Sam Preston
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Sam Preston
@HeySamPreston
CEO of @servicescalers - I help home service companies get more leads. Mostly tweets about marketing, family and building an agency in public. DMs open.



I'm gonna ruffle some feathers here, so prepare for a dumpster fire of comments... Digital marketing agencies, in their current form, are essentially pointless now. People that charge $3k to $5k a month to manage your website, paid ad campaigns, social media, Google Profile, SEO, and all that crap have become commoditized. X is busting at the seams with these people selling these services, which is why this post is going to get a lot of people fired up. Your knowledge and expertise you've spent years refining is no longer special, unique, or valuable. When I can train an AI by just dumping links to YouTube channels, guides, and posts for the top expert in every one of these specialties and then give it API access to execute all the top strategies for me and my business, then wtf do I need you for? What does any business owner need you for? Truth is... most small business owners hire these agencies and never get results, or only hear from them when their monthly bill is due. They automate crap metric emails that mean nothing and have done nothing to improve anything for their customers. So the small business owner gets frustrated and just moves on to the next company to do the same thing to them. Meanwhile, the agency business model only succeeds in focusing on constant new signups rather than fostering success for their current clients. Gotta ramp up that MRR amirite?! Nah... their days are numbered. A newer, more affordable, and better model is coming to eat their lunch and provide real and consistent value to clients at a fraction of the cost. Some of you guys have figured it out, most haven't. I've been on both sides of this. I've been on the agency side and built thousands of websites, managed online marketing for hundreds of companies, and helped generate many millions of dollars for them. But I've also been on the small business owner side fielding relentless phone calls after being scraped into their prospect lists and watching my small business owner peers consistently get bad results with them and feel like they've been robbed. Nobody ever takes the side of the small business owner because they are by far the minority, especially on X. Agency owners seem to utilize AI tools all day, but in the same breath say they're irreplaceable. Nah dude... you're first on the list.












