Ep 132: Why Most Agencies Stay Stuck at “Good Results” Instead of Scaling Profitably | with Tim Burke of Conduit Digital

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges agencies face in scaling profitably and the importance of building operations around ROI.

Summary: Most agencies say they care about ROI. Very few actually build their operations around it. In this episode, I sat down with Tim Burke, CEO of Conduit Digital, to unpack what separates agencies that scale profitably from agencies that hide behind “digital fairy dust.” We talked about why vague performance metrics quietly kill client relationships, how AI is changing agency operations, and the real reason most agencies struggle to scale winning campaigns. This conversation gets brutall...

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Host: Sean Lang

Guest: Tim Burke

Topics covered

• agency operations
• ROI
• scaling profitably
• performance metrics
• AI in agencies
• client relationships

Keywords

• agencies
• ROI
• scaling
• performance metrics
• AI
• client relationships
• digital marketing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Conduit Digital

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