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:

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**Cold Open (Jake is training for a marathon)**

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Last week, we went over how we managed client projects and recurring monthly tasks inside of our ClickUp workspace.

This week, we’re going over how we use ClickUp internally to manage internal projects, team member time tracking, monitor labor efficiency, and how we manage our own workloads.

We also go over how we use the project management tool to conduct research and development of new services and value adds as well as store notes for internal meetings and future ideas.

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**Cold Open (Cody is finally done moving)**

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A popular request of us is to walkthrough our entire ClickUp™ setup and how we use it as a productized service agency.

In this episode, we go through specifically how we use it for client work and how we automate monthly, recurring task generation.

We also go into other features we use such as scheduled emails to clients and general time tracking workflows for client work when it doesn’t make sense to track time on individual tasks.

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**Cold Open (Cody’s Breakdancing + ER Visit…)**

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A listener wrote in to get our advice on what to do regarding a situation he’s in with a client. His client isn’t understanding the value of what he’s offering despite amazing cost per lead results and even the client admitting that the leads are closing at 60%.

To complicate matters, he feels like he can’t fire the client because this client’s brother is also a client and doesn’t want to lose two clients in the process.

The Everbros weigh in and we give our thoughts on exactly what he should do.

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**Cold Open (Cody’s living in a 3rd world country)**

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After 6 years of the same pricing we had when we started, we raised prices by 30% overnight.

We sent an email to our clients on February 28th telling them the price change was going into effect on April 15th.

In this episode, we break down our complete methodology on what went into the price increase.

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We sit down with Geenay at Consortium Studio, who recently pivoted from the agency model that takes anything they can get to niching down.

Only her niche is with luxury and premium brands.

We’re used to finding Facebook groups with our niche audience or guesting on podcasts in our niche to get in front of our clients.

Geenay doesn’t have that luxury… or perhaps she actually does have the luxury? She has to attend fancy parties and member-only clubs to rub shoulders with her target audience.

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Ever see those really awesome marketing campaigns that brands do that seem so out of the box and must have taken millions of dollars to pull off or some creative genius?

Those are because of people like Dani Durfesne with The Aux Co.

Dani has a history in film production and pulls off some pretty awesome stuff for brands at pretty low budgets (we’re talking only a few thousand dollars). She’s the person agencies go to when they get a crazy idea but have no idea how to execute it for their client.

She finds the venues, gets the people, gathers the talent, and organizes the production of that crazy idea.

And she does it all incognito. Clients never know she exists. All of her work is credited to the agency.

We dive into what exactly her business model is, why on earth she doesn’t want any credit, and what actually all goes into these productions.

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In Part 2 of talking with Dave from Local Falcon and Epic Web Studios, we dive into the Local Falcon platform itself.

Dave talks about new things coming to the original geogrid tool, such as AI overview and ChatGPT tracking and MCP servers. Additionally, we explain why we think geogrid tools cause more issues with clients than the problems they solve.

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The start of our first-ever 2-part episode on the podcast, Local Falcon CEO, David Hunter, was dropping bombs during the discovery call, so we had to tell him we were holding him hostage for 3 hours to record two episodes.

This episode is all about his agency, Epic Web Studios. The agency that eventually brought Local Falcon into the world. The 7-figure agency that no one who uses Local Falcon knew existed and was the whole reason they’re using the tool in the first place.

In this episode, Dave talks about how and why he started his agency as well as what his plans are with it.

What’s the end game, and how does Local Falcon fit into it?

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**Cold Open (Jake has started mobile gaming)**

**Skip the Cold Open at 10:19**

The best agencies out there aren’t necessarily the ones producing the best results. They’re the ones with the best communication and value for what is being paid for.

On this episode, we navigate how we have failed in the client communication area recently and how we’re trying to correct that and provide more communication to our clients without eating into labor hours that are better spent on servicing their actual accounts.

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