When building his agency to a team of over 20 people, Marcus was like most people; he didn’t have a real plan. When he had more work than his current team could handle, he hired more help and thought that as long as he hired “go-getters” then he wouldn’t need to learn management skills. He also thought that if he wanted to make more money he would have to expand his team.

He was wrong on both counts, and today Marcus has taken everything he learned from that experience and helps other agency owners avoid those same mistakes, especially those around hiring and managing developers.

The common theme across all of his lessons is that you need to be deliberate with everything you do. You can’t expect your agency to grow on its own, and you can’t expect your team to become highly effective without some effort on your part. Things will never be easy by accident.

In today’s podcast, Marcus lays out exactly what is needed to achieve those things so that you can create a plan of action that works: