Overview (Video and transcript is available for GYA members with Library Access ($20 dollars). Not a member? Sign up free.) Questions about hiring come up every week in the agency world, especially around hiring remotely or offshore. Is it worth it? How does it work? Is it even legal? If you’ve heard about people / […]
Offshore Hiring Demystified with Noel Andrews from JobRack.eu Read Post »
“The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about.” — Seth Godin Downwards pricing pressure, long close times, and high competition makes selling websites in 2025 difficult. Web agencies need to adjust their strategies and swim with the current and not against
In a saturated market, agencies need to sell solutions, not websites Read Post »
Ready to grow your agency better this year and beyond? Check out this recent “Ask Me Anything” Q&A with agency advisor Karl Sakas (transcript below). Grow Your Agency members had free access to the live AMA with Karl in March 2025, where he answered 20+ questions in the community’s active Slack group. Want early access
“The proposal is the words that come out of your mouth. The document is the contract.” — Blair Enns, “Proposal or Contract” “Consultants and client service-based businesses often make this critical error that almost guarantees they won’t land the client.You send a proposal.” — Bobby Gillespie, Propr Agency “Once you send a proposal, you’ve lost
Proposals need to die a horrible death (and here’s how to kill them) Read Post »
We’ve all heard it: “Hourly pricing is fundamentally flawed. You need to value-price.”
To me this often sounds like, “You’re doing it wrong and I’m smarter than you.” It’s also a bit obnoxious because if you ask me, all pricing is value-based. If something doesn’t have value YOU WOULDN’T PRICE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Value-Based Pricing is Not a Strategy Read Post »
Not that anyone needs reminding but, 2024 was a rough year for agencies and I’m convinced our industry needs to reinvent itself. One of the ways we can do this is by exploring alternative growth strategies. By continuing to explore new strategies we can evolve as a community and offer better service to our clients.
Agency Growth Secrets Read Post »
Dealing with a prospect that does not know they have bad branding is a delicate bridge to cross for a branding agency. Often a business would come to us looking for new packaging or a new website, without realizing how important elevating their logo (as well as assorted brand assets like fonts and colors) would be in order for us to make their project a success.
Your Logo Is Bad: How to Sell a Rebrand to a Reluctant Client Read Post »
I’ve Been Pricing Websites for Over a Decade and It’s Still a Challenge
To be clear, pricing a website is easy. Pricing a website so someone buys it–that’s the hard part.
How to Price a Website Read Post »
Managing payroll can be a headache. My agency, Murmur Creative, worked a few different local payroll services before moving to a cloud-based service. What’s really nice about using a service like Gusto (or Rippling) is that you can put the power to adjust benefits, make time-off requests, get reimbursements, and more in the hands of your employees and it cuts way down on your admin work.
The Best Payroll Service for Agencies Read Post »
Learn, Grow, and Network with Online Marketing Communities Level up your knowldege, find collaborators, freelancers, and employees. These are the best online communities for agency owners, growers, and creatives. I’ve divided up the communities by platform including Slack, Facebook, Discord, and Telegram.Slack Communities for Agencies 1. Online Geniuses • Focus: Marketing, SEO, and digital marketing
Best Online Marketing Communities Read Post »
