Great question! In all honesty, smaller agencies might not be the best option for getting hired. I have people ask me all the time for a job and I simply don't have the turnover to be constantly hiring. SO it's a tough question. If the agency has a brick and mortar office, that's best. They typically want to hire upbeat and fun people that are a good fit with the company culture! Most jobs getting into an agency (if you have little experience) will be like this. BUT, you not having any direct prior experience only means that you don't have any bad habits, so you can learn and apply their processes :) Hope that was helpful! Best thing you can do is start applying!

So sorry to hear they let you go after 6 YEARS! That's wild... I just had a friend get let go from his job for 11.5 years... Thankfully things seem to be working out in his favor. I always like to think of job loss as a means to new opportunity! I'd be curious to know if you could take your experience at Paramount and use that to start selling services on your own - Chambers of Commerce in growing suburban cities can be your best friend in times like these!

If you're getting into starting a marketing company, lmk if you'd like to jump on a call! I think it would be a cool video to learn about your experience and what you're looking to sell, and then make a simple Squarespace website ON THE SPOT (For FREE)!

@@tannerdritschler I LOVED that point. I'm gonna try to do it, I was freelance previously.

100% would do it! BUT to do it right and retain clients I'd have to be short video focused and charge accordingly. I'd also have to be pretty good at it as well, but knowing my limitations, I'd probably hire out the actual shoots and just handle content planning/posting/reporting like I do today for social media clients.

made me laugh lol!

:) you should totally use that in your next video! Good stuff by the way. That plugin is killer. Subbed.

Meanwhile, I’m a rankmath guy, have you tried RM vs Yoast? Not sure if I should go back to yoast for my clients.

I would love one, but can't justify the expense yet for YT! Rn I'm just happy to share what I can :)

I appreciate it man! Yeah I hope to one day be the type of creator I wish I could binge watch lol. One that helped me make more money and just gave straight value type stuff.

Thank you! I'm always keeping it real I suppose, and I totally agree on how a lot of business "gurus" are on the internet these days. I've got some topics jotted down for future videos, but if something peaks your interest and I have something valuable to add to that conversation let me know - and I'll make the video!

@ Thank for responding. I would love to hear you talk more (if you can) about strategy, that your agency had in the first few months/years to getting clients. For fast introducing- I am 17 years old, doing ads for one of the largest food ecom brands well known in Czech republic (1milion usd revenue monthly) and I ran till december ads for one sneaker shop that is like middle size company (50k usd revenue monthly) - all on my own. In the larger company there are of course for other countries and even on the czech republic more people for that, I am there just for learning how they think about different events/ problems - and more in marketing field (influencer/email/news etc.) In 3 months I will have legal business on my own name so I am going to run agency on my name. I decided to do it because I can get experience in different fields (selfcare/pharmacy/sneakers/clothing/electronics etc.), for ,,easier,, comming to ecom on my own. So I would like to know how you get into that business and what strategies for getting clients as a agency you think are ,,the best,,? I already will use these channels: ads on meta direct messaging in podcast promotion and I will think as you say in one video, about the partnership with other agencies that are not doing the same, but these that are like ,,connectable,, with my agency. My background is even more into ecom- i have my own online shop, but because it was my first project and there were so much competitors + I dont have finances for being recognized, I cannot successed. But I worked on it intensively like 1,5 years - so i git some experience from that. Without that I am not where I would be. Maybe something will not be written as i mean it, but I am thinking more about the ,,projects,, than a money… (I am not fluent enough in english, sorry😄)

I dont think that there are just ,,gurus,, and people like you. There are people that are looking for opportunities and others that are not looking or they dont see them in business. I like your ,,thinking,, and I would like to see more videos from you!! if its possible🙏

@@tannerdritschler I wrote one comment more, that was like super long😭, but i dont see it here :((. So in really short form - could you please make a video how you market the agency for getting a clients and how would you do it now? Thanks

Glad you're here!

Based in Dallas! 🙌

@loyalrostar6049 hmu through my website!

I started freelance digital marketing when I was 15, so to be 100% accurate I've been in business for 13+ years.

@tannerdritschler that is very impressive,hats of to u,had the hustle mindset since young

@tannerdritschler what digital marketing services does ur agency provide and what do u charge

@ZKDaDonI should make a video on this! We primarily sell SEO, but we offer SEO, Social Media Management, and Website Design & Development.

@ZKDaDonthank u man!

🙌🙌🙌

We had something like nearly 5k total pages.

@@keywordniches2207 I would if I could! I used an ai platform that my agency team built, OttoSEO.ai I had to shut down the platform earlier this year due to platform abuse of the free credits.

@@keywordniches2207 hey there! 👋 I currently have pages ranking, last I checked we had a couple page 1 rankings, but the majority of these pages on page 2-3 on Google but they were climbing still. I haven’t checked since I went on holiday, but I’ll check and update everyone as soon as we get either a client from the landing pages, or significant page 1 rankings.

@@tannerdritschler ok thanks. would like to see the ranking before and after video. I appreciate it

@@simplyfrancois not really. These are all areas we service, and can confidently rank for.

@@hashim.pakara thank you!! 🙏

@@Meh-u5w I’ve never used it, but it looks useful for beginners.

@@tannerdritschler Yes, That's why asking you for a video

They are slowly working their way up in the rankings, I plan to post an update video once we have meaningful progress OR we get our first client from one of those landing pages. We have a lot on page 3 rn, ranked 20-30. I will keep you posted!

Schedule a free, no-obligation call with me directly on my website dritschlermedia.com ! I'd be happy to take a look at what you have in the works and provide some guidance. Typically, Wix rankings are fairly easy to replace since most Wix sites underperform when it comes to SEO. This isn't platform specific as much as it's just the typical quality of a Wix website build. We were a Wix Partner Agency for about 2 years until we started referring clients to Squarespace or WordPress, so I've got a lot of hands-on-experience with Wix sites and transitioning to other platforms.

We also just produced a budget website build for a local home builder in North Texas, mcclintockhomes.com/ if you'd like to take a look!

Thank you!

okay lol

@@lance6298 absolutely! 👍

@@JR-joren maybe I’ll make a full-length follow-up video!

@@tannerdritschler great man thanks a lot

This could be useful for programatic SEO for SaaS and e-Commerce in specific use cases. Examples would be if your selling to a variety of specific industries or market segment. However, for most SaaS and e-Commerce brands I've worked with, a blog is the best place to build relevant traffic. I have another video on how I leverage AI for blog posts that might be a good resource.

@@tannerdritschler Thanks! Will watch the video. I have been looking for that!

the video should provide step-by-step if you follow along. Otherwise lmk how I can help!

@@cesad-tech2471 I totally agree, if I leveraged the paid version of LPagery I would be able to customize each page even more. But this works in my market for now as long, as I support the pages with backlinks and internal links.

Just curious. Do you have proof for your statement "Title and H1 must be different"- Just asking because I see two camps here- One that agrees with you and one that says keep it the same.

@@DanielNeubauer not a proof to show you right now but my XP and many cases I encounter with my own website I advise to not set the same exact H1 / Title / slug url it can be a killer signal for your ranking. Let's me explain ... Google use Title as a primary key to understand your content and try to match it with the rest of your content. So 10 years ago maybe it was not a big deal but not anymore... Just make a try yourself you will see a real gap after a while... If I'm not wrong Backlinko (Brian Dean) made a blog post about it few years ago... hope it helps ;)

This is a good idea, but just changing the city and keeping most other content on those 200 pages is not that great. Duplicate content. It would be better to have ai create new snippets for all of those content blocks.

I will make a video on this just for you! Give me 24 hours!

This video is up now!

@@tannerdritschler thank you so much, I really started liking KZbin algorithm that showed me your video, it has been while many seo gurus in KZbin showcasing rank 1 in 4 hours and trash content.

@@AkashGolf great questions, both our theme and hosting solutions couldn’t handle the actual amount of website content, the traffic was still manageable and scalable. Our site was taking too long to render the pages and the user would have to reload the page to populate it - no matter which page they clicked to, including our homepage. The pages still ranked super fast which was great - once Google saw they weren’t loading they were quickly removed from the SERPs. So we’ve redesigned the site to be less heavy, and are implementing the same strategy on a smaller scale more local to our location since we know it works.

@@abdullahalroman5774 thank you!

@@KeyserTheRedBeard well do what we can to support the pages. It should work, but if all else fails we’ll have to find a new strategy. From my experience it’s almost always just a content issue that holds back rankings.

Thank you!

HAHA i still don't know what they're called

Fancy brackets! 😂

Thank you! And I'm going to go ahead and get my channel verified so I can add the link to the description. I'll update you when I get the link added.

I'll keep uploading videos each step of the way repairing our SEO!

Thank you!