Julian Leighton started his career as a consultant driving around in an orange bus. The name “Orange Bus” stuck. Julian partnered with Mike Parker to begin building an agency that they would eventually sell. Parker and Leighton grew their agency to over a hundred employees in just ten years. But it wasn’t easy. And it […]
035 Risk and Reward – Growing Orange Bus With Julian Leighton Read Post »
You can’t build a website without some form of content strategy. Rob Mills of GatherContent joins us to talk about “all things content strategy.” Rob worked as head of content at an agency for many years and now works for GatherContent. He’s a writer, blogger, author, and all-around smart guy. Rob does a great job
034 The Importance of Content Strategy – Rob Mills of GatherContent Read Post »
Rachel Zimmer co-founded 5Crowd, a unique agency that uses a vetted network of freelancers to accomplish creative work for fortune 500 companies. Rachel and her co-founder Bram Warshafsky both worked at Johnson & Johnson out of college and founded 5Crowd a few years later (while they were both still in their twenties). Rachel shares how their
033 Remote Work Mastery – Rachel Zimmer of 5Crowd Read Post »
Forbes contributor and agency veteran Will Burns joins us to talk about how agencies are changing and whether the “Agency of Record” model still exists. Will discusses his experience working at big agencies like Weiden & Kennedy, Arnold, and Mullen. He also talks about the agency he founded: Ideasicle. Ideasicle is a unique agency that sources
032 New Agency Models – Will Burns of Ideasicle Read Post »
CODO brilliantly targeted their ideal clients by creating an online resource called The Craft Beer Branding Guide. Not only does this website bring thousands of web visits and new business opportunities weekly, it’s allowed them to publish a print version of the book. Isaac talks about how he and his business partner started CODO just
031 Winning Business With Targeted Content – Isaac Arthur of CODO Read Post »
Mike Arnesen founded UpBuild, a technical marketing agency that offers a winning cocktail of conversion rate optimization, analytics, and SEO. Mike leveraged his prior agency experience and reputation as a thought leader and speaker to build an agency that was almost instantly successful. In this episode, Mike tells how he built up the courage to
030 Question the Defaults: Selling SEO with Mike Arnesen of UpBuild Read Post »
Did we hit our million dollar goal? What trials and tribulations did we face in 2016? What did we learn? What lies ahead? In this episode of the Creative Agency Podcast, we turn the mic our own creative agency, Murmur Creative, a branding and website agency located in rainy Portland, OR. In this episode, Chris
029 Our Story Part 3 – 2016 Year End Review with Murmur Creative Read Post »
Karl Sakas is an Agency Consultant and president of a global consulting firm called Sakas & Company. Karl has advised agencies on 6 continents about operations, strategy, and leadership. He is the author of The In-Demand Marketing Agency and over 200 articles on agency management. In this interview, Karl shares his secret weapon for combating
028 Stop Scope Creep with Karl Sakas of Sakas and Company Read Post »
While virtual reality technology has been around for while, the technology has only recently advanced to the point where both consumers and companies are rapidly exploring the many applications. Immersive VR is a studio that focuses exclusively on producing virtual reality experiences, augmented reality experiences (like Pokemon Go) and 360 video (which most of you have probably
027 The Virtual Reality Agency – Matthew Martin of Immersive VR Read Post »
Pek Pongpaet, of Impekable, joins us to discuss agency growth and UI/UX. Impekable is a silicon valley based creative agency that specializes in UI/UX design and development. Impekable works with big brands like Google, HP, Motorola, Twilio, Accenture, Constant Contact, LegalZoom, FLIR, Firebase, and more. Pek shares with us the dangers of trying to do it
026 UI/UX Design Services – Pek Pongpaet of Impekable Read Post »
