This Week's Agency Insights

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

What's Top of Mind

• ​Profit ≠ Profit – There is a difference between lifestyle cash and business value. This breakdown shows you what’s real, what’s inflated, and what buyers care about.
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• ​BX Studio Nominated for Webflow Enterprise Partner of the Year​
  A huge congrats to Jacob Sussman and the BX Studio team (one of our Barrel Holdings agencies.) This nomination is hard-earned. Their focus, execution, and leadership in the Webflow ecosystem continues to set the bar.

What We're Talking About

This week’s podcast shares the top 10 repeatable habits behind sustainable agencies:

The weekly actions that build trust, pipeline, and team alignment.
What to fix first: underperformance, unclear goals, or inconsistent outreach.
Why ops beats hustle (every time.)

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

It’s like they’re from New York, but friendlier! Eastern European hires are known for being direct which is game changing if you’ve struggled with passive team members that don’t speak up. The right team members will challenge bad ideas and suggest better ones, music to any agency owner’s ears. Find out where and how to hire them in:
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​➡️ JobRack Offshore Hiring Playbook ⬅️​
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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 odcast 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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