The Creative Agency Podcast

Karl Sakas helps digital agency owners ‘Work Less’ and ‘Earn More’… while rewarding their best employees. Drawing on his background in agency operations, Karl has personally advised hundreds of agencies on every inhabited continent. An international speaker, he is the author of three books—including Work Less, Earn More—and more than 400 articles on agency management. Karl joins us for a timely interview about optimizing your agency sales process. We talk about using "strategic friction" to qualify leads before spending time on a call as well as tips and tactics for modifying and enhancing your sales process in uncertain economic times.

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Rachel Gertz, Co-Founder of Louder Than Ten, has a profound way of framing the challenges agencies face in the current climate and a keen sense of how we must adapt and focus on building sustainable systems and relationships to foster growth. She also goes into detail about the sales and project management relationship. Rachel emphasizes how crucial it is for project managers to participate in the sales process, the scope creation process, and client vetting (before the ink is dry on your contracts).

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I’m thrilled to introduce August Shah from Partnered Management Group. Not only is August a commercial airline pilot but he also founded Partnered MG, a fractional project management agency that specializes in supporting creative agencies with project managers, resources, and know-how.

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Blair Enns is CEO of Win Without Pitching and the author of The Win Without Pitching Manifesto and Pricing Creativity: […]

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Jared Mirsky is CEO of Wick & Mortar, a branding and marketing agency specializing in the cannabis industry. Jared started […]

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Can you imagine hiring a new employee every month? Bajillion Agency is doing it. Andrea Engstrom president and founder of […]

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In this episode, we explore the benefits of using The Entrepreneurial Operating System to grow your agency. And who better to interview […]

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Ryan Watson is the founder of a unique accounting agency, Upsourced Accounting, that focuses on creative agencies.  Ryan discusses pricing […]

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Once again we turn the mic on ourselves and talk about our own agency journey. Headquartered in Portland, OR (in […]

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One of the most important things about running successful digital projects is cultivating effective collaborations. Ellen De Vries, Content Strategist […]

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