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More money, more problems?

Published 2 days ago • 1 min read

This Week's Agency Insights

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

What's Top of Mind

  • ​More money, more problems. That's the agency business. – Garrett Mehrguth shares where to reinvest your EBITDA - offerings, retention, customer marketing - and why the AI shortcut doesn't exist yet.
  • 📋73 responses in. Here's what's emerging:
    ​    → #1 priority: Business development
    → #2: Finance and cash flow
    → Biggest pain points: Talent, lead gen, visibility
    → How you find tools: Peer referrals > everything else (cold outreach = 0)
    We're using this to build what comes next. If you haven't filled it out yet, your input still shapes what comes next.

"One of the few resources that's closest to startup/venture capital level of content that's pure and not salesy."

Who We're Partnering With

Peter wrote about VeraOps on his blog, and we negotiated a deal for you.

They recover lost revenue from dormant relationships in your Gmail and Calendar. Strategy, hands-on support, and tech to run it at scale. AgencyHabits readers: 6-month plan for $5,000 + first month free (usually $1,000/month). Founder's pricing, aka, it won't last.

Add "AgencyHabits" in notes to claim the pricing.

"VeraOps helped me reconnect with people I genuinely wanted to talk to but had simply lost touch with over time. It’s a simple idea, executed thoughtfully, and it’s already changed how I approach business development." -- Mark DePace, Co-Founder & CCO at Ghost Robot, an integrated creative studio for Google, Arhaus, Away.

What We’ve Made

The Business Development Collection is a curation of real, winning proposals and SOWs from Barrel Holdings agencies. This week, we also added our FULL Agency Growth Engine Playbook. 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!

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