Agency Growth Podcast Episodes

**Cold Open (Jake's optimal morning)****Skip the Cold Open at 3:06**We hear a lot of people quitting their day jobs in order to start an agency in which they have no experience -- only "knowledge" they've gained from online resources.To be frank, this is a dumb...

**Cold Open (Lissette is gone and we're sad)****Skip the Cold Open at 5:30**We keep seeing agency owners emphasize the importance of documenting processes in order to scale, but there are a few problems with this. Most people:Don't know how to document their...

**Cold Open (Cody is back from surgery)****Skip the Cold Open at 4:26**Jake is seeing way too many people looking for "appointment setters" and "high ticket closers" for agencies and SMMAs in Facebook groups.Building an agency off of this model will ultimately kill...

**Cold Open (Jake has to do dad stuff)****Skip the Cold Open at 2:45**Cody and Jake often find listeners and other agency owners stuck. Whether they're stuck at only a few clients or struggling to move past $20k/mo, a few things keep popping up over and over again...

**Cold Open (Nobody with a beard is happy -- Cody has a beard)****Skip the Cold Open at 6:30**If you run ads for your clients, you've likely run into a few issues...The budgeted amount wasn't spentToo much was spentThe account spends inconsistently and you have to...

**Cold Open (Cody wears random shirts he finds / Having a tough week at Evergrow)****Skip the Cold Open at 6:41**We had a listener of ours ask what our opinion was on HighLevel (GHL) as he was hearing a lot of agency owners promoting it and it seemed to have a lot...

**Cold Open (Cody brings up NVIDIA article / When is chasing money no longer worth it?)**Skip to Cold Open at 8:07**We're joined by David Tobin of TobinLeff M&A Advisors to discuss what agencies need to consider when thinking about selling their business.Jake...

**Cold Open (Jake and Cody talk about rebranding the podcast)****Skip the Cold Open at 7:11**A listener of the podcast submitted really great questions and we wanted to take the time to respond to all of them on the show. This is part 2 from episode 74 where we...

**Cold Open (Jake delivers a keynote at a lawn care business conference)****Skip the Cold Open at 7:42**A listener of the podcast submitted really great questions and we wanted to take the time to respond to all of them on the show.There were 10 questions, but we...

**Cold Open (Handkerchiefs / The Everbros Lost Episodes / Vulgarity)**Skip the Cold Open at 17:27**We see a lot of rookie mistakes new agency owners are making that's causing them to not get any sales or make it passed the $10k/mo mark.At its core, it comes down to...

**Cold Open (Do you take non-professional email addresses seriously?)** **Skip the Cold Open at 06:13** This week's episode comes to us a week after Jake talked about getting his Facebook account hacked and the implications that the hack had on the entire agency...

**Cold Open (Cody is sick... again / GoDaddy's Weird Marketing Strategy** **Skip the Cold Open at 11:10** This is a topic we've been holding off on talking about until the dust settled -- but in July, Jake's Facebook account was hacked. It doesn't sound like a big...

**Cold Open (Cool things about Colombia from Colombians)** **Skip the Cold Open at 10:03** On this episode, we're joined by Carolina Rincon and Isabel Gaviria from OnTop's legal team to discuss how agencies can hire and pay foreign and overseas contractors the...

**Cold Open (Cody asks Jake what his take is on wash rags...)** **Skip the Cold Open at 7:48** Jake was asked by a listener what goals we aim to achieve in our agency on a recurring basis. Frankly, there aren't a lot of goals we have. The more goals you have as a...

**Cold Open (Homeownership is turning Jake into an old man. Jake also talks about his vole problem)** **Skip the Cold Open at 9:00** On this episode, Jake and Cody talk about the fallacy of the phrase "work on your business rather than in it". Too many people take...

**Cold Open (TikTok releases search ads / Subscribe to Stacked Marketer)****Skip the Cold Open at 11:13**Cody and Jake talk about how adding more services to your offering won't necessarily get you more clients or help you grow.What you should do instead is figure...

**Cold Open (We discuss the worst things we've ever bought online)** **Skip the Cold Open at 8:54** If you're looking for advice on scaling an ecommerce marketing agency, this episode is for you. Cody and Jake are pretty notorious for not speaking well of the...

**Cold Open (Cody gets detained at customs)****Skip the Cold Open at 14:00**In this episode, Jake talks about his personal journey over the last 3.5 years going from a negative income making $42,500/year at an inside sales position at the beginning of 2020 to...