Agency Life

In this episode, we chat with Remington Begg for the second time on the Agency Life Podcast about Pivoting in a Pandemic.

We chat all about Digital transformations in, Agencies and businesses, agency trends in 2020, analyzing time and affordability to pivot, velocity and cost, navigating and taking positive steps to grow your business, and much much more.

You can find out more about Remington and his team here
Impulse Creative: https://www.impulsecreative.com/

Our sponsor Traction Tools: https://www.mytractiontools.com/ can give you a free demo to show you how to help you implement EOS much more smoothly in your business. 

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The biggest problem entrepreneurs have is that they don’t know what their biggest problem is. We need to pinpoint the right thing to work on at the right time, and the way to do that is by mastering the Business Hierarchy of Needs. In this episode - Clodagh dives deep into how to implement this methodology in your business.

This episode was sponsored by Traction Tools.

She also chats about:

• Why sales are so important and why it’s the core of the business. 
• Do you attract enough prospects to your business? 
• Supporting strategies your business growth
• Service delivery in your business
• Profitability & profitability leverage 
• Level of organizational efficiency (bottlenecks, slowdowns, and efficiencies)
• Dream alignment 
• Working with your employees to grow your business
• Creating a legacy for your business 
• Does your business have a clear vision of the future?
• And much much more...

Fix This Next Book
Profit First Book
Total Money Makeover Book

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In this epsiode we chat with Howard Diamond - Chief Strategy Officer at Rise Interactive about how their agency grew a team from 8 to 250+ people.

This episode was sponsored by Traction Tools.

We chat about:

• Leaving a corporate to work at Rise Interactive agency
• The importance of having a vision for your agency 
• Growing with Purpose
• Having level 10 meetings
• Using visualization for understanding and tracking
• Effectiveness of EOS in running the business
• Adapting your business with the current economic climate.
• Having alignment in your agency 
• And much much more

Traction Tools: https://www.mytractiontools.com/
EOS: https://www.eosworldwide.com/
Rise Interactive: https://www.riseinteractive.com/

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In this episode, we chat with Trevor Rappleye who is the Founder & CEO of CorporateFilming.Net. We had the privilege of having Trevor on our podcast before (episode 24) so check that out too.

We chat about: 
They help companies tell their stories through video 
Changes before Covid and pivoting based on pain points
Finding your ideal prospect 
Stopped rambling and started asking questions.
Adapting your business 
Working internally in this time 
Being apart of something 
Making sales and deals as a business owner
Video in business
Focusing on what matters online and offline
The power of video for your business

Check them out: https://www.corporatefilming.net

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In this episode, we chat with Darren Magarro - President & Founder at DSM Group about Leading with the right people in business and life.

Darren started DSM in 2007 with the hope of creating a full-service marketing agency that puts clients first. - Underdog NYC

We chat about:

• How he started his agency DSM Group
• DSM Group 
• Why trust & communication is so important for an agency
• Why he didn’t go for a specific niche. 
• Working with Personas and not niches 
• Why passion plays a vital role.
• Having a human element in your business and work 
• Getting business and moving it forward 
• Having a strong team of great people
• Having patience

DMS Group: https://thedsmgroup.com/

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On this episode, we chat with Tom Berry who is the Founder & Managing Director at Autus Consulting. He has over 20 years of experience in business transformation, technology, and leadership. Tom is also a  Sharpspring Partner. We chat about: 

• How he started Autus Consulting
• Building a strong network
• CRM & HubSpot
• Inbound & Digital Marketing
• The customer lifecycle and why retaining customers is better than finding new ones in the pandemic
• What Sharpspring is and what they do
• Targeting & Retargeting 
• Marketing and Technology
• Reflecting on business and life
• Managing a business

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On this episode of Agency Life we chat with Sharon Koifman - Remote President at Distant Job. Sharon has 18 years of experience.

We also chat about:

• Sharon has been building companies for 18 years
• Why you should not treat your freelancers as people who are outsourced
• How distant job started and what it is
• Why remote work is the future
• How teamwork and culture are linked
• Writing a book in lockdown
• Why employees are more productive working remotely
• How working from home saves so much money
• Being transparent with your people
• What top businesses with remote employees are doing right.
• Working with international people - treat them well and like full-time employees
• Finding the best and the smartest people to work with
• And much much more...

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On this weeks epiosde of Agency Life, we chat with Billy Cina who is the Co-founder & CEO of Marketing Envy. 

We chat about:

• How she started her career in Agency Life & Marketing Agency
• What the agency does 
• The big announcement - merging the agency
• Changing services to suit the changing needs of your clients
• Managing a merger in lockdown
• An instant drop of retainers 
• Keeping a positive cash flow
• Embracing online marketing 
• Pop up CMO’s
• The freelance, gig economy
• What to leave behind and what to take with after the pandemic
• Cost-cutting and transparency 
• Adapting your agency for success in a time of quick change
• Preparing for the best and worst-case scenario
• and much much more...

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In this episode, we chat with Lysa Miller who is the Co-Founder & President at 3 Media Web.

This episode was brought to you by Verblio:
Verblio makes blog and content creation happen.

We chat about:

• How she started her career in the agency world
• Building successful partnerships
• Managing projects within the agency
• Pivoting with new projects 
• Nurturing relationships in your agency while working remotely
• Having gratitude in troubling times
• Diversity through adversity
• Building online relationships
• Shifting perspectives in the agency world
• You are not the right agency for everyone
• Pivoting - replacing the revenue with new projects (this one)
• A perfect storm of reinventing yourself 
•  The perfect storm to reinvent yourself 
• Building Relationships online with Lysa Miller
• Shifting perspectives in the agency world 

Links

Gino Wickman: Get a Grip on your Business
Sales Empowerment Summit 

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On this episode of Agency Life, we chat with Nick Salvatoriello who is the HubSpot alum, a 10-year marketing veteran with a passion for helping businesses grow in a digital environment. VP of Agency Services at Media Junction.

We chat about:

• How he started working for a company he believed in
• Why he loves HubSpot & Inbound Marketing
• Working closely with marketing agencies
• Challenges with working at an agency 
• Managing expectations with employees and clients
• Best tech stacks to use
• Changing your business strategy 
• Embracing new experiences
• Working from home 
• Having a bad hire and a bad client
• working at an agency (drawing the line and working with agencies)
• Scoping correctly
• Advice for agency owners
• Having a funnel and pipeline
• Embracing this opportunity - being agile (this one please)
• Advice to control revenue and talent

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