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You Can't Lose!

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Apr 15, 2025 • 46min

eHouse Gets Acquired: Reaction Pod + The Philadelphia Experiment starts!

Richard and Joe break down their conversation with Chris & Aaron Quinn, more details about agency acquisitions, private equity vs venture capital, and they spill the beans about The Philadelphia Experiment April 9-11.
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Apr 7, 2025 • 57min

Little By Little, Then All At Once: eHouse Gets Acquired

Chris and Aaron Quinn join to share their experiences creating, growing, and ultimately scaling eHouse through an acquisition. Thanks to our friends for being so candid and informative about their experiences!
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Mar 6, 2025 • 30min

Take the Credit Out & Get More Done

Duolingo announced changing their job titles from UX Design to Product Experience Design and created a 2013-Twitter-era dust up so Richard and Joe chime in with their thoughts. We discuss the purpose of job titles, the way identity effs with you, and to bring it back to sales in a meta way we ask what's more important? That you achieve your objective? Or that you're properly credited and acknowledged, and THEN achieve your objective?
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Feb 19, 2025 • 47min

Waiting Super Hard is Your Biz Dev Strategy

This episode has it all! Richard shares how embedding "brown M&M" contract requirements helps you get what you want He also discusses how the TNT (takes no talent) parts of a business lead to success Joe provides an example: Respond to new leads shockingly quickly and meet your clients' enthusiasm Richard describes his tantric response to awkward silences (NSFW) Joe then accuses all of you of adopting a "Waiting Super Hard!" approach to sales and biz dev Richard explains you miss 100% of the shots you don't take Joe explains in sales "You Can't Lose!" and how that opens up the freedom to do the things you're not doing In a devastating finishing move, they describe how they know an agency is really in a bad spot: they redesign their website! It's like watching your friend decide to get bangs after a big break up. A redesigned site is a call for help!
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Feb 18, 2025 • 53min

The Medium & The Message

Richard and Joe discuss the little cohort/therapy group they're in and how beneficial that relationship has become over the past year. Within that discussion Richard explains how effective it can be to manage communication patterns within a community, for example conducting types of conversations in person while conducting very different conversations within the same community online. He describes how powerful that contextualization can be as well as how that deliberate focus prevents the online conversation from cannibalizing IRL or other communities. If you manage complex communication with communities, teams, or clients this is a super practical episode.
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Jan 31, 2025 • 47min

Zero Forecasting & Overinvesting in Biz Dev Seasons

There's a few big ideas in this week's episode. Richard makes a strong case that Pipedrive weighted outcome forecasting for open opportunities and leads is steering you wrong. It's 0% forecastable revenue until the check clears. Joe says tracking sales quarterly sets you up to fail. There are two selling seasons and two off-seasons every year, plan accordingly. Richard and Joe both illustrate how digital agencies in particular under-invest in sales, biz dev, and marketing. They discuss why this happens, the risks and challenges that follow, and alternatives worth exploring.
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Jan 10, 2025 • 46min

How to Make Funny Kids

In our ongoing "Parenting Advice That's Not For Everyone" Richard and Joe explain in detail the benefits of arming your kids with humor, and how to make your kids funny. From the benefit of "banned books" to letting your kids funny their way out of trouble to shoving your 8-year-old into Victoria's Secret, this episode has it all.
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Dec 12, 2024 • 55min

Concept Cars & Black Tar Heroin

This week Joe and Richard discuss some tactical tricks of the trade as well as examples from the industry and from popular culture. What's the value of showing a client a glimpse into a far future state of their project as a concept car? How does casting the vision far ahead dramatically improve the client's ability to be attracted to novel ideas, rather than poke holes based on their constraints? Great examples of how practitioners like Tracey Halvorsen, Dan Mall, and Anthony Colangelo are detailed along with a couple of famous superheroes Ryan Reynolds and Henry Cavill. Get inspired and inspire your collaborators!
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Nov 26, 2024 • 56min

You Are Not The Car You Drive! -Tyler Durden

This week Joe unpacks some old Happy Cog notebooks and they spark a conversation about our identity and relationship to our work. How revisiting previous versions of yourself and your experiences can reinvigorate your current status quo. And how to overcome the urge for perfect by embracing small experiments in progress.
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Nov 19, 2024 • 51min

Chief Repeating Officers, Alumni & AI

This week we talk about reinforcing change with repetition. Consistently reinforcing new behaviors and processes to drive lasting change. Investing in talent growth by positioning your agency as a talent incubator. Leveraging alumni networks and expanding your agency's reputation and business opportunities. We also dig into Adapting to AI's impact and staying competitive as AI reshapes search behavior and client decision-making.

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