The Agency Growth Blog - For Owners Who Want Growth

Sorry for the long pause between Part 1 and today's installment Part 2. I didn’t intend to take that much time off between posts, but my life has been extra upside down the last few months.

Besides taking care of all my agency clients, Square 2 has been going through some dramatic transformations, including adding a more technical engagement and doubling down on our Accelerator engagement.

Regardless, agency life goes on, and I’ve been wanting to get back to part two of this blog article for a while to answer the remaining five questions and continue helping other agency owners on their own journeys.

Companies Need The CEO Role To Be Filled, Not Manned Part-Time By Someone Working In The Agency

I hope the title resonated with many of you because in all the years of coaching and consulting with agency owners, this seems to be an issue for almost everyone.

You probably started this company because you’re awesome at PR, graphic design, building websites or getting companies found on Google, and now you're trying to do a whole bunch of other stuff.

While you used to spending all your time designing, now you’re handling sales, hiring, accounting, and real estate. You might not even be doing what you love. It’s the common e-Myth scenario. Pam the pie maker doesn’t spend any time making pies anymore.

The work you did to get you to this level is not the work you need to do to get you to the next level.

When it comes to blogging, one of the tricks I deploy is keeping a running list of potential blog article ideas. Then, when it comes down to writing an article, I look at the ideas, select the one I like and get started. Since this one is time sensitive, I thought it might be relevant as we’re already halfway through January already.

Over the past few years, I’ve worked with over 100 agency owners, all going through some degree of evolution from traditional agency to inbound agency. Unfortunately, I see a lot of the same issues at a variety of different agencies. I classify this as unfortunate because I would expect owners in this community to be more aware of mistakes other agencies make and then be on the lookout to avoid making the same mistakes themselves. But as I stated, that doesn’t appear to be the case.