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Specialist or generalist?

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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

  • ​"Start paying yourself a sales commission right now." – Sounds weird. But Tyler Pigott explains why your business needs to get used to the expense before you hire someone else to close deals.
  • ​Choosing a lane is easy. Staying in it when a warm, off-track lead arrives is the real test. – Why waffling between specialist and generalist is the most dangerous place to be.
  • πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ London founders: come hang with us next Tuesday, May 19th.
    ​    We're hosting a small AgencyHabits meet-up at Heist Bank.
    Peter Kang will be there (Barrel Holdings co-founder, ask him about M&A, biz dev, or anything in that orbit). So will Ivona Namjesnik (AgencyHabits GM, with a front-row seat to what hundreds of agency owners are working through right now). Plus a room full of London agency folks navigating the same challenges you are.
    πŸ“ Heist Bank, London
    πŸ“… Tuesday, May 19th | 6:00 PM onwards
    πŸ‘‰ [RSVP here] | Questions? DM us.

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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.

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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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