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AgencyHabits

On building the next version of your agency

Published 9 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

  • ​Keeping someone who no longer fits isn't loyalty. – On the hardest part of building the next version of your agency: accepting that some of the team, maybe even you, might need to change.
  • We're on Instagram and TikTok now. More frameworks, shorter format. If you'd rather scroll than read, we get it. 👉 Instagram | TikTok​

Who We're Partnering With

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“It’s already changed how I approach business development.”
— Mark DePace, Ghost Robot

We Built a Free Tool

If you can't articulate your differentiation, or your team explains what you do differently every time, this will help. Paste your URL, and get a full positioning audit in ~60 seconds. Category, wedge, ICP, service offering.

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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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