agencies

“Our little trick we learned around this from the folks at Red Ventures was to get long wind down provisions in the agreements. And it's funny cause I'll tell this to agency owners and you'll see their head just explode when we talk about it. And I'm, you know,…”

“I think we're going to see more agencies doing programmatic SEO too. Cause like, you know, you had this one to two year window where you can do it, and I think search just changes.”

“The problem is that the market for people who offer paid ad services are either agencies, which are too expensive and like too big and just confusing, or douchey guys who are like 25 wearing a gold Rolex and look kind of intimidating.”

“Agencies are a really good business right now because it's super manual, like it's humans doing things. It's in a particular niche, like a good agency is focused on SaaS, FinTech. They're the best at, you know, just this one niche.”

“The big problem that a lot of agencies have is at the end of the year, they're making five percent EBITDA, three percent EBITDA, seven percent EBITDA. Like, they're very hard businesses to run because, you know, people aren't utilized.”

“If someone's average utilization rate, let's say, is above 70%, like, make it red. Like, that's scary. The potential burnout mode... I've owned agencies long enough to know that you, that's not the way to build a sustainable Business.”

“There's an opportunity to use something like this and basically do client work, but the service is, instead of having literal humans do it, you have, I mean, you're going to have some humans manage it, but a lot less humans, maybe a 20th of the amount of human…”