Scale Your Agency Without Growing Your Team with Grant Hushek

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May 14, 2025

Grant Hushek, an expert in helping marketing agencies scale without expanding teams, shares invaluable insights in this conversation. He discusses how to eliminate tedious tasks through automation, allowing creatives to focus on their strengths. Grant reveals strategies for using AI to generate targeted content ideas and streamline the sales process without sacrificing personal touch. He also emphasizes improving client experiences through automated onboarding and shares essential tools that can transform agency operations for the future.

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INSIGHT

Automation Scales Creative Work

Automation removes manual grunt work from creative processes.
This lets creative people stay in flow and scale production without more hires.

ADVICE

Automate Lead Qualification

Use automations to scrape lead websites to qualify prospects quickly.
This saves time and improves speed to lead response dramatically.

ADVICE

Leverage Meeting Notes for Content

Use AI meeting note takers like Fathom to generate content ideas from calls.
Post extracted insights to grow organically and attract ideal clients.

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How much of your week was spent working within your genius zone?

And how much of it was lost to admin, chasing emails, or fixing broken systems?

In this episode, I’m joined by Grant Hushek. Grant helps marketing and creative agencies grow and scale without increasing their headcount using AI and automation.

We uncover actionable strategies that you can start implementing today to eliminate the grunt work in your business for a fraction of the cost of hiring a new team member.

I guarantee this episode will have something for you, and will allow you to do less of the work you hate doing so you can grow your business faster without burning out

In this episode, we cover:

How to scale your creative business without hiring more people.
Identifying what you can automate in your business today.
Using AI to create a steady stream of content ideas targeted to your ideal client.
How to automate your sales process without losing the personal touch.
Streamlining onboarding to improve client experience.
The exact tools to use and how to set them up.
What the future of the creative agency looks like.
And much more…

If you get value from this episode, follow Creative Courage on your favourite podcast app for more transformational content to help you thrive as a creative.

PS: If you want a custom roadmap to grow a creative studio that works for you, rather than the other way around. Click this link - https://resources.mattessam.co.uk/.

LEARN MORE

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Work with Matt to grow your agency - https://www.mattessam.co.uk/creative-life-accelerator

CONNECT

Grant Hushek on LinkedIn/social - https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-hushek/

Matt Essam on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattessam/

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