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Social Pulse Podcast: Agency Edition Mike Allton
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Social Pulse Podcast: Agency Edition is your go-to guide to solving your biggest marketing agency challenges - authentically.
Join award-winning marketer Mike Allton as he peels back the curtain with marketing agency owners just like you, unveils the issues they've been struggling with the most, and explores how they've overcome those challenges. Each episode is an honest and frank look at what agencies go through - from churning clients to tackling tech - and ideas that you can apply to your own business.
Whether you're five months or five years in, Social Pulse Podcast: Agency Edition will help you expand your knowledge, address your challenges, and scale your agency in the years to come.
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Produced and Hosted by Mike Allton
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The Fully Remote Agency: Challenges & Opportunities
Whether you’ve intended to build a fully remote agency, or that’s your goal, managing remote employees has it’s own challenges and opportunities.
To say nothing of being remote yourself as an agency owner.
How do you line up clients?
How do you ensure communication within your team?
How do you even juggle time and time zones?
That’s what Anne Popolizio is here to help us with.
Anne is the owner of the digital marketing agency Social Squib, a fully remote digital marketing agency. Her goal was to not only build a remote agency, but to be a geographically independent agency owner herself, which she’s accomplished. She has been doing social media for businesses since 2010 and knows how to leverage their social media following into clients. And she’s obsessed with analytics so that clients can measure the results of their efforts.
Social Pulse Podcast host Mike Allton asked Anne Popolizio about:
⭐ What the unique challenges and opportunities are as a remote agency
⭐ How she’s developed solutions for those challenges
⭐ What it means to be geographically independent and the lifestyle that affords
Learn more about Anne Popolizio
Connect with Anne Popolizio on LinkedIn
Connect with Anne Popolizio on X
Resources & Brands mentioned in this episode
Social Squib
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Emeri
Emeric
Social Media Marketing World
Marketing Profs
Kim Garst
Slack
Airtable
Asana
Evernote
Looker Studio
Google Drive
Canva
iMovie
Adobe Express
Opus Clip
Show Notes & Transcript: https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/the-fully-remote-agency-challenges-and-opportunities
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The Agency Owner’s Dilemma: How To Replicate Themselves
Does this sound familiar?
You, and perhaps a partner, started your agency years ago because you discovered you had a real talent and passion for helping your business clients with certain aspects of their marketing. You brought on one client, then another, and before you knew it you had a full-blown agency up and running.
But as you’ve hired more staff and brought on more clients, your workload has only increased. And you’re just as involved in the day-to-day of your operations as you were on day one, leaving little time to think strategically about your agency.
How do you train others to handle more of what you’ve been doing, and what processes can you set up to help?
That’s what Jessika Phillips is here to help us with.
Known as the Queen of Relationship Marketing, Jessika is on a mission to redefine corporate America and create something she wanted to be part of. Jessika founded NOW Marketing Group in 2010 with only a laptop and a vision to give people with heart an upper hand. Her agency was recognized as an Inc. Best places to work 2022, is a Forbes-recognized Agency Partner, partners with Facebook, Google, Agorapulse, and is a certified inbound partner with Hubspot.
Social Pulse Podcast host Mike Allton asked Jessika Phillips about:
⭐ Why agency owners need to replicate themselves
⭐ What processes and initiatives to put in place
⭐ How to get started today so that your agency is positioned well for tomorrow
Learn more about Jessika Phillips
Connect with Jessika Phillips on LinkedIn
Connect with Jessika Phillips on X
Resources & Brands mentioned in this episode
NOW Marketing Group
Learn more about Agorapulse with a free demo
Inc. Best Places to Work 2022,
the E-Myth
Martech show Episode with Jim Williams, CMO of UpTempo
Show Notes & Transcript: https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/the-agency-owners-dilemma-how-to-replicate-themselves
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When To Pivot Your Marketing Agency: Finding The Right Focus For You
Every agency runs into periods of time that are a struggle.
Revenue is down.
Customers are churning.
Pipeline has all but dried up.
Owners faced with these situations have three options: keep going, quit, or change direction.
The challenge is knowing which option is the best for you. Staying the course or charting a new path can each bring it’s own successes and challenges, so it’s a good idea to talk to folks who have been there.
That’s what Selim Maalouf is here to help us with.
Selim hosts and produces 2 podcasts - The Manufacturing Marketing Show as well as Sprockets & Gears. He's also a HubSpot Technical Consultant and HubSpot Solutions provider. Interestingly, his career started as an Industrial Design Engineer in Lebanon but when he moved to the States, he quickly pivoted into marketing and has been helping industrial companies communicate with and attract the right audiences ever since.
Social Pulse Podcast host Mike Allton asked Selim Maalouf about:
⭐ When agencies should consider a pivot
⭐ What key considerations to keep in mind
⭐ How to achieve success with a new agency model
Learn more about Selim Maalouf
Connect with Selim Maalouf on LinkedIn
Resources & Brands mentioned in this episode
Conveying Your Message
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The Manufacturing Marketing Show
Sprockets and Gears Podcast
HubSpot
Oracle
SAP
Dana Corporation
StreamYard
Stoney Creek
Teamwork.com
ClickUp
Surfe
Google Workspace Suite
Slack
StreamYard
Riverside
Premiere Pro
Show Notes & Transcript: https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/when-to-pivot-your-marketing-agency-finding-the-right-focus
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Produced and Hosted by Mike Allton, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Agorapulse. If you’re interested in being featured on an upcoming episode, reach out to Mike. -
Scaling From Side-Hustle Start-up to Full Time Suite
If you’re thinking about taking your marketing agency and consulting services from part-time to full-time, or have done just that in the past few years, there are many challenges.
Maintaining cash flow. Building a team for the first time. Acquiring new clients. Balancing new team members, clients, and tech… to say nothing of trying to maintain work-life balance.
How are we supposed to manage it all?
That’s what Rachael Mattice is here to help us with.
Rachael is the founder of RM Creative Services and the host of the “Big Vocalist Energy” podcast where she helps amplify the names and author the stories of impactful brands and artists. With over 12 years of strategic content experience backed by data, she tunes in and tunes up the brand’s identity traits until they are show-stoppers. As a music maven, entrepreneur, and content creator, it’s her life’s purpose to shine a spotlight on the bold and provide her clients with the tools needed to succeed.
Social Pulse Podcast host Mike Allton asked Rachael Mattice about:
⭐ What inspired her to start her own marketing agency
⭐ Why it's a challenge going from side hustle to full-time owner
⭐ How new agency owners can navigate these challenges
Learn more about Rachael Mattice
Connect with Rachael Mattice on LinkedIn
Connect with Rachael Mattice on Instagram
Resources & Brands mentioned in this episode
RM Creative Services
Learn more about Agorapulse with a free demo
Big Vocalist Energy Podcast
Purdue University
Stony Creek
Social Pulse Podcast Retail Edition
Jenn Herman
Social Media Examiner
Social Media Today
Threads
Show Notes & Transcript: https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/scaling-from-side-hustle-start-up-to-full-time-suite
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Produced and Hosted by Mike Allton, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Agorapulse. If you’re interested in being featured on an upcoming episode, reach out to Mike. -
The Anti-Agency Agency: Consider This Non-Traditional Model
One of the reasons so many agencies close within 3 years is that the owners simply burn out from the incredibly overwhelming workload.
Late nights trying to hit deadlines.
Long meetings in the morning with clients who are “always” right.
And a constant churn of clients who weren’t a good fit.
What if there was a different way… maybe even a better way, to structure your agency and approach working with clients?
If the traditional agency model is broken, how should we approach doing great marketing for clients?
That’s what Chuck Hester is here to help us with.
Chuck Hester is a nationally renowned marketing trainer and speaker who helps businesses get the most out of their digital channels. He is the co-founder of A Purpose Partnership, a contrarian marketing and business consulting firm that works with its clients in all things marketing - from public relations to web development to corporate social responsibility.
Social Pulse Podcast host Mike Allton asked Chuck Hester about:
⭐ Why the traditional agency model is broken for so many
⭐ How he set about to build a new agency model
⭐ Where his agency, and his clients, are now seeing the benefits
Learn more about Chuck Hester
Connect with Chuck Hester on LinkedIn
Connect with Chuck Hester on Twitter
Resources & Brands mentioned in this episode
A Purpose Partnership
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Adam Sinkus
Brands Constellations
Steven Silverman
Slack
Zoom
StreamYard
ChatGPT
Ann Handley
MarketingProfs B2BForum
apurposepartnership.com
Show Notes & Transcript: https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/the-anti-agency-agency-consider-this-non-traditional-model
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Produced and Hosted by Mike Allton, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Agorapulse. If you’re interested in being featured on an upcoming episode, reach out to Mike. -
How Agencies Can Diversify Income And Avoid Cash Flow Issues
We all know that when we were just starting and had a single client for our new agency, that was a perilous position. And even later, when we added more clients, many of us still found ourselves with just one or two clients who were bringing in the majority of the revenue. If ever they left, our agency would be in a world of hurt.
Along the same lines, having just a single source of revenue keeps our income and our livelihood at risk. Offering different kinds of services or establishing other sources of revenue sounds like a good idea, but it’s harder than you think!
How do you figure out which income streams to pursue? How do you balance it or find options that can complement each other?
That’s what Phil Pallen is here to help us with.
As a brand strategist, Phil has advised hundreds of brands from over 30 countries, including a Shark on Shark Tank, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, politicians, and some of the most important names in entertainment. His non-conventional approach to digital marketing and talent for social media has built him a global audience, and he frequently appears as an expert contributor in media outlets around the world, including CNN, Access Hollywood, and The Daily Mail.
Social Pulse Podcast host Mike Allton asked Phil Pallen about:
⭐ Why income diversification is critical today
⭐ What income streams worked for him, and which ones didn’t
⭐ How to approach new revenue streams for your agency
Learn more about Phil Pallen
Connect with Phil Pallen on Instagram
Connect with Phil Pallen on Twitter
Resources & Brands mentioned in this episode
PhilPallen.co
Phil’s upcoming book: http://philp.al/ai-sm
Learn more about Agorapulse with a free demo
J29 Creative
Uscreen
Adobe Express
Brand24
Google Alerts
Sessions (An alternative to Zoom)
ChatGPT
AnyWord
Adobe Firefly
Adobe Stock
Gary Vee
Daymond John
Show Notes & Transcript: https://www.agorapulse.com/blog/how-agencies-can-diversify-income-and-avoid-cash-flow-issues
Brought to you by Agorapulse: the #1 rated social media management solution.
Produced and Hosted by Mike Allton, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Agorapulse. If you’re interested in being featured on an upcoming episode, reach out to Mike.