This Week's Agency Insights

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

What's Top of Mind

• ​Want to Step Back Without Breaking the Business? - Most founders wait too long to exit their roles. Here’s the exact process we used to transition out of the CEO seat, without ghosting the business, or imploding it.
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• ​The faster path to ROI? Trust. - North Street Creative agency added this slide to their proposals. It reframed client expectations, and improved close rates. Bold? Yes. But it worked.

What We're Organizing

Agency life can feel like a silo. Let’s change that.

On November 19, we’re hosting our first-ever FREE AgencyHabits Knowledge Share: a live, open conversation for founders and leaders who want to learn, share, and grow together.

📅 12:30–1:30 PM ET

What We're Talking About

Thinking about selling your agency?

Start here: the 6 types of buyers, from solo operators to PE platforms.

This week’s episode unpacks what they want, how they buy, and how to pick the right one.

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

Who We’re Partnering With

Your next A-player isn’t on LinkedIn.

They’re in Eastern Europe or South Africa. Smart, direct, and unafraid to tell you when you’re wrong. (The kind of teammate you actually need.)

➡️ Chat with the team at JobRack to find yours.​
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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!