Podcast
13:2 Going Beyond The Agency
Project to project Agency work can be rewarding yet difficult. Vinodh David takes us on their journey as they grew from freelance, to agency and beyond. They have achieved many agency owners dream, which is to move to a model of yearly subscriptions for valuable online products. Takeaways: Technology is…
13:1 Part Two: Turning Creativity into Profit
Join us again, with Frank Candy in this two part series on turning creativity into profit. Frank shares the ten points of content, the implementation, the creative brief as a management tool and more. In part one of Turning creativity into profit. We discussed the purpose and value of creative…
12:8 Part One: Turning Creativity into Profit
Join Frank Candy in this two part series on turning creativity into profit. Frank shares his thoughts and strategies empowering you to make things happen, and get things done with clients and teams of creative people. We delve into the value of creative briefs, the foundation of your creative problem…
12:7 The Tuned In Service Provider
We are all service providers. How do we tune into what’s really important to potential clients, or our existing clients? Frank inspires us to look at things in our live’s differently. He challenges us to ask the important questions of our clients. Frank’s goal is to help people be more…
12:6 Onboarding And Client Communication
Getting the onboarding process right will set your project up for success. Laura is a designer, and has launched an exciting product called Client Portal to help agencies and service businesses communicate their projects cleanly and effectively. Laura shares her business journey, and lessons learned along the way. SPECIAL OFFER:…
12:5 How To Change With The Times
Stay curious and keep learning so that your business can continue to diversify, change and pivot where needed. Jackie shares her journey over the years which demonstrates her passion for learning and her ability to change as times and technology progress. Takeaways: Figure out how you best learn. Everyone is…
12:4 Make More Sales With WooCommerce
Upsell offers can be a powerful tool, and need not be intrusive and can be beneficial to customers. Chris Mason left a high paying corporate job to focus on his consulting business where he helps Woocommerce store owners make more sales. The Upsell Checklist: Link: https://woocurve.com/ Connect with Chris: Email:…
12:3 Lessons From Agency Life
Join me and Steve Picanza from the Creative Hustler as we shoot the breeze on agency life / health / wellbeing / entrepreneurship and loneliness. In no particular order! We unpack our own journeys, share our lessons, and ask each other probing questions. The content was too good to leave…
12:2 An Introduction To The Page Builder Framework
What theme should I use with my page builder!? With so much choice, confusion and mixed messages, my mate David decided to create a solution to solve that problem. Takeaways: Learn to make do, don’t wait till it’s perfect. Great is better than perfect. Connect with David: Website: http://happytans.com/ Website:…
12:1 Systemising For Profit
Web agency services can be time intensive and difficult to generate a profit from. We talk to Paul Kortman of Connex Digital Marketing who has managed to systemise complex processes such as PPC, SEO and more so that he can be competitive on price, and still maintain a healthy margin.…
11:8 How To Scale Your Product Or Service
Having recently completed a campaign through AppSumo we talk to the CEO and CoFounder of Book Like A Boss. From selling candy at school, through a difficult crowdfunded project, and now to successful bootstrapped online SaaS solution that is growing fast and evolving. Nachum shares the lessons, and the surprises…
11:7 How To Vlog Like A Boss
I am super pumped to have Amy on the show. She is the author of Vlog Like A Boss and the voice, face and brain of the Savvy Sexy Social YouTube channel. As I push on with VEDA (Vlog Every Day in August), I find out more about Amy’s roots,…
11:6 How To Define and Share Your Story
What do you do with social media? What should you post about? What will attract people to your business, to your services, to you? Sarah Moore unpacks the importance of telling stories via social media. She explains what types of stories you should be sharing, and how along with her…
11:5 Growing Beyond The Web Build
We so often pass on SEO opportunities because it seems like rocket science to us, or a distraction from our core service. Phil Singleton shares his story of how he came to a point of realising that he could not grow on web builds alone, and needed to branch out.…
11:4 Craft Your Message With Video
You know video is important for your business but what on earth do you say and do? Mike Doyle is an animation legend and video genius. He tells us what we should be talking about in our videos, and how to structure it. We get vulnerable and let him break…
11:3 How To Optimise Your Site For Local SEO
What is Local SEO? How do we optimise a site for local searches and traffic? Rob Watson from Click to Sale tells us his story, and we unpack his recent blog post on Local SEO. Oh and we hit him with our favourite question… “is SEO dead”? Mentions: http://backlinko.com/ Connect…
11:2 An Introduction To Beaver Themer
The team at Beaver Builder have created something historic! Beaver Themer…. Best described as a theme building solution that reduces, if not removes the requirement for code. We find out how it came about and ask the tough questions. Mentions: HubScout: https://www.helpscout.net/ Slack: https://slack.com WP Mayor Review: https://www.wpmayor.com/fastline-page-builder-review/ Free Version:…
11:1 The Benefits Of Staying The Course
Running a web agency is challenging and many end up quitting the journey. Meet Gerry King from I Netco Ltd. He’s been rocking web design and development since the beginning of the 21st Century and is still going strong. Be inspired, be encouraged and grab hold of the lessons he’s…
10:8 Is SEO really Dead?
Is SEO Dead? Pete Everitt from SO The Agency give’s his take on that VERY controversial question. We also unpack his journey and glean valuable insights into how his agency does business, and how they add amazing value. Takeaways: Comparison is a killer.Break it down and de-risk it.SEO isn’t dead…
10:7 Website Terms and Contracts
Most of us are not legal experts, so getting that bit right needs a little help. Today’s podcast is a little different. That’s right we are talking Terms & Conditions as well as contracts with Leah Hamilton from TermsFeed (https://termsfeed.com/). Her “most common mistakes” are very eye opening! I am…