Dennis Yu

Communication

Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors: What It Really Takes to Build a Successful Marketing Agency

This is a guest post by Nick Jaworski of Circle Social Inc. Owning multiple 7-figure digital marketing agencies, I never found the typical social media crowd very helpful. There are a lot of smoke and mirrors in the digital marketing world. Fake gurus are everywhere, but even the bonafide have never appealed to me very …

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You can’t please everyone, so don’t make the same mistake I did.

You can show your care in a couple of sentences. But don’t make the mistake I’ve made with one Office Hours subscriber specifically, where I’ve given him hours of my time privately to help him build his brand. He wanted me to join his podcast several times, then canceled and no-showed, which is not good …

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Communicate.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed…COMMUNICATE. If you’re not sure what to do next…COMMUNICATE. If you’re not feeling motivated…COMMUNICATE. Not asking for help is a sure way to spiral down when the inevitable challenges come. And no matter how good your reasons may appear, the end result of failure is still the same– you didn’t get your …

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As painful as it sounds, you have to allow people to fail.

But have safety nets in place so that the price of failure is a bruised ego instead of catastrophic loss to your client or your company. Coach them along the way and provide positive feedback, so iteration allows for minor course corrections. Are you going off the rails? And if not, why aren’t you giving …

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Let me share with you one of the most powerful phrases I know…

This is what you say when your friends hit you up for free consulting. After all, you’re a social media marketing pro, and social media is free– so your help is free, too, right? You and I spend all day long just hanging out on Twitter and Facebook doing teenager-type stuff– not anything important. So …

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