This Week's Agency Insights

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

What's Top of Mind

• ​Profit isn’t luck. - It’s not just pricing. From timeline to templates, these are the overlooked levers that drive profitability (or kill it).
• ​The real opportunity? Deliver what you sell. - This post by Annabelle Cochrane calls out the real reason clients churn, and the massive opportunity for agencies who actually deliver what they promise.

What We're Talking About

This week’s episode breaks down the 6 levers behind profitable delivery, and where agencies leak margin without even realizing it. We go deep into pricing, scoping, staffing, and the habits that separate healthy agencies from the ones constantly “making it work.”

If you’ve ever wondered why a “good” month still feels tight, this is the episode to bookmark.

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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.

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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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