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How to Start a Successful Social Media Marketing Agency 2.0 (Udemy.com)

How to Start, Run, and Scale an Agency of Any Kind - Learn how to get clients, what services to provide, and much more!

Created by: Bryan Guerra

Last updated August 2026

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What you will learn

  • How to Sign Your First SMMA Client
  • How to Pick your SMMA Niche
  • How to Start a Successful Social Media Marketing Agency Immediately
  • What Services You Can Provide to Your Clients
  • How to get more clients to grow your agency
  • Why Starting an Agency of Any Kind is Smart
  • What Types of Agencies Can You Start
  • How to outsource, hire, scale, and "arbitrage" your services
  • Tips on How to Grow an Instagram Page for Your Social Media Marketing Client
  • How to get your client Verified on Instagram
  • How to Build an Email List for Your Social Media Marketing Client
  • How to Write Better Emails for Your Client
  • How to Grow a YouTube Channel for Your Social Media Marketing Client
  • How to create professional looking images for your client using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom
  • How to run Email Marketing and Building Websites for Your Client

How it compares

Against the other 314 rated Udemy courses in Social Media Marketing on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 83% of them
  • Reviews415#140 of 315 by number of reviews
  • Length16.2 hourslonger than 92% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 91% of them

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Course Description

Starting an Agency is smart for so many reasons. Service-based Businesses like starting your own Agency are perfect because they...

  • Require 0 money to start

  • Require 0 investment for the life of the Business

  • Require 0 risk on your part

  • Are 100% profit

  • Can be started immediately

Name another Business that can claim all of those things... it doesn't exist.


You don't just have to start a Social Media Marketing Agency, though. You can start an Agency around literally ANYTHING.


Step 1) Identify a Service that can help save businesses time or make them money

Step 2) Get very good at that service (if you're not already)

Step 3) Provide that service to businesses in exchange for a monthly fee

Step 4) Outsource your service, hire more service providers, or increase your monthly fees to scale your business


Now, obviously it's slightly more complicated than that, but if you're interested in learning how to start a Successful Social Media Marketing Agency (or agency of any kind), this Course is perfect for you. Enroll today.



Major 2.0 Updates. I've added over 12 more hours of video content to this Course for you. There's loads more value, strategies, and information to help you start, run, and scale your Social Media Marketing Agency remotely. You'll learn...

  • Why Starting an Agency of Any Kind is Smart

  • What Types of Agencies Can You Start

  • What Services You Can Provide to Your Clients

  • How to Sign Your First SMMA Client

  • How to Pick your SMMA Niche

  • How to get more clients to grow your agency

  • How to outsource, hire, scale, and "arbitrage" your services

  • Tips on How to Grow an Instagram Page for Your Social Media Marketing Client

  • How to get your client Verified on Instagram

  • How to Build an Email List for Your Social Media Marketing Client

  • How to Write Better Emails for Your Client

  • How to Grow a YouTube Channel for Your Social Media Marketing Client

  • How to create professional looking images for your client using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom

  • How to run Email Marketing and Building Websites for Your Client

  • How to Start a Successful Social Media Marketing Agency Immediately

  • How to do all of this from the comfort of your own home...or from anywhere.

  • And much much more!


Enroll today.

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Instructor Details

Bryan Guerra

Bryan Guerra is the Founder of Invert Media. Invert Media is an Online Education Company. It's mission is to make high quality education affordable and accessible to the entire world.


He runs a successful eCommerce Business, creates content and courses to educate aspiring Entrepreneurs, and loves his wife and his dog. Feel free to message him, he’s always willing to help…

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Reviews

4.6

415 ratings on Udemy

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By Lim Cheng Wei Jason on 2/29/2024

Yes, it is good informative material, and I wish to start somewhere to grow my social media marketing career. But for me to progress and gain experience, I must be placed at the correct time, meet the correct people network, and have the correct working environment. Please help me.

By Manisha Kumari on 4/6/2019

This is really a great course with depth Knowledge. Brian is very knowledgable over the topics and provided very useful information. I believe al the techniques teached by him can be implemented in the real world. Thank you for giving your Knowledge back to society. Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Vivian So on 3/20/2019

I know the majority of the content, but I did some great insight in regarding door to door method in promoting my business. The website you show me at the beginning, I think it can be more polished, especially you say you are good at web development. All in all, I think this course is for people who are beginners and not people like me.

By Esteylon Martinez on 1/9/2019

Never review a course before finishing. At first, it seemed like vague information because I am used to tackling one topic and hammering it at a time. This course is not that, It's a quick action and value packed course that will get you up and running right away with many provided document examples and more! Truly held a lot of value over a very short period.

By Devin Usrey on 12/5/2018

Overall the course was very helpful and provided a lot of value. The instructor was very knowledgeable over the topics and provided a bunch of useful information. One thing i wanted to see was more about talking with business owners and how to answer questions they may have over different situations. I am giving this course 5 stars because i really enjoyed it and it kept my interest. I recommend this course to any new SMMA owners or for those who genuinely need more help over Facebook marketing or creating a business audit for a potential client. The instructor went over a bunch of different programs and websites to help create audits and websites.

By Rohit Kadian on 3/18/2018

This is the best Social media marketing course out here on udemy , if you are looking for a social media marketing course this is right for you . The instructor is so helpful and active on Q&A . and he know's what he is doing , so a big thumbs up to him . This course is from basic to advance . I

By James on 1/14/2018

Great course, to the point and attachments are good. No bs or fluff, makes it easy to get started. Main focus of this course is how to get clients and how to start your agency from a business perspective.

By Reuben C on 12/30/2017

If you're looking to start a consulting or serviced based business, social media marketing is the niche to be in. Bryan covers a lot of details that are necessary to succeed with this business model. Everything from signing up clients via e-mail and walk-ins, to identifying great clients. There could be more than could've been covered, but there is enough here to get your started and continue building your social media marketing agency. It's a great skill to learn and have, and could lead to other business opportunities. Great for beginners! Great value for the price.

By Leon Huggins on 11/8/2017

He needs to slow down his speaking. Pace yourself and let your mind catch up to your mouth. Too much rambling and tripping over words. Fake it easy. You have a ton of insight, be confident in your knowledge.

By Kam Natt on 9/3/2017

I really enjoyed this course. It was quick, snappy and gave me the vital information, as well as useful resources to use for my marketing agency. Bryan explained points very clearly and concisely and gave excellent tips on gaining clients for social media and digital marketing services. Thank you Bryan!

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Overall Score : 92 / 100