The Digital Agency Show | Helping Agency Owners Transform Their Business Mindset to Increase Prices, Work Less, and Grow Profits
UGURUS Hosted by Brent Weaver
Helping digital agency owners transform their business mindset so they can increase prices, work less, and grow profits.
A weekly podcast where host Brent Weaver chats with today's most successful entrepreneurs running digital agency businesses in the web design, web development, and digital marketing industry.
Brent also chats with high-profile entrepreneurs and other smart people that can help listeners grow their digital agency.
Each interview deep dives into the emotional details of going on the entrepreneur's journey toward success. Each guest shares behind the scene moments of lessons learned and lives changed.
All episodes comes guaranteed with a gold nugget insight, book recommendation, resource link and productivity hack.
A weekly podcast where host Brent Weaver chats with today's most successful entrepreneurs running digital agency businesses in the web design, web development, and digital marketing industry.
Brent also chats with high-profile entrepreneurs and other smart people that can help listeners grow their digital agency.
Each interview deep dives into the emotional details of going on the entrepreneur's journey toward success. Each guest shares behind the scene moments of lessons learned and lives changed.
All episodes comes guaranteed with a gold nugget insight, book recommendation, resource link and productivity hack.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Mar 30, 2021 • 37min
E196: Launching courses and changing lives with Janelle Allen
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.
Mar 23, 2021 • 47min
E195: Mental health and entrepreneurship with Ben Marcel
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.
Mar 16, 2021 • 40min
E194: The inside story of selling StudioPress to WP Engine with Brian Gardner
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.
Mar 9, 2021 • 39min
E193: Growing a white-label WordPress team to 50+ with Ronik Patel
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.
Mar 2, 2021 • 44min
E192: The forefront of hyper-personalization with Selle Evans
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.
Feb 23, 2021 • 32min
E191: Run your agency in 8 hours per week with Jeff Venn
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.
Feb 19, 2021 • 37min
E190: Leaping from Agency to SaaS to Revolutionize Cash Flow Forecasting with Colin Hewitt
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.
Feb 9, 2021 • 30min
E189: Navigating unexpected niche opportunities and challenges with David Pisarek
David Pisarek lives to break things - having worked across non-profit sectors designing, programming, and management for 30 years, David launched Wow Digital Inc. in 2017, with the goal of providing transformative websites, design, and branding for non-profit, NGO’s, and charitable organizations.
Breaking apart processes and tearing down department silos, David uses his background to effectively bridge the gaps between IT, Marketing, Communications, and Fundraising departments to align processes, streamline operations, and ultimately help his clients achieve digital success.
Feb 3, 2021 • 34min
E188: Billion-dollar lessons for your digital agency with Ben Gabler
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.
Jan 27, 2021 • 36min
E187 Build a strategic partnership with podcasts with Jake Jorgovan
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.
