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▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯How He Scaled His Business From $0-180K in 6 Weeks With Vibecoding🎯 Jon Cheney can't write a single line of code, and he's landing $15,000 AI contracts in 5 days using vibe coding. In this episode, Jon breaks down exactly how he went from idea to first paying customer in one weekend: building an entire AI training business for ~$400, fixing a broken Stri...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 Behind Tim Cortinovis' Agentic Team That Runs 98% Of His Business 🎯 Tim Cortinovis hasn't answered his own email in eleven months. His agents handle 98% of everything that hits his inbox — and his clients say the replies are remarkable. In this episode, he hands over the entire system that runs his business: every agent, what it does, and how he built i...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 How Charlie Hills Hit 200K+ LinkedIn Followers in a Year (& the 9 AI Prompts Behind It) 🎯 Get all 9 prompts here: https://www.vendasta.com/content-library/youtube-content-library/ LinkedIn reach is down ~80%, AI content is everywhere, and most agency owners are posting into the void. So how did Charlie Hills go from posts dying at 400 impressions to 200,000...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 She tried to sell her AI agency… and discovered she'd built the WRONG business model. 🎯 Isabella was one of the first agencies on earth licensed to deploy AI voice agents — working 18-hour days, scaling fast, looking successful from the outside. Then she sat down with M&A lawyers to find out what it was all worth… and got the wake-up call that changed e...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 Most AI agencies are broke for one reason: they picked a niche that can't pay them. 🎯 Luke Pierce has built 80+ AI systems with a near-100% adoption rate and he uses a 7-point scorecard to know which niches print $1M+ before he ever sends a single pitch. In this episode, Luke Pierce (founder of Boom Automation) breaks down the exact framework he uses to sco...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 The 5-Minute Response Window That's Killing Your Agency (And How to Win It Back) 🎯 While you're manually checking LinkedIn on Wednesday, your competitors closed the deal on Monday. In this episode, Jeremy breaks down why prospecting in 2026 isn't a volume problem — it's a timing problem — and reveals the exact AI-powered system that's separa...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube For 20 years, the SEO industry sold one promise: rank #1 on Google and the traffic will come. Eli Schwartz is the man telling everyone that promise is dead. He's consulted for Tinder, WordPress, SurveyMonkey, and Mixpanel. He wrote the book on product-led SEO. And in this episode, he doesn't hold back on what AI has actually done to search and why most SEO...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 How Luke Pierce Closed 80+ AI Automation Deals With Local Businesses. 🎯 Luke Pierce, founder of Boom Automations, has closed over 80 AI builds ranging from small projects to six figures and his #1 piece of advice to agency owners is to stop leading with AI entirely. In this episode, Luke breaks down the exact framework he uses to identify ready buyers, run disc...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 She built a $1.2M AI agency without a single sales call, zero paid ads, and no cold outreach. Here's the exact system she used. 🎯 Most agency owners are stuck doing 20 sales calls a week, chasing cold leads, and burning out, only to close maybe 5% of them. Isabella Bedoya did the opposite. No cold emails. No sales team. No paid ads. Just a razor-sharp 4-ste...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 AI automation isn’t about doing everything faster. It’s about deciding what shouldn’t require a human at all. 🎯 In this episode, we sit down with Ashley, AI operator and founder of AI workforce Alliance, who cut her workweek from an unsustainable 80 hours to 25 hours, by systematizing the exact workflows that quietly drain most modern businesses. It’s a real br...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 AI search isn’t broken. It just doesn’t work the way most people think it does. 🎯 In this episode, we sit down with Chris Long — AI search researcher, co-founder of Nectiv, and one of the leading analysts studying how LLMs actually read, search, and cite the web — to unpack why traditional SEO playbooks are quietly failing in the age of AI. This isn’t about bet...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 Most agencies have a client alignment and retention problem 🎯 In this episode, we sit down with Robert Patin — agency advisor and growth strategist who’s helped firms scale by 800%+ — to unpack where real agency growth actually comes from (and why chasing new logos is usually the slowest, riskiest path). Robert has helped agencies fire up to $2M worth of misali...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯Your AI rollout didn’t fail because of the tools. It failed because no one wanted to use them.🎯 In this episode, we sit down with Dajana Achelpohl — former Google and PayPal leader, founder of AI Changemaker, and one of the most trusted voices in human-first AI adoption — to unpack the real reasons AI initiatives stall inside organizations. If your company has:...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯Your Martech stack isn’t broken — your mental model is.🎯 Your Martech stack isn’t broken — your mental model is. In this episode, we sit down with Scott Brinker, Godfather of Martech, editor of Chief Marketing Technologist and VP of Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot, to unpack a reality most marketers miss: The Martech explosion isn’t chaos — it’s the early stage of...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯Are your Google Analytics dashboards lying to you and killing your best marketing?🎯 In this episode, we sit down with Jeff Greenfield, CEO and co-founder of Provolytics, to rethink how we measure marketing in a world where clicks, last-touch, and GA4 can’t see the full picture. If you’re tired of: Google saying one thing, Meta saying another, numbers that never...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯Go from 20% to 80% Agency margins, without hiring a single new person🎯 In this episode, we sit down with Frans Riemersma, Martech legend, co-author of the Martech Landscape, and one of the sharpest thinkers on AI, composability, and the future of services to break down the new AI Agency Model that is quietly redefining how agencies build, deliver, and scale thei...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯What if your business is losing 60% of your deals after the first call?🎯 In this episode, we sit down with Jason Kramer, founder of Cultivize and one of the leading voices on CRM-powered sales systems, to break down why most agencies and businesses bleed pipeline revenue and how AI + CRM automation can rescue lost deals you didn’t even know you had. If your team...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯What if AI started deciding which businesses get discovered?🎯 In this episode, we sit down with Andrew Holland, Director of SEO and one of the world’s leading voices on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), to unpack why traditional SEO is collapsing and how local agencies are uniquely positioned to win in the age of AI search. Learn why keywords are dead, why A...

​​​​▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 Are CEOs ready for the 2026 acceleration🎯 2026 is the year AI stops being optional. It’s the year your competitors’ AI advantage becomes your business problem. In this episode, AI adoption strategist Brett Schklar reveals the new CEO playbook for AI transformation, showing exactly how leaders can set the tone, accelerate efficiency, and prepare their organi...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯Do businesses know how they are being represented by LLMs? 🎯 If LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) are where buyers now begin, your job isn’t to just “rank in Google”. It is to be the #1 brand AI recommends. In this episode, SEO expert Steve Toth from the Notebook Agency, shows exactly how to win with AEO and make AI engines accurately repre...

​​​​▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 The $10M agency shortcut no one talks about 🎯 In this episode, we sit down with Corey Quinn, former CMO of Scorpion and author of Anyone, Not Everyone, to uncover the exact strategies that helped scale Scorpion from $20M to $200M. Corey has advised 100+ agencies on breaking free from the generalist trap and shows how vertical specialization creates a flywhe...

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 The Biggest barrier to getting paid more REVEALED! In this insightful episode, we sit down with Casey Brown, founder of Boost Pricing, who has helped companies generate over $1 billion in profits by mastering pricing strategies. Casey shares actionable tips on how agency owners can: 👉 Break free from fear-based pricing 👉 Handle pricing objections with confiden...

​​​​▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 The 6-Week Work Cycle is Revolutionizing Agency Productivity 🎯 What if you could boost productivity, cut burnout, and give your team more time off—all while improving results? Joe Martin , author of Six-Week Cycles , has helped agencies escape the daily grind and build a work schedule that fuels performance and happiness. His six-week work cycle is turning...

​​​​▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube 🎯 Discover the Secret to Winning More Clients for Your Small Agency 🎯 In this episode, we sit down with Jody Sutter , author of The Small Agency's Guide to Winning New Business , to uncover the secrets behind her proven approach to sales and business development for agencies.  Jody has helped agency owners double their revenue and boost profits in less th...

Join us for a deep dive into the world of sales management with Alan Versteeg , a former engineer turned sales expert and Global Chief Revenue Officer at Growth Matters . Alan shares his unique insights on the importance of mindset, pipeline management, and coaching for sales success. In this episode, you’ll learn how a growth mindset can transform your sales team’s performance, the essential fact...