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Reversing the trend of dwindling referrals...

Published 8 months ago • 1 min read

This Week's Agency Insights

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

  • ​When referrals fade - a step-by-step guide to reinvorgate your referral network.
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  • ​The agency M&A world and real estate - how thinking about your agency as a house might help you understand M&A better.​
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  • At one of our agencies, we got a major boost in productivity when we enlisted Grantbot to conduct an audit of how we work & the software we use. They came back with some really smart workflow automation solutions that helped us streamline processes & get more out of our software.​
    ​    What does Grantbot actually do?​
    ​    They help agencies scale faster by automating what’s stealing your team’s time.     ​
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    From onboarding to project tracking to invoicing, they pinpoint what’s broken—and build plug-and-play automations that multiply your output.
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    No fluff. No bloat. Just scalable systems that actually get used.    ​​
    ​One simple, scalable, revenue-generating automation? Turning your call transcripts into LinkedIn posts. The Grantbot team made a tool that can be installed in days not months, creating LinkedIn content drafts without you lifting a finger. And you can test it for free today!
    ​    ​​Generate 3 LinkedIn posts from any call transcript right now for free.​
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    ​[This is a sponsored section - we offer select partnership opportunities if any of our Barrel Holdings agencies are a happy paying customer of your product/service. Email us at hi@agencyhabits.com]
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  • ​The Business Development Collection is a curation of real, winning proposals and SOWs from Barrel Holdings agencies along with our New Biz Intake Guide and Agency Lead Tracker. And for a limited time with your purchase, we're offering a free 30-minute consultation/call with Barrel Holdings co-founder Peter Kang. Let's talk shop.

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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AgencyHabits provides learnings, ideas, and templates for agency operators drawn from Barrel Holdings companies. Barrel Holdings incubates, acquires, and grows agency businesses.

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