Agencies Drinking Beer

How To Use Data To Grow Your Agency

This week on Agencies Drinking Beer Kevin and Kyle interview Ben Wald, founder/CEO, and Gabe Weaver, COO of Spartan Systems, based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Spartan is a full stack agency that works with early to mid-stage ventures. Ben and Gabe talk about how being data driven helps Spartan sell projects profitably, manage client expectations, and advise clients better. As Ben puts it, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Also in the episode you’ll learn that Chattanooga is home of the fastest internet in the US, Kevin hates the word methodology, and how Spartan and Proposify are going to have a GIF-off.

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How A Clear Vision Statement Helped One Agency Improve Profit & Personal Happiness.

​This week on Agencies Drinking Beer, Kevin and Kyle interview Andrés Max, UX consultant and founder of Ideaware, an agency based in San Francisco and Columbia that works with Fortune 500 companies and startups. Andrés talks about how having a clear vision for your company can impact your growth, profit, team, and personal happiness.

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Are Any Of These Misconceptions About Sales Holding You Back?

​This week on Agencies Drinking Beer, Kevin and Kyle interview Chris Spurvey, VP of Business Development at KPMG in St John’s, Newfoundland. Chris also works on a personal passion project to empower people to embrace their inner salesperson. Chris talks about his belief that we are all natural born salespeople, and about the misconceptions people have about selling and the sales process. You’ll also hear about how the Electrolux vacuum salesman who visited Chris’ house when he was a child almost scarred him for life.

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What One Entrepreneur Learned From Starting 22 Companies In 26 Years

This week on Agencies Drinking Beer, Kevin and Kyle interview Bill Faeth, CEO of Inbound Marketing Agents, a certified platinum Hubspot partner based in Nashville, Tennessee. Incredibly, Bill has started 22 businesses over his career (dude is only 42!). He shares some of the lessons he’s learned and how he uses those experiences to help his clients at Inbound Marketing Agents. If you aren’t already intrigued, Bill also played professional golf for many years. Have a listen and find out why he’s earned the nickname ‘Wild Bill’.

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How to Manage Client Expectations and Your Agency’s Reputation

This week on Agency’s Drinking Beer, Kevin and Kyle chat with Ariel Castro, Director of Accounts at White Rabbit, a full service creative agency and venture studio based in Reno, Nevada. Ariel talks about the importance of managing client expectations, especially when building tech products. As anyone in the agency world has experienced, managing client expectations, regardless of the actual outcome of a project, can mean the difference between tears and beers.

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Is Outsourcing the Key to Your Agency's Growth?

This week on Agencies Drinking Beer, Kevin and Kyle interview Paul Higgins, CEO of Think to Act, a Melbourne, Australia based company that helps agencies grow through outsourcing. Paul talks about how the powerful combination of the right people in the right roles along with the right technology can make a big difference to an agency's bottom line. Tune in to see if Kevin and Kyle outsource beer drinking.

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Marketing for Law Firms: How One Agency is Driving Results

This week on Agencies Drinking Beer, Kyle and Kevin interview Allen Rodriguez and Eva Hibnick, co-founders of One400, a law innovation agency specializing in legal marketing services based in Los Angeles. Allen and Eva talk about how legal tech startups are disrupting the centuries old legal industry and how their agency, One400, is teaching the old dogs of law firms new marketing tricks.

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How to Survive your First Year Working with a Big, Demanding Client

This week on Agencies Drinking Beer, Kevin and Kyle interview Jon Buchan, CEO of Render Positive, a digital agency specializing in content marketing based on London, England. Jon talks about how his little agency landed a very big - and challenging - client and how they managed to keep that client longer than any other agency before them. We also learned that while Jon has never been to Canada, he loves Kraft Dinner and poutine, so we’re pretty much friends for life.

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Don't Ignore the Power of Webinars to Close New Business.

This week on Agencies Drinking Beer, Kevin and Kyle interview Zach Johnson, CEO of GameChanger Profits. Zach shares some insights as a conversion optimization expert, talks about how software companies and agencies need to better leverage paid advertising, and how webinars can be the key to happiness. (Bonus: Listen closely to hear the sweet sounds of Santa Barbara songbirds in the background)

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Can Your Agency Adopt A Four-Day Work Week?

This week on Agencies Drinking Beer, Kyle and Kevin interview Felicitas Betzl who runs SERPs Invaders. She explains how she implemented a four day work-week at her remote, multi-lingual agency, and how it's improved employee retention.

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