The nationals are coming for your clients. Consolidation is crushing margins. And if you're not keeping up with the latest in the payroll and HR industry, you're going to get left behind. Welcome to Payrollin'. The no-BS podcast for independent payroll bureau owners and leaders who are done getting squeezed by ADP, Paychex, and the private equity machines swallowing up the industry. Hosted by Matt Vaadi, founder of guHRoo (a PEO) and Outsourced Scale (offshore staffing for payroll providers),…
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I've Sold Payroll for 20 Years. Here's What I'd Change.
Join the show live every Thursday for a conversation you can’t find anywhere else: https://grow.payrollinpodcast.com/ If you're still selling payroll the same way you did years ago, this episode might completely change your approach. After nearly 20 years of leading with the highest-priced solution and working backward, Matt challenges one of his longest-held sales habits and explains why the…
Join the show live every Thursday for a conversation you can’t find anywhere else: https://grow.payrollinpodcast.com/ If you're sending cold emails from your CRM, you may be hurting your deliverability before anyone even reads your message. In this episode of The Payroll Growth Show, Matt Vaadi sits down with Chris Clark, Director of Outreach at Underdog Digital, to break down what actually works…
Join the show live every Thursday for a conversation you can’t find anywhere else: https://grow.payrollinpodcast.com/ LinkedIn has changed dramatically in 2026, and many of the strategies that worked just a year ago are no longer effective. In this episode of Payrollin', Matt Vaadi breaks down the biggest LinkedIn algorithm updates and shares a simple 30-minute daily system that can help…
How to Build the Referral Relationships That Actually Send You Deals
Most payroll reps are chasing the wrong CPA partners. Here's the framework that fixes it. In this episode, Matt Vaadi breaks down the 10V4 program — the exact partner strategy his team uses to generate 40 referral opportunities per rep from CPA channels alone. It starts with one simple reframe: stop hunting for the one big honey hole and start building 10 solid relationships with a system behind…
How to Grow Payroll Revenue Without Finding a Single New Client
Join the show live every Thursday for a conversation you can’t find anywhere else: https://grow.payrollinpodcast.com/ Are you spending too much time chasing new payroll clients while ignoring the revenue already sitting in your client base? Most payroll providers focus heavily on new sales, but the data tells a different story. ADP expects roughly 50% of its new revenue to come from existing…
BambooHR, Paylocity, and Asure Just Launched Managed Payroll. Now What?
Three major payroll vendors launched managed payroll solutions within weeks of each other. Coincidence? Probably not. In this episode of Payrollin’, Matt Vaadi shares what’s really happening behind the recent managed payroll announcements from BambooHR, Paylocity, and Asure. Is this just another industry buzzword, or is managed payroll becoming the next major growth opportunity for payroll…
What’s the Current Average for Employee Benefits? $753 Premium, 78% Employer Paid
📧 Get weekly payroll bureau growth strategies (1,000+ leaders subscribed): → https://www.payrollinpodcast.com/ Are your employee benefits actually competitive… or just “good enough”? In this video, Matt Vaadi sits down with Matt Wilson from Scott Insurance to break down Milliman's benchmarking data across 20,000+ companies and show exactly how the guHRoo PEO plan designs stack up against…
I Drove 3 Hours to See Inside a $3B PEO Acquirer (Here's What I Found)
I drove three hours. No agenda, no idea what I was walking into to spend half a day inside Vensure Employer Services headquarters. What I saw was nothing like what I expected. 105 acquisitions. 8 deals in legal. 50 in the pipeline. $750M in revenue and still raising capital. This episode is the closest thing to a behind-the- scenes tour of the most aggressive PEO acquirer in the country and I'm…
The PEO Industry Lost 40% of Its Players. What's Next?
📧 Get weekly payroll bureau growth strategies (1,000+ leaders subscribed): → https://www.payrollinpodcast.com/Matt recently joined Pete A. Tiliakos and Julie Fernandez on the HR & Payroll 2.0 Podcast for a thoughtful conversation on the future of HR, payroll, and PEO services.In this episode, they discuss:• Matt’s journey into the payroll and HR space• The current state of PEO consolidation and…
The Advice That's Killing Your Business (Focus vs. Everything)
📧 Get weekly payroll bureau growth strategies (1,000+ leaders subscribed): → https://www.payrollinpodcast.com/ "Focus on one thing" is the most repeated business advice on the internet right now. It's also the wrong first step for most entrepreneurs. Matt Vaadi and Chris Clark make the case that unfocused experimentation isn't a detour, it's the path. From worm farms and deodorant blogs to a…