This Week's Agency Insights

Every week, we share content to help you run your agency business.

What's Top of Mind

• ​50 reasons your agency isn’t growing. - Most aren’t about clients or the market. They’re about you. This read will sting...in a good way. Read to start the year right.
• ​A small holiday gift from our team - We’re hosting the next AgencyHabits Knowledge Share on January 14th and bringing together agency founders, builders, and operators. If you want access to value-packed, curated conversations, we’d love to have you. RSVP here.​

What We're Talking About

Your biggest unlock in 2026 won’t be a new tactic.

It’ll be a new perspective. We break down why agency owners should stop building in isolation, and how to actually make community useful.

EP 19, Learning From Other Agency Owners, out now.

👉 [Listen on Spotify] | [Listen on Apple]​
💬 Liked it? Drop a review, it helps us reach more agency founders.

Who We’re Partnering With

Good operators don’t just execute. They think.

The best offshore hires challenge early...and save you from expensive mistakes later. That alone pays for the hire.

➡️ Book a call with Noel at JobRack to learn more ⬅️​
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​[This is a sponsored section - we're offer select partnership opportunities if any our Barrel Holdings agencies are a happy paying customer of your product/service. Email us at hi@agencyhabits.com]

What We’ve Made

​The Business Development Collection is a curation of real, winning proposals and SOWs from Barrel Holdings agencies along with our New Outreach Message Kit, Biz Intake Guide and Agency Lead Tracker. Now available for purchase.

P.S.

If you found value here, The AgencyHabits Podcast takes it further. Give it a listen, and if it landed, leave a review. It’s fuel for this work.

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.

Thanks for being a subscriber. If you or anyone you know is interested in selling their agency business, please check out what types of agencies we're looking for and email hi@barrel-holdings.com.

Also: Peter posts a lot of agency content on LinkedIn, give him a follow!