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The antidote to AI fatigue

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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

  • ​Call it the antidote to AI fatigue. – Everyone's asking what's changing because of AI. We asked what won't. Six things that will still matter in ten years, and why building strategy around them beats chasing a moving target.
  • πŸ“‹ 40+ founders in. 1:1 slots gone. Operator Pack still yours.​
    We're planning the next year of AgencyHabits and want it grounded in your reality. Takes about 5 minutes. You shape what comes next. You get five templates we actually use to run our agencies. Help us hit 200!

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What We're Thinking About

One of the antidotes to AI fatigue is trust, and the article makes the point that it starts with 50-100 people who know you and will vouch for you.

The question is whether you're investing in those relationships. That's where VeraOps comes in.

It's a system that recovers lost revenue from dormant relationships, pulled straight from your Gmail and Calendar. Strategy, hands-on support, and technology to run it at scale. Instead of the usual $1,000/month, they're offering AgencyHabits readers a 6-month plan for $5,000... with the first month free. ​
Founder's pricing (aka, it won't last.)

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"VeraOps helped me reconnect with people I genuinely wanted to talk to but had simply lost touch with over time. It’s a simple idea, executed thoughtfully, and it’s already changed how I approach business development." -- Mark DePace, Co-Founder & CCO at Ghost Robot, an integrated creative studio for Google, Arhaus, Away.

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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