<![CDATA[WiFi Agency Substack]]>https://www.wifiagency.iohttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!af6C!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76c57133-1c15-4dca-b3ea-f5bd9328c2f1_480x480.pngWiFi Agency Substackhttps://www.wifiagency.ioSubstackMon, 20 Apr 2026 05:19:11 GMT<![CDATA[AI Agent Workflows for Agency Owners: Automate 80% of Reporting]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/ai-agent-workflows-for-agency-ownershttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/ai-agent-workflows-for-agency-ownersThu, 02 Apr 2026 16:16:28 GMTWelcome Avatar! If you read the automated reporting article from the archive, you know this rodent considers reporting one of the most soul-crushing parts of running an agency. The tools covered in that post (Whatagraph, Octoboard, Metrics Watch, etc.) are still solid for dashboarding, but something fundamental has changed since then: AI agents can now write the narrative sections of your reports for you.

We are not talking about slapping a ChatGPT summary on top of a Google Data Studio chart. These are full automated pipelines where raw data gets pulled from your ad platforms, processed through an AI agent that writes client-facing commentary, and delivered to your client’s inbox on a schedule. All without you touching it after setup.

The breakdown of this article:

  1. Why Traditional Reporting Still Wastes Your Time

  2. The AI Agent Reporting Stack (tools + architecture)

  3. Building the Automated Pipeline Step by Step

  4. The Prompt Library for Report Narratives

  5. Real Numbers: Time and Cost Savings

  6. Downloads: Agency Reporting Automation Blueprint (PDF) + Full Prompt Library

1. Why Traditional Reporting Still Wastes Your Time

Even with tools like Whatagraph or Data Studio, most agencies still spend 2-4 hours per client per month on reporting. Here is why:

The dashboard is not the report. Clients don’t want to log into a dashboard and interpret data themselves. They want someone to tell them what happened, why it happened, and what you are doing about it. That “someone” used to be a human on your team who would write 500-1000 words of narrative commentary every month. That is the part that killed your time. I have always found this the most annoying part (although sometimes it can be useful because you actually have to interpret the data and see what the best course forward would be) and have been looking for multiple ways to ease the reporting process.

Basically it comes down to this: your notes/comments is where the value lives.

Any tool can show a bar chart with impressions going up. The value of your report is the paragraph that says something like

“Impressions increased 23% month over month because we expanded targeting to include lookalike audiences based on your Q1 purchaser list. CPA came down from $42 to $31, which puts us ahead of our $35 target. Next month we are testing video creative to push this further.”

That paragraph used to take 10+ minutes to write per client, per platform, per month. Multiply that by 10 clients across Google Ads, Meta, and SEO, and you are looking at 30+ hours monthly just on report writing.

AI agents kill that time almost completely.

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]]><![CDATA[Google Ads for Local Businesses: The $500/mo Starter Package]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/google-ads-for-local-businesses-thehttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/google-ads-for-local-businesses-theFri, 27 Mar 2026 13:09:12 GMTWelcome Avatar! If you are running a digital marketing agency and you haven’t started offering local PPC services yet, you are leaving one of the easiest and most predictable revenue streams on the table. Local Google Ads campaigns are, in my opinion, the single best entry point for agency owners who want to land clients fast, deliver visible results within weeks, and build recurring revenue that compounds over time.

Today I am going to walk you through everything: how to sell a local PPC package to small businesses, how to set up and manage campaigns on a modest $500/month ad spend budget, what kind of results to promise (and what kind to avoid promising), and how to price your services so that both you and your client make money. I will also share the exact campaign structure I use for local clients, along with a downloadable pitch deck template and a campaign setup checklist you can start using immediately.

If you have already read my previous posts on Google Ads (the All About Ads series and the Search Ads deep dive), this article builds on those foundations with a specific focus on local businesses. If you haven’t read those yet, go back and review them first because I won’t be repeating the basics here.

The breakdown of this article:

  1. Why local PPC is the easiest agency sell

  2. The math: why $500/month works for local businesses

  3. Picking the right local clients (and avoiding the wrong ones)

  4. Campaign structure for local businesses

  5. The keyword strategy that matters

  6. Writing ads that convert for local services

  7. Landing pages: the make-or-break factor

  8. Conversion tracking that proves your value

  9. Pricing your local PPC service

  10. The pitch: how to sell this to a business owner in 15 minutes

  11. Managing and optimizing on a small budget

  12. Downloads

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]]><![CDATA[Building a $10K/mo Niche Site From Scratch: The Playbook]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/building-a-10kmo-niche-site-fromhttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/building-a-10kmo-niche-site-fromTue, 24 Mar 2026 19:41:12 GMTWelcome Avatar! If there is one thing this rodent has learned over the years, it is that the fastest way to build a sustainable digital agency is to stop trying to be everything to everyone, and instead pick a niche, own it completely, and build a website that attracts the exact clients you want to work with.

Today I am going to walk you through the entire process of building a niche site from zero to $10K/month in revenue. This is the exact approach I used to grow my own agency in the investment migration space, and it is the same approach I recommend to every agency owner who asks me how to get started.

This is also applicable to startup projects that can be completely separate from your agency services (like I started with sovspot.com but given my agency work have not given enough attention lately).

For your agency it is a wise move to specialize in certain domains (in our case this is investment migration, education and real estate).

I have also included two subscriber-only downloads at the bottom: a Niche Site Launch Checklist and a Revenue & Traffic Projection Spreadsheet that you can plug your own numbers into. These two documents alone should save you weeks of planning time.

The breakdown of this article:

  1. Why niche sites beat generalist agency sites (with math)

  2. Picking your niche: the selection criteria that matter

  3. The tech stack (what to use, what to skip)

  4. Site architecture for lead generation

  5. Content strategy that attracts the right clients

  6. SEO that actually works for agency sites

  7. Monetization layers: how to stack revenue to $10K/mo

  8. The 90-day launch timeline

  9. Downloads

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]]><![CDATA[The Real Way to Land Agency Clients]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/the-real-way-to-land-agency-clientshttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/the-real-way-to-land-agency-clientsSat, 07 Mar 2026 23:02:10 GMTWelcome Avatar! I get this question all the time: “How did you get your first agency clients?” Most people expect me to say something about LinkedIn outreach, cold emails, or attending industry conferences where everyone is clutching business cards like they’re lottery tickets.

The reality is way more boring and way more effective: I just hung out with interesting people and became genuinely good at what I do.

This might not sound like tactical advice. But it is. Let me explain.

In this article we’ll cover:

  1. Why “networking” is mostly a waste of time

  2. My actual path from Literature degree to agency owner

  3. The friend who became my biggest lead generator (and how I met him)

  4. Why face-to-face still closes deals in 2026

  5. How to position yourself so clients come to you

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]]><![CDATA[ChatGPT Ads Are Here]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/chatgpt-ads-are-herehttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/chatgpt-ads-are-hereThu, 19 Feb 2026 13:12:02 GMTWelcome Avatar! Little over a week ago, OpenAI flipped the switch and started showing ads inside ChatGPT. On February 9th, 2026, we can now finally start targeting LLM users for the first time.

Today we’ll cover everything we know so far about ChatGPT Ads, what they look like, who can advertise, how much it costs, how targeting works, and most importantly: what you as an agency owner should be doing RIGHT NOW to prepare for when this opens up to the rest of us.

The breakdown of this article:

  1. What are ChatGPT Ads?

  2. What do they actually look like?

  3. Who can advertise? (The honest answer)

  4. How much does it cost?

  5. How targeting works

  6. What this means for agencies

  7. The “Ask ChatGPT” feature: a game changer

  8. What you should be doing right now

  9. Comparing ChatGPT Ads vs Google vs Meta

  10. The bigger picture: Google is doing it too

Let’s dig in.

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]]><![CDATA[Selling Wordpress Sites from A-Z]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/selling-wordpress-sites-from-a-zhttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/selling-wordpress-sites-from-a-zMon, 16 Feb 2026 22:02:39 GMTWelcome Avatar! This one comes straight from the WiFi Agency community. A subscriber recently asked me the following:

“But it’d be great if you can write a post specifically about selling WP sites and how to package/sell them (first time cost, plus AMC etc). Today, I just asked a doctor if he needed a website and he said yes. But I didn’t know what price to quote him! Not sure how much work will be involved in selling/maintaining a WP site.”

Going through my previous articles, it looks like I never really touched on this in depth. Now is a good a time as any to do so.

Selling WordPress sites is one of the most straightforward and profitable services you can offer with your agency. The margins are excellent with many pre-packaged features, the recurring revenue potential is real, and most clients have absolutely no clue what goes into building a website: which means they’ll happily pay you to handle it all.

In this article we will go over the full process, from the first conversation to post-launch maintenance:

  1. The initial conversation and qualifying the lead

  2. The questionnaire (getting what you need before quoting)

  3. How to price your WordPress projects

  4. Creating the proposal

  5. The Letter of Engagement (LoE)

  6. Setting up the client portal

  7. The actual development process: hosting, staging, themes, wireframes, and launch

  8. Post-launch maintenance and recurring revenue

  9. Downloads

    1. Website Redesign Proposal Template

    2. Website Development Proposal Template

    3. Website Redesign Client Questionnaire

Let’s dig in.

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]]><![CDATA[Brand Signals, SEO & Google AI]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/brand-signals-seo-and-google-aihttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/brand-signals-seo-and-google-aiThu, 12 Feb 2026 19:38:37 GMTWelcome Avatar! After a hiatus due to a ramp up in agency volume, this WiFi agency rodent is back. There have been so many shifts in the digital agency universe as of late, that it took some playing around to incorporate everything (and we’re still not done).

The more things change, the more they stay the same. That said, if you’ve been doing SEO for clients the traditional way (pump out content, build backlinks, rinse and repeat), there are some additional things to start paying attention to. The nice thing is that all these new “AIO” (AI Optimization) services can be packaged and offered as add-ons for the regular SEO work your agency already offers.

Google’s AI systems — and other LLMs — are getting significantly better at evaluating brand signals, and this is changing the link building game in a big way. What this effectively means is that building a real brand for your clients is becoming just as important as building links, and the brand needs to be omnipresent just like the narrator of a novel with multiple characters.

In this article we will cover:

  1. What are brand signals and why does Google care?

  2. How Google AI evaluates brand authority

  3. What this means for your link building strategy

  4. How to build brand signals for clients (actionable steps)

  5. How to sell this as a service

  6. Downloads

    1. Brand Signal Audit Template

    2. Brand Signal Scoring Sheet

    3. Brand Building Campaign Planner

    4. Client Pitch Deck Snippet

Let’s dig in.

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]]><![CDATA[SEO Action Template & Checklist]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/seo-action-template-and-checklisthttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/seo-action-template-and-checklistThu, 20 Mar 2025 14:15:41 GMTWelcome Avatar! Getting started on a new SEO client is always the same process, so it makes sense to automate and standardize it as much as possible.

Become a paid subscriber to get access to the full digital agency archive with SOPs and in-depth guides for digital marketing best practices and this article.

The SEO Action Checklist will cover the following:

  1. Technical SEO Audit

  2. Keyword research

  3. Guest posts / Linkbuilding

  4. Local SEO

Download the full checklist below

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]]><![CDATA[Digital Referral Campaigns]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/digital-referral-campaignshttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/digital-referral-campaignsMon, 16 Sep 2024 20:18:12 GMTWelcome Avatar! After some requests on X, in this article we will go over PPC referral campaigns with a positive ROI, which is basically a cheat code for making money without the hassle of dealing with product or service delivery.

Become a paid subscriber to get access to the full digital agency archive with SOPs and in-depth guides for digital marketing best practices and this article.

In this overview will look at the following:

  1. Partnerships

  2. Real Life Partnership Examples (positive + negative ROI)

  3. Setting up a Campaign

  4. Automate

Let’s dig in

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]]><![CDATA[Spying on Competitors]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/spying-on-competitorshttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/spying-on-competitorsFri, 13 Sep 2024 13:31:19 GMTWelcome Avatar! As with many things in life, few reinvent the wheel and most ad creative has been tried before. But every now and again you need some new input to get the creative juices flowing. In this article we’ll go over a couple of tools that allow you to see the exact creative competitors are using, and where.

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In the upcoming weeks I’ll be sharing more of these directly actionable posts, since most of the ground work for how to run an agency (together with all the templates and SOPs) are already available in the archive.

Another thing I will be sharing in the next weeks are the results and setup of some digital startups / revenue streams that are separate from services provided to digital agency clients, but that you can run more efficiently once you have more experience in digital marketing (and/or development)

Let’s dig into the main item of today: how to spy on competitors in a certain niche.

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]]><![CDATA[Using AI In Digital Marketing - Part 3]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/using-ai-in-digital-marketing-part-3https://www.wifiagency.io/p/using-ai-in-digital-marketing-part-3Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:48:04 GMTWelcome Avatar! Today it is time for the third part of our AI in Digital Marketing mini course, all about the best ways to use AI in your day to day marketing services.

Mini-course structure:

  1. Introduction to Generative AI and course overview (see here)

  2. Prompt Engineering (see here)

  3. AI for Digital Marketing (current)

    1. AI for SEO

    2. AI for SEM / PPC

    3. AI for Email Marketing

    4. AI for Ecommerce Marketing

    5. AI for YouTube Marketing

    6. AI for Social Media Marketing

    7. AI for Content Marketing

  4. Using text to Video (week 4)

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]]><![CDATA[Using AI In Digital Marketing - Part 2]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/using-ai-in-digital-marketing-part-2https://www.wifiagency.io/p/using-ai-in-digital-marketing-part-2Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:02:57 GMTWelcome Avatar! Today it is time for the second part of our AI in Digital Marketing mini course, all about prompt engineering and how to use it to your advantage in your agency.

Mini-course structure:

  1. Introduction to Generative AI and course overview (see here)

  2. Prompt Engineering (current)

    1. What Is Prompt Engineering?

    2. Prompt Engineering Do’s and Don’ts

    3. Prompt Engineering Library

  3. AI for Digital Marketing (week 3)

  4. Using text to Video (week 4)

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]]><![CDATA[Using AI In Digital Marketing - Part 1]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/using-ai-in-digital-marketing-part-1https://www.wifiagency.io/p/using-ai-in-digital-marketing-part-1Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:03:11 GMTWelcome Avatar! It has been a bit quiet on the WiFi Agency front, and that has not been due to a lack of work. Catching up with the current trends in AI and how to use new tools for our agency has been a number one focus. More work in the short run, less work and manpower needed long term. In this 4-part Generative AI overview course, I will go over the most important tools, prompts, and templates, and how you can use them for your digital agency.

Mini-course structure:

  1. Introduction to Generative AI and course overview (current)

  2. Prompt Engineering (week 2, includes a Prompt Library)

  3. AI for Digital Marketing (week 3)

  4. Using text to Video (week 4)

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]]><![CDATA[Reselling hosting for additional WiFi income]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/reselling-hosting-for-additionalhttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/reselling-hosting-for-additionalFri, 22 Dec 2023 13:58:25 GMTWelcome Avatar! If your agency offers web development and marketing services, one of the easiest revenue streams you can tack on without additional effort is hosting services. Most clients have no idea how hosting works (or domains for that matter), and are happy to pay your agency a yearly fee to solve that. Even if the client leaves, they usually keep paying for your agency hosting the website.

In this article we will go over:

  1. Introduction to website hosting

  2. Benefits of reselling hosting

  3. Cost considerations

  4. How to resell hosting with your agency

  5. Additional revenue streams

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]]><![CDATA[TikTok: targeting the bell curve meme]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/tiktok-targeting-the-bell-curve-memehttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/tiktok-targeting-the-bell-curve-memeWed, 08 Nov 2023 15:42:52 GMTWelcome Avatar! Like it or not, TikTok has a growing user base and ignoring it at this point (especially for lower priced consumer goods & services) is not an option. Branching out to TikTok with your marketing agency is a good option to broaden your agency’s service offerings.

In this post we’ll cover the following:

  1. TikTok Marketing Strategies

  2. TikTok Best Practices

  3. Agency SOPs for TikTok:

    1. Steps for creating a TikTok sales conversion campaign

    2. Steps for creating a TikTok lead generation campaign

    3. Steps for creating a TikTok brand awareness campaign

    4. Installing the TikTok pixel on a site

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]]><![CDATA[Digital Agencies in the Age of AI]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/digital-agencies-in-the-age-of-aihttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/digital-agencies-in-the-age-of-aiFri, 22 Sep 2023 02:24:41 GMTWelcome Avatar! I’m sure by now you are well aware of all the AI-fud in terms of taking away your digital jobs in the near future. While that is probably true to a certain extent for the majority, there are ways to prevent this from happening to your digital agency and be ahead of the curve.

The breakdown of this article:

  1. What is AI marketing?

  2. How to use AI in Digital Marketing

  3. Benefits of AI for Digital Agencies

  4. How to stay current

Let’s dig in.

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]]><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing 101: Part 2]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/affiliate-marketing-101-part-2https://www.wifiagency.io/p/affiliate-marketing-101-part-2Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:46:45 GMTWelcome Avatar! We’re here for the second part of the affiliate marketing piece, so if you haven’t read the Affiliate Marketing 101: Part 1 yet, I recommend to read that first. In this second chapter we will go over how to make WiFi money with affiliate programs, best practices and some of the best high-ticket affiliate programs.

Breakdown of part 2:

  1. Affiliate Marketing Strategy

  2. Choosing a niche

  3. Affiliate Programs

  4. Affiliate Marketing best Practices

Let’s dig in.

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]]><![CDATA[Affiliate marketing 101 - Part 1]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/affiliate-marketing-101-part-1https://www.wifiagency.io/p/affiliate-marketing-101-part-1Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:10:50 GMTWelcome Avatar! Today we will go over affiliate marketing basics and how to offer these services as an agency (or how to implement them for an internal startup).

In this overview will look at the following:

  1. Introduction

  2. Benefits of Affiliate Marketing

  3. How does Affiliate Marketing Work?

  4. Terminology

Let’s dig in

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]]><![CDATA[Upselling to Existing Clients]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/upselling-to-existing-clientshttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/upselling-to-existing-clientsFri, 23 Jun 2023 02:45:08 GMTWelcome Avatar! As the owner of a small to medium sized agency there’s a lot of additional services you can tack on your marketing and development services, that in the end all add up down the line. In this post we’ll go over some of the best upsell possibilities with your clients, depending on where they are in the client journey.

In this overview will look at the following:

  1. Premium Services

  2. Add-ons depending on the client

  3. Making your agency irreplaceable

Let’s dig in.

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]]><![CDATA[Automated Reporting]]>https://www.wifiagency.io/p/automated-reportinghttps://www.wifiagency.io/p/automated-reportingTue, 06 Jun 2023 20:17:44 GMTWelcome Avatar! One of the most annoying things about managing a digital agency, is reporting. Today we’ll go over what tools to use in order to automate your reporting and get reports in clients’ inboxes, so it seems your agency is always on top of their campaigns.

In this overview will look at the following:

  1. Best reporting tools for Paid Advertising

  2. Best reporting tools for SEO

  3. Additional CRM reporting / lead attribution

  4. Downloadable Agency SOPs:

    1. Create Google Data Studio Dashboards and Reports

    2. Create an automated Facebook Ads report

Let’s dig in.

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