This episode breaks three records!The longest one we've had to date.Our first consultation episode!Our first returning guest!Cesar joins us on the podcast once again 5 months after his original episode ($25k MRR and I Have No Idea What I'm Doing | #108) seeking direct...
How Much Money Can Agency Owners Make? | Episode 128
How much money can you make as an agency owner?We've been seeing this question pop up a lot and not just online, but in person. It seems that people seem to think that the earning potential is unlimited and thought that may be true, what is mostly disagreed on is the...
Agencies Not Using Server-Side Tracking Will Get Left Behind | Episode 127
**Cold Open (Our Advice to a Redditor // Google Local Service Ads are Changing)****Skip the Cold Open at 16:15**Our agency has been working on two very big things that are fundamentally changing how digital marketing agencies operate. We talked about one of those...
How The Use of AI Content Detection is Becoming a Problem (ft. Jon Gillham w/ Originality.ai) | Episode 126
Since the release of Chat GPT 2 years ago, we have seen a surge in AI-related tools and content.AI allowed creators to pump out content at 1000x the rate they were and at 1/1000th the cost. The content was good, too. Over time, it became detectable just by reading...
We’re Wrong About Go High Level? (ft. Josh Kimmes w/ Bear North Digital) | Episode 125
A listener of the podcast has a bone to pick with us (Jake) on our position with High Level.Josh Kimmes owns a digital marketing agency called Bear North Digital up in Superior, Wisconsin who uses High Level as his agency's primary tech stack.We grill Josh on his...
What is Going On With This Whole WordPress Situation? | Episode 124
**Cold Open (Someone told Cody our podcast was bad... to his face)****Skip the Cold Open at 25:44**It's not looking good for the world's most widely used website builder. WordPress' founder, Matt Mullenweg, attacked WP Engine the other week and WP Engine sent Matt a...
Why Lead Gen Agencies Need to Become Email Experts | Episode 123
**Cold Open (AMAZON GIFT CARD CHALLENGE TO LISTENERS / Headlines without Context)****Skip the Cold Open at 19:50**We've had to dive down the email rabbit hole. Exploring SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and SMTP solutions.Why?Because our job is to deliver leads to our clients. When...
How We Write Our Agreements | Episode 122
**Cold Open (A listener and guest sent us a gift box -- we taste and rank everything in it)****Skip the Cold Open at 13:08**If you don't have a lawyer and don't know how to write agreements for your agency, perhaps hearing how we write ours will help you craft...
$15k/mo in 9 Months by Copying Someone Else (ft. Andrew Jenkins w/ Catalyst RVA) | Episode 121
We talk to Andrew Jenkins at Catalyst RVA about his home service agency and how he was able to scale to $15k/mo in recurring profit in under a year.Does Andrew have a secret to his quick success that we don't know? How long can he sustain that? Does he plan to get any...
Mental Health Hardships as an Agency Owner | Episode 120
For the first time in over 2 years of doing this podcast, we're covering mental health. Specifically our own experiences with it as agency owners.We're covering both perspectives of coming into agency ownership with pre-existing mental health issues as well as...