Asa Goldstein has spent a decade in the agency space as a brand strategist and creative director, facilitating teamwork through both client workshops and managing his own remote team. In his spare time, he’s developed a love for D&D—Dungeons & Dragons. It was only a matter of time before his worlds collided, revealing the opportunity to leverage his popular hobby to achieve real business results by turning everyday teams into fearless, adventuring parties. Now, harnessing his team-building wisdom, agency-specific insights, and a dash of friendly charisma, Asa is helping other agency leaders find the magic in the remote transition.

Bet Hannon is the CEO of Accessicart, an agency dedicated to helping e-commerce and high-traffic websites ensure they are accessible to users with disabilities and meet compliance with standards like the ADA and the European Accessibility Act. Accessicart specializes in testing, consulting, and reporting alongside existing website teams to level up skills and educate regarding compliance.

Manish Dudharejia is the wizard behind E2M. With over 15 years of experience in the digital agency space, he has worked closely with experts in technology, entrepreneurship, and digital marketing. E2M helps digital agencies solve bandwidth problems through strategic white-label services. Ronak Patel built the web agency JD Softtech in both Boston and Ahmedabad, India, and realized he wanted to help other agencies grow. He assembled a team of highly qualified website developers and designers and launched UnlimitedWP, a white-label WordPress partner for growing agencies, which has now been acquired by E2M.

Skip Wilson began his career as a copywriter at 16 and has since become a pioneer in digital media. From shaping CNN’s special projects to leading iHeartMedia’s digital expansion, Skip has spent decades driving innovation in advertising. He is the founder of Draft Media Partners, where he champions innovation in advertising technology. His work has earned him accolades such as Most Intuitive Software Developer and Best Marketing Software Developer. Skip also hosts The Advertising Podcast, empowering marketers across the globe.

Tom is a no-nonsense, straight-talking veteran of the sales and marketing industry with 30 years of experience. He’s the author of The Invisible Sale and is known for his love of stiff drinks, good debates, and his dedication to helping agencies grow strategically by turning conversations into customers.

Richard Jaggs is the founder and managing director of Resolution Design, a creative marketing agency based in the southwest of England. Established in 2007, Resolution Design has grown to specialize in helping small and medium-sized businesses transform their marketing efforts. Richard is also the founder of subzapp, a web-based product designed to help agencies manage and scale client subscriptions.

Andy Crestodina is the Co-founder and CMO of Orbit Media, an award-winning digital agency based in Chicago. With 24 years of experience, Andy has guided over 1,000 businesses. He’s authored "Content Chemistry: The Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing" and has written hundreds of articles on content strategy, SEO, GA for AI, and visitor psychology.

Juliana Marulanda has 19 years of experience across Wall Street, the nonprofit sector, technology startups, and family-owned businesses. She has served over 700 digital agencies with her business, ScaleTime, helping them create scalable systems. She has been featured in Forbes and Entrepreneur. She helps up-level businesses into lean, mean, profitable machines. On average, her team creates ways to free up at least 30 hours per week for her clients so they can successfully run their businesses without the founders.

Zaid Ammari is a leading expert on data-driven digital marketing focusing on analytics and actionable insights from data. He is the founder of PPC Masterminds and helps businesses build and run profitable data-driven digital campaigns.

Jon MacDonald is the founder of The Good, a digital experience optimization firm that has achieved results for some of the largest online brands including Adobe, Nike, Xerox, The Economist, and much more. He's the author of three books on digital journey optimization and a frequent keynote speaker. He has been invited to share his expertise on important stages like Google, and Autodesk. He knows how to get website visitors to take action.

Cameron Herold is the mastermind behind the exponential growth of hundreds of companies. He has been an entrepreneur since his teens, with 14 employees by the time he was 21. By age 35, he had helped build two $100M+ businesses. By 42, he had grown 1-800-GOT-JUNK from $2 million to $106 million in just six years. He has authored four acclaimed books and is a renowned speaker.

Rand is the co-founder and CEO of the audience research software startup Spark Toro, He has dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his writing, videos, speaking, and his book Lost and Founder.

She is the co-founder of Workday Ninja, an operations and growth strategy expert specializing in AI and automation to enhance client efficiency. Her entrepreneurial success includes scaling her first business, a hybrid agency and software company, to eight figures and successfully selling it in 2018. She has been featured in Entrepreneur, HuffPost, and South by Southwest. As a three-time published author, she now advises agencies on optimizing operations through project management tools like Asana, ClickUp, and Monday, and on automating workflows.

For the past two decades, she has been helping people see the future. She's an expert on digital transformation, leadership, customer experience, and the future of work. She is the author of six books, including The New York Times best seller, opened leadership and co-author of the critically acclaimed book, groundswell her latest book is The Best Seller the disruption mindset. She is the founder and senior fellow at altimeter, a disruptive analyst firm acquired in 2015, by profit, she has been named one of most creative people in business by Fast Company, and she's a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Tim Butler is a seasoned marketing professional with more than two decades of experience in sales, marketing, and consulting. He is the founder and CEO of Innovation Visual, a well-regarded marketing consultancy that has assisted clients across various sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, consumer products, finance, and professional services since its inception in 2014. He has earned recognition from Google, which placed Innovation Visual among the top 30 digital agencies.

Christina Lenkowski is a forward-thinking podcast publicist and educator for entrepreneurs, speakers and authors looking to expand their credibility and go from “best-kept secret” to “go-to expert” in their industries through being a guest on other people’s podcasts. In 2019, after 13 years working in the PR realm, Christina discovered what being a guest on podcasts did for her online-based business. Since then she’s dedicated her work to helping other business owners, particularly women, see the same kind of results.

Jonathan Hinshaw is an integral part of the UGURUS business. He’s mentored over 500 members, he owned a 7-figure agency called EBWAY, he’s produced courses with us, and has also had a very successful sales career outside the agency space, selling over $750 million in products in the car and motorsports space. We’re now happy to have him as part of the UGURUS team!

Corey Quinn is the former CMO of Scorpion and now a dedicated agency coach. Corey specializes in guiding agency founders to scale with vertical market specialization. At Scorpion, he played a pivotal role in growing the agency’s revenue 8x in 5 years to a remarkable $150M. Corey is also the author of Anyone, Not Everyone, a comprehensive guide for agency founders looking to move beyond founder-led sales.

David Rodnitzky is the founder of Agentic Shift, a consulting firm that helps marketing agency founders through the mergers and acquisitions process. Prior to Agentic Shift, David founded 3Q Digital. He grew 3Q from one person in a coffee shop to more than 325 people in 11 offices, managing more than $2 billion of online media spend.

Nate Freedman is the CEO of Tech Pro Marketing, a leading marketing agency in the IT services space. He is also the co-founder of Creative IT Agency, the ONLY IT support and cybersecurity company specifically dedicated to helping digital agencies with their IT problems. He is also a UGURUS mentor and longtime member.

Hans Skillrud is the co-founder and VP of Termageddon, an auto-updating website policies solution created for agency owners and their clients. Termageddon has generated over 50,000 website policies for its customers, and their agency partner program has helped agencies around the world make more than $1,000,000 in combined annual recurring.

David C. Baker is an author, speaker, and advisor to entrepreneurial creatives worldwide. He has written five books, including his latest book titled, The Business of Expertise. Baker has advised over 900 firms, was the keynote speaker at conferences in 30 countries, and his work has been discussed in dozens of international publications. The New York Times referred to him as the “expert’s expert”. He is also the co-host of the 2Bobs podcast.

Marama owns Oracle Tree, a digital agency in Australia. She has decades of business experience and has spent extensive time mentoring, including for UGURUS. Her recent best-selling book, Fixing Frankenstein, is available now. In this episode, we discuss how she’s built a successful agency that fits HER lifestyle.

Aaron Wrixon has been shaping words into strategic narratives since the late 90s—and has been paid for writing well over 8 million words. That's the equivalent of more than 13 copies of War and Peace. He runs WRIXON, a copy, content, and digital marketing agency that has helped agencies and their clients grow in more than 120 industries throughout the English-speaking world. He’s also written multiple best-selling books, including co-authoring Get Rich in the Deep End with Brent.

Dan Russell is the founder of Hama, a social network for the personal growth community. As the leader and gatekeeper of Hama, Dan helps organize experiences and content that help community members move forward in their personal growth journeys.

Melanie Spring is a Fairy Guidemother and leader of The Brilliant Rebellion. She works with humans who know they were made for more by giving them the tools to find the answers they already have and guiding them to live their best lives through their careers and businesses.

Natasha Golinsky is a custom web design and development agency owner with 20+ years of experience as an entrepreneur. Natasha is also a “Women of Influence Canada” 2-time nominee and mom of 3 who loves salsa dancing.

Reed Switzer is an entrepreneur and rising product leader in the financial technology space. He left the Wharton School of Business to build Hopscotch, a B2B payments platform focused on helping small businesses succeed. Prior to Hopscotch, Reed served as Director of Operations at a music streaming startup led by the former CFO of Combs Enterprises. This role helped hone his marketing, product, and operational skills; it also added to his firsthand experience managing vendor relationships and helped him to see critical gaps in the B2B payments market.

Manish Dudharejia is the wizard of E2M. He has over 15 years of experience in the Digital Agency space, working closely with lots of different people associated with technology, entrepreneurship, and digital marketing. E2M helps Digital agencies solve bandwidth problems with their strategic white-label services. They have a team of over 180+ vetted experts in WordPress, Shopify, SEO, Copywriting, and more. E2M is currently helping over 150 agencies across the US and other parts of the world to grow and scale their agency business with peace of mind.

Gavin McHale — Gavin’s a success coach at the Early To Rise team. As a former hockey player, he followed all the rules. When he started personal training, he had big aspirations, just like his hockey career. As he tried to build his business, he realized that he was the one holding himself back from success. Through mindset work, Gavin was able to build a more sustainable and higher-paying business and start to see that success come to fruition.

Craig Ballantyne is the author of The Perfect Day Formula and The Perfect Week Formula, and has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., GQ (with a story), Men’s Health, and others. He started as a personal trainer and has evolved into a wildly successful entrepreneur across a myriad of industries. He’s helping people with discipline and productivity, mindset, and many other things.

Joe Marcoux is someone who is a master of sales objections - the “Sales Sensei”. He has a two-step approach that will help you overcome all objections. He is the founder of the S.O.S. Dojo  (the Sales Objection System). Joe and his team of Black Belts help business owners and their teams become confident communicators by creating Buying Conversations.

Tudor Dumitrescu built a direct response agency with a team of 18-people and is currently building a second agency helping digital agency owners walk the same path he did and scale to 7 figures. They focus on helping businesses attract top-tier clients from LinkedIn.

Jack Skeels is a thought leader, researcher, writer, speaker, podcast host, coach, and two-time Inc. 500 entrepreneur. He spent the last decade working with over 200 agencies, consultancies, and project-driven organizations to make them better, faster, and happier. His current business is AgencyAgile.

Jason Swenk is the agency advisor & coach who guides marketing agencies through a proven framework for growing their agency faster. Jason has literally written the book for developing an agency from nothing to two 8-figure agencies. He is one of the most sought advisors to agencies in the world, by showed them an 8-system framework that worked for growing his agency, working with brands like AT&T, Hitachi, and Lotus Cars, and eventually led to selling his agency.

Greg Hickmanis the Founder and CEO of AltAgency™, one of the top training and consulting companies for digital agencies looking to grow and scale by packaging their expertise, installing systems for growth, and leveraging automation to save time and divorce their time from their income. They’ve helped over 600+ agency owners transition from time-for-money services to selling their knowledge and expertise.

Sean Tambagahan is the founder/CEO of Butler Branding - a full-service creative agency in Central California. They also teach the business of branding to creative entrepreneurs who are looking to grow their business.

Russell is a born and bred entrepreneur, having started multiple 7-figure businesses and helping hundreds of other businesses repeat that success. He is now on a mission to simplify the world of marketing. Passionate that entrepreneurs are the mind, heart, and engine of the world, he is driven to improve the world through better business.

Dana DiTomaso is President & Partner at Kick Point and Founder & Lead Instructor at KP Playbook, where she helps people and teams do better marketing. Alongside the team at Kick Point, Dana teaches people and teams how to set goals and track results so that they understand what strategies and tactics bring real value. In addition to speaking at conferences about reporting and analytics, SEO, and brand building, Dana is the weekly technology columnist on CBC Edmonton AM, and she teaches analytics at the University of Alberta.

Bryan McAnulty is the founder of Heights Platform: the all-in-one AI-powered online course and community creation software that empowers thousands of creators in more than 100 countries to build knowledge businesses. Bryan's entrepreneurial journey began in 2009, when he founded Velora, a digital product design studio, developing products and websites used by millions worldwide. Stemming from an early obsession with graphic design programs and Legos, Bryan is a designer, developer, musician, and truly a creator at heart. With a passion for discovery, Bryan has traveled to more than 30 countries and 100+ cities, meeting creators along the way.

Jeff Miller started his Agency out of his parent’s spare bedroom. From there, he landed $3,000 to $10,000 monthly clients with his in-person “wallet out” pitch, was hit by Covid, and then re-grew it to 50 clients using 1 “stupid simple” ad.

Brian Dordevic is the CEO and founder of Alpha Efficiency, a 7-figure web design firm. They have over 500 websites made and counting with a team of 30+ around the world. He offers fresh insights on marketing and design at conversioninsider.com. He just moved to the U.S. within the last 10 years. He’s been crushing it in our UACADEMY Pro program and has just made the jump to the Elite-level program.

Chris Stegner is with Very Big Things, also known as VBT–a leading digital products agency helping companies become impossible to ignore by digitally elevating their brand, experiences, and innovation. VBT designs and develops digital experiences for startups and enterprise clients by fusing cuttng-edge technologies and techniques with an innovative approach to create amazing user experiences. They’re based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with over 70 employees in their offices across two countries.

Vladimer Botsvadze - Ranked as the No. 1 Global Marketing, Social Media, and Retail Thought Leader by Thinkers360 in 2023 with over 130,000 followers across his social media platforms, Vladimer is a world-renowned digital transformation and social media influencer and keynote speaker who initiates change, drives growth, and positions brands as market leaders in their industries.

Galen Low is the co-founder of The Digital Project Manager, a training community hell-bent on sharing knowledge to amplify the value of responsible project management in a digital world. Over the past decade or so, he's worked at boutique agencies and large consultancies to help shape and deliver human-centered digital transformation initiatives in government, healthcare, transit, and retail.

Farhad Khan is is an engineer turned enterpreneur. He builds membership websites for associations and has built some of the largest membership websites in Canada. He came up with the 5 Step Member Journey Model™ which is used by many associations through his workshops. He also has a SaaS platform that he’s developed in this niche. He’s a graduate of the UGURUS Pro program.

Jackson Corey and Lucas DiPietrantonio are our guests today. Lucas is the cofounder and CEO. He currently oversees global strategic initiatives for the agency, and has personally worked with brands like Crate&Barrel, Olipop, Neccesaire, Dwayne Johnson, and more. Jackson is cofounder and Chief Creative Officer. He oversees creative efforts for client leadership and internal ventures.

Benjamin Lander started his career working for Mercedes-Benz headquarters in Germany. He founded an event agency and led it to 100 employees in 5 Years, then handed over the agency to a Managing Director in 2018, who has been successfully running it since. Coming out of the experience of building a company from scratch, he’s been helping others do what he finds most difficult. Today, Benjamin and a small team of consultants help agency owners around the world build high-performing teams, implement efficient processes and utilize state of the art technology for efficient strategy execution.

Jeff Couret is the founder and president of SEOak, which helps digital agencies deliver SEO results to their clients, effortlessly and profitably. He is also an amazing UGURUS mentor and previous guest on this show.

Melissa Morris - as the founder of Agency Authority, a project management and operations consultancy for agency owners, Melissa Morris uses her 10 years agency experience to help business owners maximize their team, increase their productivity, and grow their profits. Firmly committed to breaking the ‘long hours and bad pay’ stigma that plagues the agency world, Melissa and her team help business owners and their team members do the work they love without sacrificing client satisfaction, the bottom line, or their own sanity.

Cahill Camden is the Founder of Press Jockey, an AI-powered press tool that helps businesses get up to 5x more press, with 90% less effort. He’s also the CEO of Digital Vision Media Group, an agency that offers fractional CMO consulting and helps web3 and technology companies optimize for growth.

Alyson Caffrey is an operations strategist and the founder of operations agency. A digital agency show veteran, this is her third chat with Brent on using operations to grow and scale your digital agency. She is the author of the Sabbatical Method: How to Leverage Rest & Grow Your Business. She focuses on helping her clients build scalability AND sustainability through ops. She is a mom to two little boys under three and loves chatting about growing businesses and growing families.

Kaci Ackerman went from dental office manager to being furloughed due to Covid to running a six-figure business in less than two years. Kaci is a Certified Business Manager and ClickUp expert. Kaci has helped over 1000 business owners streamline their business with ClickUp. She saves CEOs 10 hours a week and increases their profit by 25% with a robust and automated ClickUp system. Some fun facts: queen of typos & truth bombs, allergic to alcohol, Netflix binger, sports fan, bike rider, Friends obsessed (she's 100% Monica!).

Jules Dan is the List Master & Profit Extractor from down under. He rode on a Koala just to get here on time. He’s probably the most sarcastic daily email writer out there. And even with concerning talks between his high school teachers & his parents. “We repeat an example 2-3 times with other students…but with Julian…we have to show him TEN!” Somehow, he’s managed to suck out $15 million in sales for his clients using email. Now he’s at war with A.I. to help entrepreneurs sound personable, unique (and profitable) with every prompt.

Kaleb Jae is the owner of Webflow development team, specializing in servicing passionate designers to scale their website fulfillment and deliver premium custom-built websites for their clients, zippy fast. He has built over 150 websites and is an official Webflow partner. He has two of the most highly-rated websites in the Relume showcase.

Before anything else — Valentin Radu is a perseverent experimenter. He has gone through various jobs, companies, and entrepreneurial ventures before identifying customers' real needs and defining the perfect go-to-market strategy. Valentin is the CEO & Founder of Omniconvert. He leverages his industry expertise at Omniconvert—his SaaS company that provides growth solutions to mid-size eCommerce websites looking to become customer-centric. Omniconvert helps eCommerce companies find hidden gems in their data, improve Customer Lifetime Value and Customer Retention & deliver personalized customer experiences across all channels.

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 other web professionals master business skills and has made more than $10mm as an entrepreneur. He published the best-selling book, Get Rich In The Deep End, in 2020. Brent is interviewed by his good friend, fellow entrepreneur Marc Gutman.

Meg Casebolt is the founder of Love At First Search and host of the Social Slowdown podcast. Meg loves to help businesses spend less time trying to hack the algorithms and instead creates SEO content that attracts your ideal audience to your website while helping entrepreneurs cut their dependency on social media for their business visibility.

Matt Walde runs an inbound marketing agency called Brightlark. He focuses on B2B SaaS companies and tech. They’re often challenged when it comes to growing and scaling their businesses. With Inbound marketing solutions from Brightlark, clients predictably attract, engage, and retain more of the right clients. Their clients see more leads, more customers, and a higher lifetime value from their user base. They've been in business over 16 years, and have helped over 400 companies grow online. They're a HubSpot certified agency, and a Google Premier Partner. He’s also a UGURUS Elite member.

Corey Quinn has a 25-year track record of extraordinary success as an entrepreneur, sales leader, and CMO of Scorpion - a digital marketing agency serving SMBs which he helped grow from 20mm to 150mm in recurring revenue in six years. Today he’s helping agencies unlock sales and growth by doing less, not more.

Stephen Woessner - For over 25 years, Stephen has been in the trenches working alongside and consulting with hundreds of clients — teaching them how to plant their flag of authority within the markets they serve, grow their audience, fill their sales pipeline with right-fit prospects, and ultimately, drive revenue. Stephen founded Predictive ROI in 2009 and remains its CEO and owner. He's the host of the Sell with Authority podcast and his marketing insights have been featured in Inc. Magazine, Forbes.com, Entrepreneur.com, The Washington Post, and other media. He’s the bestselling author of five books including his latest entitled, Sell With Authority, which he co-authored with Drew McLellan, CEO of Agency Management Institute.

Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur—an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love. He currently serves as the chairman of the board for the SPJA, and as an advisor to Saleshood. He has many awards, and many fans, and is a leader in this industry.

Blair Enns and David C. Baker are highly successful entrepreneurs and authors, as well as hosts of the podcast, 2 Bobs.

We’re looking back to one of our favorite episodes, featuring Perry Marshall. His 80/20 rule is applicable in so many ways for agency owners. So, how will it help you get better results and grow? – Perry Marshall is one of the most expensive business strategists in the world. He is endorsed in FORBES and INC Magazine and has authored eight books. He completed the $10 million Evolution 2.0 Prize by Harvard and Oxford. He is a published scientist who aims to solve the number one mystery in artificial intelligence and life itself. His reinvention of the Pareto Principle is published in Harvard Business Review. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs used his 80/20 Curve as a productivity tool. We’re chatting about lessons from his book, Memos From The Head Office.

Aaron Carpenter is the founder of Legendary Lion Creative Agency and Mental Health Marketing. In 2011 Aaron founded Legendary Lion Creative Agency to help small businesses grow and succeed. Since then he has worked with hundreds of mental health clinicians and group practices worldwide to help them grow their practice with his trademarked “Private Practice Growth System”. In 2021, Aaron joined the awesome mentor team at UGURUS to provide support for growing agencies worldwide.

Taylor McMaster is the founder of DOT & Company where she and her team help digital marketing agencies keep their clients happy—and keep agency owners (ahem, US) focused on what they do best—with full-service client account management services.

Garrett Mehrguth is the co-founder and CEO of Directive - a search marketing agency for enterprise brands headquartered in Irvine, CA. He is fascinated by the role that search marketing plays in empowering companies and people to connect, and has dedicated the last five years toward that passion. Since its establishment in 2014, he’s led Directive into expansion globally, including London, Latin America, Australia, and Canada.

WRIXON founder Aaron Wrixon has been paid for writing well over 8 million words. That’s the equivalent of 13 copies of War and Peace. Aaron has written for more than 150 different industries across the English-speaking world, and is a Wall Street Journal bestseller. He lives in Canada with his wife and two daughters. Do you have a SaaS company that could use some brilliant copywriting? Hit him up for some help!

Townsend Wardlaw has been a long-time friend and mentor to Brent, and has helped him create and accelerate multiple 7-figure businesses. Townsend is hired by founders to coach them through the $2M to $10M “Death Zone.” He’s seen more than $1B in revenue growth and $500M in exit wealth.

Marc Gutman is the founder and owner of Wild Story. They’re a brand strategy agency and they also do delivery and copywriting. He’s a brand strategy wizard, storytelling sorcerer, and business-building ninja. Today he’s here to spill the beans on his secret weapon: Chat GPT. (By the way - this intro was written by ChatGPT) Jarrod Harmon runs a company in Western Australia. They help business owners to generate leads, inquiries, and most importantly bookings to help them grow their business. Liam Higgins is a small digital agency owner. They serve businesses in Sydney.

Chuck Peters is the father of twins +1, married 15 years, entrepreneur, CEO, and salesman. Chuck 3X’d his agency’s revenue in 2022, breaking through a revenue ceiling that had been taunting him for years, and growing his team to over 20 people in the process. He niched down, scaled up, and is now a 7-figure agency. He’s worked with UGURUS for a couple of years.

Cameron Herold is the mastermind behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth and has earned his reputation as the business growth guru. He has built a dynamic consultancy with clients that include a monarchy and a Big 4 wireless company. The author of 6 books (with another on the way), Cameron is also a top-rated international speaker, having spoken on all 7 continents. The founder of the COO Alliance, the World's Leading Network for Seconds in Command.

Jack Shepler has been a member of UACADEMY for many years. He runs a digital agency called AYOKAY. He grew it from a small, creative, freelance practice into an amazing 7-figure agency that’s working with healthcare, nonprofits, and various other businesses, both national and international.

Jesse Brede is the owner of Lion's Share Digital, a full-service digital agency, Gravitas Recordings, an electronic music label, Gravitas Create, electronic music education, and co-founder of Pivotal Agency artist management and bookings. Lion's Share works with world-class brands, festivals, artists, and creatives. Gravitas has released 190 albums, eps, and compilations. He’s managed CloZee, Beats Antique, Desert Dwellers, Dirtwire, and Bluetech. Jesse is also a UGURUS client.

Abby Wood is the founder of The Content Lab, a white label copywriting and content marketing agency that helps digital agency owners get their time back, keep their customers happy, and increase their profits. She serves over 80 agencies with their copywriting needs, has an amazing team, and is also a mentor for UGURUS. She offers support and guidance that agency owners need to help them grow their business and live the life they want.

Shanice Miller is a business productivity consultant, specializing in project management, who helps clients ranging from small startups to multi-million dollar businesses save hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars. Her passion for identifying and solving inefficiencies began when she sold her first business, an educational consultancy that had been recognized in Forbes and BET. Over the last 10 years, Shanice has used her ability to identify operational inefficiencies and create solutions to not only help save her clients’ businesses (and hairlines), but also to fall in love with them again.

David Hart is a former agency owner and co-founder of the SaaS company, ScreenCloud which someone offered to buy for nearly $200m last year. He is also an investor, advisor, and NED for various early-stage SaaS businesses, and is currently writing a book about the transition from agency to SaaS owner.

Barry Moroney is the founder and CEO of Leadable, an outsourced sales development agency focused on helping SMEs get Enterprise clients. Having previously led sales and marketing teams for a number of international brands, Barry started Leadable to give agencies the opportunity to run highly personalized outbound sales campaigns at scale, without the prohibitive cost associated with building an outbound function.

Mary Ann Pruitt is the founder and owner of Mosaic Media Agency, which has over 40 team members. They offer media buying among other services, and work with budgets from a few thousand dollars to over 100 million.

Jen Buzza is the founder of Web Clio and is the UGURUS lead mentor. She keeps our whole team in line and focused on delivering amazing value to our many members. She’s had a huge impact on thousands of agency owners all over the world through our programs and through her own business and entrepreneurial practice.

Marama Carmichael is the founder of an award-winning marketing and brand agency, Oracle Tree, and she’s also the author of Amazon best-seller, Fixing Frankenstein: How to Take the Monster Out of Running Your Small Business. Oracle Tree helps SMBs to fix their “Frankenstein”, also known as grow and scale. She’s been a mentor with UGURUS since almost the beginning, and has helped around 300 agencies change their business through our program.

Howard Tiersky is a successful entrepreneur who has been named by IDG as one of the 10 Digital Transformation Influencers to Follow, and by Enterprise Management 360° as “One of the Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers That Will Change Your World.” He is also the author of the WSJ bestselling book, Winning Digital Customers. This interview includes the fascinating story of working on Blockbuster’s digital transformation toward the end of their business.

Marc Gutman is the founder of Wildstory, a brand strategy and design studio agency. He’s done a lot of amazing work in the outdoor and adventure space, and recently a lot of B2B tech, including his recent client, Cold Quanta. Marc is a storyteller, entrepreneur, adventurer, and idealist. Marc has held several positions in the story business. He served as Story Editor for Oliver Stone’s Illusion Entertainment and wrote 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, Chris Rock, Mark Whalberg, and Jennifer Aniston. In addition to his time in Hollywood, Marc itched the entrepreneurial scratch by founding a multimillion-dollar tech company in Boulder, Colorado.

Barbara Carneiro is a mentor and senior strategist. She is the founder of Word Revolution, a communication and branding agency for Christian ministries. She’s worked with over 250 clients in her niche. She’s launched a conference and a course in her niche as well. She has a 5-person agency and only works 10-15 hours per week in the business. She also is a UGURUS mentor and has been working with us for many years now. She’s helped over 200 agency owners in our programs.

Amy Hanlon, president of Blue Meta Design, visually showcases the impactful stories of startups through graphic design, partnering with VC's on cutting-edge investments. A small branding agency located in the Mid-South, Blue Meta Design is client-focused, servicing companies that are changing the world and their communities.

Yvonne Heimann is the CEO & founder of AskYvi.com and the leading ClickUp evangelist, as well as a passionate Business Efficiency & Scalability Consultant, Mindset Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, & Speaker.

Colby Flood founded Brighter Click to create an education-first agency that focuses not just on performance but on proactive communication led by education. Brighter Click helps eCommerce companies 2-3x their current Facebook marketing performance. They’re the only agency that leads all communications through education.

Dave Fink thinks the best kept secret in marketing is hiding where you least expect it—your mailbox. Over a 20-year career he’s generated hundreds of millions of dollars in ad revenue, powered viral sensations like Dollar Shave Club, and helped launch celebrity startups for Jessica Simpson, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and Kate Bosworth. Now as founder and CEO of Postie, he’s out to reinvent direct mail marketing for a digital world.

Alex Birkett is a co-founder at Omniscient Digital, a content marketing and SEO agency focused on growing B2B SaaS companies. Previously, he worked on growth and experimentation at HubSpot, Workato, and CXL. Today we’ll get into how Alex was able to grow a 7-figure agency while working full time.

Will Perry has run over $65M+ in paid social and paid search ads. He’s obsessed with direct response marketing and is the owner of 3 different businesses: REASON - A DFY Ad Agency for 6 & 7-figure spenders, Future Kontent - A DFY UGC Content agency for Tiktok Advertisers, and Elite Media Buyers Academy - A DWY coaching program that helps agencies get their media buyers to an elite level.

Gina Michnowicz is CEO and Executive Creative Director of The Craftsman Agency, where she focuses on creating magical moments through custom experiential marketing and immersive storytelling for B2B and B2C brands. With clients including Cisco, Disney, Paramount, and Microsoft, Gina has led projects from concept to delivery of immersive digital experiences, experiential installations, websites, and bespoke advertising campaigns.

Paul Bellows is the President and co-founder of Yellow Pencil. Since 1996, his team has designed and built digital platforms and worked alongside public sector clients to develop the operational maturity and cloud infrastructure that power exceptional experiences and service journeys. Clients include the Cities of Toronto, Edmonton, and Manitoba, as well as the Government of Alberta, and more. Before starting Yellow Pencil, Paul was an award-winning folk-rock singer and songwriter. One of the first musicians to use the Internet for music promotion and sales, he has released four albums that have hit college top-10 lists across North America.

Kaila O’Connor - After a decade-long PR career filled with panic attacks, burnout, and low worth, Kaila stumbled across something that changed her life immediately: affiliate marketing. Kaila quickly became a self-taught pioneer in this new age of Affiliate PR. With a Rolodex of key editor relationships and intuitive decision-making guided by her Human Design chart, Kaila’s proven ability to generate high-revenue media coverage has disrupted the PR industry and its “always on the grind” mentality.

Mickie Kennedy started eReleases over 23 years ago to help small businesses increase their visibility through press release marketing. He lives in the Baltimore area. eReleases represents about a third of businesses or pitches that go on Shark Tank.

Richard Handler is the CEO of alan. Agency, one of the fastest growing B2B Marketing agencies in Europe. He’s the author of Markeing. The Bottom Line and the host of the podcast, B2B Marketing: The Provocative Truth. Richard is passionate about bridging the gap between Sales and Marketing and wants to challenge B2B marketers to think more creatively.

Meredith Kallaher helps online businesses expand their reach and explode their sales with digital ads. Meredith spent the beginning of her career as an internationally based CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers but found herself wanting to use her creativity more in her work life. Creating and managing a successful digital ads strategy has allowed her to use both her expertise in numbers and social media to create big value for small businesses and her own company.

Manish Dudharejia is the founder and president of E2M Solutions, which is the fastest growing digital marketing agency in India that offers the full range of digital marketing services across the globe. He is passionate about technology, marketing, and startups.

Noel Andrews bought JobRack in 2018 after 10 years of building and leading large teams in the corporate tech world. Since then, he has increased revenue by 4,000x and helped businesses all over the world hire more than 1,000 remote team members from Eastern Europe.

Andrew Lee Miller is the founder of AndrewStartups, which is a 15+ year early-stage startup marketing expert that has driven over $400 million in startup exits. He's the founder of GrowthExpertz, an award-winning SF-based startup marketing agency, and the author of The Startup Growth book. He teaches startup teams the growth hacking mindset, zero-dollar growth hacking strategies, and how to NOT fail as an early-stage startup.

Aidan Foster is a UX Designer and Front-End Web Architect. He is the owner of Foster Interactive, which is a web design agency in Toronto, Canada. Aidan describes himself as being obsessive about processes (in a good way) and uses tools and processes to improve the quality of both a website’s design & code, all while maintaining a careful balance between the needs of stakeholders and a site’s end-user audience. He is actively involved in the open-source community, the president of the local non-profit Drupal Toronto organization, and vice president of Drupal North, which hosts Canada’s largest annual Drupal Conference.

Dan Englander is the CEO and Founder of Sales Schema, which is a fractional new business team for marketing agencies and B2B service companies. He is also the host of The Digital Agency Growth Podcast and author of Relationship Sales At Scale and Mastering Account Management. Previously, Dan was the first employee Head of New Business at the animation studio IdeaRocket. He lives in New York and in his spare time he enjoys hurting himself via Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Wes McDowell is a website strategist and very successful YouTuber who helps business owners make the most of their websites for automated client generation.

Rich Brooks is the founder and president of flyte new media, a digital agency in Portland, Maine, that’s been in business for 25 years. He is a nationally recognized speaker on entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and social media. Rich founded The Agents of Change, an annual conference and weekly podcast that focuses on search, social, and mobile marketing. He is the author of The Lead Machine: The Small Business Guide to Digital Marketing, a popular and well-received book that helps entrepreneurs and marketers reach more of their ideal customers online. He appears regularly as the “tech guru” on the evening news show, 207, which airs on the NBC affiliates in Maine. He has also appeared in Inc. Magazine, The Huffington Post, FastCompany.com, CNN.com, the Social Media Examiner, and many other news sources for stories on digital marketing.

Jon Morris is the founder and CEO of Ramsay Innovations, a Finance Management and Strategic Planning company that is focused on helping marketing communication firms grow faster. Previous to starting Ramsay Innovations, Morris was the founder and CEO of Rise Interactive. Under Morris’ leadership, Rise received recognition for excellence in client service, innovative marketing campaigns, and commitment to culture, including acknowledgment from Inc. 500|5000 Fastest Growing Companies (nine-time winner), Ad Age (Best Places to Work in Advertising), Fortune Magazine, Forrester, and more. Morris has been personally recognized as a leader in technology and innovation on the Techweek100 list and Crain’s Chicago Tech 50 list. As a leader in the digital marketing community, Morris has mentored several entrepreneurs, with a significant focus on the University of Chicago’s New Venture Challenge, a renowned business plan competition where Rise itself got its start. Morris has shared his expertise as a guest speaker, presenting on main stages and at workshops and webinars for organizations such as Search Marketing Expo, Search Engine Strategies, American Marketing Association, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Forrester Research, Online Marketing Summit, iStrategy, and Vistage. Morris earned an MBA with high honors, graduating first in his class from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor's degree from Kenyon College.

Alkimie was founded in 2020 by Gili Wolf, Vanessa Louis-Woolley, Georgina Miller, and Diane Pauley. Alkimie is a strategy-first brand and marketing collective that includes brand strategy, art direction, marketing strategy, and content strategy services. They believe that people connect with brands that are connected to themselves. Their vision is that every business operates from a place of self-awareness and self-regard as the catalyst for their decisions, actions, and words.

Naomi Tepper and Tre’ Grisby are the co-hosts and co-creators of the podcast Hop to It: Our Digital Nomad Journey. They are married empty-nesters who are slow-traveling through the Southwestern United States in search of home. Tre’ is a software developer and tech support dude; he is also a Shaman, light energy worker, and yoga hobbyist. Naomi, who also goes by Na (nay), is a creative solopreneur, author, and alchemist.

Tom Hunt starts and grows B2B businesses. Before this, he studied Chemistry at Imperial College London and followed the herd to a management consulting job in London. Tom got bored, built a marketplace connecting online entrepreneurs and virtual assistants from scratch, and sold 90% of it– all while traveling the world. He now starts and grows the world's most profitable podcasts for B2B businesses at Fame and builds the podcast host for high-growth businesses at bCast.

Jabez Lebret is a best-selling author, a Forbes journalist, and a successful entrepreneur who sold his award-winning agency in 2018 to open a high school for underserved youth. Today, he is partnering on a project to help female entrepreneurs take their companies from $200K to $1M in revenue. He has delivered over 1,200 presentations, written four books, launched multiple million-dollar companies, and he is an advisor to several Fortune 500 companies.

Jay Jay is the founder of Ace of Spades Agency, which is a PR and social media agency that helps high-level CEOs, entrepreneurs, businesses, coaches, and personal brands become known as credible experts in their industry. With clients in 12 different countries, Jay and his team assist businesses and individuals get seen as the number one in their space, by placing them in tier-1 publications, high-end podcasts, morning TV shows, and getting them verified on Instagram. As an expert in content creation, social media marketing, building brands, and sourcing PR opportunities, Jay has grown his own social media following to over a million. He has over 57 million views on YouTube and is verified on Facebook and Instagram. He coaches others to do the same and achieve similar results. Jay has also spoken in over 30 countries.

Andrea Fryrear is the CEO and Co-founder of AgileSherpas, a bootstrapped multi-million dollar business that teaches marketers how to apply the Agile methodology to their unique profession. She is a leading authority on optimizing customer acquisition and retention processes. Andrea is also the author of two books on organizational agility and is an international speaker and trainer.

Jennifer Spivak is the CEO of The AdGirls Agency, which is an all-female Facebook Ads agency. Jennifer has helped hundreds of businesses generate millions of dollars on Facebook and Instagram, with many seeing a 1000%+ return on their ad campaigns. Her all-female team enjoys crunching data, helping women-owned businesses make tons of money, and breaking the rules when it comes to Facebook ads. Jennifer has been featured in Forbes & The New York Times, listed as a Top Facebook Ads Manager to Watch in 2019, and is an adjunct professor of digital marketing at The City College of New York.

Phil Case is the President of Max Connect Digital where he oversees agency growth, client relationship, strategy, and brand. Previously, he was the Managing Partner of Fluid Advertising where he grew the agency from four to 35+ full-time employees in a 6-year period. In 2018, Phil helped launch The Utah Outdoor Association to support the outdoor industry in Utah. He has worked in just about every industry and with hundreds of brands, and even took an international biotech company public on the NASDAQ in 2020. Phil is an outdoor and adventure travel enthusiast, passionate mountain biker, and backcountry skier.

Matt Seltzer is the owner of S2 Research, which is a market research and strategy partner for ad agencies and marketing teams. Matt spent four years as the Senior Research Analyst for the What Happens in Vegas campaign. Today, he partners with agencies to deliver surveys, focus groups, and overall insights when their clients need it.

Lindsay Shearer runs a large Pinterest ads/SEO/traffic generation community and is the CEO of two digital marketing agencies called Pins 4 Profit and BrandRanx Media. She is a private equity investor in e-com brands, a software developer, a frequent speaker, and a host of masterminds all around the world. Lindsay has been featured in/on Entrepreneur, The Washington Post, Fox News, Social Media Explorer, Market Watch, just to name a few.

Emily Cohen is a brutally honest consultant who has worked with many leading design firms across the country. She speaks on stages all across the world (about 12-15 times per year) to audiences of creative and agency professionals. Through these experiences, she has developed, tested, and curated key business insights and strategies that have helped firms become more effective, profitable, and more fun to work at. Cohen provides strategic business planning, confidential best practices, insights, advice to staff, process management strategies, culture, and more.

Will Bagnall is the CEO and founder of SUSO Digital, a mentor on tech incubator programs in London, and a digital marketing speaker for a number of UK universities. SUSO Digital is a fast-growing UK specialist technical SEO agency that helps fellow digital marketing agencies specialize in high-tier white-label, outsource SEO, solve the problem of internal hiring, handle resource limitations, and explore new revenue channels by adding SEO service capabilities. In just five years, the SUSO Digital team has grown to 35 employees across Europe, working on over 100 active campaigns.

Damien Zamora is the CEO of GoMobile Solutions, which was founded in 2010. He helps business owners and marketing agencies scale their businesses with done-for-you mobile app development. When he isn’t reinventing and repurposing new technologies, he works with young and hopeful entrepreneurs and is also a coach and speaker. Zamora has been an entrepreneur for 30 years and is an internet 1.0 pioneer. He has started and developed several million-dollar enterprises.

Cathy Olson has been beautifying brands and designing experiences of digital delight for over 22 years, working with multi-billion dollar brands like Costco, Best Buy, and Disney. She is the co-founder of the wildly popular brand Funnel Gorgeous®, alongside Julie Stoian. Together they teach (and equip) Creative Entrepreneurs and Digital Marketers. They offer a Master Marketer Certification called FG Society that focuses on Offer Strategy, Compelling Copywriting, and Gorgeous Design – creating triple-threat marketers. As Cathy’s love for gorgeous funnels grew, so did her dreams for a better way to make them. In the Fall of 2020, she and Julie founded the first and only Female-Run funnel builder software, FG Funnels. Her heart’s mission: to breathe new life, integrity, and beauty into the world of marketing, one gorgeous funnel at a time.

Geoffrey Colon is a compelling voice in marketing at the intersection of marketing, tech, media, and popular culture. He has been quoted in dozens of media outlets and has appeared on numerous television programs to share his expertise. Geoffrey works as the Head of Brand Studio for Microsoft Advertising. He is a published author and was the creator, producer, and host of the DISRUPTIVE FM podcast. Geoffrey was also the creator and co-executive producer of the web video series The Download for two seasons.

David C. Baker is an author, speaker, and advisor to entrepreneurial creatives worldwide. He has written five books, including his latest book titled The Business of Expertise. Baker has advised over 900 firms, was the keynote speaker at conferences in 30 countries, and his work has been discussed in dozens of international publications. The New York Times referred to him as the “expert’s expert”. He is also the co-host of the 2Bobs podcast.

Craig and Scott have led more than 150 workshops teaching organizations that help people with disabilities how to find and keep more of the staff they need. After a recent workshop series, an HR Recruiter reported that she had gone from 20 open positions to only 6! Together they co-authored the new book, "Heart, Hope & Honesty – How I/DD Providers Can Attract & Retain Amazing Direct Support Professionals & Thrive Despite the DSP Crisis." Craig and Scott are father and son, as well as business partners with a personal connection to the work they do.

Daniel DiPiazza is a martial artist, bestselling author, and serial entrepreneur with success in the media, marketing, and ecommerce industries. Lately, he’s been getting into web3.0, crypto, psychology, history, science, jiu-jitsu, and psychedelics. (This episode is not intended for investment advice - please seek a professional.)

David Rendall, of The Freak Factor, has spoken to audiences on every inhabited continent. His clients include the US Air Force, Australian Government, Microsoft, AT&T, United Health Group, Fannie Mae, and State Farm. He has written four books - The Four Factors of Effective Leadership, The Freak Factor, The Freak Factor for Kids, and Pink Goldfish. David was recently a keynote speaker at our USUMMIT Virtual event.

Sarah Moe started her career in Sleep Medicine in 2006 and is the Founder and CEO of Sleep Health Specialists, which provides sleep education to local businesses and corporations. She was also an Adjunct Professor in the Polysomnography (Sleep) Program at Minneapolis College. Sarah sat on the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Sleep Society and the Educational Products Committee for the American Association of Sleep Technologists. For her role in Sleep Education in our workforce, Sarah has been named to the Minnesota Business Magazine's "35 Under 35" 2016, "Most Likely to Succeed- Healthcare Division" finalist in 2017, "Women Who Lead" 2018, the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal's "Women In Business" 2019, and the TeamWomen's "WaveMaker Award- Uncharted Territory" finalist, 2019.

Brooklyn-based Douglas Davis enjoys being one of the variety of voices needed in front of and behind the concept. As principal of The Davis Group, Douglas offers strategic solutions to client branding, design, and communications problems. As author of Creative Strategy and the Business of Design, Douglas regularly contributes to the design discourse in The European Business Review, RGD Design Thinkers, and the OneClub Educators Summit. Douglas is an Emmy Award-winning strategist who serves on the advisory boards of the Poster House Museum CMYK council, The Type Director’s Club, The University of Oregon’s Masters in Advertising and Brand Responsibility, and City College’s Masters in Branding and Integrated Communications.

Alyson Caffrey is an SOP and process and operations expert. Her company has created over 1,000 SOPs for agencies and other types of businesses just in 2021 alone. She has a 13-person team at Operations Agency and many people call her The Wolf (a nod to Pulp Fiction). She works with dozens of agencies and helps them build out SOPs and operations processes for their business. We’ve been fortunate to have her as a guest expert/mentor in our UCACDEMY community.

Aaron Carpenter runs the agency Legendary Lion, which he founded in 2011, and is also a UGURUS mentor. He has over 300 clients in his niche, has completed over 500 projects, and also created a directory website that sold for nearly 7 figures.

Cody Getchell is the man behind the high-ticket coaching program GSD and is a senior partner in L.A’s top-rated marketing agency Custom Creatives. His mission is to help entrepreneurs get out of their own way by moving from an unsustainable “do it all“ mentality to building a rockstar team that gives them the ability to create an assembly line in their business to create growth and freedom.

Bennie Fowler offers executive and leadership coaching. He played in the NFL for eight years and was part of Super Bowl 50 for the Denver Broncos. He had a chance to play with greats such as Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Tom Brady, and Drew Brees.

Jan Koch is the owner of Virtual Summit Mastery and a passionate virtual summit host, connecting with people and building an audience globally. He has been organizing summits since 2015 and enjoys connecting with his attendees through live video streams. Jan's mission is to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses through the power of virtual events.

For the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future. She’s an expert on digital transformation, leadership, customer experience, and the future of work. She’s the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership, and co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Groundswell. Her latest book is the bestseller The Disruption Mindset. She is the Founder and Senior Fellow at Altimeter, a disruptive analyst firm acquired in 2015 by Prophet. Named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company, Charlene is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and lives in San Francisco.

Since the mid-90s, WRIXON founder Aaron Wrixon has been paid for writing well over 7 million words. Aaron has written for more than 120 different industries across the English-speaking world, with a focus on writing for agencies and their clients. He lives in Canada, surrounded by women—his wife, his two daughters, two dogs, and a bearded dragon. He recently became a Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Martha Krejci is a high-vibin’ mama, wife, business coach + (no fluff!) growth strategist. Featured in Oprah Magazine, Fast Company, Cosmopolitan, Shape, and Huffington Post among other places. She teaches openly through courses, group coaching, and other tried-and-true resources. From finding your passion to building a business that works, she teaches it all to anyone that's ready. Moms (and dads!), get ready. You’re gonna feel this...

Rand Fishkin is cofounder and CEO of audience research software startup, SparkToro. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his writing, videos, speaking, and his book, Lost and Founder.

Phil Lockwood is the Founder and Chief Visionary of Distill. His focus is on developing and evolving simple, high-returning web marketing efforts that help his clients implement and grow. He’s a regular guest and speaker on numerous podcasts and conferences, like Bloomberg, Businessweek, ABC World News Tonight, USA Today, Wired Business 2.0, and many others. He has also recently released a successful Youtube channel, called Always Be Changing, where he’s literally traveling the world, still running his agency, and sharing his experiences with this audience.

Keith Roberts is an author, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker. He created the OAK Journal to fulfill his personal WHY - Through kindness and generosity to help others see who they could become. Keith regularly speaks to entrepreneurs, start-ups, and corporate clients to empower them with the tools to achieve any goals. You can be the best version of yourself by hanging out with us today on the podcast!

Clifford Almeida is the  CEO of Hire A Whiz, a web agency that has a portfolio ranging from small businesses and nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies. He is also the founder of MyWebAudit.com, a SaaS that helps web professionals and digital marketers generate and close more deals using actionable website audits. He is also a graduate of our 10k Bootcamp program!

Jen Buzza is the co-founder and web advisor for WebClio, a digital agency based in the Los Angeles area. She’s also Visionary for a company called WorkSitter, she’s a business mentor at Hub 101, and (most importantly!) the Lead Mentor for UGURUS. She has mentored, coached, and trained over 1,000 agencies within our Pro, Elite, and Bootcamp programs.

Jimmy Hays Nelson, aka Coach Jimmy, has been a high-performance business coach for over a decade. Jimmy's unique skill is helping his clients to seamlessly connect their personal stories to their product or service, creating a strong "know, like, and trust factor." He helps get more leads and more clients, as well as connect more deeply with clients.

Susie Carder started out as a low-paid hairdresser trying to support her two little girls. So she decided to do whatever it took to create her own business. After much blood, sweat, and tears she went on to create, not one, but two $10 Million companies! Her core genius is the ability to simplify complicated issues by creating simple proven systems that are guaranteed to create dramatic growth. She has helped over 100,000 entrepreneurs.

Rahul Alim is the founder of Custom Creatives, a Digital Marketing Agency that connects companies with their dream clients. He has helped brands such as Realtor.com, Geico, Advertise.com, Reach Local, and 1,000’s of local businesses. With 16+ years of experience running his agency, he now coaches agency owners to grow 6-figure businesses with his proven G$D Sales Method.

Dino Watt is the Founder and CEO of Our Ripple Effect, Inc. and one of the most exciting business relationship trainers in the world. He is an award-winning mentor and author. He has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX News, and TEDx. As a high-performance practice advisor, Dino has frequently been referred to as “The Tony Robbins of Private Practices”.

Frankie Fihn is the author of the book Beyond The Agency Box. He has been in digital marketing since 2007. He is an entrepreneur, shaman, speaker, author, and world traveler. He has been featured with the world’s number one marketer, Jay Abraham. He has also written for several magazines, he has been featured in numerous podcasts and articles, and he has spoken on stages all across the world.

David Wood - after life as a consulting actuary to Fortune 100 companies, David built the world’s largest coaching business, becoming #1 ranked on Google for life coaching. He discovered that “shiny object syndrome” is an epidemic among high-performers, he coaches rockstar business owners to double their revenue, achieve more in less time, and be extraordinary entrepreneurs, partners, parents, and leaders.

Elliott Bayev and Daniel Moskowitz take a combined 50 years experience in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and building 8-figure sales teams and bottle it up inside a powerful new International Bestselling book: Sales Jiu-Jitsu – The Secret Black Belt System for Champion Leaders.

Perry Marshall is one of the most expensive business strategists in the world. He is endorsed in FORBES and INC Magazine and has authored eight books. He completed the $10 million Evolution 2.0 Prize by Harvard and Oxford. He is a published scientist who aims to solve the number one mystery in artificial intelligence and life itself. His reinvention of the Pareto Principle is published in Harvard Business Review. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs used his 80/20 Curve as a productivity tool. We’re chatting about his new book - Memos From The Head Office.

Marisa Murgatroyd started her career as an artist who was told by her father that she had no marketable skills. She figured out how to build a multi-million dollar business anyway and has shown over 10,000 students how to succeed online — many of whom also felt like they had “no marketable skills”. As the Founder of Live Your Message & Creator of the Experience Product Masterclass, she's on a mission to reinvent online education around the world so results and engagement become the norm and not the exception. Marisa has personally sold over $23M in online courses and programs that have student success rates 10-30 times higher than the industry standard. Marisa has been featured in: Traffic & Conversion Summit, Mindvalley Momentum, Evercoach Summit, LaunchCon, and the Conscious Business Network.

Debra Scarpa, president, and Ashley Blaesing, operations manager, of Friday Marketing work in the niche of Home Designer Marketing. They help home design professionals such as interior designers transform their businesses and brands to attract their dream clients, sell their projects for more, stay current online, and get their time back with automated systems. Between them, they have over 40 years of award-winning design and marketing experience and absolutely love working with people who value design just as much as they do. Debra and Ashley have been UGURUS members for several years.

Taylor Benterud is COO & founder of BetterAMS. They specialize in Amazon advertising and help brands on Amazon doing between 7-10 figures grow faster through better ad management. They started in 2016 and exploded in growth going from about 300k/ year in 2019 to doing 1mm in 2020. They’re pacing to do 1.5 mm this year with >25% margins.

Imogen Allen Is a Website Strategist and the creator of The WIF®, She is on a quest to help stop projects waiting on content for all web agencies once and for all, and passionate about helping others find their website identity and championing websites that speak to humans in a language they understand.

Nicole Osborne was just voted one of 2021’s Top 30 Marketers that Inspire by MarketEd.Live, along with the likes of Rand Fishkin, Seth Godin, and Andrew Davis. A marketing coach for digital agency owners, she’s based in London but is originally from Eastern Germany. She runs a program called Wunderstars.

Maggie Patterson is the editorial director at Scoop Studios and the creator of Small Business Boss. With two decades of experience, Maggie has spent her entire career in client services and has been a successful entrepreneur for 15 years. Today, she works with freelancers and agency owners to help them implement smart strategies for business growth. She has also worked with clients like Microsoft and HP. Her work has been featured in Entrepreneur.com, Fast Company and Virgin.com.

James Chapman is the Founder and CEO of Plain Sight, the best way to make connections wherever you go both online and in-person. He has dedicated the bulk of his career to creating space for ambitious people to thrive and come together. In 2015, he launched an evening workspace for side hustlers to collaborate which led to the idea of Plain Sight. In 2017, he started and ran Detroit Demo Day, which has lead to over $4mm in funding throughout the city of Detroit. The majority have been minority- and women-owned businesses.

Manish Dudharejia is the founder and CEO of E2M. He’s a techno-entrepreneur and techno-marketer professional. He has over 10 years of experience in this industry, working closely with lots of different people associated with technology, entrepreneurship, and digital marketing. E2M is a white-label web design and marketing shop based in India and San Diego. They have a team of over 100 and over 150 active clients. Manish is responsible for their overall company operations, sustainable strategic growth, team mentoring and retention, and so much more. E2M is much loved by many UGURUS members.

Piccia Neri is a UX expert and global speaker, helping businesses and agencies win on the web by putting users at the center. She loves educating designers & developers in the best UX & UI practices via workshops, courses, and talks in 3 languages. Piccia is also a UX project lead and a Maverick at Cloudways.

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.

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 other web professionals master business skills and has made more than $10mm as an entrepreneur. He published the best-selling book, Get Rich In The Deep End, in 2020. Brent is interviewed by his good friend, fellow entrepreneur Marc Gutman.

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 UGURUS Pro community for the last three years. He’s also a UGURUS Bootcamp grad.

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.

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.

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 small business owners create profitable courses that change lives. Janelle has helped UGURUS build courses as well.

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 Business Report Forty under 40 honoree.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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 does that by being an active entrepreneur in the trenches and through training others on entrepreneurship, leadership, sales & marketing.

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 consultant for Facebook and NASA.

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 books and helped thousands of agency owners grow their businesses.

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.

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 grown by 35%.

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.

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. Both Barry and Laura have been long-time clients of UGURUS and find success working together as “success partners”.

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, Nebraska Tourism, Otter Products, American Indian College Fund, and Black Hills Energy.

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 scale their business.

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.

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 and Results' clients, he spends time with his family in Clermont, Florida.

Jimmy Rose is the co-founder of Content Snare - a software platform that helps agencies collect content & files from clients. In a previous life, he was an automation engineer. Since he doesn't get to do that anymore, he's replaced it with teaching business owners about workflow automation. This helps them regain their lives, be more productive, and get more done in less time.

Andrew Dymski is a process and project management guru. He gives digital agency teams the structure they need to grow quickly and sell with confidence. Systems and processes are needed in order to scale an agency business, but in the chaos of agency life, it's hard to know where to start. What began as a fun side project 8 years ago has turned into helping 1,600+ agency teams around the world. Andrew has published over 200 episodes on his podcast, Agency Journey, and has over 1,000 members on his Facebook group. He has also been a speaker at Inbound.

Jeremy Harbour is a mergers and acquisitions expert. He started his first company at 14, left school at 15, crashed it by age 19, and has since bought and sold over 100 businesses. He has helped in the acquisition and merger of over 200 businesses, has helped two companies go public, and has done over 40 reverse mergers. He now runs the Harbour Club - a community for entrepreneurs, as well as The Unity Group - a private equity firm.

For the past two decades, John Weiss has been an entrepreneur, investor, founder, and designer. His work is guided by purpose, passion, simplicity, beauty, innovation, and surprise. As co-founder of Human Design and MTHRship, he strives to move the human race by creating experiences that help individuals be human to the fullest, create lasting relationships, and shape the future. Nike, Twitter, and Google are some of his clients.

Angie Noll is the founder of Reconciled Solutions. They help high-achieving small businesses advance toward profit acceleration, operational efficiency, streamlined technology, and work/life sustainability. She is an active Profit First coach and helps businesses in the trenches implement these methodologies. She’s worked with over 75 clients in the professional services space and has helped the business owner increase their pay by between 35 and 75%.

Gary Kagan is the Regional Director of Partner Sales at Yelp. He has personal experience in selling directly to SMB, Mid-Market, and Enterprise businesses. As the first rep on the ground, he helped build the Channel sales segment from $0 to what is now a meaningful revenue line for Yelp. He now oversees teams and works with product, customer success, and operations to assist partners in successfully selling and optimizing Yelp's products.

Jeremy Jackson’s passion lies in pairing excellent design and technology to create beautifully-crafted digital products. He has worked in product development, UX, graphic design, and development for the web since the mid-’90s and was Director of Technology at the innovative international digital product and design studio, Method. In 2012, he founded Shift Lab, an NYC-based agency of design-minded technologists hell-bent on creating truly collaborative and iterative working relationships between designers and technologists. His clients have included Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.

Jonathan Maxim is a Fortune 500 marketing strategist turned growth hacker who’s led global campaigns for top brands, including Monster Energy, Xfinity, and TikTok, which gained 22,800 app installs in the first 30 days of their campaign.

Ben Aston is a digital project manager and online entrepreneur. He’s the founder of Black and White Zebra, a media company on a mission to help people and organizations succeed. He’s also the founder of the largest and fastest-growing community of digital project managers called TheDigitalProjectManager.com, with over 500,000 visits per month and 4,000 members. He has more than 15 years of project management leadership experience.

Danielle Hayden is a former corporate CFO, and she is on a mission to help rule-breaking female entrepreneurs understand their numbers so they can gain confidence! For the past 10 years, she has been helping business owners with bookkeeping, financial analysis, and education. She loves listening to stories and coming up with a process to transform how businesses run. She’s passionate about helping people every day.

Stephanie Hudson has been building websites and marketing them since the late 90s. Equal parts geek and dreamer, her wide-ranging experience gives her the chops to understand complex tech, but also explain it simply for mere mortals. Stephanie brings enthusiasm, technical know-how, and corny jokes to every conversation. When not presenting on stage, crafting custom marketing strategies, or managing WordPress sites, you can find her relaxing fireside with a juicy IPA at her home in Charlotte, NC.

Alex Price started freelancing as a designer/developer aged 16, then dropped out of university to start 93digital in London at 20. 93digital is now recognized as the UK's leading independent WordPress Agency. Now aged 27, Alex employs a team of 20 with $2m in annual revenue. Twice included in the BIMA 100 of “Those shaping the digital industry in the UK”, Alex has been recognized by The Drum as an “Agency Rising Star”. Econsultancy recently included 93digital as a “One to Watch” in their Top 100 Digital Agencies Report.

Andy Seth grew up in a motel in Los Angeles but never felt bound by his circumstance. Andy’s entrepreneurial journey has taken him through 4 successful seven figure exits. His company Flow Marketing is recognized as being in the top 10% of B Corps worldwide. Thriving in the face of COVID-19, Flow Marketing is on track for a $10M run rate in 2020. Andy’s agency is the nation’s first accredited with federally registered apprenticeships. He’s helped more than 1,000+ low income students go to college on scholarship. He is also a best selling author and music producer.

Brett Linkletter is the CEO & CoFounder of Misfit Media. He has an aggressive willingness to take on new challenges and a strong understanding of scaling a business from scratch. His vision is to disrupt the restaurant marketing space by empowering business owners with predictable, scalable marketing strategies so they can grow their business based on insights and data, versus guesswork and course correction. Brett’s specialty lies in creative content creation, brand messaging, social media growth hacking, and business development. His biggest role model and lifetime hero is his great grandfather, Art Linkletter, who was a famous TV personality and business man.

Melanie Spring is an international keynote speaker, dynamic emcee, and corporate trainer. She & her Crew at Melanie Spring Productions travel the world creating branded experiences for humans like you to find your stories, build your confidence, and amplify your voices.

Stephen Christopher is the CEO and founder of Wit Digital, which was named a fastest-growing company several times in Colorado, as well as a best place to work. Wit Digital is a 20-person agency in the home-services space. The agency has worked with over 500 clients.

Mike Arce is the Founder/CEO of Loud Rumor, an agency that’s served over 2,000 fitness studios and wellness companies throughout the world. After spending 7 years in the fitness industry himself, Mike started an ad agency in 2009, and in 2016 he began exclusively working with fitness studios and wellness companies. Mike is also the host of top fitness business podcast, The GSD Show, top entrepreneur podcast, The GOAT Show, and of a top fitness studio business conference, GSDCON.

Michael Knorr is the VP of Marketing & Sales at That Company, a white label digital marketing firm servicing agencies. He educates agencies on how to grow and thrive by talking on how to improve their front end lead generation. That Company as a whole gives them their time back by not having to handle the day-to-day as their team of consultants creates big wins for their clients under their brand name.

Clodagh S. Higgins is a Business Coach & Consultant for Digital Marketing Agencies with the Growit Group based in Ireland and works globally. An ex-HubSpotter, she has worked with over 500+ agencies around the world, helping them on the areas of sales, marketing, services, scaling, and growth in their businesses so that they can deliver exceptional results for their clients. She wrote a book called The Happy & Healthy Digital Agency and hosts the Agency Life podcast.

Trina Fisher is a co-owner and co-founder of LeftRight Labs. Over the last 13 years, her agency has worked with health and wellness experts who find themselves at a crossroads in their business. They help build a bigger, better, more beloved brand for their clients, with over 100 brands launched—including Laila Ali, Catalyst MD, and The New York Ad Council. Trina and her business partner are students of UACADEMY.

Mike Reynolds is the CEO of Innovatemap, a digital product agency located in Broad Ripple. Mike has been ideating and delivering digital products to market for over 20 years. He is an expert in product management, user experience, and product marketing. Mike believes there is a digital solution to every problem. Mike brings a fresh perspective on product strategy and guides clients to find the right product-market fit.

Pia Silva is an entrepreneur, speaker, Forbes contributor, author of Badass Your Brand, and the host of the podcast Show Your Business Who’s Boss. She helps entrepreneurs badass their brand and build a lucrative lifestyle business full of freedom.

Jason helps thought leaders to reach a larger audience with their ideas, create new income streams from their expertise, and build business models that align with their values and goals. His experience includes creating multiple successful brands, launching over 60 online courses, teaching more than 10,000 entrepreneurs, generating seven figures in online course sales, and 8 million downloads of his podcast.

With over two decades in sales, Laura Wright has helped many different types of businesses grow and prosper. She has helped over 4,800 artists sell tens of thousands of pieces of work, sold and filled multi-million dollar events, and seen success in real estate. If there's a sale, Laura can close it!

Emarc and Amarc are serial entrepreneurs. Buisnesses they own together include: Modernonemarketing.com, Homeforeverbaths.com, Emarcandamarc.com, and Freeportmastermind.com. They also have a podcast with guests including Gary Vaynerchuk and Ryan Deiss.

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.

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 has led digital marketing campaigns for clients such as HSN, Wendy Williams, Football Legend Carl Banks, iHip for Snooki, Eastbay, Aer Lingus, and SkyMall.

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.

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-depth courses. Nathan has appeared on 300+ podcasts, is a social media personality, and loves sharing advice on scaling remote businesses.

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.

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.

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 stories to challenge your understanding of branding, demonstrate the transformational impact of authentic brands, and share his proven branding process that has helped his clients shift from unknown to celebrity-like status.

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, the company has appeared on the Inc. 5000 six consecutive times from 2014 to 2019, claimed spots on the IBJ Fast 25: Fastest Growing Businesses in 2014 and 2015, and won HubSpot’s Agency of the Year in 2012.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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!

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 owners how to generate more leads and prospects online and nurture those opportunities into sales.

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 companies now take for granted. He’s also founded and grown the Traffic and Conversion Summit, the largest digital marketing conversion conference in North America.

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.

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.

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 other portfolio companies.

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, Chris Rock, Mark Whalberg, and Jennifer Aniston. In addition to his time in Hollywood, Marc itched the entrepreneurial scratch by founding a multimillion-dollar tech company in Boulder, Colorado. Today, Marc focuses his energy on Wildstory—a strategic brand story and content studio that helps the world see what their clients see. He’s passionate about helping visionary companies stand out from the crowd and harness their most valuable, ownable asset: their story.

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.

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 large retail operation for almost another decade before entering the marketing agency world. He’s been a published columnist and writer for several years and regularly presents to statewide trade associations on digital marketing strategies. Agora Co is now in the process of merging with another comparably sized agency.

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 various online publications. Lysa is President and Founder of the MetroWest Women's Network, a professional network empowering women in MetroWest Massachusetts.

Estela, a UACADEMY grad, is the co-founder of InSpiral ltd Marketing and Sales Agency, which promotes some of the most inspiring truth speakers and change-makers from around the globe, helping them to better reach and awaken their audiences, and amplify their message and impact they make. She lives and works in various locations around the world, and employs her team from around the globe.

At the dawn of the desktop computer, after several years of working, Evelyn strategized being a stay at home mom while running a business out of her home-unheard of in the age of dial-up. She launched Design Powers in 1996. She eventually shifted to digital design and co-founded a growing women entrepreneurs networking group, and later began co-hosting live radio. Her advice? “Strategize, take chances, pivot as needed. Become a leader... even if you once were a weirdee. ”

Mike Michalowicz is an entrepreneur behind multi-million-dollar-a-year companies, author, and lecturer. He is the author of five business books including Clockwork, Profit First Revised & Expanded, Surge, Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan, and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. He’s also a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal.

In 2010, Bradley Benner noticed that the marketing landscape had shifted to the digital space, so he began learning web design, SEO, and social media. He realized his passion for online marketing and built his consulting business, Big Bamboo Marketing, into a total digital marketing solution for small businesses. Bradley also founded Semantic Mastery, an online SEO and semantic web training and education site, where he has taken the role of instructor/coach.

We welcome our first attorney to the show! Scott Reib formed ReibLaw as a full-service law firm that focuses on developing strong relationships with small businesses with one simple goal in mind – make your legal life easier. With over 20 years of experience in Business Law and Estate Planning, ReibLaw is out to revolutionize the legal industry. Listen in to get some simple, straightforward recommendations on business law basics.

Adam is an SEO strategist who has consulted with brands such as Getty Images, Bass Pro, and American Standard. Currently, he has joined forces with his brother, Devon, to create the premier white-label SEO solution for freelancers and agency owners called SEO Brothers. Adam and his team have spent the last few years solving the many white-label SEO problems that exist in the industry and creating two distinct service offerings to help freelancers and agency owners scale their organic search revenue.

Robb Bailey is the Founder & CEO of PageLadder, which he founded in 2011. Robb was also the Founder of FitClub Consulting, a digital marketing agency that helped 525 fitness locations before it was acquired. He has helped 1,000’s of businesses sell tens of millions of dollars worth of goods and services both online and offline, and has consulted some of the fastest growing fitness brands in the world.

Charlie Poulson is the CEO & Brand Architect of Americano—a brand design studio. During a tour of duty through some of the biggest advertising agencies in NYC, Charlie happened upon a niche of designing pitches for the likes of Ogilvy & Mather, Johannes Leonardo, and Major League Soccer to name a few—helping them win a collective total of nine figures in new business. Charlie now helps other agencies design pitches based on psychographic characteristics and delight their audience with unique and thoughtful presentation day theatrics.

Kate Gilbert has been building and supporting WordPress websites since 2006 and knows the platform inside-out. She has launched over 100 sites for a variety of companies and institutions, including Harvard and MIT. Based in Jersey City, home of the Statue of Liberty, Kate is passionate about keeping WordPress workable for DIY site owners. These days, she's shifting away from done-for-you and towards done-with-you, helping site owners understand online marketing and how to have a site that shines.

Samantha Bedford was born in England and grew up in Cape Town South Africa. She came to the USA to help grow a digital advertising agency in 2002, and later founded Pico Digital in August 2014. She’s won several awards, including The B2, Fourteeners, Gold Key Diamond, ITSMA Award for Marketing Excellence, Transform Awards of North America and is a Stevie Award Finalist.

Om Suthar has designed products, apps, and services internationally, as well as published 10+ patents. He’s now working to help others build their physical, financial, and emotional well-being with his app, Sqrl. Join us as we chat about building a new product and how he’s finding product/market fit in a world that could use more good habits.

Justin Gignac is the co-founder of Working Not Working, a curated, global platform connecting the world’s best creative talent with the most innovative companies. Apple, Google, Droga5, Wieden+Kennedy, Airbnb, and thousands of other companies are using Working Not Working to staff their creative teams with freelance and full-time talent. Prior to Working Not Working, Justin was an award-winning Art Director and Creative Director at ad agencies around the US. Perhaps best known for helping create the original ElfYourself.com and unexpectedly unleashing the world’s elf fetish, with over 1.5 billion elves created since its inception. He's also gained notoriety for his various art projects, including selling NYC Garbage.

Joana Galvão is the co-founder of Gif Design Studios, an award-winning design agency specialized in brand identities and conversion-obsessed design. Based in Porto, Portugal, with a team of 7 designers and developers, Gif Design Studios offers the full range of print and digital design services to industry leaders in seventeen countries on five continents. Joana speaks internationally on the power of design and creativity and her work has been featured in the Guardian UK, Brand Brilliance, and Digital Arts magazine.

Tristan Wright gives business owners and entrepreneurs the tools and support they need to simplify their workload, grow their profits, and reclaim their free time. The “Business Sherpa” has been there, done that, and believes growing a successful business is easier with a team who has been there with his business, Evolve to Grow.

Tommy Griffith has been doing search engine optimization for more than 10 years. He previously managed SEO at PayPal and Airbnb, and now runs ClickMinded, a digital marketing training platform for marketers and entrepreneurs.

Jason Resnick helps freelancers discover their niche, plan out and market themselves to build recurring revenue, and stay in the feast. His goal is for them is to live the life that they want and ultimately reach the goals of why they started their own business in the first place. He has run his own web development business since 2010 helping established online businesses, increase sales through optimization, conversion, and behavioral strategy. He does this through on-site personalization, email, and marketing campaigns to learn more about the potential and existing customers to decrease the time to first purchase and increase repeat purchases.

Anya Caruso has decades of experience working with fortune 500 and SMB brands. Her deep understanding of combining branding and messaging, coupled with impressive visual communication and digital marketing skills are the foundation of her role at Engage. As founder of and partner at @Engage, she is responsible for half of the company’s vision and leadership, as well as a leading role in client marketing strategy and execution.

Jonathan is the founder of coolblueweb, a WooCommerce Expert Agency; as well as Little Rhino, an SMB-focused WordPress shop; and most importantly VerifyWP.com, a pre-employment WordPress developer assessment platform. He believes the hiring process for agencies is broken and is working with one agency at a time to fix it.

Rob and Kennedy from Response Suite are the most unlikely entrepreneurs you'll ever meet. Sporting hairstyles that look like comic-book characters and backgrounds in psychology, hypnosis, and show-business – it's hard to believe they're serial entrepreneurs with an uncanny knack for building businesses with riotous email marketing.

Rachael Kay Albers is a designer and business comedian. As the founder and creative director of RKA ink, a branding, web design, and digital marketing studio based outside Chicago, Rachael has helped hundreds of visionary entrepreneurs all over the world stand out online without selling their soul. Rachael’s clients have used their online platforms to launch bestselling books, five star podcasts, and six figure funnels. When not crafting epic, unforgettable brands for her clients, Rachael hosts Awkward Marketing, a business comedy show blending fun-sized small business advice with sketch comedy. Think of her as the one-woman SNL of biz TV.

Chris Martinez is the CEO of Dude Agency, where he gives digital agencies the people and processes to help them scale profitably. Dude Agency operations are in Tijuana, Mexico and have gone from 5 to over 30 staff in just a year. They're helping digital agencies and also changing the way the world perceives Mexico.

Alyson founded Operations Agency to serve entrepreneurs in the Digital Marketing space when they hit multi-six figures and want to get to seven without the headache. She's responsible for streamlining back-end operations for a multitude of brands, launching digital and in-person products and managing growing teams. Listen to this episode for a primer on making and using SOP’s for your business.

Bryon and Kellie McCartney are partners at Archmark Branding & Marketing for Architects. They have each worked in branding, communications, and marketing for more than 30 years and both have guided agency operations for large firms serving major brands including Calvin Klein, Delta Faucets, Dow Chemical, General Motors, Lipton Foods, and many others. In 2007, they founded their first agency together while living and working abroad in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2012, they repatriated the USA landing in Estero, FL. In recent years, they have focused on serving architecture firms.

Chelsea Jones and Rachel Saul build scalable website experiences that solve the marketing problems standing in the way of eCommerce growth. They are experts in implementing the power of digital marketing for businesses and leveraging online platforms. Their expertise enhances their already extensive knowledge of eCommerce trends, functionality, customer behavior, and design. Chelsea and Rachel’s company, Chelsea and Rachel Co, has helped many businesses transform an underperforming site to an all-out sales boom just by improving their online shopping experience.

Jeff Couret, a graduate of the UGURUS Bootcamp program, helps small digital marketing companies increase their monthly recurring revenue while giving better SEO results to their clients. He helped an eCommerce store increase sales by 39%, resulting in millions of dollars in increased revenue, and helped an HVAC company double their revenue in about 8 months.

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

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.

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.

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 the fastest growing startups and consumer products to global Fortune 500 brands. Over the years, Ross has been published or featured in publications such as Forbes, Venture Beat, Huffington Post, Mashable, BET, CBC and more.

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!

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 too mission-critical to his company. In the episode, Karl shares how he has started fixing things-- and how audience members can, too.

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 agencies. He’s a student of UGURUS UACADEMY.

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.

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.

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 was the subject of a 2016 article in Time Magazine.

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.

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.

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, which helps companies run more efficiently and profitably. He spent significant time on customer development for this software. If you’re an agency owner dreaming of selling software that you’ve developed, this episode is for you.

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.

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.

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.

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 increasing their bottom lines, but also enabling them to reach and impact more people and change more lives.

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.

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.

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 100% remote businesses since 1999.

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 hometown, Baltimore, and made Mozilla’s flagship Firefox browser relevant again, stealing significant share from Google Chrome.

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.

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 Executive Director seat. Sarah knows, because she’s been there. That’s why she brings over 15 years of nonprofit leadership and 14+ years of being a web professional together to make life simpler, clearer, and more exciting.

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.

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 Facebook, and moved to L.A., where he teaches companies how to rapidly grow their audiences and businesses.

Steve Thiel is the Integrator and Marketing Lead at UGURUS. In his last business with Brent, he managed dozens of employees and launched hundreds of websites and marketing projects at their agency. At UGURUS, he has led thousands of strategy calls and half a million in ad spend on Facebook, as well as launched dozens of products.

Simon Thompson has held content marketing roles for some of the largest digital publishers in Australia, such as MSN, Daily Mail and MTV. In these roles he worked on content projects for major global brands such as L'Oreal, Nissan, BMW, Adidas, Disney, and Mondelez. These days he runs his own content marketing service, Content Kite, where he helps digital agencies create highly engaging podcast content they can use to share their message and grow their network of clients and partners.

Lauren Hintz, Hubspot’s Sales Products Senior Marketing Manager, has spent the last two years working in the Agency Partner Program and recently worked on a project looking into 1,000 agency owners and employees to create a massive evaluation on how they run. Hubspot is an all-in-one marketing, sales and service platform that has been working with agencies since 2010 when they launched their marketing agency partner program.

Liston Witherill helps independent consultants and agency owners sell their expertise with confidence. He ran the sales and marketing department at a $12 million-a-year firm, built a boutique agency, and teaches consultants to improve their selling, all with an ideology of “serve - don’t sell”.

Greg Crabtree is an author and financial expert. His book, Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential, is a highly recommended read for entrepreneurs.

Brent reads his core values speech as presented to UGURUS employees. The speech touches on the value of hard work, and what happens when you stop praising yourself for creating a good plan.

Brent gets personal with a reflection on three episodes. He discusses self-awareness, focus, resistance, and building his legacy.

Andrew Warner is best known as the assertive interviewer who founded Mixergy, the place where proven entrepreneurs teach. But in this episode, Brent turns the tables and interviews him. Andrew joins us to talk about chat bots—specifically, why major companies are making chatbots a big part of their marketing and sales strategy.

Paul Lacey is a co-founder of the UK web agency The Dickiebirds Studio. They specialize in UX Design & WordPress design, development, and consulting. They do both direct client work and white-label agency partnership. Their clients include Jaguar, Land Rover, GeneratePress, Beaver Builder, and the Church of England.

Devon Reehl has 15 years’ experience in design, development, sales and strategy. He is lead digital strategist with, and co-founder of, Enginate. He specializes in client strategy and project architecture. Outside of the digital space, Devon has been a wilderness kayaking guide, and has also spent 10 years touring as a professional funk drummer. He’s a father of twins, an avid surfer, and is currently wrapping up his second year living and working abroad in Costa Rica.

Cat Howell helps businesses and entrepreneurs find success through Facebook ads. Having built and scaled a highly successful FB ads agency (Eight Loop Social) to one that generates over six figures per month, Cat subsequently launched The Academy and FATC to help freelancers and agency owners bypass the costly and lengthy learning curves involved in building out a FB ads business – from enrolling clients through delivery and agency processes. She works with a variety of clients, from Coca Cola Amitil and Contiki, as well as grassroots startups.

Nate Freedman is the owner of TechProMarketing.com, which helps IT service providers win new customers with strategic inbound marketing. He’s been able to come on strong in the market, being published 7 times in 5 industry publications since dedicating himself to the IT niche at the end of 2017. With thought leadership content as the core of his strategy, he’s been able to generate an average of three high quality leads in his niche every week since. Best of all, he’s completely filled his sales pipeline. Nate Freedman is the owner of TechProMarketing.com, which helps IT service providers win new customers with strategic inbound marketing. He’s been able to come on strong in the market, being published 7 times in 5 industry publications since dedicating himself to the IT niche at the end of 2017. With thought leadership content as the core of his strategy, he’s been able to generate an average of three high quality leads in his niche every week since. Best of all, he’s completely filled his sales pipeline. Nate is a current student in UGURUS’ UACADEMY Pro program.

Since 2007, Shelby Larson has successfully grown two agencies from inception to 7-figures. This included building teams of over 100 talented individuals, creating robust SOP systems, creating and managing financial projections and budgets. She’s a frequently requested keynote speaker at business and marketing conferences. Her businesses and personal consulting services have helped scale 7-figure and 8-figure businesses to success consistently by increasing revenue while lowering operating and marketing costs.

Over the past 15 years Jehan Noon has provided outsourcing services and strategy consulting to Fortune 50 and small business—first at Deloitte Consulting, and now Noon Dalton. As the founder of three companies over the last four years, Jehan both understands the challenges small businesses face and knows how to help them leverage outsourced resources to grow.

Yanik Silver redefines both how business is played in the 21st century, and where—at the intersection of more profits, more fun, and more impact. He is the author of several best-selling books, including Evolved Enterprise. He is also the founder of Maverick1000, a private, invitation-only global network of top entrepreneurs and industry leaders.

Cameron Herold is the mastermind behind hundreds of companies’ exponential growth. He has been an entrepreneur since he was a teen, with 14 employees by the time he was 21. He also helped build two $100M+ business by the time he was 35. By 42, had brought 1-800-GOT-JUNK from $2 million to $106 million in only six years. He has four acclaimed books and is a renowned speaker.

Trina Fisher and Gretchen Cawthon are the leadership team from Left Right Labs. They help health and nutrition coaches make more money, grow their following, and get their time back. In one year, Gretchen and Trina fired half of their clients, tripled their prices and 20xed recurring revenue. Here’s their story.

Starting with this quarter, we plan to share these memos via the podcast with our community and those interested in joining. Our Core Values are things that we can't teach in a class. They are core to who you are and why you are a part of our Community. We believe sharing this memo will help us make sure we attract and retain the right people for our Community. Please enjoy listening to this memo, and may you find the inspiration to lead your team down a successful path.

Paul Boag is a User Experience Designer, Service Design Consultant and expert in digital transformation. He works with not-for-profits and businesses to improve their users’ digital experience. He has also helped many universities, large charities and enterprise-level businesses adapt to the changing needs of their digitally savvy audience. Join us to discuss user experience, knowing what you want out of your business, and the joys of letting go.

Verne Harnish is the founder of EO (Entrepreneurs’ Organization) and Gazelles, an executive education and coaching company. He is the author of three books, including Scaling Up: How A Few Companies Make It...And Why The Rest Don't Up. In this episode, you’ll learn insider methods for focusing and growing your business, as well as tips on finding peer support and leveraging connections.

Chantal Edouard-Betsy is a serial entrepreneur who is wildly passionate about website design, small business, and women entrepreneurs. She has been featured on the WP Builds Podcast and the Agency Trailblazer podcast, and built the sales page for Sabrina Philip and her “Million Dollar Bali Mastermind” launch. Listen in to learn about productizing, coaching, and branding your business successfully.

Brad Martineau started SixthDivision a half a dozen years ago to help entrepreneurs make sense of how to automate their businesses, without wanting to rip their hair out. Today we discuss how he has restored order and sanity to the lives of thousands of entrepreneurs. The secret? His proprietary, step-by- step process that makes it easy for entrepreneurs to be confident about what they should be implementing in their business—AND how to actually get it implemented.

Mark O’Brien is CEO of Newfangled, a digital marketing consultancy helping experts generate ideal new business opportunities. We’ll discuss Mark’s unusual career track, and how he’s established himself as an expert on expertise.

Brennan is the co-founder of RightMessage, software that makes it dead simple to personalize your website in real-time. In this episode, we discuss how to use personalization to grow your agency, connect with more customers, and get more leads and sales.

Craig Ballantyne is the author of The Perfect Day Formula and Turbulence Training, and has been a contributor to Men's Health magazine for over 17 years. His books, videos, and coaching programs have transformed the lives of more than 7 million people—physically, financially, mentally, and emotionally. Today he teaches high-performing entrepreneurs to increase their income and make more time for their personal lives. How? By using the same 5 Pillars of Success that helped him overcome crippling anxiety attacks and transform his own life.

Neil Patel is a New York Times best-selling author. He is the co-founder of Crazy Egg and Hello Bar, and he helps companies like Facebook, Amazon, NBC, GM, HP and Viacom grow their revenue. The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web, Forbes says he is one of the top 10 online marketers, and Entrepreneur Magazine says he created one of the 100 most brilliant companies in the world. He was recognized as a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by President Obama and one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 35 by the United Nations. Join us to learn more about how his laser focus gets incredible results.

James co-founded a software development company. His previous venture, Silver Siphon, was sold to a Silicon Valley angel investment firm. His new tool, Content Snare, helps digital agencies with a real pain point—getting content from clients. Listen in to learn how… and how serial entrepreneurs are like a character in Indiana Jones.

Dave has been writing copy for more than a decade—including for UGURUS. Listen in to learn about how he gets started when it’s time to write, whether there’s a “right” length for emails, and how he makes sure readers click through.

David is a poet, prophet, teacher, and 10K Bootcamp grad who wants to see businesses thrive through engaging social media execution. When his business partner relationship started to fall apart, he made some major changes in his agency. He found valuable insight from a mentor, who helped guide him to embracing his outrageousness and significantly increasing his revenue.

Marama owns eSense Web Design, an Australian-based virtual agency that works across all industries. She has over 20 years of business experience, and has spent extensive time mentoring, including for UGURUS’s Bootcamp. Today we’ll discuss how she’s built her successful agency to fit her lifestyle.

Phil has been in the web business for over 17 years, and has founded or led 11 different companies, including a 70-person agency. He’s currently working on building Creation Chamber. We’re welcoming him back to the show after he’s experienced many shifts in mindset and habits over the last year.

Today we're talking with content expert Say Gabriel about getting over your fears and finding the right role. Learn how she found her superpower of strategic planning. She’s one of our boot camp graduates and a current content guru. She works with other agencies to master content in their businesses.

Neuromarketing-focused advertising specialist Dan Russell owns Agency Golden, a done-for-you digital advertising agency with a mission to innovate new ways to educate the public and spread products and services that matter. They work with business consultants, coaches, fitness and therapy professionals, app companies, and a variety of other businesses. On the show, we dive into neuromarketing, its applications, and how to stay ethical in this powerful, futuristic field.

Perry Marshall is one of the world’s most expensive and sought-after business consultants. He’s endorsed by FORBES, INC Magazine, and the most respected entrepreneurs in the world. Clients seek his ability to integrate engineering, sales, art and psychology. In this episode, we explore the 80/20 principle and how it applies to sales, decision making, customers, and even employees within your business.

42: How Web Hosting Can Affect Your Bottom Line with Austin Felton by UGURUS Hosted by Brent Weaver

David C. Baker is an author, speaker, and advisor to entrepreneurial creatives worldwide. He has written 5 books, advised 900+ firms, and keynoted conferences in 30+ countries. His work has been discussed in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, USA Today, BusinessWeek, and Inc. Magazine. He lives in Nashville, TN.

Win Without Pitching is a worldwide sales training company for creative entrepreneurs. Founder Blair Enns is a 25-year veteran of the business side of the creative professions. In 2002, he launched Win Without Pitching. WWP has worked with thousands of creative professionals in numerous countries through direct engagements, seminars, workshops & webcasts.

Dobbin Buck is Co-Owner of GetUWired Inc. A full service web marketing agency with 43 full time employees that operates out of a 6000 sq ft cabin in the mountains of North Georgia. GetUWired is an INC 5000 company, has been an Entrepreneur Magazine Top Company Culture award winner for the last two years running and the 4th best place to work in Georgia for two years running!

What if you could read body language and nonverbal queues so well that you knew exactly how to communicate with someone? It’s easy to see how this would enable you to build better relationships with everyone your business comes in contact with… selling higher value deals, getting to a “yes” faster, and being a better leader to your team. This week on our show, we welcome Alan Stevens, a world-renowned profile and communications specialist. He is regularly featured on national TV, radio, and all sorts of media across the world. Alan has worked with Disney Films, Gillette, the Australian Federal Police and thousands of others in the field of reading people.

Aaron Wrixon runs WRIXON, a content and strategy agency that transforms service businesses, helping them command attention and make “the competition” irrelevant. In his 20 years in business, he’s written more than 5 million words. On this episode, we go in-depth about how Aaron made the jump from full-time employment to full-time entrepreneurship. It’s not an easy transition, but Aaron more than doubled his income by making the jump.

Ever wonder why some clients are “bad” and others are “good?” Have you ever taken the time to really try and figure out why your rockstar team member always seems to give you less than what they’re capable of? Join us today as Erin Pheil goes deep on how to create an amazing environment for your agency and letting the magic happen.

A kiss of death for most digital agencies is to try to look like someone else. Unfortunately, when most agencies or freelancers get started, they end up trying to model something that “looks” successful. Join us today with Pia Silva from Badass Your Brand as she shares with you her own journey of burning it all to the ground, shedding the skin and making a tremendous come back.

Robert Prioleau is the co-founder of the Charleston, SC based full service digital marketing firm, Blue Ion. They have been in business for over 17 years and have a staff of 20 people. Today Robert goes deep on the core philosophies that have enabled them to not only stay in business for 17 years, but to thrive. Having big name clients like Tito’s Vodka doesn’t happen by chance. Listen in to get Robert’s full story.

Andy Budd is the User Design Experience lead and the CEO of Clear Left, a 12 year old agency with 30 people on staff. Their average project price is between $200K & $300K. He’s also a best selling UX tech author and one of our industry's foremost thought leaders. He’s been a featured speaker at SXSW and has helped organize industry specific meetups for founders to continue the growth of our industry. While other agencies have grown and faded, Andy’s agency, Clear Left continues to thrive. This is an episode you won’t want to miss.

Today we have the pleasure of speaking with Greg Hickman who is the founder and owner of Systemly. Greg has had the pleasure of working with entrepreneurs such as Chris Ducker, Jon Loomer and Entrepreneur on Fire. During today’s episode Greg talks about his trials and tribulations of scaling Systemly to the powerhouse it is today and how he was able to gain the courage to walk away from 10 years of work and pivot in a completely different direction. This episode hits home for a lot of folks.

Today we’re speaking with marketing funnel optimization expert, Keith Perhac, about how he’s able to produce for clients regardless of where you are in the world. Keith even gives us some insight about why it’s actually more difficult when your clients are in the same country. We’re crushing some myths today!

Today we’re going to talk to Jennifer Buzza, who is the founder and owner of WEBCLIO, $10K Bootcamp graduate and now our current lead mentor, about The Art of Delegation. During this episode Jennifer talks about the practical applications of delegation and some of the unexpected benefits that will surely take place. After working with clients such as WebMD, Eben Pagan and even Def Leppard, she’s got this whole delegation thing figured out. This is an episode you won’t want to miss.

Today we’re talking to Re Perez, the founder of Branding for the People and a seasoned brand consultant. He helps entrepreneurs grow and brand their businesses. He’s worked with tons of startups and some multi-million dollar businesses. He’s even helping to update UGURUS branding.

Today we’re talking to Kai Davis, the name behind Double Your Audience and Double Your E-commerce as well as his own named brand, KaiDavis.com. He’s an author, educator, coach, and consultant who helps agency-owners and freelancers uncover hidden profits in their businesses. We’re going to be covering some of his best strategies today, so you won’t want to miss the show!

Today we’re going to be talking to Marc Gutman, who is a storyteller, entrepreneur, and a lover of life. He helps entrepreneurs who are stuck, and his chosen tool is the power of story. We are going to talk about using stories to transform your business. Having formerly worked as a screenwriter for Disney, Warner Bros., and more, he’s qualified to give us a lot of great advice on the power of story.

Today we are going to talk to Ilise Benun, who is a business expert for creative professionals. She’s the author of seven business books for the creatively self-employed, a national speaker, the founder of marketing-mentor.com, and a coach and mentor for various types of professionals. She helps them with marketing and with finding more clients to help them achieve their goals.

Today we are talking to Aaron Draplin, a graphic designer, author, and founder of Draplin Design Co. He works with some big-name clients and is the co-creator of the Field Notes brand. He’s truly a design guru, and we’re thrilled to have him on our show today.

Today we’re talking to Andrew Dymski, the co-founder of a digital agency called GuavaBox, as well as the co-founder of DoInbound, which is an inbound marketing project management process and team management system. With his experience in running agencies and developing software platforms, Andrew is a great person to talk to about his experience as an entrepreneur.

Today’s guest is Philip Morgan of Philip Morgan Consulting. Philip helps development shops build solid pipelines of clients by using positioning and specialization. If you're hoping to grow your leads, you will not want to miss today’s show!

On today’s episode, we’re talking to Jonathan Stark, one of the top mobile experts in the field. He’s worked with big-name companies to help them establish their mobile strategies.

Today’s guest is Jake Jorgovan, founder of Outbound Creative, which helps agencies win their dream clients. He’s also the author of an upcoming book called Win Your Dream Client. We’re going to be talking about some of the methods that Jake uses to help people win the clients who are perfect for them.

Today we are talking to Mike Paton, the visionary of EOS Worldwide, which stands for Entrepreneurial Operating System. It’s been popularized by the book Traction, by Gino Wickman. Mike is an author and speaker who helps entrepreneurs clarify, simplify, and achieve their visions with simple tools that we will be talking about today.

On today’s episode, we’re talking to Clifford Almeida, a graduate of our Bootcamp program. We’re going to be talking about the mindset and business changes that have positively impacted him, his team, and others in his life. He’s the owner of HireAWiz, a web agency and development company. He’s worked with small businesses, Fortune 500 businesses, nonprofits, and more.

Today we’re talking to Paul Jarvis, one of the earliest and most famous web designers out there. He started designing sites in the 1990s and has had some big-name clients.

Today we are going to be talking to Kim Doyal, the WordPress Chick. She’s a podcaster, coach, WordPress wizard, and cofounder of the F the Hustle movement. Today she’s going to tell us about herself, her business, and how she’s found success.

Curtis McHale has some interesting takes on relationships, communication, boundaries and knowing how to optimize and handle these to help your business grow.

Today’s guest is Daniel DiPiazza, the founder and creator of Rich20Something; an avid writer who has been published in Time Magazine, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Yahoo Business, and Huffington Post; and the author of a newly launched book, also titled Rich20Something. Today he’s going to talk to us about his career and some of the things that have helped him become successful.

Today we are talking to Jason Swenk of jasonswenk.com who grew and sold an 8-figure agency, and now he helps other agencies grow and scale their own companies using his formula. If you are hoping to scale your business, grow your agency, charge higher prices, and work with the clients of your dreams, you won’t want to miss this episode.

Today we are speaking with Andrew Gray, a partner-in-chief and technology officer of Tayloe Gray. He’s a programming technologist and serial entrepreneur, and he has two decades’ experience in web applications and websites. He’s got some big-name clients and a nice-sized team. You're going to love hearing more about Andrew and the strategies he’s used to find success.

On this episode I’m talking to Jason Cohen, founder and CTO of WP Engine. WP Engine is a world-class Wordpress hosting company with over 60,000 customers in 120 countries that provides innovation-driven technology and top of the line customer service. Jason is a serial entrepreneur with vast experiences in the space: bootstrapping companies, selling businesses, getting outside funding, working both alone and with co-founders, and being involved as an angel investor in additional ventures. Join us as Jason shares his approach to entrepreneurship and the lessons he’s learned along the way.

What would life be like if you spent as much time with your family as you do at work? Today’s guest is Mary Shaw and she does just that. A UX design consultant with 20 years experience in digital design. She’s worked for companies like Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Conair, and more. She’s a true expert on UX, and she’s developed an entire brand and platform around it.

Are you struggling to deliver all the services your clients need? Today we are talking to Matt about his agency that provides wholesale services to other agency.

Today we are talking to Jon about how his agency got started, why he works from home with a virtual team of contractors, and about how it has never been easier to find great clients who want to buy your services.

Today we are talking to Joe about how his career has developed over the past two decades and the challenges of leaving an industry where you’re a known player and starting something new.

Startups often go through various starts and stops as they grow, and today’s guest knows all about that. As a founder of Bullhorn Creative, Brad Flowers had the rugged real-world experience necessary to push his way through obstacles and make his branding agency a success.

Today on the Digital Agency Show, we’re talking to a successful entrepreneur about how he has developed a fun and lucrative company culture, how he gets the best people working for him, and how he has grown his business steadily over the past 12 years. Sheldon Pereira, the founder of Aquanode Interactive, offers his expertise to our listeners today.

Mike talks about transitioning from monster movies to a digital agency, hiring ex-cons, getting a $450,000 deal early on, and what it's like to work with Fifty Cent.

Are entrepreneurs doomed to working long hours or is it possible to have work-life balance? Our guest today is Barbara Carneiro, the founder of Word Revolution, a communication agency for Christian ministries and the brain behind 4:12 Lab, a training program for Church Communication.

Dropping your ego when making hard decisions. Our guest today is George Morris, serial entrepreneur and founder of The FRAMEWORK. George first moved to Boulder, CO to work at a satellite office for Refinery, Inc. After the office was shut down following the DotCom bust, George parlayed his unique skillset into founding his first agency, Imulus, in 2002. After 13 years, he left the agency to run a TechStars-back consumer product company called edn. Today, George uses his 20+ years of experience to serve as a temporary business partner for other entrepreneurs as part of The FRAMEWORK while also running his virtual agency V16.

The first hire fail with “Newman” and his DJ labels. The second hire fail with “Brother” and working with family. Our guest today is Keith Roberts, the founder of the Denver-based digital agency Zenman. Keith graduated from the prestigious Brooks Institute of Photography in 1995, just as the emergence of stock houses was set to turn the photography business model on its head. Knowing that there wasn’t much of a future ahead of him in photography, Keith fibbed on his resume, tried to learn graphic design over a weekend and launched his career in digital marketing. He founded Zenman in 1998, building talent around him while he continued to grow his own craft in web development and digital marketing. Today, Zenman employs 20 people with $2 million in annual revenue, working with clients like Frontier Airlines and Denver Mattress.

Why bigger isn’t always better when it comes to building your agency. Our guest on today’s podcast is Phil Lockwood, the founder and managing partner of Creation Chamber, a Denver-based web agency. After getting laid off following the 2000 Dotcom bust, Phil began his rollercoaster journey of growing Creation Chamber to 70 employees before starting over with only 1. Today, Phil loves working with clients. That's why he's deeply involved in the majority of Creation Chamber's client projects. This hands-on approach keeps him ahead of industry trends, helping him drive client marketing strategy and grow new areas the agency. He's been in the industry for 20 years -- 15 of those have been at Creation Chamber's helm. In his spare time, he reads 1 book per week, strives for 1 new industry certification per month, and enjoys traveling with his wife and 3 amazing children.

Welcome to the Digital Agency Show, the podcast that goes behind the scenes with today’s top digital agencies and entrepreneurs. Our show is hosted Brent Weaver, the CEO and founder of Denver-based success and entrepreneurship agency uGurus. Brent is a lifelong entrepreneur who spent 12 years running his own digital agency, and he founded uGurus in 2013 as a community and a resource to empower digital agency owners to transform their businesses and their lives. Today we’ll talk about how we got started, what the digital landscape looks like for today’s entrepreneurs and what you can expect in upcoming podcasts.