How To Win More New Business By Transforming Your Generalist Agency Into A Niche Focused Powerhouse, Staff An Outbound Marketing Sales Team, & Boost Core Capabilities Through Acquisition With Bill Gadless

In this episode, I interview Bill Gadless, President/Co-Founder of the 50+ person digital marketing and web design agency – emagine, headquartered in Fall River, MA.

What You’ll Learn In This Episode: 

- emagine’s story from starting out as a duo of college dropouts to entrepreneurs with a long-standing mid-size agency.

- How narrowing down from a website and digital marketing generalist to a niche specialist created abundance and growth.

- A lesson on how to test the market and stop undervaluing your marketing or web design services and charging much more. 

- What the major turning point was for Bill when he went to a conference on web design and how that led him to dramatically increase his prices.

- Why going niche, focused, and specific, was one of emagine’s biggest successes early on.

- emagine’s evolution from generalist, to serving a handful of industries, to only healthcare, and now to focusing on niching down even more within healthcare.

- The impact of going from generalist to niche specific clients for emagine, internally.

- How Bill’s agency came to embrace outbound sales and outperform typical agency business development norms. 

- Why niching down has been extremely helpful in winning new business in specific sectors and outselling agencies that are less focused.

- How to stop having a lame generic USP that every other agency has and truly differentiating yourself for clients. 

- How Bill staffs and structures his comprehensive outbound marketing team to create a consistent and reliable new business pipeline, better than most other agencies.

- The one thing you need to apply to yield better responses overall from outbound marketing.

- Reliable outreach frameworks you can apply to your agency if you are targeting mid-size or large organizations. 

- Why quality of outreach is better than volume, especially if you are targeting large organizations.

- How Bill’s web design firm acquired a small SEO firm and why it was crucial to their growth. 

- How to capitalize on an acquisition, even if the target’s business model is not the same as yours.

- The deal structure that was arranged for emagine’s acquisition. 

- The unfortunate truth Bill discovered after pursuing strategic partnerships with traditional agencies, as a digital agency.

- Why Bill is now focusing on partnering with complementary companies that don’t do digital marketing at all. 

- Partner and deal opportunities Bill is looking for now.