In Digital Marketing
How To Start A Digital Marketing Agency From Scratch In 2022 - read the full article about Digital marketing 2022, Digital Marketing and All digital inbound channels from Neil Patel on Qualified.One
Youtube Blogger
- How to start a digital marketing agency from scratch in 2022.
So youre probably wondering, hey, agencies make a ton of money, and they do.
And by the end of this video, youll know exactly how to build a agency starting from scratch with no team, no money, and no network.
And I can tell you from experience what it looks like to start a agency with and without money and the resources.
Ive done it in both ways.
Heres the main difference between them.
When you have money, you can quickly hire people who are going to build business for you and focus on whatever is their strength.
And you can focus on your strength.
Im good with content marketing.
Im good with SEO.
So I focus my efforts on driving traffic to my business, whether its creating videos like this, or writing blog post content, or speaking at events.
The rest of my team focus on other areas that I know that theyre great at, such as management, client services, strategy.
I also help with some strategy, but more so I do that because I love it.
Im a marketer.
Now, when you dont have money, youll need to wear a few different hats to run the business and deliver the results to your clients, especially if you want them to be satisfied.
Youll need to know which hats you need to wear, or youll get completely distracted from things thatll actually grow your business and keep your clients happy.
According to eMarketer, in 2021, digital ad spending worldwide has grown by 29.1%, reaching a historical high of 491 billion, not million, but billion dollars.
A lot of people want a slice of that pie, but its a large enough industry for you to be able to grow that agency and make a lot of clients happy while becoming wealthy.
So lets go over the core things you need to focus on when youre starting an agency today, especially in your first year.
Number one, focus on getting a niche expertise.
Businesses that get paid by their clients on a reoccurring basis, or at least high-ticket products or services, they typically focus on one thing, right? Is it e-commerce or are you doing marketing for B2B? Pick one specific thing.
Focus number two, client acquisition.
When you want clients, go with businesses that are focused on investing and growth, people who are spending money on Google Ads, or spending money on social ads like Facebook.
You can look at peoples Facebook ad library to see if theyre running any ads recently.
Tools like SpyFu, Ubersuggest, they all show you this.
I have an entire video on how you can get more customers from your agency, and you should go and check it out.
The link, by the way, is in the description.
Focus number three, delivering amazing services and results.
Look, services, businesses, most of its word of mouth.
If you do a crap job, youre not really going to grow.
So make sure that whatever activities youre doing for your clients, youre focused on getting them results.
Focus on building a result-based portfolio, so that way people keep referring you to their friends.
Business owners know more business owners.
Focus number four, documenting processes.
Start at a high level, then go more in depth.
And dont worry about perfection.
Processes change over time.
Focus number five, self-management.
You need to be great at managing not just other peoples time, but your own time.
You need to be super organized.
You know those people who have really messy desktop computers? That cant be you.
Clean it up.
Stay organized.
Use basic product management platforms like Trello, Basecamp, Asana, Notion.
Stick to your deadlines.
Do not over-commit.
Do not over-promise.
Deliver upon what you agreed upon.
And ideally, deliver more than what you agreed upon.
Focus number six, hiring and staffing.
Happens to you when you start scaling up.
Look, the bigger you get, the more people youre going to need.
Youre going to need to learn how to delegate those low-value tasks, so then that way youre focusing on the most important things that are generating you ROI.
Make sure you get people who have achieved the results youre looking for a few times in the past, because theyre much more likely to do better versus people have to learn on the job.
That way you dont need to do tons of training and management and theyre self-sufficient.
Neil Patel: How To Start A Digital Marketing Agency From Scratch In 2022 - Digital Marketing