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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
147 episodes
Ep 147: Turn Your Secret Sauce into Systems That Scale
Summary In this solo episode, host Sean Lang breaks down why your agency’s “secret sauce” can’t live only in your head. If you want to grow, exit, or simply stop being the bottleneck, you need to transfer your expert...
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Ep 146: Why Most Agency Owners Stay Stuck at 15 Clients (And Never Build a Real Business) | with Matteo Denegri of Somcommerce
Summary:Most agency owners don't hit a ceiling because they're bad marketers, they hit it because they never evolve as leaders.If you're stuck doing all the work yourself, terrified of hiring, or wondering how to b...
Ep 145: The 11 Step Client Onboarding Framework Every Agency Needs
Summary:Most agencies think onboarding is about collecting logins and sending kickoff invites. It's not. The agencies that retain clients longest build confidence before they ever deliver results and that's exactly what ...
Ep 144: How a Former Designer Learned to Run an Entire Agency Through COVID | with Dominic Wong of Invoke
Summary:What happens when the thing that made you successful becomes the thing holding your agency back?For Dominic Wong, the transition from designer to agency leader wasn't about strategy, it was about identity. ...
EP 143: Stop Asking Your Team For Updates! Do This Instead
Summary:Most agency owners think asking for updates is part of leadership.It's not.If you're constantly sending Slack messages asking, "Where are we at with this?" you're not managing a team, you're compensa...
Ep 142: How Becoming the Loudest Voice in a Tiny Niche Creates Unlimited Leads | with Tim Minzer of Tidal Maketing
Summary:Most agency owners know they should niche down.Almost none of them actually do it.In this conversation, Tim Minzer shares the story of resisting specialization for years before finally committing to ...
Ep 141: The 9 Step Agency Design Sequence Most Founders Never Learn
Summary:Your agency doesn't struggle because of lack of growth, it struggles because of lack of intentional design.Most founders think more clients, more hires, and more revenue will solve their frustrations. In re...
Ep 140: The Black Friday That Made Him Quit the Agency Model Forever | with Thomas Lalas of The Art of eComm
Summary:Most agencies sell deliverables.The best operators solve expensive problems.In this conversation, Thomas Lalas explains why he walked away from both the traditional agency model and full time executi...
Ep 139: 5 Client Experience Mistakes That Kill Retention
Summary:Most agency owners are obsessed with client acquisition.But the agencies that scale fastest aren't necessarily the ones signing the most clients, they're the ones that keep the clients they've already earne...
Ep 138: Inside the AI Workforce Model Replacing Repetitive Agency Work | MJ Dewji of Oction Agency
Summary:What happens when an agency owner realizes the biggest bottleneck isn't marketing,It's people dependent operations.After six years running a digital marketing agency, MJ Dewji discovered something th...
Ep 137: Why You Will Never Sell Your Agency
Summary:A lot of agency owners dream about selling their business one day. Then reality hits.The agency that's generating revenue, paying your bills, and supporting your team may actually be worth very little to a ...
Ep 136: Why Agencies That “Add TikTok Shop” as a Service Usually Fail | with Alex Manning of Manning Media Group
Summary:TikTok Shop isn’t just another acquisition channel. It’s an operational stress test for your entire business.In this conversation, I talk with Alex Manning about what actually happens behind the scenes when...
Ep 135: The Client Handoff Framework I Wish I Built Years Earlier
Summary:There’s a stage almost every agency founder hits:You realize the entire client experience depends on you personally.Every important account depends on you. Every escalation lands on your desk. Every ...
Ep 134: How a 2 Person Agency Grew for 18 Years Without Hiring Employees | with Joel Miller of The Sky Floor
Summary:In this episode, I sit down with Joel Miller, co owner of The SkyFloor, to unpack how a two person agency survived nearly two decades, doubled revenue consistently, avoided bloated headcount, and built a business ...
Ep 133: 10 Signs You Have No Agency Culture
Summary:You don’t need more SOPs if your team still can’t make decisions without you.At a certain point, agency growth stops being about tactics and starts becoming about standards. And if those standards only exis...
Ep 132: Why Most Agencies Stay Stuck at “Good Results” Instead of Scaling Profitably | with Tim Burke of Conduit Digital
Summary:Most agencies say they care about ROI. Very few actually build their operations around it.In this episode, I sat down with Tim Burke, CEO of Conduit Digital, to unpack what separates agencies that scale pro...
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...
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...