of people with similar experiences. On this show, we surface those experiences to give you actionable advice for your agency each and every week.

As we give a voice to digital agencies at different stages of growth, we’ll talk about the highs, lows, and everything in between, in this crazy roller coaster ride that is Agency Life.

Episodes

Podcasts | Growth

What's causing your agency's pitches to fall on deaf ears?

Podcasts | Operations

Learn how to increase your PMs impact on your agency's profitability.

Podcasts | Growth

Learn how this agency increased lead conversion by 300% by making a tough decision.

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Ever have clients leave when you're doing great work? Learn the hidden reason why clients really become unhappy.

Podcasts | Growth

The AI opportunity most agencies are overlooking.

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Hear the best (& worst) stories of clients being "client-ey" and 3 ways you can deal with similar situations.

Podcasts | Growth

Create a lead-generating machine that DOESN'T need a big budget.

Podcasts | Growth

Forget EVERYTHING else & focus on these 5 critical tasks as an agency owner.

Podcasts | Operations

Avoid the biggest mistakes and follow 5 simple steps to guide your team though major change

Podcasts | Growth

Learn how to get clients to value (& pay for) your strategic advice, not just deliverables.

Podcasts | Operations

This agency owner built a 7-figure agency with 50% profit margins that were unlocked with time-tracking data.

Podcasts | Growth

Create thought leadership content based on quantitative research that builds trust with potential clients.

Podcasts | Operations

The 5 biggest scoping mistakes that lead to overservicing.

Podcasts | Growth

This agency drove 70% faster client results by adding this 1 role to their team structure.

Podcasts | Operations

Get the hiring secrets from an 8-figure agency CEO who's figured out what works

Podcasts | Operations

Get the 2-part forecasting model that's helped scale a $25MM agency

Podcasts | Operations

Learn how to avoid the 3 biggest risks in client communications within your agency.

Podcasts | Growth

Hear how a 200-person agency reduced churn by 50% and used AI to discover the Number 1 KPI to focus on.

Podcasts | Profitability

Forget tracking the wrong metrics for your agency & start measuring the ones that matter.

Podcasts | Growth

The 5 steps to use benchmark data in your agency's sales process to win more clients

Podcasts | Operations

What you and your team can do to stop overservicing demanding clients for good.

Podcasts | Growth

How to set simple, attainable growth goals for your agency in any market.

Podcasts | Profitability

A Chief Operating Officer's approach to maximizing agency profitability in the new year.

Podcasts | Growth

How to leverage AI for growth within your agency, and the most common pitfalls to avoid.

Podcasts | Growth

How agency owners can change the status quo in 2024, starting with their own marketing.

Podcasts | Growth

An agency growth expert's approach to scaling your business during hard times.

Podcasts | Profitability

How to activate your team members to move the needle in marketing your own agency.

Podcasts | Growth

How agency owners should approach new business development to make it more manageable

Podcasts | Profitability

Why one agency swears by Fixed Bid pricing while most use a Time and Materials approach.

Podcasts | Profitability

How an agency owner with many successful exits recommends preparing for acquisition.

Podcasts | Growth

What to do to achieve high demand, high growth that your agency can manage with ease.

Podcasts | Profitability

How to know if you should productize your agency services and the benefits of doing so.

Podcasts | Growth

How to tap into partnerships to add more value for clients and new sources of pipeline.

Podcasts | Growth

What happens when 20+ agency experts answer our Fast Five questions live.

Podcasts | Growth

What an agency founder recommends doing to clearly define and dominate your niche.

Podcasts | Operations

How Heinz Marketing has used EOS to build and scale a nearly 15-year old agency.

Podcasts | Profitability

What one agency owner recommends to revive old deals without being spammy or salesy.

Podcasts | Operations

How a veteran agency owner succesfully approached time tracking with her team.

Podcasts | Profitability

What one agency did to drive a results-oriented workplace and hit peak profit margins.

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What happened when an agency leader faced an upset client and his team was to blame.

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When layoffs are looming, how you should talk to your team and where to go to for support.

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How improving client retention starts even before the onboarding process is finished.

Podcasts | Operations

How to balance your agency team's workload to benefit both their productivity and health.

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How to have those tough but necessary talks with clients and know when to part ways.

Podcasts | Operations

What happened when the day-to-day management got in the way of an agency's growth?

Podcasts | Growth

When to know it's time to niche down your agency, what that means, and how to find yours.

Podcasts | #agencylife

How an agency owner pressed pause and refocused on personal goals and relationships.

Podcasts | Growth

How a merger brought agency and consulting practices together to seriously grow revenue.

Podcasts | Growth

How Simple Strat used YouTube to grow from a small agency into a trusted, stand-out brand.

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Check out flashback episodes hosted by agency expert, Clodagh Higgins.