UGURUS Hosted by Brent Weaver
The Digital Agency Show | Helping Agency Owners Transform Their Business Mindset to Increase Prices, Work Less, and Grow Profits
Helping digital agency owners transform their business mindset so they can increase prices, work less, and grow profits. A weekly podcast where host Brent Weaver chats with today's most successful entrepreneurs running digital agency businesses in the web design, web development, and digital marketing industry. Brent also chats with high-profile entrepreneurs and other smart people that can help listeners grow their digital agency. Each interview deep dives into the emotional details of going on the entrepreneur's journey toward success. Each guest shares behind the scene moments of lessons le...
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Mar 31, 2025
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151: Conquer fear and anxiety, and get ready to do your best work with Mike Parker 12.05.2020 39:08
Mike Parker is the developer of the groundbreaking modality, Liminal Coaching which uses special guided relaxation and other tools and techniques to help problem thoughts, emotions, and desires painlessly dissolve. That frees you up to tap into your mind’s unlimited capacity for self-healing, creative ideation, and natural solution-creation.
150: How to Serve Clients, Increase Retention, and Deliver Amazing Results with Ana Maria Raynes 05.05.2020 37:18
Ana Maria Raynes is an entrepreneur, digital marketing expert, and CEO and Founder of Simplified Impact, a growth marketing agency for B2B companies. She was a co-founder of the Internet fashion startup Smart Is Cool, where she was responsible for social media. While working at Smart Is Cool, she was featured in Glamour Magazine. Ana Maria worked for agencies in New York and Boston areas where she...
149: CEO of FreshBooks on The New Economy and Starting His 400 Person Company in the Basement 29.04.2020 38:59
Mike is the co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks, the world’s #1 cloud accounting software for self-employed professionals. Built in 2003 after he accidentally saved over an invoice, Mike spent 3.5 years growing FreshBooks from his parents’ basement. Since then, over 10 million people have used FreshBooks to save time billing, and collect billions of dollars.
148: How Nathan Hirsch built a successful team of 35 in the Philippines 21.04.2020 39:53
Nathan Hirsch is an entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and eCommerce. Most recently, Nathan co-founded FreeeUp.com in 2015 with an initial $5,000 investment, scaled it to $12M per year in revenue, and was then acquired in 2019. Today, Nathan is a co-founder of OutsourceSchool, a company working to educate entrepreneurs on how to effectively hire and scale with virtual assistants through in-d...
147: How to message during the pandemic with Aaron Wrixon 14.04.2020 45:15
Since the mid-90s, WRIXON founder Aaron Wrixon has been paid for crafting more than 6 million words. That’s the equivalent of writing War and Peace back-to-back 11 times. He has written copy for more than 100 different industries across the English-speaking world.
146: Content, crisis, customization, and the value of simplicity with Michael Reynolds 07.04.2020 35:06
President/CEO of Zephyr. Solving small business website design by helping agencies avoid profitability traps like over-thinking design, paying too much for development, and getting stuck in plug-in hell.
145: How to make your brand more genuinely authentic with Re Perez 31.03.2020 40:20
Re Perez is a seasoned Brand Strategist, International Speaker, and CEO of Branding For The People, a brand transformation agency that helps funded startups, high-growth entrepreneurs, and expanding small businesses around the globe to authentically connect with their audiences. In his new book Your Brand Should Be Gay (Even If You’re Not), Re uses real-life case studies and behind-the-scenes stor...
144: The Power of Ownership Thinking with Tiffany Sauder 24.03.2020 36:30
Tiffany is the CEO of Element Three, a full-service marketing consultancy in Indianapolis. Since 2006, she’s transformed E3 from a small creative shop into one of the fastest-growing marketing consultancies in the Midwest. She’s been named to IBJ’s 40 Under 40 and has won awards like Junior Achievement’s Best and Brightest and Krannert’s Burton Entrepreneurship Award. Under Tiffany’s leadership, t...
E143: The power of illustration in agency messaging with Ingrid Lill 17.03.2020 33:47
Ingrid Lill studied Visual Communication back when layouts still were drawn by hand. She later worked as a graphic designer and art director all over Europe, as well as a graphic recorder drawing live at conferences and seminars. She teaches drawing in her studio and online at Illustrationmadeeasy.com Ingrid recently discovered/invented Visual Coaching and Brand Storyboarding.
E142: How to work your way up to 50+ employees with Keith Scandone 10.03.2020 34:57
Keith Scandone is the Co-Founder and CEO of O3 World—a digital product agency with around 50 employees. He is also a Co-Founder and Co-organizer of the Forge Conference—a UX and product design event, and the business innovation event, 1682 Conference. He’s also on the Philadelphia Global Identity Council and has clients like Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, Sunguard, and La Colombe.
141: Choosing between a side project and your agency with Keith Perhac 03.03.2020 40:32
Keith Perhac is reaching the third (but probably not final) stage in his business. Originally a developer based near Nagoya, Japan, he built a million-dollar technical marketing agency that worked with some of the top digital marketers. Now, he's taken that knowledge and built SegMetrics, one of the top analytics tools created specifically for marketers.
140: An industry insider’s take on how to succeed in social media with Erin Corn 25.02.2020 35:44
Erin Corn is the owner of Shorebird Media, a digital agency founded to help online businesses scale. Erin started her career at Yahoo, later worked on the advertising team at Facebook, spearheaded the rollout of global advertising solutions at Instagram (as employee #40), and worked in digital marketing with Amazon.
139: Become an exceptional leader with Bob Ruffolo 18.02.2020 38:27
Bob Ruffolo is the founder and CEO of IMPACT, a company focused on helping people find success with inbound marketing through education, events, and agency services. They’ve twice been recognized as HubSpot's Partner Agency of the Year. Beyond being driven to grow IMPACT, Bob strives to be at the forefront of the inbound marketing movement and loves helping similar agencies execute their growth.
138: Overcoming dyslexia and shyness for decades of success with Roland Benson 11.02.2020 36:43
Roland Benson founded Benson Design in 1985. He has worked with 1000s of small business owners and entrepreneurs. He found his groove working with smaller companies who didn’t have anyone pursuing them. Now a lot of them are his biggest clients that competitors would love to have. He’s known as the “entrepreneur builder.”
137: Level up your content game with writing guru Abby Wood 04.02.2020 36:40
Abby Wood is the founder of The Content Lab and co-founder of Ireland Website Design. She helps digital agency owners get their time back, keep their customers happy, and increase their profits through innovative content strategy and copywriting services. At 20, she emigrated to Ireland. At 29, she won Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur. Abby is a UACADEMY member.
136: Chatbots for the win with Victor Vento 28.01.2020 32:24
Victor Vento works with high-growth coaches, experts, and consultants to scale through Facebook ads and chatbots. He has worked with clients to achieve results in the ballpark of 3,220% ROI on ad spends. Victor has been rocking chatbots!
135: A new way to look at lead gen and sales with Phil Lockwood 21.01.2020 38:22
Phil has spent the last 23 years helping businesses with their digital sales and marketing efforts, primarily through his agency, Distill. He quickly established a reputation on high-profile engagement with NFL teams, restaurant chains, airlines, and other major brands. The most recent initiative is called The Missing Link. It’s a simple online course and community that teaches small business owne...
134: The alchemy of building extraordinary businesses with Ryan Deiss of Digital Marketer 14.01.2020 48:50
Ryan Deiss is a best-selling author and founder of multiple companies, collectively employing hundreds of people around the globe, and one of the most dynamic speakers on marketing in the US today. He is the founder and CEO of Digital Marketer. Ryan is the creator of the Customer Value Optimization methodology and has introduced and popularized many of the digital selling strategies that modern co...
133: Start your journey to a more inclusive and diverse business with Erica Courdae 07.01.2020 41:27
Erica Courdae an entrepreneur, coach, and consultant. She is dedicated to expanding how multicultural professionals, managers, lawyers, coaches, and creative small business owners interact with the world.
132: Content as a competitive advantage with Steve Pockross 31.12.2019 32:49
Steve Pockross brings more than 20 years of startup, Fortune 500, and nonprofit experience to his role at Verblio, a content creation platform for marketing agencies and businesses. As CEO, he applies leading marketplace and SaaS principles to provide a high-quality, fast and flexible content creation platform.
131: Build an Outstanding Sales Culture with Marcus Murphy 24.12.2019 47:05
Marcus is an entrepreneur and sales expert who cares deeply about the flourishing success of entrepreneurs. Marcus previously worked for Yelp, helping them go from start-up to multi-billion-dollar giant. He also worked at Infusionsoft and is currently sitting on the advisory board of LinkedIn. More importantly, he’s the head of partnerships and business development at Digital Marketer and their ot...
130: How to find clarity and do what you love with Marc Gutman 17.12.2019 38:57
Marc Gutman is a storyteller, entrepreneur, adventurer, and idealist. Marc has held several positions in the story business. He’s served as Story Editor for Oliver Stone’s Illusion Entertainment, and written stories and screenplays for Oliver Stone, Warner Bros., and 20th Century Fox. He has worked on movies with Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx, the Farrelly Bros, Bill Murray, Chr...
129: Focusing, adapting, and the future of the web with Itai Sadan 10.12.2019 39:06
Itai Sadan Sadan is the CEO of Duda, a Silicon Valley-based web design and development platform that specializes in enabling agencies to build better-performing websites and progressive web apps, with a superior design, collaboration, and communication experience. Sadan started the company in 2008 from his garage in Mountain View, CA, with his high school friend, Amir Glatt, who is now CTO.
E128: Find success by niching with Chris Bates 03.12.2019 37:55
Chris Bates is President & Founder of Agora Company. His agency started in traditional marketing for retail and various industries but more recently has moved into strategy and digital services for community banks and healthcare clients. They have 5 FTE’s plus 2 others working remotely and a couple of white label service partners. Chris was a nonprofit administrator for 10 years, then owned a larg...
127: How to merge two digital agencies with Lysa Miller 26.11.2019 35:51
Lysa Miller is a Partner and President at the award-winning digital agency, 3 Media Web in Hudson, MA. She is the founder of the digital marketing agency Ladybugz, which is now a part of 3 Media Web Family. She has been a source on Entrepreneur.com, Fortune.com, Business Insider, CIO, Daily Worth and Business Insider and blogger for MassVacation.com, along with a regular content contributor to var...
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