Working Without Pants - Creative Entrepreneurship

Jake Jorgovan
Working Without Pants - Creative Entrepreneurship

Working Without Pants is the podcast for agency owners and consultants who are wanting to win more clients and better clients for their business. Each week, Jake Jorgovan brings you interviews with industry leaders and experts on how to win more clients for your agency or consulting practice. Past guests have included Brennan Dunn, Brent Weaver, Kai Davis, Philip Morgan, Brian Casel, Blair Enns, and many more. Learn more at https://jake-jorgovan.com/podcast

  1. 213: Leading Others and Letting Go

    06/27/2022

    213: Leading Others and Letting Go

    To experience the freedom that entrepreneurship can provide, you need to learn how to let go of certain responsibilities and let others lead.    In this episode of the Working Without Pants podcast, I provide some tips on how to let team members take ownership of more responsibility and what that process looks like.    In many cases, people confuse delegation with letting others lead. Delegating new tasks can be a step toward moving someone into a different role, but you’re still overly involved in the process. The goal is to have others take complete ownership over their role without your daily guidance.    When moving someone into a manager-type role, it's best to set a hard deadline for when they are expected to fully take charge. It's okay to provide occasional support but you want them to be able to problem-solve on their own.   During this process, you should provide a detailed job description, clearly define a team member’s new expectations, and outline what success looks like. If problems do come up, try to avoid immediately jumping back in. If you are always there to come to the rescue, your new leader will stay reliant on you. Want to work with me as an advisor? Visit jake-jorgovan.com/coaching.   This episode is brought to you by Zapier   My companies could not do what they do without Zapier. We use Zapier to automate tasks and connect all of our various web applications together. It could be connecting Airtable to Slack, our invoicing software to Airtable, our Project Management tool to Payroll… the integrations we use it for are endless. If you aren’t using Zapier, get on the bandwagon and try it out at Zapier.com

    13 min
  2. 209: How To Think About Systems

    12/07/2021

    209: How To Think About Systems

    When building a business or starting a new entrepreneurial pursuit, we tend to handle many of the day-to-day tasks ourselves. And though working this way is fine for a while, at some point you need to turn that chaos into an orderly system.   In this episode of the Working Without Pants podcast, I explore the importance of building systems and why they are needed in order to scale your business in an organized and predictable way.    If you’re new to building systems within your business, it can seem daunting. The key to remember, though, is that you don’t have to be an expert at building systems — you simply need to understand them enough to be able to eventually hire a master to optimize your basic frameworks. If a system has decent bones, a specialist will be able to come in and take that system to the next level of efficiency.   I always recommend starting your system-building efforts by focusing on lower-value work that you want off your plate and then moving on to higher-level work. This will bring you more immediate freedom, allow you to refine your system-building skills, and ultimately help you understand what it will take to systematize higher-level roles or tasks down the line.   Want to work with me as an advisor? Visit jake-jorgovan.com/coaching.   Resources: https://www.vidyard.com/podcast/nopants/ https://contentallies.com/ https://add1zero.co/ https://www.process.st/ https://www.amazon.com/Built-Sell-Creating-Business-Without/dp/1591845823 https://www.amazon.com/Work-System-Fourth-Mechanics-Working/dp/1626347697 https://www.amazon.com/Clockwork-Design-Your-Business-Itself/dp/0525534016     - - -  This episode is brought to you by Lead Cookie Lead Cookie is a B2B lead generation agency that focuses on quality above all else. Tired of getting burned by low-quality spammy agencies who over-promise and fail to deliver results. Then reach out to us to experience the difference at LeadCookie.com

    18 min
  3. 207: Building Outbound as a Sustainable Growth Channel With Isaac Marsh, Partner at Lead Cookie

    11/30/2021

    207: Building Outbound as a Sustainable Growth Channel With Isaac Marsh, Partner at Lead Cookie

    Many people expect quick wins from outbound and if they don’t see results in a few months, they drop it altogether. This is unfortunate because the real power of outbound comes from your ability to build outbound as a long-term growth channel for your business.   In the new episode of the Working Without Pants podcast, Isaac Marsh, Partner at Lead Cookie, joins me to discuss how people should be thinking about outbound and why it's such a sustainable growth channel.   We kick off the show by discussing the fact that more people are realizing that quality beats quantity when it comes to outbound leads. If you’re selling high-ticket packages, one client can pay for all your future outbound efforts. Though an outbound agency may guarantee you a set amount of leads, none of those deals will close if the quality isn't there.    We also highlight how outbound gives you long-term brand exposure and helps you stay top of mind for when prospects are ready to buy. Though you might not close a deal today, you can gauge where a prospect is in their buying cycle. This gives you the ammo you need to nurture that lead and form a strategy for when that lead is ready. Want to learn how Lead Cookie can help with your outbound efforts? Feel free to reach out to us today.   Resources: https://www.vidyard.com/podcast/nopants/ https://www.leadcookie.com/   This episode is brought to you by Lead Cookie Lead Cookie is a B2B lead generation agency that focuses on quality above all else. Tired of getting burned by low-quality spammy agencies who over-promise and fail to deliver results. Then reach out to us to experience the difference at LeadCookie.com

    31 min
4.7
out of 5
59 Ratings

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Working Without Pants is the podcast for agency owners and consultants who are wanting to win more clients and better clients for their business. Each week, Jake Jorgovan brings you interviews with industry leaders and experts on how to win more clients for your agency or consulting practice. Past guests have included Brennan Dunn, Brent Weaver, Kai Davis, Philip Morgan, Brian Casel, Blair Enns, and many more. Learn more at https://jake-jorgovan.com/podcast

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