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Why me?
To drop all the jargon and get right to brass tacks: I know your business, I know what you’re feeling right now better than anyone, and I can take you from survive to thrive. I lived it for 15 years prior to selling my firm and starting a practice as a digital agency consultant.
Generally speaking, I sign on for a set period of time to help solve the pains common to people like yourself in a data-forward, measurable fashion. And the big one? I do it way faster than figuring it out yourself. Trust me, I did it that way and it is painful, costly, and generally not a whole lot of fun.
Areas of Service
Odds are, whatever problem you’re facing right now is one that I’ve stared down the barrel of too. My digital agency consultant services fall into these 5 areas, and every solution is data-oriented so you actually know what’s working and what’s not.
Sales & Marketing
Get more leads, make more money, and do it way more efficiently – the value proposition here is pretty straightforward. Sales & marketing begins with proper positioning of your firm. Then, let’s develop and install a feasible marketing strategy that leads into a mature, measurable, and fast sales system.
Agency Operations
Agency operations – or service delivery, if you want to call it that – is where the rubber hits the road. It’s why clients hire you, and why your staff work for you. Get help measuring, monitoring, and empowering your departments. Learn how to grow leaders, improve efficiency, responsibly delegate, retain staff, make more money, and keep your clients happy.
Finance
Once I sorted out simple and effective financial benchmarks and strategies that didn’t take forever, I started sleeping a lot better at night. If digital agency finance is a pain point for you, then let’s sort out how to measure, monitor, forecast and improve your profitability and cash flow.
Long-term Strategy
As the saying goes: if you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there? My simple strategic plan defines long-term goals, then works backwards in order to align them with quarterly goals and, importantly, how you’ll hit them. Plow through those, and you’re golden.
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Exiting
Whether looking at a merger / acquisition as a growth strategy, or you’re looking to exit your firm at some point in the future, I’ve been on all sides. I can provide valuation, help you prepare to sell in order to maximize your return, and help navigate the M&A journey.
Digital Agency Consultant Insights
Insights is where I publish my thoughts, tips, tricks, and actionable advice on running less stressful and more profitable digital firms – along with a little bit of general life learnings sometimes. Here’s the latest:
14 Big Lessons I Learned in 2023
I went through an incredible amount of change in 2023: I had a 5-year relationship turn sour, become exceptionally damaging, and finally end. At the same time, I was hiring my replacement at work and…
On Exiting The Agency I Founded
Today is my last day at Paper Leaf. For those who don’t know, PL is the digital shop I started back in 2009 with Andy, my cofounder, who I then bought out in 2018. In…
On 10 Years of Running a Design Agency
Paper Leaf turns 10 years old today. I’m bad at stopping to recognize a moment, never mind celebrating, so I’m making an effort to do that here. When we started PL, we were as green…