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17th Sep 2025

Lessons from Building and Selling Multiple 8-Figure Agencies: Scaling, Rev-Share & M&A Strategies

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In this episode, Jordan Ross sits down with Matthew Larsen, a marketing strategist and funnel builder behind 1000X Leads, to talk shop on scaling agencies, creating info-product empires, and the challenges of growing through operations and M&A.

The conversation spans from engaged life in New York City to building paper-lead businesses, repurposing SOPs into scalable products, and the differences between B2B and B2C roll-up strategies. Matthew shares his experience running rev-share deals with high-performing agencies, his philosophy on LTV-driven industries, and why most agencies struggle to make it past $1M in revenue.


If you’re interested in funnels, agency growth, or the reality of acquisitions, this candid conversation offers insider lessons you won’t find in a playbook.


⏱️ Chapters


– Engaged life updates & life in New York vs. Miami

– Funnel building genius: Matthew’s info-product & ad background

– Scalable templates vs. coaching/consulting models

– Which industries actually have sustainable LTV

– Why most marketing agencies struggle long-term

– Niche specificity: e-commerce vs. real-world businesses

– Rev-share deals: Matthew’s strict criteria & success stories

– Structuring growth fees and scaling revenue share

– Paper-lead agencies: simplicity, automation, and scale

– Roll-ups, M&A, and the “dream team” strategy

– B2B vs. B2C roll-ups: challenges and opportunities

– Billion-dollar exit vision & assembling top operators

– Closing thoughts and next steps


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About the Podcast

How to Scale an 8 Figure Agency 🚀
Strategy and AI consulting for 7-8 figure agencies to help them scale to 8 figures.
Welcome to How to Scale an 8-Figure Agency, the show where I break down the exact operational, financial, and AI-driven systems that today’s top marketing agencies use to scale past seven figures — without burning out or getting trapped in fulfillment.

Every week, we go deep into:
• AI consulting for marketing agencies
• Operational infrastructure that actually scales
• Building automations, workflows, and agent-based systems
• Hiring and training world-class teams
• Improving margins, capacity, and client LTV
• Turning your agency into an 8-figure operation that runs without you

If you’re a founder stuck in the weeds, capped by systems, or wondering how to integrate AI into your agency the right way… this podcast is your blueprint.

I’m Jordan Ross — founder of 8 Figure Agency and the person behind hundreds of successful agency scale-ups — and this is where we turn chaos into clarity, and CEOs into true operators.

Let’s get into it.

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