Matthew Stibbe on Scaling an Agency through Focus, Smarts, and Team Happiness

The Digital Agency Growth Podcast

Really curious people usually have a way of telling incredible stories, having experiences and life lessons worth discussing, and genuinely caring about others. Matthew Stibbe is just that, and today you can go back in history or stay right where you are as we dive into his entrepreneurship journey. That’s why episode 123 of The Digital Agency Growth Podcast is about the interrelationships you can create within your agency, with Matthew Stibbe!

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In this episode of The Digital Agency Growth Podcast, Matthew shares the importance of understanding your worth, as well as that of your employees, in relation to work and time in the office and actionable steps you can take right now to get curious and make opportunities through experiences.

Matthew Stibbe is an entrepreneur, manager, marketer, writer, pilot, wine lover and geek. He is also a history professor at Sheffield Hallam University's Humanities Research Centre.

In this episode, Dan and Matthew discuss the following:

• How Matthew went from being a private pilot and journalist to an agency owner, and why he decided to pivot in that fashion to a B-corp business.
• The interrelationships between how we handle our internal projects and how we communicate project management to clients.
• Why Matthew thinks that time tracking for employee wages isn’t the answer, and how you can either pay for the thought in the shower or the years of experience that created that thought; it’s up to you.
• How Matthew utilized opportunities in everything he did to gain experience, connections, and how he created a unique lifestyle and agency just by being a very curious person.

Matthew Stibbe is a serial entrepreneur, marketing maven, writer, pilot, and wine enthusiast. But not necessarily in that order. He created marketing strategies, content, and campaigns for clients including Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn, and HP and contributed to Wired, Forbes, and Popular Science. Currently, he is CEO at Articulate Marketing, a UK marketing agency specializing in the technology sector. Also, his geek credentials are strong. Previously, he was founder and CEO at Intelligent Games, a 70-person computer games company where he designed games for LEGO and produced two games based online. Matthew also has his commercial pilots license and an advanced wine diploma. At some point in the previous millennium, he studied history at Oxford University. These days, he blogs about modern management atwww.geekboss.com, about marketing at www.articulatemarketing.com and wine at www.vincarta.com

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