Perspective FM

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Perspective FM

A podcast by founders of creative agencies, giving our perspective on starting and running our own companies.

  1. 24

    Starting an agency can be hard - why do we do it?

    On this episode Jon & Dan take a listener question. Steve Cowburn writes in to ask: ...

  2. 23

    Managing productivity and feeling productive

    This week Jon is joined by Dan to talk about how we manage your time and feel productive while running our agencies. It’s a hard thing to quantify and we feel e...

  3. 22

    Selling the value of design, and design process to clients

    This week Jon is joined by Dan to talk about how to sell the value of the design process to clients. If you’re working with clients who don’t understand the val...

  4. 21

    Getting your story straight - brand & communication strategy for agencies

    Jon is joined today by Anna McLoughlin of Inkspiller. Inkspiller are a copy and brand strategy consultancy helping businesses find their inner voice and communi...

  5. 20

    A globally distributed product team - a new model for design agencies?

    This week Jon is joined by Matthew Lenzi of Hanno - a globally distributed product design agency. Hanno are quite unique in the way that they run their business...

  6. 19

    What makes a company like Clearleft successful? A conversation with Andy Budd

    This week Jon and Dan are joined by Andy Budd from Clearleft - a well known UX Design agency based in Brighton. Clearleft are well known for their high quality ...

  7. 18

    Scaling an agency from 1 or 2 people to a growing and stable team, with Pete Campbell from Kaizen Search

    This week Jon is joined by Pete Campbell from Kaizen Search - an SEO and digital marketing agency based in London. Pete started his agency less than 3 years ago...

  8. 17

    Introducing systems and process to give your business more structure, with Brad Flowers from Bullhorn Creative

    This week Jon is joined by Brad Flowers from BullHorn Creative - a brand & communication strategy agency in Kentucky USA. Brad and his fellow directors have bee...

  9. 16

    Delivering website development projects using agile processes, with Rory MacDonald from MadeTech

    Jon is joined by Rory MacDonald from MadeTech - an agile development agency - to talk about how you can use agile methodologies to deliver website development p...

  10. 15

    How to create a winning proposal with Dylan Baskind from Qwilr

    This week Jon is joined by Dylan Baskind - designer/developer and founder of proposal writing tool Qwilr. We speak about Dylan's journey from working in the age...

  11. 14

    How to sell an MVP

    This week Jon and Dan talk about Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) and how they both use this as a sales tool. How to introduce an MVP to a client, how to steer a ...

  12. 13

    Brexit; concerns about the leaving the EU

    Jon is joined again this week by Dan Gent. They talk about the UK’s referendum to leave the European Union and what effects Brexit might have on their design ag...

  13. 12

    Turning a side project into a business with Murat Mutlu from Marvel App

    This week Jon welcomes designer founder Murat Mutlu from Marvel App to discuss what it's like for a designer to leave the agency life behind and found a product...

  14. 11

    Should you take on that project?

    Jon is joined by Tom from Lighthouse London to talk about the filter process they both go through when deciding to take on or pitch for a specific piece of work...

  15. 10

    Mentorship for creative agencies

    This week Jon is joined by his co-founder Neil Gardiner to discuss their experiences with mentorship. Every Interaction have been receiving business mentorship ...

  16. 9

    How designers and developers work together on a team

    In this episode Dan’s co-founder, Tom Johnson joins Jon to talk about how their designers and developers work together in their teams to deliver their client wo...

  17. 8

    Managing client feedback

    How you manage feedback from clients can make or break a project. It’s a tricky thing to handle and there are many ways you can go about dealing with it. This w...

  18. 7

    Tracking time

    This week Dan and Jon talk time tracking and how they use this data to help run and grow their digital agencies. ...

  19. 6

    Working on your own agency website

    Working for the worst client imaginable - yourself. Dan reveals the process and learnings from recently replacing the agency website for Lighthouse, and Jon tal...

  20. 5

    Hiring and the hiring process

    Dan and Jon talk about the process they go through when hiring a new employee and what they look for in potential candidates. They go into detail about the plac...

  21. 4

    Having a specialism

    Does having a specialism put you in a better position as a new/smaller agency? Dan and Jon fumble around what they think are their respective agency specialisms...

  22. 3

    Pitches and proposals

    This week Jon & Dan talk about how they go about dealing with pitches and proposals. How to decide how much time to put into documentation and what is takes to ...

  23. 2

    How we charge our clients

    Episode 2 of Perspective. This week Jon & Dan talk about how they go about charging their clients. How to determine if new business enquiries have appropriate b...

  24. 1

    Hello world

    Episode 1 of Perspective. A podcast talking about the experiences of running and growing an indie creative/digital agency. This week Jon & Dan give some backgro...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A podcast by founders of creative agencies, giving our perspective on starting and running our own companies.

HOSTED BY

Jon Lewis-Darke & Dan Gent

Produced by Jon Lewis-Darke

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