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Ep #20 - Matt Weinberg, the President of Happy Cog (formerly Vector Media Group), joins me on the show for an interview to discuss his experience scaling his digital design & marketing agency to 8-figures and hitting the Inc 5000 List seven consecutive times from 2013-2018. Happy Cog did $13M in revenue in 2018 with 51 employees. The company was founded when Matt and his co-founder were still in high school. In today's conversation, we get into Matt's strategy for building a digital agency model during a time when companies like Squarespace and Wix have made website creation easier than ever for people. You'll hear Matt's business philosophies, the market segment that Happy Cog serves, and nuggets of wisdom he's learned through his journey. You won't want to miss this.  Learn More About Matt Weinberg and Happy Cog: Visit the Happy Cog website at: https://www.happycog.com/ Follow Matt Weinberg and Happy Cog on Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewweinberg/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/happycog Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/happycog/ Please remember to rate, review and subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss any future episodes. Your support and reviews are important and help us to grow and improve the show. Follow Charles Gaudet on Social Media: Facebook: Facebook.com/PredictableProfits Instagram: Instagram.com/PredictableProfits Twitter: Twitter.com/CharlesGaudet LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/CharlesGaudet Visit Charles Gaudet's Wesbites: www.PredictableProfits.com www.Beyond7Figures.com Get a copy of Charles Gaudet's book, "The Predictable Profits Playbook," at: www.PredictableProfitsPlaybook.com  

At the end of last year, well-renowned digital agency Vector Media Group acquired the equally-renowned Happy Cog. Why? And what does it mean for our industry? We get the details from Vector partners Matt Weinberg and Stuart Henry, who explain how the idea of an acquisition evolved over time and how quickly the deal came together once decided. They share the nuances of reassuring both clients and staff, as well as the challenges of merging processes and services. We also get their perspective on the digital agency landscape, along with advice for other agencies that are considering joining forces. < Download MP3 >      < Listen on ctrlclickcast.com > Show Notes: Vector announcement Happy Cog announcement Businesswire press release Defy Ventures Make a Wish Foundation CTRL+CLICK CAST Instagram Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Review our show on Stitcher

In this episode, we have special guests Matt Weinberg from Vector Media Group and Mark Huot from Happy Cog to discuss Vector Media Group's recent acquisition of storied web agency Happy Cog.

That went quickly! Listen in to our live event where we commemorate 100 episodes of The Busy Creator Podcast and remark on the journey. This event was a crossover with the New York City Podcast Meetup, recorded at Small City Co-working space in Brooklyn. Joining Prescott on stage are musician Joaquin Cotler (@ShinyIslands), UX designer Rashan Casseus (@rcassues) & video publisher/entrepreneur Gabby Wallace (@GabbyAWallace). Together we discuss daily practice, creating projects and nurturing them over time, and our own experiences with podcasting. Get The Episode Download The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 100 (MP3, 1:07:53, 32.7 MB) Download The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 100 (OGG, 1:07:53, 35.9 MB) Subscribe to Get New Episodes     Subscribe to The Busy Creator Podcast on iTunes, on Google Play Music, on Android, on iHeart Show Notes & Links Small City co-working space in Brooklyn Joaquin Cotler, musician, journalist, composer of The Busy Creator Podcast theme song Paul Shaffer, Clark Terry, Questlove — late night talk show band leaders through the years New York City Podcast Meetup Joaquin has appeared on The Busy Creator Podcast episode 41 John Lee Dumas & Kate Erickson, guests on TBC episode 50 "It's a great time to go to Puerto Rico if you already have a lot of money." —Joaquin Cotler Tweet This Creighton Mershonn & Jessi Arrington, proprietors of Small City and past guests on TBC ep 92 Vector Media Group, our default host of the NYC Podcast Meetup Nick Spriggs, partner at Vector, guest on TBC ep 91 New York City Podcast Meetup is one year old  New York City Podcast Meetup on Twitter  New York City Podcast Meetup on Facebook Prescott removed Facebook from his phone, sleeps better  The Busy Creator Podcast made it to 100 episodes — they're all here Jonathan Coulton, and his Thing A Week podcast project JoCo Cruise, featuring Aimee Mann, et al "Busy is a four-letter word." —Prescott Perez-Fox  Tweet This “Busy Beaver” is an English-language idomatic expression MIT's mascot is Tim the Beaver, nature's engineer Tim The Beaver Buzz The Busy Beaver is the mascot of The Busy Creator Podcast, but not modelled after Prescott #HumbleBrag, a definition The Busy Creator Podcast started as bi-weekly, went up to weekly, then returned to bi-weekly Bi-Weekly vs. Fortnightly vs. every-other-week, semantics TBC by the numbers: 3 years, 106 episodes (including B-Sides), 98 unique guests, 15 single-topic episodes, 4 monologue episodes TBC by the numbers, best single day downloads: 567, 11 January 2017 TBC by the numbers, best monthly downloads: 10,148, November 2016 TBC by the numbers, lifetime downloads: 103,279, as of 16 January 2017 Marc Maron's show received nearly 750,000 downloads in 24 hours when he interviewed President Obama Casper Mattresses, not a sponsor #TBC100 and #NYCPodMeet to see photos from the event Rashan Casseus, NYC native, FIT Grad, currently a Senior UX Designer Rashan & Prescott met at a fan meetup for Keith and The Girl R & P participated in The Cinnamon Challenge The Ice-Bucket Challange, The Mannequin Challenge, etc. Ice Bucket Challenge Emeril Lagasse "I make digital tools easier to use." —Rashan Casseus Tweet This "UX is the thought process of how a human being gets from point A to point B." —Rashan Casseus Tweet This MailChimp, and their mascot Freddy Disembodied Monkey Hand, the name of Joaquin's new punk band Microcopy, the words around the site on buttons, short messages, etc. Eat24, and their “hungry” shopping cart 90Elm, Rashan's cousin's t-shirt company User Stories, User Interviews — tools of planning a site Sayba Naturals, Prescott's mother's soap brand Squarespace, also not a sponsor "Websites are never finished, they are only abandoned." —Prescott Perez-Fox, paraphrasing Leonardo da Vinci Tweet This "Your website is done when you run out of time, or when the client says 'I want it up now'." —Rashan Casseus Tweet This Museum of Arts and Design, NYC Gabby Wallace, YouTube producer, teacher, online marketing coach — hates headphones!  Keith Richards Gabby defines herself as a creator. Simple. "I create something every day. Most day, many things." —Gabby Wallace Tweet This Prescott & Gabby met at Podcast Movement 2014 Gabby was a podcaster, has moved back to YouTube. 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Nick Spriggs (@ncsfoo) is a partner at Vector Media Group in New York City. Though he wasn't one of the original founders, Nick's role at Vector has been to grow the design and branding offerings to complement the development and marketing capabilities previously in place. In this conversation, we discuss cultural differences among designers and developers, office rituals used at Vector, how to keep your remote colleagues in the daily mix, and best practices to keep an entire team communicating clearly and working productively. Catch up with Nick on the website for Vector Media Group. Subscribe to Get New Episodes     Subscribe to The Busy Creator Podcast on iTunes | on Google Play Music | on Android| on iHeart Sponsor Freedcamp, the best free online project management software Bandwidth for The Busy Creator Podcast is provided by Freedcamp, Group Efforts Made Effortless. Freedcamp is best free online project management software available. By using the built-in functions and additional tools like time tracking, invoices, milestones, file storage, and more, teams can customise the software for the task at hand! The Busy Creator Podcast itself is managed and operated on Freedcamp. Get started for free on Freedcamp.com Show Notes & Links Nick & Prescott are co-hosts of The New York City Podcast Meetup Past guest Vijay Mathews is a mutual friend Nick is a native of Australia, came to the US for University in 1999 Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design "Somehow a year in New York turned into 14." —Nick Spriggs Tweet This Prescott ran afoul of the Visa situation when he graduated from a UK university E-3 Visa for Australians, TN NAFTA for Canadians, et al. Christina Canters, a past guest on The Busy Creator The Museum of Mathematics Vector's output is mainly websites & apps Their studio is rooted in branding, typography, traditional graphic design Nick likes the term “Product Designer” in the rare cases when it actually applies (thought beyond the page or the pixel, to the inter-connected parts and a bit of the “how”) "Clients sometimes don't understand what the term 'Design' means." —Nick Spriggs Tweet This The “explosion of explanation” can be exciting for a client Designers are trained to observe, critique, discuss our work; clients, not so much Vector was created around 2008 by Matt Weinberg & Lee Goldberg Vector is staffed with “Creative Developers”, not just code monkeys Nick was invited to join as a partner after working together as a collaborator previously Vector [still] takes on pure development projects, as well as a few pure design projects. Most stuff is collaborative, though. "You really have to be on your game when explaining something (to remote teammates.)" —Nick Spriggs Tweet This Reddit, and the “well, actually” culture Vector has started creating a Darts-scoring app as a side project They also created a “Project Hub” for client milestones & assets. (Click to enlarge)   Client dashboard (as static HTML) Basecamp “Clock Discipline”, the habit of tracking your activity hour-by-hour Ken Carbone on fixed-costs project fees Matt Inglot of Tilted Pixel Consigliere Vector provides staff with laptops, allowing transportability and work-from-home Google Hangouts on Air will become YouTube Live You can now do VOIP calls in Slack GoToMeeting Zoom UberConference (and their hold music) 9 Habits of Highly Creative People Adam Harrison Levy uses wood-stacking as creative distraction Formula 1 Racing "A big part of building the business is just time management." —Nick Spriggs Tweet This Todd Henry books “office hours”, a time where your team can access you “Distractioneering”, when social media companies distract you on purpose  Nick Spriggs on Twitter  Nick Spriggs on Facebook  Nick Spriggs on Instagram  Nick Spriggs on LinkedIn Tools Google Hangouts Burn down reports Stack Overflow Slack UsabilityHub Usability.gov Techniques Keep clients excited & enthusiastic beyond the project itself (if they can't stay energised, it's hard for you). Bring clients “in” to the process (wireframes, sketches, etc.) Have clients describe “found objects” in early phases; let the client use their own language so we can use it later Allow designers & developers to cross-involve each other Learn to hold quick, informal meetings internally Involve developers into design-led processes; they too can participate Formalise kick-off meetings to involve the whole team, when possible Use retainers with clients; set aside blocks of hours ahead of time to ease minds and control workflows Schedule “reverse meetings”, time where you're actually at your desk working and no one can distract you Take a screenshot at a random time during the day; see what everyone in the shop is working on Habits Use collaboration to inspire ourselves Observe the politics of your client's company Bring your remote employees to headquarters for occasional workshops/retreats Explain with clarity when sharing with clients or remote colleagues Hold daily Standups, even with remote staff (via video call) Celebrate the project conclusion (close-out, hand-off, etc.); create office rituals around milestones along the way Track your time internally — as individuals and as teams — for your own learnings, regardless of how you bill the client Visit the quirky coffee shops in your neighbourhood Take the time to walk home (even if it's 1 hour or more) Take a 10-15 minute walk when you feel “stuck” or distracted Try Audible.com Free for 30-Days Visit BusyCreatorBook.com for your free trial Get In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson as a free audiobook  Join the Discussion Leave a comment below to participate in the conversation.

We're joined by our friend Matt Weinberg to chat about growing a large consultancy, software, hiring, and more. A lot of great insights in this one, don't miss it!

We’re joined by our friend Matt Weinberg to chat about growing a large consultancy, software, hiring, and more. A lot of great insights in this one, don’t miss it! Vector Media Group Questions for Matt from the forums Cartthrob Thanks to Linode for sponsoring this episode. Sign up today and get $20 off. Discuss on […] The post Bootstrapped, Episode 74, “Nobody ever got fired for hiring Vector Media Group” with special guest Matt Weinberg appeared first on Bootstrapped.fm.

Matt Weinberg, CEO of Vector Media Group a company that specializes in web design, content management, and general media consulting. Listen in as Matt shares the history of his 15 year old company, how it went from a small pet project to genuine giant, and what he sees for the future of media. Bio:Matt co­founded Vector Media Group in high school, and is now its President of Development and Technology. Vector is now 32 people and has been on the Inc 5000 list of America's fastest growingcompanies for 3 years in a row. We're fully bootstrapped: we've never taken outside funding or debt and have been profitable every single month since our start. Famous 5Favorite Book? – Getting to YesWhat CEO do you follow?— Travis KalanickWhat is your favorite online tool?— WorkFlowyDo you get 8 hours of sleep?— NoIf you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be?—Know how much harder it is to take a risk at 30 than 20. Time Stamped Show Notes:01:17 – Nathan’s introduction 01:48 – Welcoming Matt to the show02:19 – Matt has one partner (Lee)02:36 – Company founded in 200003:02 – Started ramping up to a media company in 200503:40 – They are effectively a consulting company04:48 – Web design and consulting is the biggest aspect of Vector’s business05:45 – Vector loves to get in with companies as early as possible06:44 – www.GreenTechMedia.com 07:55 – Vector bills at roughly $180/HR10:03 – Walking through the negotiation/fleshing out process11:12 – Catch problems EARLY11:28 – Vector can work on almost any budget12:00 – Ideas change DRAMATICALLY post launch12:50 – Working with the Associated Press13:41 -- @MRW 3 Key Points:Take risks before your 30…it gets harder after that birthday.Mentally and financially budget for the changes you’ll want post launch—there will be many.Don’t be afraid to price yourself as a premium product if you know you’re worth it. Resources Mentioned:Edgar – Nathan uses Edgar instead of other scheduling tools for Twitter because Edgar cycles through content over and over (buffer/others you have to re-input content over and over – time consuming). In the last several months, Edgar has driven Nathan over 3728 clicks that he didn’t have to work or pay for.Host Gator - Powerful web hosting made easy and affordable.WorkFlowy – The online tool Matt can’t live withoutTravis Kalanick – The CEO Matt followsGetting to Yes – Matt’s favorite business bookwww.GreenTechMedia.com – One of Vector’s clients  

I had two conversations for this installment. I talked to Matt Weinberg and Anna Brown. Matt Weinberg is the Co-founder and President of Technology and Development at Vector Media Group in New York City. Matt has been working with ExpressionEngine for years and has used EE as the main technology for his client work. Anna Brown runs MediaGirl, Inc., a one-person company that does front-end and CMS implementation development for agencies. Anna plays an important role in the EE community through her help creating and advocating the ExpressionEngine StackExchange website.