Episode 355: What Agency Owners Can Expect in 2022 with Nick Shackelford
Perpetual Traffic
Tier 11
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Digital ad agencies got their worlds rocked from every side in 2021. What do they need to know if they want to survive (and thrive in) 2022?
In today’s episode, co-hosts Ralph Burn and Kasim Aslam sit down once again with Nick Shackelford, founder and CEO of Structured Agency. Nick is uniquely positioned to talk about this because his agency saw so much growth and then so much loss in terms of brand acquisition and brand churn in 2021. Ralph says agencies had gotten lazy, and those days are done and gone, but he’s still super optimistic about the agency space.
Listen in to hear why Nick thinks 2022 is going to be the absolutely best year for digital ecommerce and online marketing.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
- Why you need a backlog or consistent inbound of content to test when running paid ads
- Why Ralph thinks some agencies that floundered in 2021 deserved it
- Why 2022 might be a great time to sell your agency
- Why there will ALWAYS be a market for digital ad agencies (if you do it right)
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For most people in the digital space, 2020 was a good year. On the traffic side,
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, Ralph here with something that could seriously upgrade your top of funnel ad game. |
| 0:06.8 | If you've been a PT listener for any period of time, you know that we talk about top of funnel |
| 0:10.5 | all the time and how challenging it is for you to get quality top of funnel clients or leads |
| 0:17.9 | or customers and then convert them typically at bottom of funnel. |
| 0:22.9 | Well, TV advertising is one of those areas that we haven't discussed here on PT all that much. |
| 0:29.4 | But our friends over at AdCritter have figured this stuff out. |
| 0:33.2 | They do connect to TV ads so you can be everywhere without spending millions on Super Bowl ads, |
| 0:39.9 | but they pair it with display retargeting. So you're hitting the audiences with a complete approach. |
| 0:46.4 | You reach them, then you remind them, and then you collect the revenue. It's a strategy |
| 0:52.1 | designed to deliver, and let me tell you, it really |
| 0:55.6 | works. We're testing this at Tier 11, and so far, the results have been very impressive. Now, |
| 1:01.6 | with AdCritter, creating custom audiences are so easy. You don't need to reformat files. You don't |
| 1:07.3 | need to mess around with complex spreadsheets. You just upload any file in any format and you're ready to go. |
| 1:13.0 | And the match rate is awesome. |
| 1:15.1 | They make it easy to connect with the right people, |
| 1:17.4 | the actual people that have interacted with your ads in the past, |
| 1:20.7 | and then allow them to naturally flow through your funnel |
| 1:23.7 | so you can convert them at bottom of funnel. |
| 1:26.9 | Now, the folks at AdCriter, we twisted |
| 1:28.8 | their arm to get us a great deal for you, the PT listener. They are offering a special deal for y'all, |
| 1:35.1 | and that is you can get a $500 campaign credit, meaning $500 in free money to test out the platform |
| 1:41.9 | or dollar for dollar matching on any TV campaign up to five grand. |
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