This Week's Agency Insights

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

What's Top of Mind

• ​How Agencies Should Think About and Manage Risk - This piece breaks down the 9 risks we see inside agencies before things go sideways, and how to get ahead of them while you still can.
• ​Start your year right - On Jan 14, we’re bringing together agency founders, builders, and operators for a FREE Knowledge Share. It is a 60-minute live session of honest insights and shared experience from agency leaders who’ve been through it. Come learn, share, and get sharper. RSVP HERE.​

What We're Talking About

Margins looking thin? Start here.​

From scoping to staffing to IP, we cover the 6 levers every agency can pull to protect profit. And the 4 habits that make it repeatable.

Tune in to one of the fan favorites podcast episode: "The Six Levers of Profitable Client Engagements."

👉 [Listen on Spotify] | [Listen on Apple]​
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Who We’re Partnering With

Imagine a hire who pushes back…productively.

Not passive. Not political.

Just clear, competent, and invested in the outcome.

That’s what JobRack screens for.

➡️ 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.

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