This Week's Agency Insights

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

Are you running a Ponzi Scheme on yourself without knowing it? - Check out this fictional but very real story of an agency owner in trouble. Includes lessons on how to avoid ending up in a Ponzi.
When should you put pricing on your website? - As an agency, is it even appropriate to publicly publish your pricing?
Have a hiring need? One of our best hires ever was via JobRack (sourcing talent for agencies from Eastern Europe & South Africa). We brought on a team member who became an essential part of our biz dev efforts & has been with one of our agencies for 3+ years.

If you’ve ever wondered whether offshore hiring could work for your agency—but aren’t sure where to start—Noel has put together an exclusive 40-minute workshop just for agency owners. It breaks down exactly how top agencies are winning with offshore talent, the differences between recruiters, staffing agencies, and DIY hiring, and when hiring globally makes sense (and when it doesn’t).

This workshop isn’t publicly available, but as a reader of this newsletter, you get private access. Watch it here (email required for access).

[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]

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.

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