Steven Pope

Let me pay for your bread and milk today.

I don't need you to feel enslaved to the idea that you're gonna get a payout someday.

I'm gonna give you the payout as best I can today.

Now, I'm not gonna claim I'm the highest paying agency and that's not the point.

But I am going to claim I give sizable, livable wages, and I give people the tools they need to succeed.

Now, I don't have great retention of employees as compared to other industries.

For example, you could talk about any industry, let's say SaaS, they're going to have a higher retention rate than

because they they have engineers they pay good salaries they have a culture they have the ability maybe even to have some equity plays that they use but basically you could name any other industry and they're going to have a higher retention rate as a baseline versus retaining agency talent and and there's a lot of reasons for that but the biggest one is generally burnout and

People in agencies burn out all the time.

Why?

Because the agency model is built around having you service multiple accounts to give maximum value at all times.

Whereas in a corporate world, you only give max value one out of 10 days.

And some people might challenge that.

But if you really think about it, like most of the work you do in corporate world is bullshit work, right?

You're water coolie talk.

You're doing political bullshit.

You're going around talking about nothing with everybody, joining every other Friday frat party after work.

And very little work is actually done.

And in most companies, there's usually three to five employees that actually are valuable and hold it all together.

And these are... I don't know what the right term is, but keystone.