Nick Vasilescu had zero followers and one month of runway left. He texted 50 people from his phone, booked 7 calls, and closed a $3,500 AI client in a week. Today he charges local businesses $5K a month, flat, and he walks through the math to a $1M AI agency with just 20 clients.

In this episode of the Conquer Local podcast, Nick, a Y Combinator founder, explains why the real money in AI isn't in Silicon Valley. It's in agencies selling AI employees to the insurance agencies, design firms, and local businesses they already know how to serve.

Guest: Nick Vasilescu, Founder, Orgo

YouTube: https://youtu.be/uolZIg-b0qM

In this episode you'll learn:

→ How to price AI employees at $5K/month with no setup fee and no token billing

→ Why a $2M local business pays more, and stays longer, than a funded startup

→ How to land your first AI client with no audience and no network

→ The one question that replaces "what are your pain points?" on a discovery call

→ How an AI agent did a $10K data job overnight for under $20

→ The 5-part AI employee stack you can have live for a client in 24 hours

→ Why you should sell AI as a revenue stream, not a time saver

→ The cancellation that taught him how to stop churn

ABOUT NICK

Nick Vasilescu is the co-founder of Orgo, a Y Combinator-backed company that gives AI agents their own cloud computer so they're always running. He also sells AI employees directly to businesses.

→ Orgo: [https://www.orgo.ai/]

→ Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickvasilescu/]

→ Nick on X: [https://x.com/nickvasiles]

→ Nick on YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/@nickvasiles]

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→https://www.vendasta.com/

Get more customers. And keep them.

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Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

🎯

He built a million-dollar agency, then turned it into a brokerage. 🎯

Joshua Iverson shows how any agency owner, even a team of one, can sell AI agents, SEO, websites, and $50K/month media programs to local businesses without hiring a single person.

He rebuilt his agency like a real estate brokerage. Independent agents plug in and sell everything a full agency sells. Behind them: a 40-person ad ops team and the entire Vendasta platform. Today his business does over $50K a month in packages, plus millions in media.

Guest: Joshua Iverson, Founder, iMedia

YouTube: https://youtu.be/KoCXVwhsiTc

In this episode, you'll learn:

✅ How the Agent Broker model works, and who it's built for

✅ The exact packages and prices he sells to local businesses

✅ Why he puts an AI agent in every package (and how it raised his prices)

✅ The Vendasta tech stack behind it, demoed live

✅ How agents get paid, and where the real margin is

✅ How a one-person agency wins a $50K/month media budget

✅ Why he tells agents to charge less on ad spend, not more

✅ How he keeps bringing in new local business clients

✅ Why AI is forcing agencies to decide: agency or SaaS company?

👤 ABOUT JOSHUA IVERSON

Founder/CEO of iMedia Audiences and iMediaSalesTeam. Vendasta Certified AI Partner. Trusted by brands since 2009.

🌐 https://imediaaudiences.com

🤝 https://imediasalesteam.com

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaiverson/

#AIAgents #MarketingAgency #DigitalMarketing #Vendasta #AgencyGrowth #WhiteLabel #LocalBusiness #AIForBusiness #MediaBuying #AgencyOwner

Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

🎯

Can you really sell AI agents for local businesses with zero AI experience?🎯

Guest: Phil Goodwin, Founder, Sidecar AI LLC

YouTube: https://youtu.be/5A6QIPJfvks

Nine months ago, Phil Goodwin, a designer from small-town Georgia, had never built a single AI agent. 🎨

Today, he's building and managing AI agents for local businesses across Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington D.C. 🚀

So what changed? 👀

In this episode, Phil shares his screen and shows real conversations between his clients and the "digital workers" he built for them, including one agent that dug through a client's inbox and uncovered something the owner had completely forgotten about. 📬

He also reveals the launch process he uses so he never builds an agent from scratch again, and the pricing ladder he climbed, one client at a time. 💰

🎯 In this episode, you'll learn:

👉 What a "digital worker" is and why business owners instantly get it 🤖

👉 How Phil went from zero agents to paying clients in under a year 📈

👉 The real client conversations that prove what these agents can do 💬

👉 What happened when one agent went through hundreds of Gmail threads 📬

👉 The repeatable launch system Phil built to scale his setups ⚙️

👉 How he priced his first clients, and how he raised his rates step by step 💵

👉 Why "my agent builds the agents" changed his entire business 🔁

👉 The mindset shift that makes you more qualified than you think 🧠

💡 Whether you're an agency owner, freelancer, designer, consultant, or simply curious about AI, this conversation shows what it actually looks like to build AI agents for local businesses from the ground up.

🚨 If you think you're too far behind to start selling AI, Phil's story might change your mind. You don't need to be an expert. You just need to be one step ahead. 👣

🎧 Hit play and get Phil's complete playbook.

🔗 Connect With Vendasta

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

𝕏 X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

🚀 Transform Your Agency with Vendasta 🚀

https://bit.ly/3X1WGbl

💬 What's your biggest takeaway from Phil's journey into AI agents? Would you build a digital worker for your own clients? Let us know in the comments!

🔔 Subscribe for more conversations on AI agents, digital workers, agency growth, entrepreneurship, customer acquisition, and the future of work. 🌎✨

About Vendasta

Vendasta is an AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta provides an integrated platform to help businesses attract customers, automate workflows, streamline operations, and deliver personalized customer experiences at scale. 🤖📈✨

🎯

At 21, Michele Torti sells AI receptionists to local businesses for $10,800 upfront + $2,000/month. Here's the exact 6-step system he'd follow to start an AI agency from zero tomorrow.🎯

Guest: Michele Torti, Founder, JM Solutionss

YouTube: https://youtu.be/QrOPnmgyqg8

Most AI agency advice is about tools. This episode is about:

which AI offer local businesses actually buy, how to price it on the value it creates (not the hours it takes to build), and how to land clients with no network, no case studies, and no technical background.

In this episode, you'll learn:

→ Why AI voice agents aren't saturated (and why your feed makes it look that way)

→ The "Revenue Recovery System": 1 main offer + 2 upsells that maximize every client

→ Why you should never say "AI" on a sales call

→ The 3-question niche filter, and why one roofer call is worth more than 200 restaurant orders

→ The exact pricing math: how 3 missed calls a day becomes a $10,800 setup + $2K/month retainer

→ The after-hours cold call trick that qualifies prospects before you say a word

→ How he booked 3–6 sales calls a day from LinkedIn without cold DMs

→ The two-call close that took his close rate from 5% to 40%

→ The onboarding process that keeps clients happy and paying

CONNECT WITH MICHELE TORTI

YouTube: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-torti/]

Website: [jmsolutionss.com]

The Conquer Local Podcast helps agencies and local business experts grow with proven strategies for selling AI, winning clients, and scaling recurring revenue. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one.

#AIAgency #AIVoiceAgents #AIAutomationVendasta

is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

🎯

Jeff Pierce sells a $6,750/month AI package to local businesses. One client estimates it recovered $300K+ from calls he was already missing.🎯

Guest: Jeff Pierce, Founder, Crosshair digital

YouTube: https://youtu.be/A9C76G1U61U

In this episode of the Conquer Local Podcast, Jeff Pierce of Crosshair Marketing breaks down exactly how his agency sells AI employees to local businesses: what's in the package, how he prices it, and why his clients don't need more leads, they need to stop losing the ones they already have.

Jeff shares his screen and walks through a real proposal, including the AI receptionist, chat receptionist, reputation manager, social media manager, blogging agent, data analyst and AI inside sales rep that make up his AI workforce.

What you'll learn:

→ How an AI receptionist caught weekend and after-hours jobs a truck accessories shop didn't know it was losing

→ How a custom wheel shop's AI captured 58 leads and $18K in 11 days (and puts the rims straight into the cart)

→ The math behind a $375K/year missed call for a law firm

→ Why he sells a team of AI employees instead of a single chatbot

→ The 7-step sequence that runs the moment a lead comes in after hours

→ Why he makes clients print their phone call logs

→ How he prices AI on the revenue it recovers, not a 100% software markup

→ Why his onboarding fees keep going up

→ The AI employee that renamed itself and made its own headshot

If you run an agency and want to sell AI to local businesses, this is the exact package, pricing and pitch.

Sell AI employees to your clients with Vendasta: https://www.vendasta.com/ai-employees/

👤 ABOUT THE GUEST

Jeff Pierce is the founder of Crosshair Marketing, a Florida-based full-service agency with 33+ years in marketing, from print and radio to AI. His agency deploys AI receptionists, chat agents and a full AI workforce for local businesses, built on the Crosshair Command Center (powered by Vendasta).

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffpiercecrosshair/

Work: Crosshair Marketing: https://crosshairdigitalmarketing.ai

🔗 Connect With Vendasta

💼 LinkedIn: / vendasta

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: / vendasta

#AIAgency #AIReceptionist #AIEmployees

Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

🎯

Klint Rudolph runs a 15-year-old digital agency with three partners and no office manager. 🎯

Watch on Youtube

Phone calls used to forward to their cell phones — and nobody was answering.

Then he turned on an AI employee named Sophia. The first week, he found people calling at 9pm to talk about building a website. Full conversations. Nobody had ever left a voicemail before, because nobody was ever going to.

Today that same AI employee runs across nearly 200 local business clients — answering phones, qualifying leads, and booking appointments. In this episode he opens up the actual prompt, the guardrails, and the automation stack behind it.

Including one lead his human sales team would have deleted on sight. Sophia worked it over email for weeks with zero human involvement, and closed a retainer. The client's words: "your sales team's incredible."

🎯 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

→ The exact prompt formula he trained his whole team on: Role, Context, Outcome

→ How he takes one base prompt and deploys it across ~200 clients without rewriting it

→ The hard constraints he never lets an AI agent break (no pricing guarantees, no fake integrations, no claiming AI replaces staff)

→ His five lead-intent tiers and how the agent decides to nurture vs. send the booking link

→ How he names and personalizes each agent so clients feel it's theirs

→ The 3-call onboarding that gets a nervous client comfortable enough to flip it on

→ Why he does zero outbound — and how a fishing lodge that needed Russian and Chinese translation turned into a PPC and social retainer

→ What to deploy first if you have one client and one afternoon

If you sell to local businesses, this is the lowest-barrier offer on the table right now. It costs nothing to spin up, it trains itself on the client's own website, and it opens the door to everything else you sell.

🔗 CONNECT WITH Klint Rudolph:

LinkedIn: ⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/klintrudolph/

X: https://x.com/klintr

Website: https://thexcitegroup.com/

🔗 CONNECT WITH Vendasta:

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

#AIagents #AIemployees #DigitalAgency #LocalBusiness #AIautomation

Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

🎯

In this episode, Corey Ganim gives away his entire AI Concierge playbook 🎯

Learn the exact business model he uses to sell AI to local businesses, starting with a $999 assessment anyone can deliver this week (no code, no audience, no AI expertise required).

If you run an agency or want to start an AI side business in 2026, this is the full step-by-step: how to land clients, what to charge, the offer ladder that scales from a $999 assessment to a $1,500/month retainer to high-value AI agents — and the exact scripts Corey uses to close each one.

You'll learn how a $30/month AI agent generated an extra $11,000/month for a wedding-venue client, why speed-to-lead is the highest-ROI AI offer you can sell, the AOA framework (Audit, Optimize, Automate) Corey runs on every client, and the word-for-word cold pitch that sells an AI agent to any local service business.

Whether you're a marketing agency, a freelancer, or a complete beginner looking to make money with AI, this is a complete blueprint you can copy today.

🎯 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

How to start an AI services business with no audience, no capital, and no coding

The $999 AI assessment offer and how to sell it

How to price and deliver a $1,500/month AI consulting retainer

How to build and sell speed-to-lead AI agents to local businesses

The exact frameworks, scripts, and upsells behind a done-with-you AI business

👤 ABOUT THE GUEST

Corey Ganim spent nine years building a $16M e-commerce business before pivoting to AI services. He now helps non-technical business owners implement AI — and teaches others how to do the same.

🔗 CONNECT WITH COREY GANIM:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/

Work: https://returnmytime.com/

🔗 CONNECT WITH VENDASTA:

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

🔔 Subscribe for more playbooks on AI, agencies, and the businesses winning with AI in 2026.

#AIBusiness #AIAgency #MakeMoneyWithAI #AITools #AIConsulting #Entrepreneurship #AIAgents #SmallBusiness #ClaudeAI #SideHustle2026

Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

Guest: Corey Ganim

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esrXYBZa4Ns&t=1s

🎯

Nobody wants a website. They'll pay $250/month for these AI systems.🎯

Enmanuel Diaz sold websites for $2,000 and one in ten people said yes. Then he found a firearms training company with 500+ five-star reviews, a packed calendar, and a homemade GoDaddy site ranked #1 on Google — and realized they didn't need a better website. They needed a system.

He blew up his own model. Now local businesses pay him $250 a month for custom software that used to cost $50,000–$100,000 and take a coding team months. Nine out of ten say yes. His churn is under 2%. There are no contracts and no build fees, and his pricing is public.

In this episode he opens his actual client dashboards and walks through the 5 systems he sells to local businesses, then builds one live on camera using AI — from a blank screen to a working homepage.

🎯 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

→ The automatic rebooking engine that took one client from 1 booking per customer to 4–5

→ The booking + CRM system he built for a bridal boutique in under 7 days

→ The revenue dashboard that shows a client exactly how much money their website made ($1,100 in 19 days on a $450/month site)

→ Why he hides his client's prices — and why sales went up

→ How he prices a $100,000 build at $250/month and still profits

→ Why he gives clients the files and lets them cancel any time

→ The exact prompt he uses to build a client homepage with AI

If you run an agency, sell websites, or sell anything to local businesses, this is a working playbook for turning one-time website projects into recurring revenue.

About the guest

Enmanuel Diaz builds custom software and websites for local businesses on a monthly subscription model at iCreateYourSite.com.

🔗 CONNECT WITH ENMANUEL:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enmanuel-diaz

Website: https://icreateyoursite.com/

🔗 CONNECT WITH VENDASTA:

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

#AIagency #LocalMarketing #AgencyGrowth #SellingAI #recurringrevenue

ABOUT VENDASTA:

Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

🎯 Klint Rudolph sells AI agents to local businesses with Vendasta — and his clients never leave 🎯

He stopped selling marketing as his lead offer. Now nearly 200 local businesses run on his AI stack, he closes new clients in about 5 minutes, and his AI receptionist booked a client a $1,400 job overnight.

🎯 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

How to sell AI agents to local businesses without a hard pitch.

The free chat agent you can deploy today to close clients.

How to price AI so it replaces the tools they already overpay for.

Why selling an AI "business operating system" kills churn.

The speed-to-lead + AI receptionist play that books jobs after hours How to demo AI so it sells itself

Whether you're a solo agency owner or scaling a team, this is a practical guide to AI lead generation, AI receptionists, and local business automation you can resell starting this week.👉

Guest: Klint Rudolph, Founder at The Xcite Group

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE1cxVTEbcw

Subscribe for more on selling AI agents, AI for agencies, and growing a local marketing business with AI employees.

🔗 CONNECT WITH KLINT:

LinkedIn: ⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/klintrudolph/

X: https://x.com/klintr

Website: https://thexcitegroup.com/

🔗 CONNECT WITH VENDASTA:

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

#aiagents #LocalBusiness #MarketingAgency #AIforBusiness #Vendasta #AIautomation #SellingAI #AIreceptionist #AgencyGrowth #LeadGeneration

ABOUT VENDASTA:

Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

🎯He replaced a $1.2M team with AI agents — solo, $70K in 31 days. 🎯

This is how to build and sell AI agents for business, and why home services (plumbers, HVAC, roofers) is the smartest niche nobody's touching.

Siloh "Silo" Moses runs Uno OS as a single founder with zero employees — just a team of AI agents doing the work of a hundred people. In this episode he breaks down the exact playbook agency owners can copy: how to sell AI agents to local businesses, why speed-to-lead is the first agent you install, and how his CFO AI agent found a client running a $66K monthly loss they didn't even know about — then built a plan for $1.2M in extra revenue.

If you're building an AI automation agency, learning how to make money with AI agents, or figuring out how to package and price AI agents for real businesses, this is the tactical breakdown — cold outreach, the 30-day install order, testing before launch, and the content engine that fills the pipeline for a one-person company.

🎯 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

– How to sell AI agents to local businesses without cold sales calls

– The exact order to install agents (and why lead-response comes first)

– How to price AI agents on outcomes, not hours

– Why home services is the highest-ROI AI automation niche

– How one founder runs a full agency with AI agents instead of staff

Guest: Siloh Moses, founder of Uno OS

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl-bUG2-goQ

🔔 Sta tuned for more on AI agents for business, selling AI, and running lean.

🔗 CONNECT WITH SILOH:

LinkedIn: ⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/silohmoses/

Website: https://www.unoos.ai/

👉 Book an AI readiness assessment / work with Silo: [https://ai-guide.unoos.ai/workshop]

🔗 CONNECT WITH VENDASTA:

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

#AIAgents #AIAutomationAgency #SellAIAgents #AIforBusiness #AIagentsforbusiness #HomeServices #SmallBusinessAI #AIreceptionIST #SpeedToLead #Entrepreneurship

ABOUT VENDASTA:

Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

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🎯Jon Cheney is back. 🎯

Watch Jon's first episode here: [https://youtu.be/kQ8jy1raZso]

Last time he showed us how he built a million-dollar business solo with zero coding experience. This time we went deeper on the part nobody asked about?

How a non-technical guy with no sales team booked $180,000 in AI deals in six weeks, completely cold. Jon walks through exactly who's buying vibe-coded AI solutions right now, the word-for-word script he uses on every single sales call, and the 10-minute live demo trick that has CEOs ready to buy before he's done talking.

We also talked about how to price AI services so you actually have a business, the real story of how one AI voice agent saved a staffing company $100,000 a year, the biggest mistake people make when they try this, and his simple model for keeping clients month after month:

If you run an agency and you've been wondering how to sell AI to local businesses, this is the playbook. No hype, no fluff.

You can find Jon on:

LinkedIn: ⁠ / joncheney⁠

Instagram: ⁠ / cheneypiano⁠

Facebook: ⁠ / cheneypiano⁠

X: ⁠https://x.com/cheneypiano⁠

TikTok: ⁠ / cheneypiano⁠

Website: ⁠https://genaipi.org

🔗 Connect With Vendasta

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

Guest: Jon Cheney, CEO and Cheif AI Officer at GenAIPI

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBhlANkISBE

Enjoy!

Vendasta is an AI customer acquisition & engagement platform. Unlike traditional marketing automation, CRM, or customer acquisition tools that focus on isolated functions, Vendasta offers a complete solution with an integrated suite of tools to run and manage digital marketing campaigns, automate campaign, sales and billing workflows, and deliver personalized customer journeys.

▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube

🎯How He Scaled His Business From $0-180K in 6 Weeks With Vibecoding🎯

Jon Cheney can't write a single line of code, and he's landing $15,000 AI contracts in 5 days using vibe coding.

In this episode, Jon breaks down exactly how he went from idea to first paying customer in one weekend: building an entire AI training business for ~$400, fixing a broken Stripe checkout, and closing a $15K deal by Tuesday — then scaling to $180,000 in six weeks, completely solo.

He also reveals the one client question that flipped him from one-day trainings into a recurring-revenue fractional Chief AI Officer model, and walks through real client builds: a 5,000-employee staffing company that cut case resolution from 39 days to 11, and a dashboard that gave BYU Athletics back a full week of work every month.

If you run an agency, consultancy, or local business and want to sell AI services without knowing how to code, this is the roadmap.

🚀 Meet Vibe, Vendasta's new AI app builder. ✨ See how you can go from idea to app in just minutes. ⚡📱. For more info visit: https://www.vendasta.com/vibe/

🔑 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

How to sell AI services with zero coding skills

How to go from idea to first customer in under a week

Pricing AI training and fractional Chief AI Officer retainers

How to build client dashboards and AI voice agents with vibe coding

Turning one-time projects into monthly recurring revenue

#VibeCoding #AIAgents #FractionalCAIO #AIBusiness #NoCode #AIAutomation #Entrepreneurship #SMB #AIConsulting #makemoneywithai

🔗 Connect With Jon Cheney

🌐 Website: https://genaipi.org/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joncheney/

📩 Newsletter: https://joncheney.com/

🔗 Connect With Vendasta

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

Guest: Jon Cheney, CEO and Cheif AI Officer at GenAIPI

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8jy1raZso

Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode 💜

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ABOUT VENDASTA:

Vendasta is an AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform that helps businesses get more customers—and keep them. Our platform unifies fragmented tools across marketing, sales, and operations, and uses AI assistants plus proprietary SMB data to automate busywork, streamline workflows, and amplify the humans on your team.

We help digital agencies, franchisors, and MSPs scale profitably, deliver better outcomes for local businesses, and grow long-term revenue with less manual effort.

👉 Transform Your Agency with Vendasta – Book a Demo

https://www.vendasta.com/request-demo/

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🎯 Behind Tim Cortinovis' Agentic Team That Runs 98% Of His Business 🎯

Tim Cortinovis hasn't answered his own email in eleven months. His agents handle 98% of everything that hits his inbox — and his clients say the replies are remarkable.

In this episode, he hands over the entire system that runs his business: every agent, what it does, and how he built it in ten minutes with zero code.

Forbes calls him a tech visionary. Thinkers360 ranked him a Top 10 thought leader in agentic AI. He's advised Siemens, ING, and e.on on this exact shift, and wrote the Amazon #1 book on building a company that runs on agents.

Now he's running his own business as the proof.

Host Jeff Tomlin digs into what's actually left for the human to do — and a prediction about sales jobs you're not going to like.

In this episode:

✅ The agentic team that runs his business

✅ The 10-minute, zero-infrastructure prep he runs before any prospect meeting (the exact tools and prompts)

✅ The belief about clients he spent a year quietly proving wrong: why speed beats presence

✅ Why the email-based SDR has "no reason to exist within the next twelve months"

✅ How to sell to buying agents — not humans — before your prospect knows they're in the market.

🔗 Connect With Tim Cortinovis

🌐 Website: https://www.timcortinovis.com/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcortinovis/

📩 Newsletter: https://www.cortinovis.de/blog/

🔗 Connect With Vendasta

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

Guest: Tim Cortinovis

Youtube: https://youtu.be/pMby6rWCSDA

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We help digital agencies, franchisors, and MSPs scale profitably, deliver better outcomes for local businesses, and grow long-term revenue with less manual effort.

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🎯 How Charlie Hills Hit 200K+ LinkedIn Followers in a Year (& the 9 AI Prompts Behind It) 🎯

Get all 9 prompts here: https://www.vendasta.com/content-library/youtube-content-library/

LinkedIn reach is down ~80%, AI content is everywhere, and most agency owners are posting into the void. So how did Charlie Hills go from posts dying at 400 impressions to 200,000+ followers and a client pipeline in just over a year?

In this episode we break down the exact system — the profile setup, the content strategy, and the full library of AI prompts Charlie uses with Claude and Gemini to create high-performing LinkedIn content without sounding robotic.

You'll learn why "how I did it" beats "how to," the 70/20/10 content split that drives both growth and revenue, and how to engineer hooks, carousels, and infographics that actually stop the scroll. Whether you're an agency owner, founder, or solo creator trying to turn LinkedIn into a lead machine, this is the playbook.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✅ Post as much as is sustainable early on to gather data, then double down on what works

✅ Storytelling and a specific point of view beat generic "top 10 tips" content in the AI era

✅ Your profile is a landing page, not a CV — optimize the headline, banner, About, and Feature sections to convert

✅ Content is the engine of your pipeline: it generates intent signals from your ideal clients

✅ AI does the heavy lifting, but the ideas, perspective, and judgment have to come from you

✅ It's a long game — expect 3 to 6 months before real traction

Guest: Charlie Hills, Founder of MarTech AI

Youtube: https://youtu.be/pMby6rWCSDA

🔗 Connect With Charlie Hills

🌐 Website: https://www.linked-agency.com/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-hills/

📩 Newsletter: https://charliehills.substack.com/

🔗 Connect With Vendasta

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

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We help digital agencies, franchisors, and MSPs scale profitably, deliver better outcomes for local businesses, and grow long-term revenue with less manual effort.

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🎯 She tried to sell her AI agency… and discovered she'd built the WRONG business model. 🎯

Isabella was one of the first agencies on earth licensed to deploy AI voice agents — working 18-hour days, scaling fast, looking successful from the outside. Then she sat down with M&A lawyers to find out what it was all worth… and got the wake-up call that changed everything.

In this episode of the Conquer Local Podcast, she breaks down the exact difference between an agency capped at a 2X valuation and one building something worth 20X — plus the AI employee playbook agencies are using to target 70–80% margins heading into 2026.

If you run an agency, sell AI services, or want to start an AI business without a technical background — this one's a cheat code. 🚀

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why "human-centric" AI services quietly kill your valuation
• The micro-SaaS founders making $30M–$80M with teams of 5 (or one 18-year-old)
• Productize vs. service: the real reason one founder builds 20X and the other stalls at 2X
• Why AI voice agents for cold calling is the WORST use case (and what to do instead)
• The 3 AI agents businesses are paying the most for right now: Speed-to-Lead, AI Receptionist & After-Hours Agent
• How to price agents like a real employee salary — and stop leaving 5–6 figures on the table
• The exact difference between a $3K/month agency and a $50K/month agency
• Isabella's 90-day, $100K playbook (and the #1 mistake that makes it crash and burn)
• Her 3 non-negotiable principles for starting an AI business today

Guest: Isabella Bedoya, Founder izzyOS

Youtube: https://youtu.be/3kPf2NqKgQQ

THE BIG IDEA

The AI gold rush isn't consulting or "ChatGPT training." It's productized AI employees that do the work, scale without breaking, and get compared to a real salary — not a "bot."

#AIAgency #AIEmployees #AIVoiceAgents #MicroSaaS #ConquerLocal #AIforBusiness #Entrepreneurship #AIautomationY #SaaS #AgencyGrowth

🔗 Connect With Isabella Bedoya:

🌐 Website: https://izzygpt.com/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/izzword/

CONNECT WITH VENDASTA:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

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ABOUT VENDASTA:

Vendasta is an AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform that helps businesses get more customers—and keep them. Our platform unifies fragmented tools across marketing, sales, and operations, and uses AI assistants plus proprietary SMB data to automate busywork, streamline workflows, and amplify the humans on your team.

We help digital agencies, franchisors, and MSPs scale profitably, deliver better outcomes for local businesses, and grow long-term revenue with less manual effort.

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🎯 Most AI agencies are broke for one reason: they picked a niche that can't pay them. 🎯

Luke Pierce has built 80+ AI systems with a near-100% adoption rate and he uses a 7-point scorecard to know which niches print $1M+ before he ever sends a single pitch.

In this episode, Luke Pierce (founder of Boom Automation) breaks down the exact framework he uses to score any industry and predict — before a single sales call — whether it'll make money or bleed you dry.

He's worked with everyone from small local businesses to mid-market investment firms, and he's learned the hard way that the niche you pick decides everything: your close rate, your deal size, your margins, and whether you're still in business in twelve months.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

→ The 7-point scoring system that separates $1M niches from time-wasters (and the ONE criterion that overrides the other six combined)

→ Why the most painful, "perfect-on-paper" niches are actually the trap that kills agencies

→ The 5 local business categories with a pain point AI absolutely crushes right now — and the exact automation each one will happily pay for

→ How to find any industry's #1 AI opportunity without ever working in it

→ Why specialists get chosen while generalists fight for scraps on price

If you run an AI agency — this is the playbook.

Guest: Luke Pierce, Founder of Boom Automations

YouTube: https://youtu.be/IXnSBkiq_5w

🌐 Connect with Luke Pierce:

Website: https://boomautomations.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-pierce-boom-automations/

💬 Which niche are you going after? Drop it in the comments.

CONNECT WITH VENDASTA:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

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ABOUT VENDASTA:

Vendasta is an AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform that helps businesses get more customers—and keep them. Our platform unifies fragmented tools across marketing, sales, and operations, and uses AI assistants plus proprietary SMB data to automate busywork, streamline workflows, and amplify the humans on your team.

We help digital agencies, franchisors, and MSPs scale profitably, deliver better outcomes for local businesses, and grow long-term revenue with less manual effort.

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🎯

The 5-Minute Response Window That's Killing Your Agency (And How to Win It Back)🎯

While you're manually checking LinkedIn on Wednesday, your competitors closed the deal on Monday. In this episode, Jeremy breaks down why prospecting in 2026 isn't a volume problem — it's a timing problem — and reveals the exact AI-powered system that's separating winning agencies from the ones bleeding out.

If you're still buying bigger lists and sending more cold emails hoping something sticks, this conversation will completely rewire how you think about lead generation.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✅ The 5 AI employees every agency should be hiring TODAY (and which one to build first)

✅ Why the "send more messages" diagnosis is destroying your pipeline (and what actually works)

✅ The critical difference between a lead list and a buying signal — and why confusing them costs you deals every week

✅ The REAL buying signals local businesses send every day (hiring spikes, review velocity, job changes, website updates, social engagement, expansion announcements)

✅ How to build an operational ICP that filters in real-time — not a useless persona doc collecting dust in Google Drive

✅ The "waterfall filter" system that qualifies prospects for free before AI ever touches them

✅ The 4 components you need for a 5-minute response system that's structurally impossible to beat manually

Guest: Jeremy Grandillon, CEO & Co-founder TC9

YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZAOnAkpbGgo

💡 Who This Is For:

Agency owners selling to local businesses (home services, med spas, restaurants, plumbing, wellness), founders scaling B2B outreach, and anyone tired of spray-and-pray prospecting that stopped working five years ago.

🔗 Connect With Jérémy Grandillon

🌐 Website: https:https://tc9.ai

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremygrandillon/

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X: https://x.com/vendasta

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Vendasta is an AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform that helps businesses get more customers—and keep them. Our platform unifies fragmented tools across marketing, sales, and operations, and uses AI assistants plus proprietary SMB data to automate busywork, streamline workflows, and amplify the humans on your team.

We help digital agencies, franchisors, and MSPs scale profitably, deliver better outcomes for local businesses, and grow long-term revenue with less manual effort.

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For 20 years, the SEO industry sold one promise: rank #1 on Google and the traffic will come.

Eli Schwartz is the man telling everyone that promise is dead.He's consulted for Tinder, WordPress, SurveyMonkey, and Mixpanel. He wrote the book on product-led SEO. And in this episode, he doesn't hold back on what AI has actually done to search and why most SEO agencies are about to get wiped out.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

→ Why ranking #1 on Google is now worthless (and the data proving it)

→ How one company lost 60% of their traffic but kept their revenue

→ Why the $5K/month blog post retainer is officially dead

→ The "search market fit" framework most startups completely miss

→ The brand signals AI is actually paying attention to (it's not what you think)

→ Why eBay lost the SEO war to Amazon — and what every business can learn from it

→ The $30,000/month link-building mistake Eli made early in his career

→ Why your SEO agency might be lying to you (and how to tell)

→ What agencies need to sell instead of rankings to survive 2026

If you're a founder, marketer, or agency owner who's watching AI Overviews eat your traffic — this is the episode that explains what's actually happening and what to do about it.Eli isn't sugarcoating it. Most agencies won't survive this shift. But the ones that adapt are about to win bigger than ever.⏱

Guest: Eli Schwartz, SEO consultant of Product-Led SEO

YouTube: https://youtu.be/8JdXW-qTzQg

👤 ABOUT ELI SCHWARTZ

Eli Schwartz is an SEO consultant and the author of Product-Led SEO. He has consulted for Tinder, WordPress, SurveyMonkey, Mixpanel, and dozens of high-growth companies. His upcoming book Customer Intelligence (Wiley) explores how businesses can actually understand their ideal customer.

📩 Follow Eli on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwartze/

📬 Subscribe to his newsletter: https://www.productledseo.com/🎙

CONNECT WITH VENDASTA:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

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ABOUT VENDASTA:

Vendasta is an AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform that helps businesses get more customers—and keep them. Our platform unifies fragmented tools across marketing, sales, and operations, and uses AI assistants plus proprietary SMB data to automate busywork, streamline workflows, and amplify the humans on your team.

We help digital agencies, franchisors, and MSPs scale profitably, deliver better outcomes for local businesses, and grow long-term revenue with less manual effort.

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🎯 How Luke Pierce Closed 80+ AI Automation Deals With Local Businesses.🎯

Luke Pierce, founder of Boom Automations, has closed over 80 AI builds ranging from small projects to six figures and his #1 piece of advice to agency owners is to stop leading with AI entirely.

In this episode, Luke breaks down the exact framework he uses to identify ready buyers, run discovery calls that close 60%+ of qualified prospects, and turn operational chaos into six-figure deals with local businesses.

If you're an agency owner, automation builder, or consultant trying to sell into plumbers, clinics, contractors, or real estate teams — this is the playbook.

🔑 What you'll learn:

→ Why leading with "AI automation" kills your deals before they start

→ The 5 positioning pillars that separate $100K agencies from price-shoppers

→ 7 signals that reveal a local business is sitting on $100K+ in operational waste (before you ever talk to them)

→ The exact 30-minute discovery call structure that closes 60%+ of qualified prospects

→ The 9 workflow questions that uncover billable system components

→ How to do live ROI math with the prospect's own numbers

→ How to handle the 3 objections unique to local businesses without losing the deal

📌 Real client results discussed:

600+ manual invoices automated per month for a home services company

100% reduction in quoting process time

Lead intake systems that score, enrich, and route in under 2 minutes

Proposal generation triggered by a single form submission

Guest: Luke Pierce, founder of Boom Automations

YouTube: https://youtu.be/eIcYnfj0dgI

🌐 Connect with Luke Pierce:

Website: https://boomautomations.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-pierce-boom-automations/

CONNECT WITH VENDASTA:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

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ABOUT VENDASTA:

Vendasta is an AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform that helps businesses get more customers—and keep them. Our platform unifies fragmented tools across marketing, sales, and operations, and uses AI assistants plus proprietary SMB data to automate busywork, streamline workflows, and amplify the humans on your team.

We help digital agencies, franchisors, and MSPs scale profitably, deliver better outcomes for local businesses, and grow long-term revenue with less manual effort.

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🎯 She built a $1.2M AI agency without a single sales call, zero paid ads, and no cold outreach. Here's the exact system she used. 🎯

Most agency owners are stuck doing 20 sales calls a week, chasing cold leads, and burning out, only to close maybe 5% of them.

Isabella Bedoya did the opposite.

No cold emails. No sales team. No paid ads.

Just a razor-sharp 4-step system that attracts high-ticket clients, warms them up automatically, and converts them — sometimes while she sleeps.

In this episode, Isabella breaks down exactly how she:

→ Sold $180K of AI agents in 6 weeks from LinkedIn alone

→ Replaced 200 exhausting sales calls with one system that made 3X more money

→ Charges $10K–$20K per AI agent — without ever hopping on a pitch call

And the most counterintuitive part?

The more she gave away for free, the more people paid her.

KEY CONCEPTS COVERED IN THIS VIDEO

✅ The 3 AI agents businesses are paying most for right now — and how to sell them fast

✅ The exact email sequence that converts cold leads into high-ticket buyers

✅ How to build a personal brand that makes Forbes, podcasts and clients come to YOU

✅ The upsell ladder that takes clients from $47 all the way to $20K/month

✅ How to use buyer enablement to sell $10K AI agents straight from a landing page

🏷️ WHO IS THIS FOR?

This episode is for you if you are:

An agency owner stuck trading time for money

Trying to sell AI agents but don't know how to package or price them

Tired of cold outreach and discovery calls that go nowhere

Ready to build a high-ticket offer that sells while you sleep

Wanting to productize your AI services and scale past $50K/month

Guest: Isabella Bedoya, Founder izzyOS

YouTube: https://youtu.be/xDXVozOg-Kk

🔗 CONNECT WITH Isabella Bedoya:

🌐 Website: https://izzygpt.com/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/izzword/

CONNECT WITH VENDASTA:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendasta/

X: https://x.com/vendasta

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vendasta/

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ABOUT VENDASTA:

Vendasta is an AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform that helps businesses get more customers—and keep them. Our platform unifies fragmented tools across marketing, sales, and operations, and uses AI assistants plus proprietary SMB data to automate busywork, streamline workflows, and amplify the humans on your team.

We help digital agencies, franchisors, and MSPs scale profitably, deliver better outcomes for local businesses, and grow long-term revenue with less manual effort.

👉 Transform Your Agency with Vendasta – Book a Demo

https://www.vendasta.com/request-demo/