Podcasts by Perspective FM

#24 Starting an agency can be hard - why do we do it? from 2017-06-21T13:38:48

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

“Why do people start their own co...

#23 Managing productivity and feeling productive from 2017-04-28T06:30

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 every business and person running t...

#22 Selling the value of design, and design process to clients from 2017-03-06T07:05

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 value of design or simply don’t have ...

#21 Getting your story straight - brand&communication strategy for agencies from 2017-01-30T07:00

Jon is joined today by Anna McLoughlin of Inkspiller. Inkspiller are a copy and brand strategy consultancy helping businesses find their inner voice and communicate to the world. Anna recently t...

#20 A globally distributed product team - a new model for design agencies? from 2017-01-16T07:30

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 ...

#19 What makes a company like Clearleft successful? A conversation with Andy Budd from 2016-11-14T07:30

This week Jon and Dan are joined by Andy Budd from Clearleft - a well known UX Desi...

#18 Scaling an agency from 1 or 2 people to a growing and stable team, with Pete Campbell from Kaizen Search from 2016-10-30T19:30

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

#17 Introducing systems and process to give your business more structure, with Brad Flowers from Bullhorn Creative from 2016-10-16T18:30

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

#16 Delivering website development projects using agile processes, with Rory MacDonald from MadeTech from 2016-10-02T18:47:35

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

#15 How to create a winning proposal with Dylan Baskind from Qwilr from 2016-09-03T16:23:09

This week Jon is joined by Dylan Baskind - designer/developer and founder of proposal writing tool Qwilr. We speak about Dylan's jou...

#14 How to sell an MVP from 2016-08-14T17:47:05

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 client asking for an MVP in the ri...

#13 Brexit; concerns about the leaving the EU from 2016-07-19T07:14:57

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 agencies. Covering their fears about...

#12 Turning a side project into a business with Murat Mutlu from Marvel App from 2016-05-29T14:06:14

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 company.

It was great to he...

#11 Should you take on that project? from 2016-05-10T22:07:02

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 or project.

The list of cri...

#10 Mentorship for creative agencies from 2016-04-10T22:15:59

This week Jon is joined by his co-founder Neil Gardiner to discuss their experiences with mentorship. Every Interaction have been receiving business mentorship for 18 months now, so it seemed li...

#9 How designers and developers work together on a team from 2016-03-28T11:03:43

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 work. As the design focussed half of...

#8 Managing client feedback from 2016-03-13T19:42:23

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 week Dan & Jon share their proc...

#7 Tracking time from 2016-02-28T13:34:56

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

Completing your timesheets is perhaps the most tedious part of your day, ho...

#6 Working on your own agency website from 2016-02-13T18:29:01

Working for the worst client imaginable - yourself. Dan reveals the process and learnings from recently replacing the agency website for Lighthouse, and Jon talks about the what lies ahead for E...

#5 Hiring and the hiring process from 2016-01-31T16:23:01

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 places they advertise, the application...

#4 Having a specialism from 2015-12-19T20:11:23

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 (defining exactly what you do is ...

#3 Pitches and proposals from 2015-12-06T13:46:18

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 seal the deal and convince a n...

#2 How we charge our clients from 2015-11-22T20:57:31

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 budgets and how to approach the...

#1 Hello world from 2015-11-08T11:09

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 background to kick things off - explo...