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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
5 Agency Scaling Systems
Agency Scaling Systems – 5 Systems That Let You Stop Working IN the Business OperationsScale A Digital Marketing Agency

Agency Scaling Systems – 5 Systems That Let You Stop Working IN the Business

The moment you're the best at your job is the moment it traps you. I've talked to hundreds of agency owners who built successful businesses - $30K, $50K, even $80K/month - and hate every minute of it. They work 70-hour weeks. Every client wants to talk to them. Every project needs their approval. They haven't taken a real vacation in…
Josh Nelson
July 10, 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
Why Marketing Agencies Plateau at Six Figures, and How To Keep Moving Forward
Why Marketing Agencies Plateau at Six Figures, and How To Keep Moving Forward Agency Growth

Why Marketing Agencies Plateau at Six Figures, and How To Keep Moving Forward

When you started your marketing agency, you probably didn't do so with the goal of just barely scraping by. You wanted to grow a lucrative business that would allow you to step away from day-to-day operations and enjoy the fruits of your labor. But if you’re like many, you may feel stuck at a monthly recurring revenue between $30,000 and…
Josh Nelson
July 7, 2026
How to Build and Manage a 30-Person Remote Agency Team
How to Build and Manage a 30-Person Remote Agency Team How to run a successful marketing agencyOperations

How to Build and Manage a 30-Person Remote Agency Team

Tyler Williams runs a 30-person agency from outside Alaska - fully remote, a mix of onshore and offshore team members, serving 65+ plumbing clients across North America. No central office. No commute. No geographic limitations on who he can hire. When Tyler came on the Seven Figure Agency podcast, I wanted to dig into how he actually makes this work…
Josh Nelson
July 6, 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