
Agency Insights for Scaling

How to Hire the Right People to Scale Your Agency the Right Way
Are you spending too much time trying to find the right talent for your agency? While I’ve typically avoided outside recruiters due to their large commissions, I’ve also realized sometimes the amount of time spent filling important roles equates to missed opportunities for the business. You have to figure out how much your time is worth.
Finding the right people is one of the biggest challenges in scaling any business, whether you're hiring for your marketing agency, bringing in a virtual assistant, or expanding your creative team. Making the wrong hire can be costly in both time and resources, which is why having a strategic hiring process is essential.

I BOUGHT 10 Digital Agencies: Here is what I learned…
I’ve been in the agency world since 1999, building my agency for over twelve years to the point of a successful exit. For the next ten years, I focused on coaching agency owners from all over the world and not really thinking about starting another agency until a couple of years ago.
Once I started this new stage of agency ownership, we’ve been expanding our services by buying agencies, for a total of $1 million in EBITDA so far. With that experience under my belt, I want to present to you some of the things I’ve learned. Here are 8 elements all sellable agencies have had in common.

Find Your Tribe: A Lesson About Transparency in Business
How important do you think it is to find your 'tribe' in the business world? Have you tried to find such a community? In a marketplace overflowing with options, it often seems many lack a genuine focus on problem-solving and valuable advice.

CHARGE What Your Agency Is WORTH: 3 Agency Pricing Models Everyone Should Know
In this video, learn how to determine the optimal pricing strategy for your agency to maximize profitability. Discover the dangers of being too busy and undercharging, and uncover the key factors for effectively raising your prices. Explore different pricing models with real-life examples of successful implementations.

DON’T QUIT: Create a Vision Statement for Clarity & Fuel Your Digital Agency Growth
In this video, learn the 5 most important questions I answered allowed us to grow faster than everyone else while working fewer hours. The secret that led to eventually selling the agency to a huge firm.

8 Must-Have Systems to Grow Your Digital Agency Easier
Do you want to stop being reactionary to your business and instead grow it in a more methodical and predictable way? When I grew my first agency, there were a couple of years where it felt like we hit a plateau. It seemed no matter what we did, we kept going backwards.