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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101: Get creative on your pricing for more profit with Blair Enns 28.05.2019 43:45
Blair Enns is founder and CEO of Win Without Pitching, the sales training organization for creative professionals, and the author of two books: The Win Without Pitching Manifesto (published in 2010) and Pricing Creativity: A guide to Profit Beyond the Billable Hour
100: Solutions-based social success with Kim Barrett 21.05.2019 31:34
Kim Barrett owns Your Social Voice and is an international best-selling author and trainer, and has taught marketing around the world. He helps businesses grow to six- and seven-figures. Kim is also a Clickfunnels 2 Comma Club Award winner and international speaker.
99: Scaling up to a big exit with Alex McClafferty 14.05.2019 42:03
Alex McClafferty coaches founders of SaaS & productized service companies. In 2013, he co-founded WP Curve, a 24/7 WordPress support service. In 2016, WP Curve was acquired by GoDaddy, with Alex staying on to grow the business until 2018. Alex fell into coaching entrepreneurs while he was on the GoDaddy team. He found that the more he helped others, the more doors have opened for him.
98: How to Ace Content Marketing Strategy with Ross Simmonds 08.05.2019 37:58
Ross Simmonds is a digital marketing strategist and entrepreneur who is passionate about technology, remote work, good people, and storytelling. He's the founder of Foundation Marketing, a content marketing agency that combines data and creativity to develop and serve ambitious brands. Foundation Marketing provides content marketing services to organizations all over the world ranging from some of...
97: Turn Your Expertise into Intellectual Property with Max Traylor 30.04.2019 43:53
Max Traylor is an IP product strategist for consultants in the sales and marketing space. We discuss the commoditization of professional services and the growing opportunity for consultants to increase personal income by packaging and selling their knowledge as strategy. Fun-fact—Max is #8th ranked pro paintball player in the world!
96: Become less "mission critical" for more success with Karl Sakas 23.04.2019 39:09
At 35, Karl thought he had it all figured out—-a virtual business with low overhead, great clients on every inhabited continent, and a model where he could do almost all of his client work remotely. That's the dream, right? Yet over Labor Day 2017, that dream turned into a nightmare. Not only did he have appendicitis... his appendix had ruptured. It was the wake up call he needed—he'd made himself...
95: Branding is more than a logo with Stæven Frey 15.01.2019 42:21
Stæven Frey is the founder of Quantum Branding. He creates authentic and memorable brands that grow and sell with the power of branding science. Stæven is a branding master who has helped over 150 major brands and launched over 500 products in the marketplace. He’s worked with Target, Cracker Barrel, Walmart, and Mars Petcare. He recently launched a white label branding service for other digital a...
94: Master systems and scale your business with Nic Peterson 10.01.2019 41:43
Nic Peterson is co-founder and current director of strategic partnerships at Mastery Mode. He specializes in scaling intellectual property to $10 million and above. He is a master of systems, scaling, and partnerships.
93: The art of podcasting and offering a single product with Matt Johnson 27.12.2018 41:38
Matt Johnson is a marketer, entrepreneur, musician, and podcast host and expert. As founder of Pursuing Results, a podcast PR & production agency, Matt runs a worldwide virtual team helping business coaches and consultants break in and dominate new markets through podcasting. Matt’s agency allows him the freedom to run the agency in 3-4 hours a week.
92: The journey from web agency to proposal expert with Kyle Racki 18.12.2018 41:52
Kyle Racki is the co-founder and CEO of Proposify, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Proposify currently serves more than six thousand customers worldwide. He started his first business, a web design company, at age twenty-four and sold it after five years. Kyle has blogged extensively about his journey through the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, and...
91: From lucrative corporate job to purposeful entrepreneurship with Zander Fryer 11.12.2018 44:46
Zander Fryer is a best-selling author, international speaker, and founder of Sh*t You Don’t Learn In College and High Impact Coaching. In his core business he works with clients who are just starting their companies.
90: PR, demystified with Stefanie Jones 05.12.2018 47:33
Stefanie Jones is President and founder of the 20-person PR agency, Feed Media. Her clients include The Ritz-Carlton, Taos Ski Valley, Microsoft SAP, and many others. She is based in Denver. After deciding to leave her corporate job, she had two major clients within 24 hours.
E89: Validate first—for success later—with Marcel Petitpas 27.11.2018 41:17
Marcel Petitpas is a rising talent in the world of keynote speaking. His focus is on helping youth and forward-thinking organizations alike to improve their mindsets and embrace the discomfort that comes with achieving meaningful results. Marcel has worked with Fortune 100 companies, as well as top speakers and coaches. He’s now working on a software tool that he co-founded, called Parakeeto, whic...
88: Come back from burnout with Sean McCabe 20.11.2018 51:03
Sean McCabe is the author of a Overlap: How to start a business while working a full time job—and besides that, he writes more than a million words a year. He has helped tens of thousands of students with his courses on client work, pricing, marketing, and more. By day he runs a business community for creative professionals and hosts the Sean Wes podcast.
87: Rebuild your life with a mindset change with Erin Pheil 13.11.2018 46:09
Erin Pheil holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Digital Media. She founded Followbright, an award-winning, nationally-ranked agency. Erin’s latest venture is MindFix, which helps high performers achieve even more—rapidly and with minimal effort. They boast a 98% success rate in helping clients break through what’s holding them back from true success. We welcome Erin back to the show.
86: The Ideal Agency Business Model with Dan Martell 06.11.2018 42:27
Dan Martell made his first million by the age of 27. He has successfully exited three companies, and is a former advisor to billion-dollar SaaS companies. He’s also an investor in over 40 startups and runs the biggest YouTube channel for Saas entrepreneurs in the world. He built his own agency to $3.5 million starting at age 24.
85: The Formula for Great Storytelling with Sam Robson 30.10.2018 43:11
Sam Robson is the CEO, founder, and Chief Marketing Strategist at SamRobsonMarketing.com. He has been around and involved in the health and fitness industries since 2008. Sam is committed to providing the highest possible level of service, writing, consulting, and marketing expertise to his clients, helping them dramatically increase their revenue from their email marketing program, not only incre...
84: Leveraging Point Pricing for Marketing Retainers with Phil Lockwood 23.10.2018 59:11
Phil has been in the web business for over 17 years. During that time he has founded or led 11 different companies, including a 70-person agency. He currently runs the agency he started, Creation Chamber. He’s a favorite guest on the Digital Agency Show, and we’re welcoming him back to the show to discuss his experiences with creating culture... and with moving to a points-based billing system.
83: The power of mentorship - Q4 memo to UGURUS 17.10.2018 14:10
Brent reads his core values speech as presented to UGURUS employees. The speech tells a story about how asking for help can transform your work, your business, and ultimately yourself.
82: How to keep a strong business partnership with Benjamin Fox 11.10.2018 42:29
Benjamin Fox has been an entrepreneur since he first went door-to-door selling mistletoe as a child. He’s spent most of his adult career in the web hosting industry and has sold quite a few businesses, including one that he grew to 135 people. He is currently exploring some new ideas after selling his last business in June of 2017, including his site, Healthybusinesspartnerships.com. He has run 10...
81: Secrets and Struggles on the Rise with Dave Schiff 18.09.2018 45:27
Dave Schiff started his career at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, where he engineered the Coca-Cola Company’s most successful new product launch in 25 years—Coke Zero—and led Under Armour’s fast break into basketball. At the helm of Made, Schiff has helped Lyft triple rides, transformed Berkshire’s Clayton Homes from a value brand to an arbiter of modern design, re-introduced Under Armour to its hometow...
80: When clients own you with Gary Henderson 14.09.2018 48:58
Gary Henderson is the owner of both Interactivity Digital and DigitalMarketing.org - HubSpot’s 2017 Rookie Agency of the year. They’ve helped generate $250 million+ in revenue, and billed $7.5 million between 2013 and 2017. They’ve also worked with UGURUS to build our online marketing.
79: Running a Transparent, Open Book Agency with Sarah Olivieri 06.09.2018 40:54
Sarah Olivieri is the owner and Nonprofit Digital Strategist at PivotGround. She brings a company’s mission to life with strategic nonprofit consulting. The founder and heart behind PivotGround, Sarah leads her team of digital experts to help human-service nonprofits increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and make the world a better place. It can be lonely in the Exec...
78: From Corporate Worker to Agency Owner with Brandy Lawson 21.08.2018 40:29
Brandy Lawson runs a boutique agency with a mission: to help female change-makers maximize their impact—and affect change faster on a greater scale—by making the right digital decisions. She’s also a UGURUS mentor who has built over 75 web projects. Her zone of genius is connecting business goals with marketing and technology strategies.
77: Growth Hacking Your Agency with Vin Clancy 14.08.2018 38:14
Infamous growth hacker Vin Clancy went from being on social welfare in the UK to launching 2 online magazines that got over 20 million page views in their first two years with zero ad spend. He’s since then won best speaker at SXSW V2V for his growth hacking talk, finished a 100-date world tour, made six figures on his debut growth hacking book, created one of the biggest marketing communities on...
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