This Week's Agency Insights

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

• ​Simple, repeatable actions to drive more leads & wins to your agency​

• ​Must-do exercise for agency owners - David C. Baker has a quality piece with some great questions all agency owners should ask themselves. Do yourself a favor and take time to reflect on them.
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• Have a hiring need? JobRack's partnered with AgencyHabits to bring the best talent from Eastern Europe and South Africa.
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  One of our best hires ever was via JobRack. We brought on a business development coordinator who was a quick learner, incredibly organized, and hungry for more responsibilities. She'd become an essential part of our biz dev efforts & has been with one of our agencies us for 3+ years.
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  The hiring process was seamless. We met with JobRack founder Noel Andrews to share the type of role we were hiring for and the qualities we care about. We were quickly served up a curated set of candidates to interview, all very high quality. The process took a few weeks & we happily landed our new team member.
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  JobRack is not the lowest priced option - they charge $3,250 upfront and then $3,250 upon successful hire. But this is balanced by a compelling money-back guarantee offer...
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  If you don't find a candidate you love, you get your upfront $ back. You then have a 90-day replacement money-back guarantee if your new hire doesn't work out. And if your new hire ends up leaving before 1 year, they'll help replace the team member free of charge.​
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  We've had some terrible experiences with recruiters charging 20-30% on first year salary (could easily be $10k-$30k) only to have people leave after 4-5 months. JobRack's total cost of $6,500 is a bargain in comparison.
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  JobRack's doubled down on serving agencies and they've become adept at staffing for agency roles like marketers, account managers, designers, developers, and project managers.
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  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).
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  This workshop isn’t publicly available, but as a reader of this newsletter, you get private access. Watch it here (email required for access).
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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]

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.

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