{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Masters in Marketing Agency","title":"Scaling an Agency with Asenka Creative Services’ Brian Hasenkamp","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1816,"description":"This episode, the Founder and Creative Director of Asenka Creative Services’, Brian Hasenkamp, talks about how to know when an agency is ready to scale, the challenges of letting go of control as a business owner, and why networking is so important in business.Brian Hasenkamp, the Founder and Creative Director of Asenka Creative Service, a marketing agency that focuses on strategic branding and marketing for mid-size businesses. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Masters in Marketing Agency:.What being a minister teaches you about business.The benefits of understanding coding.How to know when to grow your agency.How to let control go as a business owner.The importance of networking effectively. How to track where you acquire new clients from.Resources:Asenka Creative ServicesThe Business Side of CreativityDevNoodleConnecting with Brian Hasenkamp:LinkedInConnecting with the host:Josh Hoffman on LinkedInQuotables:13:07 - “I was shaping the business to be what I wanted it to be while it was still also being valuable to the customers but I didn't want to work past a certain time, I had young children at that point so I wanted to save some time for that there was some personal time management that was all baked into my picture of the company and after I hired that person now it was serving that person and it was still serving the clients and it was still serving me but in a different way so when I say it shifted to an asset in my head I looked at it as something that now this is something that can provide for other staff, it can still serve the customers and it can provide for me but it’s a different type of thing now my hands don’t have to touch everything that’s going on here I guess it just took me up another level.”21:51 - “That’s the bottom line of networking if you can help other people there’s a reciprocity there that comes back over time so it’s not so much the perfect pitch of anything like that but getting to know people building...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/9HFX6i0TzOia311sMPjbjib_E3w7aImGetF-LN1PCVs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI3OTY2LzE2NDM2/NDk3ODEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}