The Micro Agency Expansion Podcast

Mike Moll

A show designed to help marketers build an agency they love to run. It is filled with actionable strategies around building your personal brand, product positioning, pricing your service, sales, marketing, and much more. Mike shares his personal experiences from running a remote digital marketing firm for the past 10 years. He will also bring on guests to share their unique perspectives.

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4,000 Weeks with Karan Nijhawan
Jun 7 2023
4,000 Weeks with Karan Nijhawan
Brought to you by the Agency Expansion Retreat. Join Mike in sunny Mexico this November to learn how to create sustainability and growth in your agency. More details at mikemoll.co/eventsKaran Nijhawan is the Founder of The Expansion Project, a movement that focuses on helping dentists design their dream life while overcoming self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and the feeling of not being “good enough”. He's an Expansive Life Coach, podcaster, actor, and helps people create their dream life in months, instead of years. Since starting the company 5 years ago, he’s hosted over 200+ dinners, events, workshops, and retreats, helping people worldwide create a better life that they don’t need a vacation from. He’s also worked with major companies like Forbes, Staples, and Providence Healthcare, hosting workshops around happiness and fulfillment. He is on a mission to help dental professionals across the world overcome self-doubt, worry, and social isolation....all while maximizing their (not-so-promised) 4,000 weeks. Show Notes:0:15: Intro to Karan.2:50: 4000 weeks - How do help someone to gain this perspective?5:25: What is 4,000 weeks?8:00: How does someone use the 4000 weeks method?11:55: Intro to Karan’s dog licking the mic13:15: How to frame ‘what you want’ in your mind.15:20: After you know what you want, what are the next steps?22:15: Final step of the 4,000 weeks.4,000 Weeks Rundown:Step 1: Understand/Embodying 4,000 weeksStep 2: What do you want to be, do and have?Step 3: SVA: Smallest Viable ActionStep 4: ZOR: Zone of ResistanceFind Karan at:Website: https://karannijhawan.com/In this episode, Karan mentions: The Expansion ProjectBooks:The Psychology of Money by Morgan HouselThe Gap vs The Gain by Dan Sullivan
How to Grow a SaaS Product with Omar Zenhom
May 31 2023
How to Grow a SaaS Product with Omar Zenhom
Brought to you by the Agency Expansion Retreat. Join Mike in sunny Mexico this November to learn how to create sustainability and growth in your agency. More details at mikemoll.co/eventsOmar Zenhom is co-founder and CEO of WebinarNinja, and host of the popular podcast The $100 MBA Show.  With over a million webinar attendees to date, WebinarNinja has grown rapidly since its founding in 2014; Academy Ocean named WebinarNinja one of the fastest growing SaaS companies of 2018. The $100 MBA Show consistently ranks among the best business podcasts in over 30 countries, with over 190 million downloads over 2,100 + episodes.An educator at the secondary and university level for over a dozen years, Omar decided to apply his natural passion for teaching and learning to the business world. Between teaching classes, he studied and worked to finally make the transition to full-time entrepreneurship. From brick-and-mortar to e-commerce to SaaS, Omar learned the art of entrepreneurship from real-world successes and failures, ultimately dropping out of Wharton’s MBA program to build and manage his own companies.Now, through The $100 MBA Show and WebinarNinja, Omar has made it his business to help others learn, teach, and grow as entrepreneurs. Show Notes:0:30: Intro to Omar5:25: How did you learn coding?6:05: What is the $100MBA8:55: How did you go about strategically bootstrapping?13:10: How did you validate your new idea?15:00: Making sure your message is clear15:45: How much did the product change after you received feedback?18:40: Funding20:00: Growth vs Retention in saas20:20: How to move to the next phase23:25: What are some things you wish you knew, could do differently?24:10: Omar’s thoughts on hiring someone for your business27:00: Final thoughts: a great habit reading books28:45: GoodbyesFind Omar here:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheOmarZenhomWebsite: https://100mba.net/In this episode, Omar mentions:*$100MBA podcast*Webinar Ninja*Green Lights by Matthew McConaughey
Thoughtful Leadership and Building Remote Teams with Monique Lindner
May 24 2023
Thoughtful Leadership and Building Remote Teams with Monique Lindner
Brought to you by the Agency Expansion Retreat. Join Mike in sunny Mexico this November to learn how to create sustainability and growth in your agency. More details at mikemoll.co/eventsMonique Lindner, aka The Time Alchemist, was born in former East Germanywith two chronic health challenges, yet she started to work by age 13. This potentmixture led to her dying of a cardiac arrest by age 19 & being clinically deadfor 25 seconds.Monique is an adventurous spirit on the autism spectrum who’s mission it is todismantle systems that keep holding us back and instead, create structures thatbring freedom, that crush glass ceilings, and that empower us to live full force.Monique is the creator of The T.I.M.E. Method® and published her book underthe same name in the first lockdown of 2020 – putting her own signatureframework to the test.She’s been featured in several top magazines such as Forbes, spoke at TedX in2017 and was interviewed on a range of diverse podcasts to share her wisdomand knowledge around Leadership, Living a Life a Day, Time & how we can SlowDown to Speed up.Show Notes:0:30: Intro to Monique.0:55: How do you merge/mesh your different methods to create an outcome?5:00: How have you best seen people make the transition, since Covid, to work remotely? How would you advise them?7:10: Getting to know your core values.8:15: Understanding cultural differences in your business.12:58: What kind of dialogue should you be having as you hire people for your business?15:50: The importance of the little efforts you make.17:05: Have you found that people’s cultural background makes a big difference in their work?17:40: Bringing emotions to work.19:40: Using the 5 love languages in the work environment.24:10: Monique on Slack and add-on features for team building.25:50: Using Leadership from Within.28:05: GoodbyesFind Monique here:Website: https://www.moniquelindner.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetimealchemistIn this episode, Monique mentions:The book, The 5 love languagesSlackAdd on apps for Slack, such as Donut
How to Develop a Bulletproof Business Plan With Sean Castrina
Sep 16 2020
How to Develop a Bulletproof Business Plan With Sean Castrina
Sean is a bestselling author, an active entrepreneur and a CEO having started more than 20 companies in the last 25 years. He has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at some of America's finest colleges. He hosts The Ten Minute Entrepreneur, a top 10 business podcast on iTunes. He has shared events with Tony Robbins, John Maxwell, Jon Gordon and others.In this episode, Mike sits down with Sean Castrina to discuss what he's learned from starting and growing 20+ companies. Sean covers what type of businesses are easiest to start, how to come up with a powerful business plan, and how to outcompete your competition.Market Me is a strategy podcast, audio-on-demand that covers all things marketing and business development. Your host Mike Moll records the show each week and publishes on Wednesdays. Download and listen on your favourite streaming platform or watch the video recording on YouTube. Each show is about 30 minutes long and filled with actionable strategies around building your personal brand, product positioning, growing an audience, sales funnels and marketing goals.Follow us on socialhttps://www.instagram.com/mikeajmoll/https://www.instagram.com/marketmeco/https://www.facebook.com/marketmeco/Check out Sean Castrinahttps://seancastrina.com/https://www.instagram.com/sean.castrina/https://twitter.com/SeanCastrinahttps://www.facebook.com/seancastrinapage/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DX7lLt3zS37jtDELR3rRwhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/seancastrina/