Episode 3: The Road to 8-Figure Agency Success

Corey Quinn

Founder, Deep Specialization™

Specializing to Grow Your Digital Marketing Agency Beyond 7 Figures

If you're an agency struggling to grow, this episode is for you. 🔥🔥🔥

My next guest on the Vertical Go-To-Market podcast is Cardinal Digital Marketing’s Founder and CEO, Alex Membrillo

In this episode, you’ll hear how being a generalist marketing agency kept him in 7 figures, why transforming his agency from a generalist to a vertical specialist unlocked revenue, allowing him to hit 8-figures, how focusing on a vertical helps drive pipeline, his biggest fear when deciding to specialize, how he attracts new healthcare clients today, and much more.

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About Corey Quinn

Founder, Deep Specialization™

Corey helps founder-led agencies scale through Deep Specialization™ and programmatic M&A. Former CMO of Scorpion ($20M to $200M). Author of "Anyone, Not Everyone."

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