How to Leverage Directories to Acquire Clients for Your Agency with Robby Berthume – Episode 17
About This Episode:
In this episode, Robby Berthume from Bull and Beardstops by to share his expertise on using agency directories to drive new business for creative agencies. He shares his perspective from running an agency collective and facilitating the matchmaking process for large brands and takes us inside the mind of the brand as they search for their next agency.
About Robby:
Robby is a former digital agency owner. He started it at 14 and eventually was named top 20 in their 20s by LA Biz Journal and achieved seven figure revenue.
Since 2013, He’s been the CEO ofBull Beard, an agency collective that helps large brands get vouched and vetted talent for their products.
They recently launchedAgency Match, which connects brands with vetted and vouched-for specialized agencies, shortcutting the shortlist and breaking down the barriers and brinkmanship.
He’s been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Success, Entrepreneur, Fox News, Inc., HuffPost, Mashable and just about every where else.
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Marcel Petitpas
CEO & Co-Founder
Based in Moncton, NB Canada Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto. He's on a mission to build the worlds best workplace at Parakeeto. He believes work should give us more energy and inspiration to serve our families and communities, not drain us of our will to live. He started Parakeeto so he could help agencies create and predictable and stable environment, so they can produce their best work and live a more balanced life.
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