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How to Restructure Your Calendar When Running Multiple Businesses (Our Exact System) Agency GrowthOperationsScale A Digital Marketing Agency

How to Restructure Your Calendar When Running Multiple Businesses (Our Exact System)

Your Calendar Is Lying to You About How Busy You Actually Need to Be Yesenia looked at our calendar and said, "This is insane." She was right. Every single day was stacked with meetings. Sales check-ins, operations syncs, leadership huddles, content planning, team one-on-ones - scattered across the entire week like shrapnel. And here's what hit me hardest: I started…
Josh Nelson
July 20, 2026
How AI Is Already Replacing Agency Work – Content, Web Dev, and Ads Agency GrowthScale A Digital Marketing Agency

How AI Is Already Replacing Agency Work – Content, Web Dev, and Ads

Three years ago, writing 20 city pages for a plumbing client took our content team two full weeks. Today, with AI built into our workflow, we produce higher-quality versions of that same content in two days. That's not a hypothetical. That's what's happening right now inside Plumbing & HVAC SEO, the agency I run alongside Seven Figure Agency. In a…
Josh Nelson
July 17, 2026
Agency Growth

How We Run Two Multiple Seven-Figure Businesses Together Without Burning Out

How We Run Two Multiple Seven-Figure Businesses Together Without Burning Out Most people assume that running one successful business is hard enough. Running two multiple seven-figure companies at the same time, as a couple, while homeschooling three kids, is a completely different challenge. It does not happen by accident. It happens by design. In this episode of the Scaling Together…
Josh Nelson
July 15, 2026
What Agency Owners Get Wrong About AI (And What a PE Firm’s Research Actually Shows) Agency GrowthScale A Digital Marketing Agency

What Agency Owners Get Wrong About AI (And What a PE Firm’s Research Actually Shows)

I talk to agency owners every single week. And right now, the same conversation keeps coming up. “Josh, is AI going to put me out of business?” Here's my honest answer: If you keep doing what you're doing and pretend nothing's changed? Probably. But if you pay attention to what's actually happening – not what the fear-mongers on X are…
Josh Nelson
July 14, 2026
Why Client Indifference Kills Agencies Faster Than Bad Results
Why Client Indifference Kills Agencies Faster Than Bad Results Agency GrowthClient Retention

Why Client Indifference Kills Agencies Faster Than Bad Results

Bad results don't kill agency-client relationships. Indifference does. Tyler Williams dropped this truth on the Seven Figure Agency podcast, and it stopped me in my tracks. He's been running Mammoth Marketing for plumbing companies for years, built the business to $160K MRR with 65+ clients, and when I asked him about retention - the thing that keeps agency owners up…
Josh Nelson
July 9, 2026
Scale Your Agency to 100K per Month
How to Scale a Marketing Agency to $100K/Month Agency GrowthScale A Digital Marketing Agency

How to Scale a Marketing Agency to $100K/Month

Every agency I've seen cross $100K/month did three things: niched hard, systematized delivery, and built a sales function that doesn't depend on the founder. That's the direct answer. The longer answer involves math, team structure, and a handful of structural shifts that most agency owners resist until they're forced into them. I'm going to walk through all of it -…
Josh Nelson
July 3, 2026
How One YouTube Short a Day Became This Agency Owner's Best Lead Gen Channel
How One YouTube Short a Day Became This Agency Owner’s Best Lead Gen Channel Agency GrowthLanding Clients

How One YouTube Short a Day Became This Agency Owner’s Best Lead Gen Channel

Tyler Williams posts one YouTube Short per day. Sometimes two. That's it - that's the strategy that turned into his cheapest and most effective lead generation channel, beating out paid ads, referral partnerships, and everything else he'd tried over 10 years of running an agency. No professional studio. No scripts written by a copywriter. No $5,000-a-month video production team. Just…
Josh Nelson
July 2, 2026
How to Pick a Niche for Your Agency
How to Pick a Niche for Your Marketing Agency Agency GrowthGetting Started

How to Pick a Niche for Your Marketing Agency

I tried to serve everyone. Here's what happened. My first agency sold websites to anyone who'd pay - dentists, lawyers, restaurants, landscapers, a guy who sold custom fish tanks. Every project was different. Every proposal was custom. Every deliverable was built from scratch. Four years in, I was working 80+ hours a week and still couldn't cover my living expenses.…
Josh Nelson
June 30, 2026
How Tyler Williams Built a 7-Figure Plumbing Marketing Agency (From Generalist to Niche Specialist)
How Tyler Williams Built a 7-Figure Plumbing Marketing Agency (From Generalist to Niche Specialist) Agency GrowthAgency Interviews

How Tyler Williams Built a 7-Figure Plumbing Marketing Agency (From Generalist to Niche Specialist)

Tyler Williams used to sell TV and radio ads in Fairbanks, Alaska. General clients, general work, general headaches. Every new customer meant rebuilding everything from scratch - strategy, creative, onboarding, fulfillment. His team was scattered across industries with zero repeatable systems. Today, Tyler runs Mammoth Marketing, a plumbing-only agency doing roughly $160K in monthly recurring revenue with 65+ clients across…
Josh Nelson
June 29, 2026