r/marketingagency

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Interviewing 8-15 person agency founders on AI ops: everyone hits the same wall with client context loss. How are you fixing it?

I've been interviewing agency founders on how their teams actually run AI in production.

Almost everyone hits the exact same bottleneck: The Verification Tax.

Founders and leads spend hours re-editing AI drafts. Not because of writing style, but because the output misses past client decisions, account precedents, or commercial rules.

Curious how you guys handle this:

  • Central wikis, custom GPTs, or dedicated context tools? 
  • RAG
  • How do you stop AI tools and new hires from repeating past mistakes on accounts?
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u/Plus-Beat-9604 — 3 days ago

Why just generate leads and get stuck in retainer hell?

I’m building a platform for agencies to resell our crm to their clients. It’s built on a multi tenant where the tenants have separate databases. This is not gohighlevel and not salesforce. The agency can create industry specific packages and target clients with privacy concerns. We will maintain the infrastructure and hosting. We bill the agent directly by the month, per tenant with a minimum block to start and individually beyond. Beyond that, it’s your business, charge what you want.

Lead Management
Pipeline Management
Contact & Organization Management
Quick Add Modal
Activity & Task Scheduling
Email Synchronization
Email Templates
Quote Generation
Product & Inventory Management
Workflow Automation
Roles & Permissions
Custom Web Forms

Am I missing anything you would prefer to see?

I’m not trying to build a bloated system, I’m making something profitable that doesn’t require a genius to use.

Note: I’m the architect, I have a development firm building it, so coding questions aren’t relevant here.
This isn’t a sales pitch, I’m simply looking for feedback.

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u/FirstPrinciplesEngin — 4 days ago

Serious help needed: Is self-teaching GEO realistic for a complete beginner looking to start a business?

Hi everyone,

I am posting this because I genuinely need serious advice from professionals who know this industry inside and out.

I am an absolute beginner based in South Korea with zero background in marketing or tech. My long-term goal is to learn GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) from scratch and eventually build my own business/agency.

I know this sounds ambitious—or maybe foolish—given my starting point. That is exactly why I am coming to you for a reality check and guidance.

  1. Is it realistically possible to master GEO purely through self-teaching without prior agency experience?
  2. If yes, what should be my very first step? (What core concepts, frameworks, or technical skills should I focus on first?)
  3. What harsh truths or major challenges should I expect as someone starting from absolute zero in a non-English-speaking market?

I am ready to put in the work, but I want to make sure I am pointing my compass in the right direction. Any honest feedback, frameworks, or resource recommendations would mean the world to me.

Thank you for reading.

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u/Slow-Calendar870 — 4 days ago
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Why you should immediately Divert 20% of Ad Budget to Conversational AI lead gen🏆

Right now there’s low competition, high technical barrier to entry, few understand how it works or the potential behind it yet the figures show it’s where you should be taking your agency.

Regarding the use of AI Tools in US Adults:

As of mid 2026, nationwide surveys, economic studies, and Pew Research Center data measure adoption rates among the U.S. population (ages 15 to 64) as follows:

  1. Percentage Using AI Tools Overall
    61.8% of Americans aged 18 to 64 actively use generative AI tools overall. 
    64% of U.S. teens aged 13 to 17 report using AI tools or chatbots. 
    Combining these figures, approximately 62% to 63% of the U.S. population aged 15 to 64 uses AI tools in some capacity across personal, academic, or professional settings.

That’s just the begging. As you know these models are specifically designed to be sticky. Meaning the user starts using it and doesn’t stop using it.

Consumers are now beginning to trust AI recommendations more than they are other people when it comes to picking professional services and ecommerce products.

The goal is to put yourself in that flow 🚀

I will setup a killer Conversational AI lead gen funnel for you 👑

That’s right I’ll:
- set it up,
- tweak it,
- test it,
- set the contextual phrases,
- prompt inject/ fine tune the top LLMs on you/ or your client’s service offering
- write a report
- post 3rd party verification articles regarding the service and offer.

Then let you run it or I can manage it with you.

No need to spend time or resources digging through the platform documentation or understanding prompt engineering or model fine tuning because we’ve already done all that.

This is an add on service to your existing clients or a simple way to get more clients 😁

Comment below or message me with any questions you can also join our private skool community to learn how it’s done.

u/LifeBricksGlobal — 10 days ago

Building in-house apps and tools for clients

Over the last nine months I have been building some amazing tools and platforms to help my clients reach their marketing goals. Before I would need subscriptions to a dozen different platforms and services but now with AI it’s so easy and cheap to vibe code something that works and does the trick without needing expensive subscriptions.

I have found myself needing to utilize a third-party service, and now my impetus has changed from evaluating other platforms and tools to what it would cost to vibe code my own version of it.

No matter how complicated a service or tool I need is, I have found a way to create it myself, and have built a pretty wide ranges of internal tools now.

I want to get some ideas of ways that other agency owners are utilizing AI to bills tools for their own agencies or clients. What kind of tools are you building and what has the outcome of those tools done for your clients or business. I know I can’t be the only one doing this.

I’ve turned 20 of these tools into standalone SaaS products and have even generated quite a bit of revenue from them.

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u/tomarv99 — 10 days ago