If you're an agency founder stuck at $20K -$80K/month and grinding just to keep the wheels on.... you're not alone.

Most agency owners don't have a leads problem.
They have a capacity, clarity, and consistency problem.

I know, because I lived it. I scaled my own agency from $10K/month → $150K/month, then built Agency Uplift to help others do the same, with less chaos and more control.

Here's how we help:

✅ Positioning & Offers that cut through noise
✅ Operations & Systems to remove you as bottleneck
✅ Financial Clarity so you can scale profitably, not blindly
✅ Hiring & Leadership so your team performs without hand-holding

If you’re ready to go from founder-led hustle to systems-driven growth, send me a DM or check out https://www.agencyuplift.co

Let’s build a business that works for you (not because of you.)

Sean Lang - Scaling Brands

Elfster

Sr. Director AdOps & Merchandising

CM Consulting

Founder, Consultant, Mentor

Rakuten Advertising

•	Joining Rakuten Advertising provided me with the opportunity to expand my digital experience in programmatic display, social, affiliate, search and digital attribution
•	Leading multi-channel client services team across programmatic display, social, affiliate, search and digital attribution
•	Outperforming overall client revenue benchmarks YoY
•	Own executive level client relationships, acting as a strategic advisor to top retail and eCommerce clients (across D2C and agencies) in my book
•	Expertly counsel clients to understand and support their business goals, while managing their media budgets efficiently
•	Develop and execute media strategies to help clients maximize their revenue, ROAS and achieve their business goals
•	Upsell and cross sell current clients on Rakuten Advertising’s products and services
•	Collaborate with internal teams on creating process efficiencies for the Client Services org

Sr. Director, Client Strategy

PlaceIQ

•	PlaceIQ was an opportunity to take mobile advertising to another level as they focused on targeting, attribution and analytics, based on mobile data.
•	Scaled and managed National Account Management team, with teams on East and West Coasts.
•	Identified areas of growth and learning for the Account Managers, which would allow them to be challenged in their roles and move forward in their careers
•	Championed the value and importance of world class customer service
•	Collaborated with internal teams to create new processes for new product launches
•	Tackled client satisfaction issues and developed action plans to resolve the situations
•	Streamlined Sales processes with the goal of reducing turn-around times for inbound requests
•	Identified areas to improve our inventory pipeline, allowing for the Publisher team to secure more inventory and reduce the risk for under-delivery

Sr. Director, Client Services

YuMe

•	The exciting growth and changes at YuMe allowed me to gain experience in the video space and exposure to a company through their IPO process
•	Grew Account Management team from a team 8 to a team of almost 30, with teams across the US
•	Advocated the needs of the Account Management team to help drive efficiencies and improve level of service
•	Collaborated with global teams to create and stream line internal processes 
        Teams include US Sales, BD, European Sales & Account Management, US and India 
•	Identified need and justified case for development of Campaign Management team in India
•	Worked with India counterparts to form and train the newly developed Campaign Management team
•	Worked closely with BD, Finance and Pricing teams to ensure YuMe is able to fulfill both advertiser and publisher needs while ensuring that YuMe is profitable
•	Updated Executive team with key account status and revenue

InMobi

•	Built and managed Account Management and Ad Operations as InMobi expanded into North America
•	Scaled and established processes for  Account Management and Ad Operations in the US
•	Main point of contact between US Ad Operations and India Ad Operations 
•	Collaborated with international teams in knowledge sharing and maximizing revenue for each global region
•	Deep understanding of advertiser’s mobile goals and identified areas for campaign optimization
•	Worked closely with BD and Publisher teams to inform them of the sales pipeline and collaborated to fill excess inventory 
•	Provided weekly revenue reports to Executive team and participated in weekly Sales meetings to discuss booked revenue, revenue pipeline, potential upside opportunities and revenue variances

Head of Campaign Management, North America

• Head of hi5’s Ad Operations and Account Management teams, building both teams from the ground up
• Established processes to ensure smooth and efficient work flows for Sales, Account Management and Engineering
• Worked internally with Engineering to implement processes for Sales support for new and existing sponsorships
• International partnership management 
• Business development for integrated and mobile partnerships
• Provided weekly revenue reports and participate in weekly partnership meetings to discuss booked revenue, potential upside opportunities and revenue variances

Sr. Director Advertising Operations

Photobucket

•	Head of Photobucket’s Ad Operations and Account Management Teams
•	Identified new ways to monetize Photobucket’s site, through new product ideas or use of existing products
•	Worked with engineering and product groups to ensure internal and ad serving systems work together when new products were launched
•	Evaluated new campaign management products to help increase the efficiency of the Ops and AM teams.
•	Worked closely with Atlas’ technical support to resolve operational issues from the ad serving side
•	Collaboration with product, creative and engineering teams to build and execute various custom ad units
•	Provided weekly revenue reports and participated in weekly calls with the CEO, SVP and RVPs – reporting including booked revenue, delivered revenue to-date and analysis of revenue variances
•	Collaborated with Fox’s finance team to resolve outstanding billing issues and worked toward a more efficient billing process

Sr. Director of Ad Operations

•	Head of Photobucket’s Account Management/Client Services Team
•	Built a team of 5 account managers from the ground up
•	In a short time-frame developed, established and documented processes to ensure smooth and efficient work flows
•	Collaborated with product, creative and engineering teams to build and execute various custom sponsorships
•	Reviewed new site specs with the product, engineering and creative teams.
•	Actively participated in meetings with the operations group to discuss operating issues and develop practical solutions 
•	Provided weekly revenue reports and participated in weekly calls with the SVP and CEO – reporting including booked revenue, delivered revenue to-date and analysis of revenue variances

Director of Acct Management

Yahoo! Inc

•	Senior member of Northwest Account Management Team
•	Worked in collaboration with Northwest sales to strategically grow top-tier clients, both D2C and through and through agencies
•	Involved in presales work – creation and negotiation of sales programs and presentations for sales pitches
•	Worked closely with clients and internally to optimize campaigns, including up-selling/creating new deals
•	In depth reporting and analysis of campaign performance
•	Reviewed contracts with legal, finance and other business units
•	Collaborated with finance department to ensure revenue recognition and resolution of billing issues 
•	Clients include eBay, HSBC, Experian, Wal-Mart and Visa

Project Manager/Account Manager

ASAT, Inc.

•	Main interface between clients and manufacturing counterparts in Hong Kong
•	Obtained client demand forecast and coordinated with Hong Kong counterparts to deliver requested order
•	Teamwork with management to implement operating changes, which improved overall service to customers and helped to establish lasting relationships with clients

Account Manager

I am a dedicated and successful team leader with 25+ years multi-channel digital advertising experience in affiliate marketing, programmatic display, social, paid search, mobile, video and connected TV.  My strong background in building, managing and mentoring teams across the US, and creating new processes and modifying existing ones has enabled me to create efficiency within my teams and company.  I have collaborated with many different cross functional teams on new product launches, process improvements across teams and evangelizing the needs of my immediate org. 

I excel at building long lasting relationships with D2C clients and agencies, across retail and eCommerce, focusing on providing insightful digital strategy to drive performance and help clients reach their KPIs/revenue goals.

Being highly proficient in using Google Analytics, SalesForce and JIRA has enabled me to track, prioritize tasks and requests, in addition to offering me data to analyze to forecast revenue, workloads, customer retention and growth.

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