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by Jason Swenk (Author)
Most marketing agency owners struggle to grow their business. They often feel frustrated and overwhelmed because they lack the systems and processes to truly scale their business.
Accelerating Your Agencyincludes the proven systems, strategies, processes, and best practices you can apply in order to increase your marketing agency's sales, avoid the common pitfalls, and work smarter rather than harder.
It doesn't matter if you're small, big, startup, or just someone who wants to get better at business. This playbook will give you the formula backed up with data and anecdotal success from someone who's been where you are now.
This powerful agency framework can be learned and implemented at your own pace. Each system builds on the one prior in order to lead to powerful changes and resulting in the growth you're seeking for your agency.
System 1: CLARITY -Is it your goal not to deal directly with clients and individual accounts? Do you want to be able to set up an organization where you can concentrate on growing the business without all of those distractions? In this system you will discover how to how to create and clearly communicate your vision to your agency plus set a crystal clear path to get there.
System 2: POSITIONING -Discover how to become an authority in your market, so you are attracting your ideal accounts, and not having to deal with the small accounts that eat up all your time. Learn how to establish authority and position your agency as "The Choice" rather than just "A Choice."
System 3: OFFERING - Do you know the winning formula for the order of services and products you should offer? Ever wonder what you should charge for your services in order to be extremely profitable and meet your financial goals? This system helps determine your agency's offering and price it so that you can charge what you're really worth.
System 4: PROSPECTING - Identify what and where you need to be in order to increase leads and convert those leads into opportunities. From the low hanging fruit that can bring in immediate revenue, outbound strategies, inbound strategies, how to build the right strategic partnerships, and how your agency can capture and convert the ideal leads and opportunities.
System 5: SALES - Do you spend time spinning your wheels on the wrong prospects? Or feel as though you're wasting tons of time on your proposals? This system teaches how to qualify leads, as well as convert them at a high rate. It covers everything from drafting a proposal, objection handling and building a sales team in order to increase your sales.
System 6: DELIVERY - Find ways to streamline your delivery for more profit, avoid scope creep, and learn how to take on more work utilizing fewer resources. Get the exact process for protecting yourself on delivering work to the client. Also, learn ways to interpret what the client really wants, obtain approvals/sign-offs, and other processes to systematize your delivery process.
System 7: OPERATIONS - Running a business is hard! Discover how to increase your cash flow, ways to incentivize and bonus your team, without giving away shares of ownership. This system also covers who and when to hire as well as how to map out the organizational chart that's necessary to truly scale your agency.
System 8: LEADERSHIP - Would you like to transition from Agency Owner to Agency CEO? Ultimately, you want to work on the business instead of the business. Learn what you can do to make that a reality. This system also addresses increasing agency valuation and positioning your agency for an eventual acquisition, how to build an amazing culture that attracts the top talent, plus how and why to setup an advisory board.
You can stop struggling with the challenges of growing your agency by implementing these 8 systems.
Author Biography
Jason Swenk guides digital agency owners on growing, scaling, enjoying and eventually selling their agencies.
After a brief start in the corporate world working in web design for Arthur Anderson, Jason launched his own digital agency in 2000. He ran his agency for twelve years and grew it to 8-figures working with clients such as Hitachi, Lotus Cars and AT&T.
After selling the agency in 2012, Jason decided to develop the support and resources he wish he'd had while running his agency.
Jason is passionate about being the #1 resource to agencies around the world. He does this by sharing his knowledge on his weekly podcast The Smart Agency Master Class and daily vlog The SwenkToday Show. He is also a speaker, writer and frequent guest on other radio and podcast shows. To date, Jason's online training and classes have helped over 20,000 agencies in 42 countries.
Jason Swenk lives with his wife and two sons in Atlanta, Georgia where he enjoys off-roading in his Jeep. He also loves spending time hiking his mountain property in Durango, Colorado.
