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This Week's Agency Insights

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

What's Top of Mind

  • We just partnered with Automattic for Agencies. We're planning something we're genuinely excited about: a live fireside chat called "Mind the Gaps" about the gap between what your agency's positioning says and what prospects (and AI) actually see. More details coming soon. Stay tuned.
  • We're planning an event in London. If you're interested in joining us in person, let us know - we're gauging interest before we lock in the details. 👉 [Register your interest here]​

What We're Talking About

📺 Did you know we're on YouTube?

Every podcast episode, framework, and tool we publish - now in video format with Peter and Sei-Wook. Subscribe so you don't miss one.

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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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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