What goes on behind the scenes of a successful agency, or any business, should always be fueled by a big reason to run such business in the first place. What I call the WHY. Revenue and profit cannot be the WHY. That’s not why we run a business. Revenue and profit are like petrol…
The great thing about using the first half of the week and the early mornings to get the nuts and bolts of your to-do list done, is that you might just end up on Friday with some time for the stuff that matters, like building and maintaining important relationships. On a beautiful late Friday…
From my book THE AGENCY: BUILD - GROW - REPEAT. How to Build a Remarkable Agency Business That Wins and Keeps Clients. I absolutely love Facebook and Instagram as marketing platforms. I love them as a marketer, I love them as an agency lead and I freaking love them as a user to be…
I recently wrote a post with some golden marketing tips - 26 in total - which came from a post I published on LinkedIn (connect with me if you'd like), asking my network to contribute to a list of marketing tips I started. Contribute they did, and we came up with a great list…
I have built a large chunk of my business and my personal brand using LinkedIn. I love it. If you post good content and build solid relationships, the right way, LinkedIn is a platform on which you can learn, grow, find opportunities and even make friends. I wrote a post about creating content for…
From my book: THE AGENCY: BUILD - GROW - REPEAT. How to build a successful agency business that wins and keeps clients. This is only one of the six parts included in THE GROWTH section of my book. That's the section which addresses winning new business, in it you'll find: THE MARKETINGTHE SELLINGTHE PITCHTHE…
From my book: THE AGENCY: BUILD - GROW - REPEAT. How to build a successful agency business that wins and keeps clients. As I write this, LinkedIn is still the best platform for professional content. LinkedIn has 500 million users, 250 million of which are active monthly users (http://linkedinformed.com/episode207/), 40 percent of whom use…
I had the great opportunity to spend some time with Ben Danise, CEO and Founder of a great digital agency for business brands: Omobono. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NSgLS4A3eI&feature=youtu.be Ben and I talk about starting, building and growing an agency, hiring staff, training them, and keeping them motivated. We touch on marketing, sales and automation and many aspects…
What was born as a personal reflection on how inspiring I found Tyson Fury’s journey in the form of a short social media post, turned out to be an anti-plagiarism campaign. In less than 24 hours. On 3 December 2018 I published this post on Facebook and Linkedin. Hours later on the same day…
What does giving thanks actually mean? What does being truly, deeply grateful do to people? We are so busy living our lives, facing our challenges, that we often forget to stop and be truly powerfully, and deeply grateful for all the things that we do have, for all the things that we take for…