Agency Insights for Scaling

I BOUGHT 10 Digital Agencies: Here is what I learned…
Jason Swenk Jason Swenk

I BOUGHT 10 Digital Agencies: Here is what I learned…

I’ve been in the agency world since 1999, building my agency for over twelve years to the point of a successful exit. For the next ten years, I focused on coaching agency owners from all over the world and not really thinking about starting another agency until a couple of years ago.

Once I started this new stage of agency ownership, we’ve been expanding our services by buying agencies, for a total of $1 million in EBITDA so far. With that experience under my belt, I want to present to you some of the things I’ve learned. Here are 8 elements all sellable agencies have had in common.

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Find Your Tribe: A Lesson About Transparency in Business
Jason Swenk Jason Swenk

Find Your Tribe: A Lesson About Transparency in Business

How important do you think it is to find your 'tribe' in the business world? Have you tried to find such a community? In a marketplace overflowing with options, it often seems many lack a genuine focus on problem-solving and valuable advice.

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FIRING EMPLOYEES SUCKS, but… Not Firing Them is WORSE
Jason Swenk Jason Swenk

FIRING EMPLOYEES SUCKS, but… Not Firing Them is WORSE

Do you want to know the hardest part of building and scaling a digital agency? Running an agency is fraught with challenges that can leave you feeling you’re constantly facing a new storm. Today I’ll talk about a challenge so hard many agency owners avoid it for years, and it is replacing team members who don’t have what it takes to continue growing.

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