Agency Lessons | Interviews with Founders, Owners, and Operators about Growth and Operations
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat if you could uncover the secrets behind the fastest growing agency businesses today?
Join me as I’m interviewing agency founders, owners, and operators. You’ll learn how they kick-started their businesses and drove them to success.
The guests range from owners of fresh, up-and-coming agencies to seasoned operators managing well-established firms.
Tune in for insights and inspiration from the front lines of the agency world.
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Episodes
Scott Weisman: Balancing Agency and Software Development, Exploring AI Opportunities, Global Hiring Strategies, Maintaining Remote Team Culture, Using CRM for Growth.
February 14, 2024 11:03 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBScott Weisman on Twitter Scott's agency LaunchPad Lab 00:00:00 - Introduction to today's key topics: Balancing Agency and Software Development, Exploring AI Opportunities, Global Hiring Strategies, Maintaining Remote Team Culture, Using CRM for Growth. 00:02:30 - Discussion on balancing agency work with software development. Key challenges and strategies to overcome them. 00:10:15 - Exploration of AI opportunities. Understanding the potential of AI in transforming businesses and industr...
Agency Breakdowns: Why you should ignore most business advice (Growth Ninja, Design Joy, Closer Cartel)
February 12, 2024 16:01 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MB* My Twitter
Andre Hayak: Evolving Agency Offers, Incentive Alignment, Hiring Top Talent, Building a SaaS with a Personal Brand, Operationalizing with Typeforms
February 08, 2024 13:23 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MB* Andre Haykal on Twitter 00:02:15 - Agency Offers Evolution Explained 00:07:45 - The Role of Incentive Alignment in Success 00:13:30 - Proven Strategies for Effective Hiring 00:18:50 - Journey of Building a Successful SaaS 00:24:20 - Power of Personal Brand in Business 00:29:55 - Boosting Operations Using Typeforms 00:35:10 - Overcoming Challenges in SaaS Development 00:40:40 - Striking Balance: Brand and Product 00:45:30 - Ensuring Effective Team Communication 00:51:00 - Predicting Future...
Tom Critchlow: indie consulting, narrative air covers, customer focus vs. data focus
February 01, 2024 19:21 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBTom Critchlow's website
Andrew Pierno: Cold email agency margins, market fluctuations, offer evolution, using cash flow to buy businesses
January 24, 2024 14:43 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBAndrew's company Andrew's Twitter Jakob Greenfeld's website 00:00:00 - Andrew Pierno talks about his career in venture-backed companies and how he started his cold email agency, Cold Email Studio. 00:02:45 - Andrew Pierno discusses the challenges and lessons learned from running a cold email agency and the importance of finding the right market, message, and timing. 00:05:34 - Andrew Pierno shares insights on how his agency evolved by focusing on content marketing and thought leadership ...
Michael Houck: Cold Emailing into Uber, Co-Living Startup, Newsletters Business
January 19, 2024 16:27 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBfollow Michael Houck on Twitter Michael's newsletter Megaphone Network
Thibault Loius-Lucas: platform risk, hunting opportunities, what works on Twitter right now, mini tool SEO strategy
November 01, 2023 18:37 - 33 minutes - 31.3 MB- Tibo's Twitter - Tweet Hunter The nomad lifestyle (00:00:00) Discussion about the pros and cons of working as a nomad and the preference for having a dedicated workspace. Starting the podcast conversation (00:00:24) Small talk about their current locations (Paris and Denmark) and setting the casual tone for the conversation. Past startup experiences (00:02:17) Conversation about previous startup ventures, the mistakes made, and the dreams of building a successful company. The evolutio...
Sam Floy - operationalizing your agency, finding your best clients, vertical vs. horizonal responsibilities
October 23, 2023 12:22 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MB- Sam's website - Sam's agency
Phil Lehoux: getting rejected from YC, bootstrapping a million-dollar SaaS, managing mental health as a founder
September 11, 2023 11:43 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBPhil is the co-founder and CEO of Missive. (By far my favorite team inbox software)
Nick Abraham: lead gen metrics, performance vs retainers for agencies, client due diligence, shadow funnels
August 22, 2023 11:44 - 33 minutes - 31 MBNick Abraham's Twitter Nick Abraham's agency My Twitter My agency Sales.co
Andy Walker: Getting an agency off the ground, adjusting to market sophistication through specialization
August 07, 2023 11:41 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBAndy Walker on Twitter Andy's agency Stryker Digital
Talking Digital Operations, Agency Automations, AI with Grant Hushek
July 12, 2023 17:20 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBGrant's Twitter profile Grant's Agency Hampton community Sales.co agency
Dangers of Building in Public, Course Creator Charlatans, Agency Secrets & Higher Testosterone = Higher Revenue?
June 26, 2023 13:43 - 31 minutes - 29.4 MBShow Notes: (00:01) - Discussion on the state of 'building in public' (02:10) - Mention of the success of Peter Lebel's methods (13:30) - The potential correlation between testosterone and business success (17:40) - Reflections on how advice can become outdated quickly (20:22) - Acknowledging operational secrets as a real source of competitive advantage (23:15) - Revisiting how to best share valuable insights without endangering their own business (25:55) - Jakob's revelation about regretti...
Brainstorming business ideas with Michael Greenberg
September 16, 2022 14:58 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBBusinessBrainstorms.com Michael's Twitter account. Michael's services and businesses are listed here.
Flipping Wordpress and Shopify plugins for fun and profit with Vikas Singhal
March 24, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBVikas' Twitter profile Vika's business
Brainstorming niche site ideas with Jake Lang
March 17, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 39.6 MBJake's website Jake's book
Brainstorming remote work opportunities with Sagiv Ofek
March 10, 2022 13:04 - 51 minutes - 47.9 MBThis episode is brought to you by Founder Flywheel. Sagiv's website Sagiv's Twitter profile Sagiv's summary of our conversation
Brainstorming SaaS ideas with Tom Zaragoza
February 10, 2022 09:00 - 37 minutes - 35.1 MBTom's Twitter account Tom's website
Unbundling Fiverr and winning the Great Online Game with John Bardos
February 04, 2022 12:08 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBJohn's Twitter account John's newsletter
Brainstorming Business Ideas with David Kofoed Wind: Figma for X, Capterra automations, and travel adventures
January 20, 2022 16:00 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBDavid's Twitter account David's company Eduflow
Brainstorming Business Ideas with Andrew Lynch: The opposite of the metaverse, living in nature with friends, Zero to Wine, and Primal Weekends
January 13, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBAndrew's Twitter account Andrew's website Andrew's thread on the opposite of the metaverse.
Abandoned Assets, "be ready when they slip", and finance tracking with Tom Dekan
January 11, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBTom's Twitter profile Tom's website Tom's newsletter Tom's SaaS Redstone HR
Better outsourcing and professional matchmaking ideas with Tom Dekan
January 07, 2022 16:54 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBTom's Twitter profile Tom's website Tom's newsletter Tom's SaaS Redstone HR
Brainstorming indie maker ideas with Xavier Coiffard (job boards, form builders, ...)
December 10, 2021 08:05 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBXavier's Twitter account. Xavier's community. Xavier's info product.
Brainstorming Data Products, Jungle Scout for X, and Airtable Alternatives with Jordan Hansen
December 01, 2021 15:39 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBJordan's Twitter Jordan's agency Cobalt Intelligence
🤖 Brainstorming GPT-3 Business Ideas with Harish Garg
July 09, 2021 09:34 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBHarish is a GPT-3 consultant, founder of MynaOne, and author of the "Definite Guide to building products with OpenAI".
Mining idea gold on the Shopify App store with Daniel Sim
June 01, 2021 07:00 - 53 minutes - 49.9 MBGet access to Daniel's private Shopify app store database here. You can connect with Daniel on Twitter. Daniel's website He's currently running App Store Analytics ('Google Search Console for Shopify apps').
Brainstorming Shopify for SaaS with Travis Fischer
May 25, 2021 11:16 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBThis podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so. Right now Travis is building Senpai, an asynchronous video platform that allows creators to monetize their expertise. Travis is pretty active on Twitter and you should also check out his amazing blog where he's sharing all the lessons from his ventures.
Unearthing Opportunities with Alejandro Navia (Psilocybin, Microdosing, and Transformation)
May 17, 2021 11:30 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBAlejandro's personal website Alejandro's Twitter profile
Opportunities in real estate with Peter Fabor
April 15, 2021 14:09 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBThis podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so. Summary of the episode. Peter's website. Peter's Twitter account. Peter's thread on travel niches are growing like crazy.
Unearthing Opportunities with Matt Klein
April 07, 2021 17:28 - 55 minutes - 52.7 MBThis podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so. Matt's Twitter Account, Matt's Newsletter
Brainstorming opportunities in the WordPress ecosystem with Iain Poulson
March 17, 2021 13:56 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBThis podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so. Resources mentioned in the episode: Iain's website Iain's Twitter account Plugin Rank (Iain's SaaS tool for plugin creators) Integrate (Iain's WordPress-Instagram plugin) WP Trends (Iain's Newsletter) WP User Manager (the plugin Iain acquired) WPContent.io (Iain's WordPress community) WP Rocket (the premium caching plugin that succeeded despite strong competition) Freemius (service that makes it simple to sell WordPress plugin sub...
Unearthing Opportunities with Keevin O'Rourke (Part II)
February 15, 2021 17:06 - 46 minutes - 44.2 MBKeevin's Twitter account Keevin's Newsletter Brainstorms.io It's Under the Radar Newsletter by Rob Sullivan
Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kim (Part II)
February 02, 2021 17:58 - 58 minutes - 55.5 MBAndrew's Twitter profile. Andrew's idea list 3. Design Assessment Platform (enterprise Coderbyte but for UX/UI Designers) 4. Speed Runs of Non-Games (GamesDoneQuick but for other digital activities) 1. Homeschooling Extracurricular activities (have homeschooled kids socialize more) 5. Piggyback Distribution. Micro influencer marketing. (get slack/discord/subreddit active community members to 'hunt' your product) 2. Be my guest. Play at exclusive member only places (primarily golf cl...
Unearthing Opportunities with Keevin O'Rourke
January 25, 2021 13:48 - 50 minutes - 48.1 MBKeevin's Twitter account Keevin's Newsletter Brainstorms.io Sidemail.com
Unearthing Opportunities with Max Mirho
January 19, 2021 12:25 - 36 minutes - 34.9 MBJakob explains how and why he reached out to Max (01:20) Max describes and enumerates what they do on a live show and in business (02:13) Jakob and Max discusses more about the latter’s business model and its sustainability (04:51) Max talks about the tools he uses as his primary sponsorship source and eventually scaling it up (05:04) Max tells Jakob the story behind his unnamed agency (07:12) Max mentions how he discovered that speaking at universities, especially private schools, are...
Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kim
January 16, 2021 14:24 - 1 hour - 69 MBAndrew's Twitter profile. Andrew's ideas: 1. Productize my ProductHunt profile as a "Good Luck Charm" because I have the lucky of being user #777777 2. Negotiation Practice or interviewing.io for negotiations (not just salary) 3. Start with a "Why So Expensive" product, and build something around that 4. Collabs GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) 5. Dynamic Price Widget
Unearthing Opportunities with Luke Cannon
January 14, 2021 13:22 - 38 minutes - 36.9 MBLuke's Twitter Profile Luke's Newsletter David Perell Bot Birdy Bots Hypefury Colony.io Urbit APIs all the way down
Unearthing Opportunities with Aswin John
January 13, 2021 16:42 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBAswin's website Learn then Apply Aswin's Twitter profile.
Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kamphey
January 06, 2021 10:10 - 1 hour - 78.2 MBAndrew's Twitter profile Resources we talked about: List of 100 business ideas by Andrew 7 Newsletter Product Ideas for Indie Hackers by Andrew 9 Podcast Product Ideas for Indie Hackers by Andrew Better Sheets Twitter templates by Andrew A tool I built based on the ideation framework shared by Andrew
Unearthing Opportunities with Menajem Benchimol
December 18, 2020 17:44 - 45 minutes - 42.5 MBResources we talked about Product Byte Trends.co Trends.vc Keevin O'Rouke's profile and Product Byte updates on Indiehackers Software Ideas by Kevin Conti Rappi app
Unearthing Opportunities with Brian Burrous
December 17, 2020 15:30 - 46 minutes - 43.8 MBResources we talked about: Capiche.FM My First Million podcast Agency Course How I built this podcast Dickie Bush's Ship 30 for 30 challenge David Perell's Write of Passage Course https://twitter.com/brandonthezhang (his first essay was indeed shared by David Perell) The Day You Became A Better Writer by Scott Adams Writing Guide by Julian Shapiro Fast, Slow Notes by Andy Matuschak The Krystal Theme for Tiddly Wiki
Unearthing Opportunities with Daniel K. Hunter
December 08, 2020 17:03 - 55 minutes - 52.4 MBWe talk about: Launching on Product Hunt Deals for indie makers why private communities don't really solve the problems that public communities have. Painpoints.io Indie Hackers Trends.vc IndieDrops.com Product Explorer Gum Spy IndieThinkers.org Nesslabs https://jakobgreenfeld.com/gut Trends.co Kaggle Peter Askew RanchWork.com https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/