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Did you know that humanizing your marketing messaging can help to increase conversions? It's true! Listen as Gil Araonowitz of The Best Words Win explains how to use storytelling in brand messaging and marketing to communicate more effectively and increase conversions. Words matter.

Are you growing your agency in a way that makes sense? Have you systematized your sales process? Listen as Dan Englander of Sales Schema talks about how to systemize your sales process for maximum growth potential.Also, check out Sales Schema's podcast: The Digital Agency Growth Podcast

Are you doing any marketing on LinkedIn? If not, you should be! If so, are you sure you're doing it effectively?Listen as David Hamilton of Oppilo Marketing talks about the different components of effectively marketing on LinkedIn to get more conversions.

If you've been positioning yourself in a way that shows how you do what you do, you're doing it wrong!Listen as Ahmad Munawar of Boutique Growth tells us how talking about the results you will provide and articulating that in the proper way will bring you much better...well...results!Also, be sure to check out Ahmad's 90 Day Pipeline Video!

Do you talk about your offerings by using a lot of "I" or "We" in your copy/verbiage? If so, it's time to stop!Nikki Groom of The F Factor tells us that we need to start using "You" in our communications so that we build a connection with our prospects and she talks about just how to do that. As mentioned in the show, check out Nikki's book, A Power of Your Own: How to Ignite Your Potential, Uncover Your Purpose, and Blaze Your Own Trail in Life and Business

Do you know how to create a cohesive connection between your messaging and your strategic marketing plan? Derek Sussner of Sussner Design Company tells us how to do just that! He gives us a 5-step plan for creating a marketing plan from your messaging.

Do your clients think that cutting marketing/advertising budgets is the best way to survive a down economy? Long description for Zephyr & Spreaker: Do your clients think that cutting marketing/advertising budgets is the best way to survive a down economy? Doug Morneau or Marzani is here to say that this is the opposite of what your clients should be doing. Instead, they should be doubling down on their marketing/advertising spending.

Small agencies have a leg up when it comes to serving small businesses. You know what it's like to be a small business. This makes you better equipped to deliver websites for small businesses more effectively. Listen as Dave Hooper of Build a Better Website talks about how you can leverage your small agency to better serve small businesses.

If you want to level up your automated product emails, you're in for a treat! Carolyn Lowe of ROI Swift give us her 5 best email marketing strategies for automation before, during, and after product purchases.

Description for Spreaker and Zephyr: The traditional model for website development is outdated but many agencies are still using it. With the pace of technology changes today, it makes more sense to take an ongoing approach to website building. Drew Barker of Crafting Hand explains what that approach looks like an why most don't do it.

Is your agency at a turning point? What if you could focus more on strategy and less on the execution of that strategy? It's time to make that change. James Robert Lay of Digital Growth Institute talks about why you should focus on the thinking side of business and how you can change your agency model to be more effective, profitable, and fun.

Whether your team is new to working remotely with flex schedules or you've been working with this set up since before it was cool, you'll learn lots of tips for servicing your clients with this type of team structure. Listen as Nicole Pereira of Chief Martech Officer talks about the benefits of a flex remote team structure and how best to serve clients.

Google changes the rules of SEO all the time. Now, Google is less and less about keywords and more about search intent. But we can use tools like SEMRush, Ahrefs, or Wordstream to serve search intent better. Keyword research, competitive analysis, and social media analysis can show us a glimpse into the reader's mind. Listen as Tom Gerencer of Gerencer Creative tells us how to use these tools to better serve search intent so more people see your content.For a more in-depth look at increasing traffic by building empathy, check out Tom's book Think Like Google: Use SEO & Empathy to Rank, Convert, and Profit No Matter How Much They Change the Rules

Do you use storytelling as part of your marketing strategy? If not, you will want to listen as Vince Martellacci of ForgeCollective talks about how to be a good storyteller and how to use storytelling as part of the buyer's journey to create connections with potential customers.

Are you using your business as a force for good? Have you ever considered becoming a registered B Corporation? Want to learn more about what this means? Listen as Anna Colibri of Colibri Digital Marketing describes what becoming a B Corporation means, how to do it, and what the benefits are.

If you haven't narrowed down your agency to a particular vertical, this episode is for you. Kara Brown of SmithBrown Marketing describes how you can increase your revenue and serve your clients better by only working with clients in a particular vertical where you excel.

If you’re looking for new opportunities to grow your business globally, but have concerns about how to go about it, website and SEO translation might be right for you. Wendy Pease of Rapport International talks about how translation of your website into other languages opens up your company to a whole world beyond the US. She also explains how to go about translating your website for the best results.

Agency growth is a result of solving customer problems at the right time with the right solution with a story that resonates with the market. In order to grow, it's important to be customer-centric. Laura Patterson of Vision Edge Marketing offers a customer-centric framework for choosing and navigating a sustainable path forward in order to create momentum and accelerates organic market growth.Be sure to check out Laura's new book Fast-Track Your Business: A Customer-Centric Approach to Accelerate Market Growth for step-by-step guidance for acquiring customer insights, creating customer-centric outcomes, and developing strategies and measurable executable plans.

Description for Zephyr and Spreaker: We all hear that we should be using video, but a lot of don't ever pull the trigger for one reason or another. Well today's the day to change that. Clay Posey of ClearBox Strategies gives some golden nuggets on keeping it simple, what to say, and how to use video for your business.

Does your agency use progressive web applications to their full potential? If not (or you don't know), listen as Grant McNaughton of Duo Strategy talks about how powerful progressive web applications are for marketing agencies, his favorite applications, and how he uses them to improve his agency. Also? They're all FREE!