How Do I Grow My Business From Freelancing Into An Agency?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today's question comes from Tom, who is interested in growing his freelancing business to a small agency. How does he go about this? Tom’s site is http://www.convertdigital.co.uk/. In this episode, I mention my Smart Passive Income interview with Brian Casel, which covers “productizing” your business (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/how-to-productize-your-service-based-business/). Also check out his resource on productizing (http://askpat.com/productize). I also recommend the AskPat sponsor Zip Recruiter (http://www.ziprecruiter.com/pat). Do you have a question about your small business? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to today's sponsor, AWeber. Your email list is your most valuable asset—get started today. Go to http://www.aweber.com/askpat. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	What up?
0:01.0	AskPath.
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0:05.0	.com
0:07.0	Dot com.
0:09.0	Askpads.
0:10.0	What up everybody, Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 397 of Ask Pat.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.0	Before we get to today's question from Tom, I do want to thank today's sponsor, an amazing company that I've used ever since I started building an email list to help me build my email list, and that is Aweber.Aweber. Aweber. A.W.E.E.R.com. They make it super easy for you to start building your email list, start collecting that database of potential customers or even people who are customers already so that you can then better serve
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0:45.8	are pre-written that get sent out sequentially over time to people that help you stay connected
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0:59.6	by going to aweber.com slash ask pat. All right, here's today's question from Tom.
1:06.3	Hi, Pat. This is Tom Clark from convertdigital.com.
1:22.3	My question to you is, how do you grow a business like an SEO business from being freelance to small agency,
1:31.0	bearing in mind developing it from, you know, hitting your capacity to taking it into, taking someone on. What is the best way? Maybe interns, paid, paid interns, or actually just, you know,
1:37.9	actually fall on hiring someone full time or part time. Your feedback is appreciated. Thank you very
1:44.0	much. Bye-bye. Hey, Tom. What's up? Thank you very much. Bye-bye. Hey Tom, what's up? Thank you so much for
1:47.4	the question today. And first of all, I have to commend you because I think it's important to
1:50.7	have this kind of mindset when you have a company like this, a service-based business,
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