Author of The Golden Toilet & Agency Owner Steve Brown reveals Modern Marketing Insights

<p>Steve Brown is the founder of ROI Online, an internet marketing agency, and author of Amazon Bestselling book The Golden Toilet. Steve grew up as a &quot;chicken fried steak guy&quot; in Amarillo, Texas and had his eyes opened while travelling the world. Through a long-winding journey, he returned to Amarillo and launched a marketing agency with an international footprint. Steve is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. His agency ROI Online was recently recognized by Fortune Magazine and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC.org) as one of 100 Fastest-Growing Inner City Businesses of 2019. His agency is a HubSpot Platinum Agency Partner and the original StoryBrand Certified Agency.</p><p><br/></p><p>Steve believes the true heroes of the American economy are the invisible entrepreneurs and business leaders of small to medium-sized businesses. As the marketing world shifts, these leaders find themselves chasing shiny marketing tactics that don&apos;t move the needle. They&apos;re left frustrated with nothing to show for their hard work. Steve wrote The Golden Toilet to help these entrepreneurs successfully navigate the modern world of marketing so they can get an ROI from their strategies. In the book, Steve Brown teaches you how to reframe your perspective on marketing so you can focus your resources and attention on the real live humans who need your solutions.</p><p><br/></p><p>What is the story of how you came to start your agency?</p><p>Working for a previous agency, my job was to grow the accounts that came into a web design firm. From that vantage point, I could see what happened after those easy closes—and it wasn’t pretty.</p><p>Many of the accounts that came through would crash and burn.</p><p>People would come to us for a website or a redo, we’d close the deal and get their site in production, but then</p><p>it’d be handed off to the “web designer” (usually a Photoshop guy or someone with basic web creation proficiency).</p><p>The thing is, the designer’s job was