Comments on: 10 daily steps to grow your agency without sales, marketing, or stress http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/10-daily-steps-to-grow-your-agency-without-sales-marketing-or-stress/2008/04/12/ SEO SEM and the world of search marketing Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:27:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Philip Shaw http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/10-daily-steps-to-grow-your-agency-without-sales-marketing-or-stress/2008/04/12/#comment-128818 Philip Shaw Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:39:25 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/10-daily-steps-to-grow-your-agency-without-sales-marketing-or-stress/2008/04/12/#comment-128818 Wil, some great points which will help with our planning for 2010. I like the "Jerk Radar". It is closely related to the "Give me a ton of free consulting" Radar. Both types of people kill profitably. Thanks for the info. Philip. Wil, some great points which will help with our planning for 2010. I like the “Jerk Radar”. It is closely related to the “Give me a ton of free consulting” Radar. Both types of people kill profitably.

Thanks for the info.

Philip.

]]> By: Jon Payne http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/10-daily-steps-to-grow-your-agency-without-sales-marketing-or-stress/2008/04/12/#comment-42976 Jon Payne Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:32:26 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/10-daily-steps-to-grow-your-agency-without-sales-marketing-or-stress/2008/04/12/#comment-42976 Yeah its tough to turn down opportunities - but if you commit yourself to viewing your time as a resource that's even more finite than money, than you realize you can part ways with a bad opportunity and re-allocate that time for something better... either a more profitable, more enjoyable client or even just plain staring at the wall :) Sometimes that's an improvement! Opportunity Cost. Of course I "say" this. I even have a sign on my bulletin board no more than 4 feet from me every day that says "no new clients" to try and encourage me not to take new business and focus on what we have. Yet, I'm a total hypocrite. I find that many small-firm SEO and Web Design owners that I deal with are much the same way. We all take on way too much work even though we know we should be more selective. Yeah its tough to turn down opportunities – but if you commit yourself to viewing your time as a resource that’s even more finite than money, than you realize you can part ways with a bad opportunity and re-allocate that time for something better… either a more profitable, more enjoyable client or even just plain staring at the wall :) Sometimes that’s an improvement!

Opportunity Cost.

Of course I “say” this. I even have a sign on my bulletin board no more than 4 feet from me every day that says “no new clients” to try and encourage me not to take new business and focus on what we have. Yet, I’m a total hypocrite. I find that many small-firm SEO and Web Design owners that I deal with are much the same way. We all take on way too much work even though we know we should be more selective.

]]> By: wil http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/10-daily-steps-to-grow-your-agency-without-sales-marketing-or-stress/2008/04/12/#comment-42937 wil Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:54:45 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/10-daily-steps-to-grow-your-agency-without-sales-marketing-or-stress/2008/04/12/#comment-42937 Jon, Ha, you had me there for a second. I know every time I walk away from an opportunity I am nervous, because I don't always know that another one is right around the corner, but as fate would have it something better always springs up. Jon,
Ha, you had me there for a second. I know every time I walk away from an opportunity I am nervous, because I don’t always know that another one is right around the corner, but as fate would have it something better always springs up.

]]> By: Jon Payne http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/10-daily-steps-to-grow-your-agency-without-sales-marketing-or-stress/2008/04/12/#comment-42307 Jon Payne Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:08:03 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/10-daily-steps-to-grow-your-agency-without-sales-marketing-or-stress/2008/04/12/#comment-42307 So I don't want to be some "douchebag" who says "great post, I agree". I won't. Your post sucks Wil, you have no idea what you are talking about. Okay kidding aside, I very much agree with a number of your points here. Especially hiring people with passion, and even more so the idea of not working with jerks and turning clients away. A bad client will cost you more in unproductivity and admin nightmares and your time is better spent by parting ways and freeing up that time for a better client. Let me know if you are in the Baltimore area sometime soon - I'd like to treat you to lunch and pick your brain a bit as I grow my SEO agency from very small to slightly larger... So I don’t want to be some “douchebag” who says “great post, I agree”.

I won’t. Your post sucks Wil, you have no idea what you are talking about.

Okay kidding aside, I very much agree with a number of your points here. Especially hiring people with passion, and even more so the idea of not working with jerks and turning clients away. A bad client will cost you more in unproductivity and admin nightmares and your time is better spent by parting ways and freeing up that time for a better client.

Let me know if you are in the Baltimore area sometime soon – I’d like to treat you to lunch and pick your brain a bit as I grow my SEO agency from very small to slightly larger…

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