UGURUS Hosted by Brent Weaver

The Digital Agency Show | Helping Agency Owners Transform Their Business Mindset to Increase Prices, Work Less, and Grow Profits

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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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UGURUS Hosted by Brent Weaver

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www.ugurus.com

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Mar 31, 2025

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Episodes

E201: How to navigate the new world of PR with Jen Berson 04.05.2021

Jennifer Berson is the President & Founder of Jeneration PR, an award-winning Public Relations & Social Media Marketing firm specializing in promoting beauty, baby, and lifestyle brands. Jen’s retainer clients range from small and mid-sized brands to multi-billion dollar publicly traded companies, and everything in between.

E200: The wisdom of 200 podcasts with Brent Weaver 27.04.2021

Brent Weaver leads the vision for UGURUS and creates educational programs that help agency owners work on their business to drive additional revenues, increase profits, and create freedom in their life. He built his first website at 15, and created his first web-design business at 17. That company grew into a successful, 14-person web agency that was acquired in 2012. Brent has helped thousands of...

E199: Solving e-commerce problems fueled 2020 growth with Nick Butler 20.04.2021

Nick Butler is the founder of Ireland Website Designs, an agency that specializes in e-commerce websites. As the name implies, he’s based in Ireland. Nick was able to leverage some of the challenges of Covid last year, and helped Irish retailers move to selling online. It’s given Nick an amazing opportunity to grow his business, and launch a SaaS app called LearnOn. Nick has been a member of the U...

E198: Why HighLevel is revolutionizing how agencies help small business with Shaun Clark 13.04.2021

Shaun Clark is the co-founder and self-proclaimed nerdy software engineer of HighLevel. He’s on a mission to help every agency in the country be more successful and profitable, and even change the way agencies are operated. His platform currently serves over 9,000 agencies that work with over 170,000 small business owners on the HighLevel platform.

E197: Creating a google analytics competitor with Iris Shoor 07.04.2021

Iris Shoor is the founder and CEO of Oribi—a competitor to Google Analytics. It’s an AI-based analytics tool that is dedicated to making analytics easy. She’s had two successful startups and this is her third company.

E196: Launching courses and changing lives with Janelle Allen 30.03.2021

Janelle Allen helps business owners create and market online courses. As a trained Instructional Designer, she believes that every company is in the education business. She's worked with corporations such as Pearson Education, Potbelly Sandwich Works, Starbucks and Apple to create training and online courses, using principles of adult learning and design. In 2016, she pivoted her mission to help s...

E195: Mental health and entrepreneurship with Ben Marcel 23.03.2021

Ben Marcel is the CEO of Torapath Technologies, consisting of two divisions, an MSP and digital marketing agency, serving the SMB professional services market in Baton Rouge. He is also the franchise location owner of Code Ninjas, teaching future web developers and agency owners how to code by building video games. Ben is a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses graduate and a recent Baton Rouge Bu...

E194: The inside story of selling StudioPress to WP Engine with Brian Gardner 16.03.2021

Brian Gardner is the former partner and Chief Product Officer at Copyblogger Media, and also the founder of StudioPress (acquired by WP Engine). He is a designer, a WordPress expert, and in his free time, you can find him frequenting the local Starbucks or running a nearby trail.

E193: Growing a white-label WordPress team to 50+ with Ronik Patel 09.03.2021

Ronik Patel built the web agency JD Softtech in both Boston and Ahmedabad, India, and found he wanted a way to help other agencies. So he took a team of highly qualified website developers and web designers and launched UnlimitedWP, a white-label WordPress partner for growing agencies. Ronik now leads a team of 50+ to help digital agencies grow.

E192: The forefront of hyper-personalization with Selle Evans 02.03.2021

Selle Evans is the founder and owner of Masterly, a digital marketing agency focused on a personalized marketing experience. She is also a certified sales and marketing coach. She was previously in Inc 5000 for being CEO of one of the fastest-growing companies in America, and in Fortune as Inner City 100 and named one of the brightest CEO's in Houston.

E191: Run your agency in 8 hours per week with Jeff Venn 23.02.2021

Jeff Venn owns Create Studios, a 10-person agency that he runs in eight hours a week, and is a mentor to millennial and Gen Z entrepreneurs. Jeff's taken a forward-thinking, progressive approach on how to build and run his businesses, and how he builds and runs his days.

E190: Leaping from Agency to SaaS to Revolutionize Cash Flow Forecasting with Colin Hewitt 19.02.2021

Colin Hewitt is founder and CEO of Float, a cash flow forecasting and scenario planning SAAS application. Prior to founding Float, he founded the digital agency IfLooksCouldKill and ran it for 10 years before selling it. Float now has over 30 people with offices in Edinburgh and Sydney. They’ve reached a goal of over one million in recurring revenue annually, and now have a goal of ten million.

E189: Navigating unexpected niche opportunities and challenges with David Pisarek 09.02.2021

David‌ Pisarek ‌lives‌ ‌to‌ ‌break‌ ‌things‌ ‌-‌ ‌having‌ ‌worked‌ ‌across‌ ‌non-profit‌ ‌sectors‌ ‌designing,‌ ‌programming,‌ ‌and‌ ‌management‌ ‌for‌ ‌30‌ ‌years,‌ ‌David‌ ‌launched‌ ‌Wow‌ ‌Digital‌ ‌Inc.‌ ‌in‌ ‌2017,‌ ‌with‌ ‌the‌ ‌goal‌ ‌of‌ ‌providing‌ ‌transformative‌ ‌websites,‌ ‌design,‌ ‌and‌ ‌branding‌ ‌for‌ ‌non-profit,‌ ‌NGO’s,‌ ‌and‌ ‌charitable‌ ‌organizations.‌ ‌ ‌ Breaking‌ ‌apart‌...

E188: Billion-dollar lessons for your digital agency with Ben Gabler 03.02.2021

Ben Gabler is the CEO & Founder of Rocket.net. He has spent the majority of his career building and managing various hosting companies/platforms including HostNine, HostGator, GoDaddy, UK2Group, IX Web Hosting, and StackPath. He was employee #10 at HostGator.com and helped build a foundation that would ultimately scale to a $100mm business. He sold his first company in 2010 for 7 figures.

E187 Build a strategic partnership with podcasts with Jake Jorgovan 27.01.2021

Jake Jorgovan is a Serial Entrepreneur, Author, Podcaster and Business Advisor. He is the Founder of Lead Cookie, Content Allies, and Arete Incubator. Jake is also the host of the Working Without Pants Podcast and shares the raw lessons of his entrepreneurial journey at Jake-Jorgovan.com. Jake’s professional focus is to build companies that enable freedom of time and financial profitability. He do...

E186: Level up your leadership skills with Kelly Campbell 19.01.2021

Kelly Campbell is an Agency Transformation Coach based in New York. She's a former owner of a digital agency for 14 years. She helps creative, media, and tech leaders transform life and agency. She has been a keynote speaker at agency growth conferences, and has been featured in The New York Times, Woman Entrepreneur, Forbes, and Medium. She’s a Forbes Business Council member, and has been a consu...

E185 Get profitable using the right Agency Math with Drew McLellan 12.01.2021

Drew McLellan ‌has worked in advertising for over 30 years. He started his own agency, McLellan Marketing Group, in 1995 after a 5-year stint at Y&R. Drew has been published in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Ad Age, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Business Week, and many others. The Wall Street Journal calls him “one of 10 bloggers every entrepreneur should read”. He’s also written several b...

E184: Find your flow and get energized with Trey Stinnett 05.01.2021

Trey Stinnett AKA “The Flow Coach”. He helps small business owners build their ideal teams so they can get past *hard* and live a life they love. Trey has worked with guys like Damon John and Tony Robbins. He currently is living in St. Petersburg, Florida with his wife and 2 daughters.

E183: Surprising Resilience of Programatic Ads in 2020 with Michael Fischer 29.12.2020

Michael Fisher is the director of inbound sales and represents the frontlines of Choozal for any and all prospective clients interested in their programmatic ad-buying services. For 18 years, he’s been focused on B-to-B contract sales and has developed over 5,000 partnerships - helping Choozle land over 2,000 clients. Choozle has been a bit pandemic-proof this year - having hired 16 people and gro...

E182: Scaling a niche agency to a 7-figure exit with Andy Cabasso 23.12.2020

Andy Cabasso is a digital marketing professional, speaker, lawyer, and occasional wedding officiant. He is the co-founder of Postaga, an all-in-one platform for link building and email outreach. Prior to Postaga, he started, grew, and then successfully sold a digital marketing agency for 7-figures.

E181: How to find success with success partners with Laura Sutherly and Barry Alt 15.12.2020

Barry Alt owns Motorhead Digital. He has worked with over 225 clients in his niche - automotive. He’s been published 8+ times, he has been working with some of his clients for over 20 years. Laura Sutherly owns Agtivation, and has worked with over 450 agricultural clients, has over 320 agriculture websites that she’s built, she’s been able to successfully 3x her income while doing 25% of her work....

E180: Vladimir Jones agency celebrates 50 years of success with CEO Meredith Vaughan 08.12.2020

Meredith Vaughan is CEO of world-acclaimed Vladimir Jones agency. She joined Vladimir Jones in 1999. Between 1999 and 2008, when Meredith became their president, she grew agency billings by more than 600% and became CEO in 2014. She continues to ensure that Vladimir Jones brings to life their focus on building meaningful relationships that last. Clients include Tourism Santa Fe, Snowmass Tourism,...

E179: The New Economy digital gold rush with Lee Goff 02.12.2020

Lee Goff is an entrepreneur who grew up in the deep south, based in Mississippi he founded an agency called Get You Wired in 2003 with absolutely nothing. He scaled it and exited that business after growing it to the largest Infusionsoft agency in the world, doing multiple 7-figures. He has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Magazine, and has helped lots of digital agency owners to sc...

E178: The Keys to Scaling to 9-Figures with Jason Swenk 25.11.2020

Jason Swenk has literally written the book about growing an agency from nothing to two, eight-figure agencies with clients like AT&T, Hitachi, Lotus Cars, and eventually selling his agency. We’re going to talk to him about his new agency. If you remember he was on episode #14 here on the Digital Agency Show.

E177: Sell like a sales pro with Phil Gerbyshak 17.11.2020

Phil Gerbyshak is kinda into sales. He's a sales speaker, a sales executive, a sales mentor, a sales podcaster, and a sales coach. Phil has written 5 books, more than 3000 articles(!), and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and many similar publications. He was recognized as one of 25 Sales Leaders to follow by Crunchbase. When he's not in the field selling for Process an...

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