2025 themes we shared at our holdco mtg


This Week's Agency Insights

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  • We shared the following themes/topics with our Barrel Holdings agency leaders during out quarterly meeting in NYC. Do any resonate with you?

Related: here's our Agency Fundamentals that we reference often when we look to "master the basics":

  • Scale At Speed Live 2025 - Austin, TX, save $200 by using code Habits2025. We'd totally be there if we didn't have previous commitments. Scale at Speed by Felix Velarde was one of the better business/agency-related books we read in 2024 featuring a very smart framework.

    Scale at Speed Live brings together Felix along with agency M&A expert Peter Lang (a mentor of ours) and 2Y3X's CEO Marcus Bray for a 2-day intensive on scaling, acquiring, and exiting agency businesses.

Who are we?

Hi, we're Peter and Sei-Wook, co-founders of Barrel Holdings, a portfolio of agency businesses. We also run AgencyHabits, a resource for agency operators featuring lessons learned from our various agency businesses.

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