How We Navigated a 4 Agency Acquisition

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How We Navigated a 4 Agency Acquisition

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Aug 28, 2019

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Ingunn Bjøru joins us to discuss how her team approached the M&A and creation of Avidly, how she knew it was time to open the discussion, and what the transformation into Avidly meant for her leadership team, her employees, her processes, and her clients.

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Aug 28, 2019

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[NEW EPISODES EVERY WEDNESDAY] Agency Unfiltered is a weekly podcast that features interviews with agency owners around agency operations and agency growth. Nobody knows how to scale agencies better than those that are doing it, and they're happy to share an unfiltered look into what has worked—and what hasn't. Hosted by Kevin Dunn.

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