Agency Life Flashback

On this episode we chat with Dan "the Agency Man" De la Cruz about Improving yourself, your agency and how to avoid making common mistakes. Nothing gets Dan more excited than helping agency owners create amazing businesses, and hurts him more than to see agency owners struggle with simple things in their business. Simply because they do not know what the solution is. Dan also runs a comm...

In this solo episode of Agency Life, Clodagh chats all about time management in your agency.  She covers: Definition of Time Management Time Management in Numbers How is time linked to your profitability Professional Services Specifics - This is how we spend time and what it costs Typical Time wasters What can we do to manage it better? Covey’s 4 areas to focus on in Time Management How should we...

In this episode we chat with Abbygail Wood - Founder of The Content Lab. Helping digital agency owners save time, increase profits and engage with customers through innovative content strategy and content writing.  Abbygail shares her career journey with us and interesting insights on content creation. We also chat about: How her business started with her husband The content struggle Why blogging...

In this episode we chat with Sarah McIntyre, the Founder & Chief Strategist at BRIGHT Inbound Marketing in Sydney Australia. Listen to her career growth, advice and learnings over the past few years. We chat about: How Sarah started with HubSpot (Before email)  Her Career & starting BRIGHT Inbound Marketing in 2019  Changes in the industry  Start off with a small project and scale from the...

On this episode of the Agency Life Podcast - Clodagh chatted with Rachel Jacobs from Ecommerce Partnerships who not only takes us through very insightful ways to change things in your agency with your financials, projects, processes, etc but also how to implement the new changes successfully. We learned so much in this episode and sure you will too. Rachel and Clodagh also chats about: Why structu...

Welcome to 2020 and to our brand new Season of Agency Life. In this episode we chat with Gareth Jones who is the CEO of Oxygen Agency in China.  He takes us on his journey of how he started out as being an Entrepreneur from the UK to China. Gareth is the epitome of an entrepreneur and dives deep into his world of agency life. We chat about: Starting out with HubSpot in China Overcoming issues with...

This is the very last episode of Agency Life for season 2 and for 2019! In this Solo episode with Clodagh talks about Personal & Professional Highlights for 2019 and Recommendations for 2020. She talks about: Lowlights Closure of my own agency - really tough - learned a lot that I can share with other agency owners - what does not kill you and all that   Lost friendships through the closure of...

For the finale of our second season of Agency Life Edition we chat with Sean Anderson who is the Co-Founder & CEO at Hoxo Media. This is a not to be missed episode as Sean shares very insightful tips on his successful transition from recruitment agency to Inbound marketing agency. Clodagh has worked with Hoxo Media closely for nearly a year and has seen 100% growth in their revenue. Read all a...

In this episode we chat with Nathan Anibaba from Agency Dealmasters in Birmingham. Nathan loves helping B2B agencies grow, professionalise and sell. We chat about: Early Days of Joining HubSpot  Measuring ROI using HubSpot How to win new business. Starting Agency Dealmasters Launching a sales course  What agencies are doing well and what they are not doing well. “How to proactively target your dre...

In this solo episode Clodagh S. Higgins chats about Why do you need to hire a Digital Marketing Agency and how to choose the best one. With many years of experience working with Agency Owners, 500+ agencies, interviews and writing a book on "A Happy & Health Digital Agency" she shares her valuable insight. Clodagh chats about: Having a good working relationships with your clients Who...

In this episode we chat with Jackie Hermes - CEO at Accelity Agency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Jackie started her entrepreneurial journey with cookies and now owns a successful agency. Apart from being a powerhouse girl boss, she is a mom and also fostered one of her children from foster care in Milwaukee, working toward my pilot’s license and so much more. We chat about: How she started her career...

In this episode we chat with Sunir Shah - CEO at AppBind in Toronto, Canada.  AppBind allows you to manage subscriptions on behalf of clients. Automatically track and securely expense all future charges to your client from a single plane of glass. We chat about: How and why Appbind started. Seeing the solution and making it happen  How Appbind is making it easy for you as an agency to buy and mana...

In this Episode we chat with Frank Cowell - CEO at Digitopia Frank has been in the Agency Life game for almost 16 years and shares so many insights to all the valuable business lessons he learned along the way. We chat about: - From working for a remote agency to getting back into the office and starting his own business. - How he started his agency  - Real-life connections with clients - What Dig...

In this episode we chat with Darren Leishman Co-Founder and Managing Director at Spitfire Inbound in Johannesburg. We Chat About: His Career journey What Spitfire Inbound does and offers  Embracing the flywheel How to manage client & agency relationships How to determine a good fit client for your agency Working with clients who has a growth mindset  The secret of having and holding a client f...

In this episode we chat with Michelle Bourke - Founder and CEO Foresight Digital “Along with 14 years experience in digital and marketing leadership and delivery across corporate, small business and scaleups” We chat about: How she started her agency  Hiring process Digital Marketing Strategies Scaling successfully  Hiring pre-maturely  Having clear job descriptions and KPI’s Having a successful s...

In this episode Clodagh speaks to Trevor Rappleye from CorporateFilming.net and how he fell involve with filming and started his first business at the age of 13. We also chat about: His trials and tips of being a video agency owner. He gives incalculable advice and insight on how you can thrive and scale a video production firm How you can go the extra mile and do what no one else does. Trevor off...

In this episode we chat with Marcel Petitpas - Co-founder & CEO at Parakeeto. Marcel is an Agency Profitability Expert and shares his agency journey with us.  We chat about: Ups and downs and venturing into the entrepreneur world. How Parakeeto started Capacity forecasting - when is the right time to employ someone The 3 most important numbers that companies should track  1. Capacity 2. Utiliz...

In our 22nd episode of Agency Life we chat with a young entrepreneur Faiz Imran who is pioneering the digital world. At a very young age Faiz understood how to sell what people want, and how to make money from it. Listen to the full episode to hear what he reveals about himself. We also chat about: How he started his own business Leveraging business opportunities 10m social media network - 3.5 bil...

In this episode we sit down with Beth Trejo - CEO & Founder of Chatterkick, a social media agency in Sioux City, US.  We chat about: How she started her Agency  Being a female entrepreneur Starting a business and growing a family Growing pains of running an agency Reality of running an agency Bringing on a bad fit client Social Media software  And so much more 

Clodagh was a key speaker at the Digital Agency Expo that took place in New York earlier this month. She spoke about one of her favourite topics “Attract, Engage & Delight Rock Star Employees to your Agency” and it is now available as a podcast!  She covers: A 12 step process on how to attract good talent to your agency. Why your vision and values are important to your website How and why your...

There are 70 business days left in 2019!  Does that scare or excite you? We've created a Digital Agency Re-energiser Blueprint that will help you make the most of 2019 and start off 2020 with a bang.  In this episode Clodagh chats about: Having new ideas for your agency and how you should implement it  The revenue in your pipeline and the sales in your pipeline Evaluating your teams happiness...

With INBOUND 19 only a few days away, Clodagh chats about the talks she's looking forward to attending, she shares her tips and advice on making the most out of the event, key themes that will be covered, how to get in touch with her and so much more. Key themes: - People - Video - Content - AI and Chat - Sales - Services - Integrations and Future Agency Read her blog to make notes of the key...

Welcome to Season 2 of our Agency Life Podcast with Charles McKay from Synx. We loved chatting with Charles and spoke about the following: His background and how he grew his agency to HubSpot Double Diamond status. Charles’s Methodology on Less is More - Going to the core problem and simplifying it.  How outsourcing partners are beneficial to their agency. Why trusting your gut is important as an...

In our 16th episode, Clodagh sits down and chats about something she's very passionate about the "Agency Culture Code".  She explains what culture is, why it's important, and how to implement it. Clodagh also gives tips on her experiences working with people and her 6 key step guide on creating the culture your agency and employees deserve.

In our 15th episode of Agency Life we chatted with Amanda Nielsen from New Breed in Burlington, Vermont about her journey from being an intern to Strategic Partnerships Manager. Interestingly enough, New Breed Owner and CEO Patrick started his career as an intern at New Breed and now owns the agency. We chat about: Conversational marketing How the tools you use can benefit your agency The importan...