Smart Agency Masterclass Podcast with Jason Swenk
Bi-weekly interviews, strategy, and advice for building your marketing agency the smart way.
The popular agency podcast has just turned 10 years old and covers everything from starting a successful agency to selling your agency.
#1 Agency Leadership Podcast. Check Out Our Past Guests.
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Seth Godin
Best selling Author of Purple Cow, This is Marketing, Linchpin, Permission Marketing
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Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and former Apple chief evangelist
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Gino Wickman
The creator of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) and author of Traction.
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Mike Michaelowicz
Best-selling author of Profit First and Clock Work
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Neil Patel
Founder of CrazyEgg, Kissmetrics, and other multimillion dollar companies
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Joey Coleman
Recognized for his expertise in customer retention & enhancing client loyalty
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Amy Porterfield
Renowned online marketing expert and educator
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Pat Flynn
The leaders in the podcast space
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Jay Baer
Best Selling author of Talk Triggers, Hug Your Haters, and one of the best speakers
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Todd Herman
Coach to Elite pro athletes, leaders, and public figures
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Dan Martell
Author of Buy Back Your Time. Influential coach in SaaS startups.
Do You Have What it Takes To Run A Successful Agency? With Gino Wickman
Do you have what it takes to be a successful agency owner? Are you afraid you’ve hit the ceiling of your own success? What are the traits and disciplines of successful agency owners?
Seth Godin's Advice on Growing Your Marketing Agency | Ep #233
Get ready for some amazing insight from Seth Godin, the father of permission marketing. He dives deep into branding your agency, determining value, niching down, and so much more! There’s a ton of value here to help you grow your marketing agency, scale, and enjoy your agency.
Jay Baer on How Talk Triggers Will Have Clients Knocking Down Your Agency's Door | Ep #217
Looking for ways to get your agency noticed by your ideal clients? Do you want to stand out among the competition? Then it's time to understand and amplify your agency's talk triggers. With the right strategy, you can conquer word-of-mouth advertising and get your ideal clients knocking down your agency's door.
How to Grow Your Agency Without Constantly Working In It with Mike Michaelowicz
Worried your agency will collapse if you’re not constantly working? Wish you could lead your agency without working 24/7? Feel like you sacrifice too much of your family and free time for your agency? Stop being a prisoner to your agency! This pace isn’t the best way to run your agency. And maybe your agency doesn’t actually need you as much as you think it does.
Neil Patel on the #1 Outbound Strategy To Grow Your Digital Agency Ep | #189
Ready for your agency sales to takeoff? Want to drive traffic, generate leads, and create new opportunities that will grow and scale your agency? Digital marketing agency guru Neil Patel shares his #1 outbound strategy for scoring the clients you want to work with.
Ralph Burns on How to Build an Effective Virtual Agency Team | Ep #174
Having a hard time scaling your agency? Finding it difficult to stop doing it all, all by yourself? Thinking of building an effective agency team but don’t know where to begin? Learn how to find and hire the right people for your agency and how to set them up for immediate success.
Overcoming Agency Growing Pains: 2 Agency Owners Talk Pipelines, Pricing & Employee Problems
Being an agency owner can feel isolating and lonely and these can be only a few of the agency growing pains you can experience. But it can be a whole lot better when you hear from others in the same boat. So, check out the stories of not one but two super successful agency owners as we talk about overcoming agency growing pains, including everything from their biggest challenges, to increasing prices and growing their teams.
Why Your Agency Needs to be on Facebook Live with Amy Porterfield
Facebook Live is one of the hottest ways to generate new agency business. You can spend tons of time and resources sending a hundred emails to your perfect prospects but you’ll earn more trust in just one live video than all those emails combined. Live streaming video is where it’s at… and your competition is not doing it yet, so you will stand out from all the “me too” agencies. So what are you waiting for?
Chris Dreyer on Why Your Agency Needs to Start With One Niche at a Time | Ep #193
Are you worried that defining a niche will limit your agency’s potential? Don’t be. Check out one agency’s story about how they grew past 7 figures in a very specific horizontal and vertical niche. Think: if you got paid on performance alone, what’s the ONE THING you do best to get you paid the most?
Increase Agency Revenue 4X in One Year With 2 Strategies with Zach Williams | Ep #152
Want to learn how to increase agency revenue four times over? Or are you having trouble finding your agency's nice and the best sales process for you? Don't worry, this week's Smart Agency Master Class has you covered.
About the Show
The popular agency podcast has been around since 2014 and covers everything from starting a successful agency to selling your agency. What makes this podcast a must-listen is Swenk’s background as the founder and CEO of an agency for over a decade. Swenk brings his own experience to the table, besides the expertise of his guests. He mostly covers topics that help growing agencies scale to the next level.
YOUR HOST
JASON SWENK
Smart Agency Masterclass
Jason is a family man who also happens to have created a couple big marketing agencies, helped thousands of agency owners, and had a big agency exit too.
