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The Agency Uplift Podcast
The Agency Uplift Podcast: Agency Scaling Strategies & Growth Tips
Unlock proven frameworks, AI‑powered workflows, and client acquisition blueprints to scale your digital agency from freelance to Fortune. Each week, host Sean Lang, co‑founder of Social Commerce Club and agency growth coach, sits down with a wide array of agency leaders—sharing battle‑tested tactics on profitability, processes, and people management.
Whether you’re aiming to double client retention, streamline operations, or boost ad ROI, you’ll walk away with actionable insights and playbooks you can implement today. New episodes every Monday and Wednesday, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.
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Episodes
131 episodes
Ep 131: The Daily Sales Discipline That Prevents Feast or Famine Revenue Cycles
Summary:The pipeline doesn’t disappear overnight.It dies slowly, one skipped outreach session, one client fire, one busy week at a time, and by the time most agency owners notice the problem, they’re already too la...
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Ep 130: Why “Custom Work” Is Actually Killing Your Agency | with Stephen Cozzolongo of Digital Position
Summary:Most agencies aren’t failing because they lack effort. They’re failing because they’re doing the wrong work.If you’ve ever felt like you’re busy all day but your agency isn’t actually growing, this...
Ep 129: How I Finally Got Out of Delivery After Years of Being the Bottleneck
Summary:Your agency isn’t chaotic because of bad hires.It’s chaotic because you can’t see what’s actually happening.Most founders think they need better people, more meetings, or tighter processes. But...
Ep 128: Why Agencies That “Look Legit” Still Fail to Scale | with Matt Reminick of Sunnyside
Summary:Most agency owners think their problem is leads.It’s not. It’s positioning, people, and a completely broken definition of “results.”In this episode, I sit down with Matt Raminick to break down what a...
Ep 127: Why Your Agency Can’t Scale (As Long As You’re Still in Delivery)
Summary:You think your agency needs more leads, better systems, or stronger hires.But the real constraint? It’s you.More specifically, the version of you still stuck in client delivery.In this solo episo...
Ep 126: Why Most Agencies Stay Unprofitable Past $1.5M (And Don’t Even Know It) | with Eli Rubel of Profit Labs
Summary:Most agency owners have a profit clarity problem.The worst part: You can hit $1.5M+ in revenue while still flying completely blind.In this episode, I sit down with Eli Rubel to break down what’s ...
Ep 125: 5 decisions that keep your agency from getting massive
Summary:If your agency feels harder to run as it grows, that’s not normal.It’s a sign you’re scaling the wrong things.In this episode, I walk through the exact mistakes that keep agencies stuck under $3M and wh...
EP 124: How to Land $100K/Month Ad Accounts Without Doing 10x More Work | Jeremy Yang of Digital Goliath
Summary:You don’t scale an agency by grinding harder.You scale by changing the game you’re playing.In this conversation, I break down with Jeremy Yang what actually shifts when you move from small clients to se...
EP 123: How to Avoid $50K Hiring Mistakes With One Simple Framework (30-60-90)
Summary:Hiring isn’t your biggest problem. Keeping the wrong hire too long is.If you’ve ever “hoped things would improve” while silently bleeding time, money, and team energy, this episode will hit hard.I break...
EP 122: Why Most Agencies Fail at Retention (And Keep Bleeding Profit) | with Jordan Narducci of DTCPG
Summary:Most agencies are obsessed with acquisition and it’s quietly killing their margins.In this episode, I sat down with Jordan Narducci to unpack why retention is the most ignored (and highest ROI) lever in you...
EP 121: Why Most Agency “All Hands” Meetings Are a Complete Waste of Time (And Killing Your Culture)
Summary:Most agency owners think they’re running effective team meetings but they’re actually draining energy, killing alignment, and wasting hours every week.If your “all hands” meeting is just a client roll call,...
EP 120: You’re Undercharging by 10X (But You Can’t Prove It Yet) | with Benas Leonavicius
Summary:The problem isn’t your service, it’s that you can’t prove it works.If you’re stuck at $10K/month, this episode shows exactly why and how to break through without more clients.This is a live consultation...
EP 119: The “Founder Dependency” Problem Keeping You Stuck
Summary:If your agency is stuck between $500K and $1M, it’s not your marketing, your offer, or even your team. It’s you.More specifically, it’s how you’re running the business that’s quietly capping your growth.
EP 118: The “Problem First” Positioning Strategy That Prints Pipeline | with Chris Dubois of Dynamic Agency OS
Summary:Most agencies don’t have an operations problem.They have a demand problem they’re trying to fix with busywork.If you’re stuck refining SOPs, tweaking delivery, and still struggling to bring in consisten...
Ep 117: The Profit Tracker Framework I Use to Expose Bad Clients
Summary:Most agencies don’t struggle with revenue, they struggle with invisible losses.If your agency looks busy but your bank account says otherwise, this episode will show you exactly why.Take...
EP 116: Live Consult: The Soft ICP Strategy That Simplifies Agency Chaos | with Nick Desrocher of GroClix
Summary:Most agencies don’t struggle because they can’t get clients. They struggle because they say yes to too many services, too many industries, and too many different problems.In this live consult episode, I sit...
EP 115: 10 Ways Agency Owners Train Their Teams to Depend On Them
Summary:Your team isn’t dependent on you by accident.In most agencies, founders unknowingly train their teams to rely on them for every decision.If you feel like you're the bottleneck in your agency, this episo...
Ep 114: The “Embedded Partner” Strategy That Turns Agencies Into Irreplaceable Growth Drivers | with Nikki Lindgren of Pennock
Summary:Most agencies think the goal is higher ROAS.But sometimes the very metrics clients celebrate are the ones quietly killing their growth.In this episode, I sit down with Nikki Lindgren, founder of
EP 113: The 10 Truths Agency Owners Are Too Afraid to Say Out Loud
Summary: If you think running an agency will give you freedom, think again. Behind every “successful” agency are secrets, lost vacations, key employees carrying the business, and clients quietly draining profits. I’m...
Ep 112: The Niche Within a Niche Strategy That Made Sales Easy | with Allan Khazak of Vroom Media Group
Summary:Most agencies don’t fail because they can’t get clients.They fail because they never simplify enough to scale.If you’re stuck juggling fulfillment, sales, and operations and feel like growth is making t...
EP 111: Why Hiring an Operations Manager Too Early Can Sink Your Agency
Summary:Feeling like your agency is running in circles? You’re not alone. Many founders think the solution to chaos is a single hire: an operations manager. I thought the same and I learned the hard way that hiring too so...
Ep 110: Stop Hiding Behind Client Work (If You Want to Scale) | with Kelly Schuknecht of Two Mile High Marketing
Summary:If you’re great at delivery but invisible in the market, this episode is for you.Too many agency owners hide behind operations. They build amazing systems but never build their own authority.In this con...
EP 109: Your Expanding Service List Is Destroying Your Agency
Summary:Most agencies don’t fail because of bad sales.They fail because of uncontrolled complexity.If you’re offering SEO, paid ads, web design, email, AI automation, CRO, branding, and “whatever else the clien...
Ep 108: How a 16 Person Agency Landed Global Brands Like Disney and Jack Daniel’s | with T. Christian Helms of Helms Workshop
Summary:Most agencies don’t fail because they lack talent.They fail because they scale chaos.In this episode, I sit down with T. Christian Helms, founder of Helms Workshop, to unpack how he rebuilt his agency a...
EP 107: Why Most Agencies Fail Without These 3 Operating Principles
Summary:Are you running your agency like a firefighter, constantly putting out fires, chasing updates, and feeling like you’re the project manager for everything? You don’t need another core values workshop to fix this. Y...