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What it takes to be a Successful Social Media Consultant – Interview with Rodger Johnson

Summary:

Bala interviews Rodger Johnson, the founder of SociallyRelevant.us. Rodger is a social media consultant & a communications strategist. He is currently pursuing his Doctorate on this subject.

Rodger has moved from various lines of work to choose the field he loves now. He shares his story on how he started out and what he has learnt from this field of work. From various tips on how to run a Social Media Command center, to the important metrics that need to be measured in social media marketing, are shared in this interesting conversation.

lessons from a marketing agency entrepreneur

It’s no easy task running a successful marketing agency and doing so for 18+ years can take some genius.We spoke to Johan Hedin, the Founder of Marketing Ignite who has been a successful agency entrepreneur from 1998. He shares his perspective on marketing to clients & how to understand and deal with customers.

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What it takes to run a successful Content Marketing Agency – Interview with Andreea

If you want to hear the podcast version, please click here.

A Brief intro

Andreea is the founder of the School of Content.
She has been in the content writing business for more than 8 years now and started off as a freelancer.
Has started a Content Marketing Agency focusing just on Romanian clients

Figuring out the right content strategy with each client

Understand needs and expectations of the clients clearly and evaluate whether the content is to be written for the purpose of branding, traffic, leads, sales, etc.
Do a thorough audit of all existing content assets and identify any content opportunities & gaps.
Research the market to see how competitors in the same or similar industries are going about their content marketing. Pick & learn from the best.

Formula to remember:

Influencer Marketing Agency - Interview with Nick White

It’s hard getting the attention of your target audience, what with the number of competing products and ever growing mediums of communication these days. Your audiences have too many options to choose from, they have ads barging in at them from all sides and they don’t really choose products any more based on just the ads they see. Ads are no longer as effective as they used to once be and moreover, the trust of a consumer is not easily earned via ads. This is where something like influencer marketing can help. Getting influential opinion leaders in your line of work to talk about your product or service, directly or indirectly, can really go a long way in helping you reach out to the right audience in a much more effective way than traditional ads.

Reach out to the right audience by getting influential leaders talk about your product, directly or indirectly

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Given the importance of this space, there have been a few agencies who have chosen to specialize in this field. We decided to interview Nick White, the co-founder of Silkworm social, who runs one such agency that specializes in influencer marketing. He had some interesting things to stay about what his agency does, how they go about it, how influencer marketing really works and he also shared some success stories that can be great take-aways for you. Read More

Why is it hard for agencies to get “Great Clients” & clients to get “Great Agencies”?

“Within the proposal, a lot of agencies are actually really bad in telling the potential client what they are going to get with their money. They’re not concerned talking about the results.”

“They [the clients] make money but they don’t know why they make money? Or how they make money?”

“There were huge holes in my business model. I really wasted a few months of time, doing that as opposed to going in the direction I am going now. ”

What are the common mistakes agencies make when pitching to clients? What are the common mistakes clients make when it comes to selecting an agency? Learn answers to these and a lot more in an insightful conversation we had with John Doherty, the founder of Credo, marketplace to connect businesses with the right marketing professional.

Watch or Listen to the full interview: (transcript and summary available as well)

Darrell Evans and Mondovo Interview - Agency 1 on 1

“We close 40% of the proposals we send. And for the 60% who didn’t close … I’ll tell you what, we didn’t close what is called the ‘Knowledge Gap’”

“We are ok with spending up to $2,800 for acquiring a customer”

“Networking is a great revenue source but it is not scalable and if you are planning to scale up your company, networking is not going to do it.”

What does it take to run a successful marketing agency? Are you pre-qualifying and filtering your leads before spending too much time on them? Are you educating your customers? How do you deal with clients that are not the right fit. Get answers to these and a lot more in an insightful conversation we had with Darrell Evans, the co-founder of a Las Vegas based marketing agency called Yokel Local.

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What it takes to be a successful “Sales Funnel Consultant” – Interview with Stephen Esketzis

Interview with Stephen Esketzis - Mondovo

“Have done six figures in revenues with a few sales funnels.”

“Leads cost me between $100 to $200 for extremely qualified leads.”

How many conversions do you drive to your clients’ websites? Are your clients’ sales funnels optimized? Are you taking on clients that are qualified enough for what you offer or are you wasting your time with the wrong clients?

Lessons on these questions and more in a freewheeling interview with Stephen Esketzis, an experienced sales funnel architect.

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How to effectively deliver bad news to your SEO clients and yet keep them happy?

Make SEO Clients Happy & Retain Them

This is the second post in a two-part blog series. If you haven’t already done so, do read the first part about how you can use the Rank Drop Quadrant to analyze why rankings have fallen.

If you are an SEO consultant or professional, it is an unfortunate but ultimately unavoidable situation: something goes wrong, the client’s search rankings drop and you then need to communicate the bad news to your client. After all, it is part of your job to manage your SEO clients expectations and to keep them happy. Retaining your client can be hard at such times, especially when you would be the first person they would blame for any sudden drop in their rankings/traffic. So it’s important and necessary that you deal with such situations tactfully and communicate such bad news carefully.

As we covered in the first part, if you are dealing with lost google rankings for your SEO client, you may first want to use the Rank Drop Quadrant to analyze what could’ve gone wrong. It’s good to be able to map the situation out in your head and know how bad (or not bad) the situation is before communicating such news to your client.

So, now that you have gone through the Quadrant and understood the possible reasons for the drop, it’s time we communicate this information to our client/boss in the right way. After all, the cost of losing a client is much higher than acquiring new ones.

1. Skip the Denial Stage

Imagine the situation: you go into the office on a Monday morning only to find that your client’s website has dropped for all keywords in the SERPs. What do you do?

The inclination is probably to tell everyone that if anyone calls, you’re not in the office. In truth, that’s the absolute worst thing you can do. You need to call the client before they call you. Yes, they might get very vocal about their level of disappointment and unhappiness but they will also appreciate the fact that you noticed straight away when things went wrong. Communicating bad news is always better when done as soon as possible, you then have enough time to deal with recovering from the situation instead of wasting time denying the situation. Read More

Getting Started with the Keyword Research Tool

Mondovo’s Keyword Research tool allows you to generate a list of relevant keywords from a set of keywords or URLs you enter. It consists of 2 sub-tools viz Keyword Research & Content Ideas. The Keyword Research tool helps with the following:

Researching and discovering new and effective keyword opportunities for your marketing campaigns

Fine-tuning your SEO on-page strategy

Coming up with new content ideas

Monitor trending keywords

We will discuss in detail about “Content Ideas” in the later part of this tutorial. For now let’s focus on “Keyword Research”. Getting started with the Keyword Research tool is an easy task and is explained in detail in the following steps:

Step 1:

Login to your Mondovo account and select Keyword Research (under SEO Tools) from the left menu. In case you’re a new user, you can create a new Mondovo account in less than 2 mins.

Lessons from a Marketing Agency Entrepreneur serving 120+ clients globally

What it takes to run a successful Content Marketing Agency – Interview with Andreea

What it takes to run a Successful Influencer Marketing Agency – Interview with Nick White

Why is it hard for agencies to get “Great Clients” & clients to get “Great Agencies”?

How this Agency closes 40% of its proposals, tripled its monthly retainers and doubled their annual revenues

What it takes to be a successful “Sales Funnel Consultant” – Interview with Stephen Esketzis

Getting Started with the Keyword Research Tool