Marketing Podcast by Marcel Petitpas
in this episode Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Marcel Petitpas.Marcel is the CEO and co-founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping institutions measure and improve profitability by streamlining operations and reporting systems.Marcel is Also part COO of Gold Front and Speaker, podcast host and consultant specializing in agency profitability optimization.
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Key takeaways:
The most profitable agencies have a winning formula that results in happy repeat customers, steady growth, and consistent profits. In this episode, Marcel Petitpas, CEO and co-founder of Parakeeto, shares his insights on successful models and how agencies can optimize their operations for profitability.
My question to Marcel Petipas:
- [1:49] If we want to optimize profitability, what should we measure?
- [4:14] In terms of KPIs, how do we strike the right balance between having too much information or narrowing down the right things to track?
- [6:40] Where can people find your institutional profitability toolkit and checklist?
- [7:24] One of the hardest things to measure is the internal staff that handles the various accounts. How do you spread this unit of labor where it should be used?
- [11:03] What do you think is the most useful billing method?
- [16:00] Everyone in the organization should keep track of their time. Yes or no?
- [17:51] What challenges does white labeling add to pure optimization models?
- [20:05] In a way, why don’t you use a resource plan with your white label partner?
- [20:52] How much responsibility do you think a marketing agency has to take to really get inside the organization?
- [23:04] Where can people find more information about Parakeeto and the work you do on behalf of the agency?
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