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I help consultants, agencies, coaches, and other professional service providers differentiate themselves through thought leadership and personal branding. My clients range from 60-people teams creating enterprise IT solutions to business consultants that work with brands like Adidas, Red Bull, Oreo, and Mattel.
Kuba Rdzak 🤓
🚀 Growth / Marketing / Product ✨ Certified Team Manager 📚 Top 1% CXL 📈 Ex-Ladder.io scaling 1→50+ people
When I worked at Ladder Digital, we grew from a few people to over 50, serving some of the world's most recognisable brands, including Booking.com, Nestle and Unilever.
Our company (GetAds -- https://getads.co/) has worked with both B2B and B2C/DTC companies for a long period of time, across various industries and have created a massive amount of ad creatives, both static and motion/video for companies of all sizes.
Peter Murphy Lewis
🕸️Fractional Chief Marketing Officer | 📺 TV Host | 🎧 Podcaster |🐒 CSO Zoo | Founder 🚲 | 👠Ultra-Marathoner
I’ve consulted for companies across industries, backed by real leadership experience—president of a nonprofit board and years on the board of a bank. I don’t give vague advice. I bring structure, clear thinking, and tested strategy from boardrooms, not blogs. If you need a consultant who’s been where decisions actually matter, that’s me.
Rob Turlinckx
Product Design (UX/UI) ▪️ Product Strategy ▪️ Marketing websites for B2B SaaS
For the past 12 years, I have been working remotely and providing design consultation services to technology companies in Europe, the US, and SE Asia.
Agata
I make Google Ads work for SaaS & B2B 🚀 | Founder at addecoder.ai | Ex-Google, Groove, Piktochart I Google Ads Mentor
Offering consulting in the area of marketing strategy, pricing strategy, OKRs, and building a team since 2018. I have worked with multiple startups as a consultant, interim CMO, or as an Advisor. Currently an advisor at Respond.io
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"Three pricing tiers, flat conversion on the middle one."
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"Don't lower your B2B price under $400."
14:22 / 30:00
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What an agency mentor does
An agency mentor helps you make the business decisions that are hard to make from inside the business. They have dealt with an empty pipeline, awkward pricing conversations, difficult hires, expanding scope, and delivery that depends too much on the founder.
Bring one real decision to the call. A mentor can review the numbers, ask what changed, and help you choose the next move.
- Choose a niche. Decide which buyer and service deserve your focus, then make the tradeoffs explicit.
- Fix the offer. Package the work around a clear result, scope, price, and delivery process.
- Build a pipeline. Add a reliable client channel when referrals no longer produce enough opportunities.
- Protect the margin. Find the clients, services, and delivery habits that consume time without producing enough return.
- Make the next hire. Choose the role that removes a real constraint and set clear ownership before recruitment starts.
- Step out of delivery. Document the work and give the team enough authority to run it without constant founder review.
Where agency owners get stuck
Many agencies reach the same difficult middle. The founder can win and deliver good work, but the business still relies on introductions, custom proposals, and their personal attention. Revenue exists. The system behind it does not.
- Referrals stopped carrying the pipeline. new work arrives in bursts, and there is no channel to turn on when the calendar opens up.
- The offer covers too much. different buyers request different work, so every proposal and project starts again from zero.
- The price follows the hours. better delivery lowers the bill, while expanding scope absorbs the profit.
- The founder remains the safety net. sales, delivery, client relationships, and team decisions still return to one person.
- One or two clients carry the business. losing either account would force immediate cuts, which makes every negotiation harder.
Bring the real material
A useful first call can start with your service menu, recent proposals, pipeline, project margins, team roles, or the client decision you keep delaying.
Pricing your services
Agency pricing gets difficult when the offer, buyer, and scope are still moving. Raising the number alone will not fix a service that regularly expands after the sale.
An experienced operator can help you separate four decisions that owners often bundle together.
- The unit. choose whether you sell time, a project, an ongoing service, or a defined result.
- The scope. state what is included, what changes the fee, and where the engagement ends.
- The price. set a number that covers delivery, risk, sales time, and the margin needed to run the business.
- The renewal. decide which work should continue and give the client a clear reason to keep it.
An agency offer, broken down
A six-week conversion sprint for one ecommerce storefront1, sold for one fixed fee2, with three named deliverables and one revision round3, followed by an optional monthly testing retainer.4
One buyer and problem
The client can tell in seconds whether the service fits.
One clear price
The sale starts from value and scope instead of estimated hours.
A delivery boundary
The team and client know when added work changes the agreement.
A logical next step
Ongoing work follows the completed project instead of appearing as a vague upsell.
Clear scope protects the client relationship and the margin.
Need to review a price increase or a new package? A pricing mentor can pressure-test the model with you.
Niche down or stay broad
Niching feels risky when broad work still pays the bills. Staying broad also has a cost. The agency remains difficult to describe, referrals stay vague, delivery changes by client, and prospects compare similar proposals on price.
A mentor can help you choose the narrowest position supported by real evidence. That evidence can come from profitable projects, strong client results, repeatable delivery, or access to a buyer group.
- Start with the profitable work. compare project margin, sales effort, delivery risk, and client retention across recent accounts.
- Look for repeated demand. identify the problem clients already ask you to solve without a long explanation.
- Test the position. update one offer and sales conversation before changing the whole company.
- Keep an exception rule. a niche guides the market message, while a clear rule can still allow valuable work outside it.
The useful position is specific enough to guide sales and delivery, without depending on a market that is too small.
Clients beyond referrals
Referrals are a strong starting channel. They become a problem when they are the only channel and nobody can predict when the next introduction will arrive.
The next channel should fit your service, sales cycle, and available attention. An agency mentor can help you choose one route and define what a fair test looks like.
- Direct outreach. Reach a specific buyer with a message about a costly problem your service solves.
- Partnerships. Work with businesses that serve the same clients without competing for the same work.
- Founder-led content. Publish useful answers that show how you think about the buyer's problem.
- Search. Create pages for the problems and services buyers already look for when they need help.
From referrals to a channel
Choose one buyer
a broad list of companies that could use the service
one buyer group with a repeated, expensive problem
Run one complete test
several channels receiving occasional attention
one channel with a message, activity target, and review date
A pipeline you can inspect
You can see where interest starts, where deals stop, and what to change next.
A channel becomes useful when you can run it again and learn from the result.
Fixing cold outreach
Cold outreach can fail before the prospect reads the second sentence. The list may contain the wrong role, the message may lead with the agency, or weak delivery setup may stop the email from arriving.
A mentor can review the full system rather than rewriting one line in isolation.
- The target. confirm that the person owns the problem and can act on it.
- The trigger. use a recent event or clear signal that makes the outreach relevant now.
- The first message. name the problem and make the next step small enough to answer.
- The follow-up. add useful context instead of repeating the same request.
- The measurement. track delivery, replies, qualified conversations, proposals, and wins separately.
LinkedIn is not a separate strategy
The same basics apply on LinkedIn. A specific buyer, relevant reason to talk, clear message, and sensible follow-up matter more than a clever template.
Scaling past yourself
An agency can grow while the founder's job gets worse. More clients create more reviews, escalations, hiring decisions, and sales calls. The business reaches a ceiling when quality still depends on one person's attention.
A mentor who has moved through this stage can help you decide what to document, delegate, stop, and continue owning.
- Map the repeated work. Write down the decisions and handoffs that occur in every client engagement.
- Set a quality standard. Give the team examples and review points so good work does not depend on guesswork.
- Choose the next owner. Assign responsibility for delivery, accounts, operations, or sales based on the main constraint.
- Protect founder work. Reserve founder attention for decisions where experience or authority changes the result.
Delegation works when the team knows the standard, the boundary, and who makes the call.
Services, retainers, product
Some agency owners want a more repeatable service. Others want recurring retainers, a productized offer, or software built from a common client problem. These are different businesses with different tradeoffs.
- Custom services. fit complex work and high-value clients, but require strong scoping and senior delivery.
- Retainers. improve revenue visibility when the client has a real ongoing need and a clear monthly result.
- Productized services. make sales and delivery more repeatable by fixing the buyer, scope, process, and price.
- Software. can separate revenue from delivery hours, while adding product, support, and distribution work.
A mentor can help you test the assumption behind the move before the current agency funds months of the wrong work.
Thinking about a fixed-scope offer? Compare your buyer, repeated work, delivery process, and sales cycle with someone who has productized a service.
What mentors can help with
Agency problems cross sales, marketing, finance, operations, and leadership. You can choose a mentor for the decision in front of you instead of expecting one person to cover every stage.
- Positioning and ICP. Choose the buyer, service, and message that make the agency easier to understand.
- Pricing and margin. Review rates, packages, scope, utilization, and the clients that consume too much capacity.
- Outbound and sales. Build lists, messages, follow-up, qualification, proposals, and a sales process you can inspect.
- Content and search. Turn agency expertise into useful pages and posts that attract the buyers you want.
- Hiring and delivery. Choose roles, improve handoffs, document standards, and reduce founder dependence.
- Leadership and focus. Pressure-test difficult decisions with someone who understands the responsibility of running the business.
Choose for the problem
The mentor who helps with pricing does not need to be the same mentor who reviews outbound or your first delivery hire.
Why GrowthMentor
GrowthMentor gives you access to operators across agency growth, sales, pricing, operations, hiring, and leadership. Each mentor profile explains their experience and the topics they can help with.
You can choose a different mentor as the problem changes. That matters for agency owners because the person who improves the sales process may not be the person you need for delivery or hiring.
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Use one membership to bring each decision to the mentor with the most relevant experience.
Start with one decision and enough context for a useful conversation. Your mentor can help you reduce the options, identify the missing information, and leave with a clear next action.
People who were exactly where you are.
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Lena Sesardic · Product Manager
Read Lena's storyI like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the right track.
Minh · Solo Founder
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Nicola Rubino · Growth Marketing Consultant
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What people ask before their first call.
Choose for the decision you need to make now. Look for direct experience with your agency stage, service model, buyer, or problem. Read the mentor's own description, reviews, and session topics before you request a call.
Review where you already win. Compare project margin, sales effort, delivery confidence, client results, and repeated demand across recent work. A mentor can help you choose a focused position and design a small test before you change the whole business.
Start with the buyer, result, scope, delivery cost, and risk. Then choose the pricing unit. A mentor can review whether hourly, project, retainer, or fixed-scope pricing fits the work and protects enough margin.
A retainer works when the client has a real ongoing need and you can define the monthly result. If the work has a clear finish, a fixed project may be better. A mentor can help you separate recurring value from work that should end.
Pick one buyer and one channel that fits the service. Define the message, weekly activity, qualification rule, and review date. Run the complete test before adding another channel.
Use the network when it can produce relevant introductions now. Add outreach when you need more control over volume or access to a new buyer group. Many agencies use both, but each channel needs its own process and measurement.
Check the target before the template. The person may not own the problem, the message may arrive without a relevant reason, or the request may ask for too much. A mentor can review the list, profile, message, follow-up, and results together.
List the decisions and reviews that still return to you. Document the quality standard, assign an owner, and keep clear escalation rules. The next hire should remove a measured constraint rather than add general capacity.
Use evidence from your strongest accounts. Look at profitability, speed to close, repeated pain, delivery fit, retention, and access to similar buyers. A mentor can help you compare segments without relying only on market size.
Start with the repeated client problem. Confirm that buyers need the same solution, can use it with less custom work, and will pay through a different model. Test those assumptions before moving delivery staff or budget into a product build.
Yes. Solo agency owners often use mentors to review pricing, choose a niche, plan the first hire, or decide what to stop doing. Bring one decision and the relevant material so the call can stay specific.
Create an account, compare the mentors on this page, and open the profile that fits your problem. Send a request with context about your agency and the decision you want to discuss, then choose an available time.
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