Epic Drone Tours Co-Founders Scale Passion into a Thriving Agency

Podcast Summary:

In this episode of the Scaling Creator podcast, hosts Soren Dickens and Eriksen Dickens interview Jack Spitser and Zack Reuter, the CEO and COO of Epic Drone Tours as they share their humble beginnings of starting their own agency. They shared how series of failures helped them to make decisive decisions and reminded every entrepreneur to just be resilient in conquering challenges and struggles along the way through constant trial and error. They also shared some tips and strategies on how to create a sustainable and scalable agency.

Hosts: Soren Dickens and Eriksen Dickens

Guest: Jack Spitser, Zack Reuter

Main Topics:

1.     How Jack got into storytelling through moving pictures

2.     How Epic Drone Tours started out as a start-up agency

3.     Epic Drone Tours core values and team dynamics

4.     Strategies and Tools that helped Epic Drone Tours grow as an agency

5.     How relationships within the Swimming community helped Jack to pursue his passion in the creative world

6.     Outreach Tools and Automation to create a more efficient way to funnel leads

Key Lessons:

1.     Don’t shy away from failure because that’s when you’ll grow and learn new things.

2.     Always try to find a solution and see the positive side of every bad situation.

3.     Learn how to delegate tasks to focus on each other’s strengths

4.     You need to strike a balance between your vision and step-by-step process in order to achieve those goals.

Notable Quotes:

1.     “Even when things get tough, half-way through swimming a mile, your body wants to die and you want to get out of the pool. Same thing in business. If you’re going through a hard time, if a terrible quarter, terrible month, and the client yells at you and you feel like the whole world is falling down, you got to be able to realize, you know it’s fine… Just keep going! It’s the same way in swimming, you just have to keep on going.” (Timestamp: 11:45)

2.     “Failure is kind of one of those things that we’re all afraid of, but we need to accept, because that’s what’s going to really push us to the next level every time.” (Timestamp: 26:50)

3.     “We use some softwares that help give reminders, you know, sending some slack messages when things need to get done and trying to take out small, tedious tasks and systemize them and automate any way that we can just to make it so it’s less busy work and we can feel like what we’re actually doing is useful and is going to push the business in the right direction.” (Timestamp: 39:50)

4.     “It’s more about that. I like building relationships and getting to know somebody first, and if that eventually leads to a client and then work with us, that’s great.” (Timestamp: 01:05:29)

5.     “If you as a creator, figure out what you want to be working on. Like what is your dream vision? Who are you working with? What kind of projects are you doing? Is it TV commercials? You know, whatever it is, figure it out and then make a list of, you know, your top 20 people that you whether it’s follow on Instagram, like social media, is definitely underrated.” (Timestamp: 01:12:09)