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Smart Agency Masterclass with Jason Swenk: Podcast for Digital Marketing Agencies

Growing an agency is very difficult, and you might feel unclear what to do next in order to grow and scale your agency. The Smart Agency Masterclass is a weekly podcast for agencies that are wanting to grow faster. We interview amazing guests from all over the world that have the experience of running successful businesses, and will provide you the insights you need. Our podcast is just over 3 years old, and have reached more than a half million listeners in 42 countries.

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“When we give it entire Figma sites, it takes the agent about three hours to build. What does a dev do in that time? Would project managers now need to be trained to give tasks in bulk? It used to be, hey Jason, here's a task, can you get it done by tomorrow afternoon? Versus, here are seven tasks for you, can you get them done by tomorrow? How do you gauge that?” — Ronik Patel, Smart Agency Masterclass with Jason Swenk: Podcast for Digital Marketing Agencies
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“I would be very cautious about using AI in the title. I always tell people in the mastermind to make up titles that mean jack shit, because recruiters are looking for these people. As soon as you change that title on LinkedIn or on your resume, you're going to start getting bombarded and you're going to lose good people just because they have AI in the name.” — Jason Swenk, Smart Agency Masterclass with Jason Swenk: Podcast for Digital Marketing Agencies
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“Three months ago we were so sold on moving away from WordPress, because everyone knows it's bloated. But we delivered a site built from AI-generated HTML to a client, and they came back after two weeks and said, I'd like to add a new page, how do I do that? Best I could say was to connect it to Git and push it, and that's not practical for most small businesses.” — Ronik Patel, Smart Agency Masterclass with Jason Swenk: Podcast for Digital Marketing Agencies
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“If you take those Figma files, give them to AI, and ask it to build a WordPress site, it's going to build a really horrible WordPress site, because that Figma wasn't built for the agent. It was built for some human to see. So we trained our design team to make all these changes first, and it turned out to take about six hours a page. You realize you can't just take the original process and drop AI into it.” — Ronik Patel, Smart Agency Masterclass with Jason Swenk: Podcast for Digital Marketing Agencies
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“One guy with the same agent, he prompts it, we review the work, and it's about 30% there. Another guy prompts it differently and it's 70%. Same agent, same models, nothing changes. It's just how you prompt it, and then how you reprompt it. It's a kind of skill, and I can already see that a lot of people are falling behind on it.” — Ronik Patel, Smart Agency Masterclass with Jason Swenk: Podcast for Digital Marketing Agencies
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Smart Agency Masterclass with Jason Swenk: Podcast for Digital Marketing Agencies is hosted by Jason Swenk .

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