This Week's Agency Insights

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

What's Top of Mind

• No blog breakdowns or frameworks today because something bigger happened. We hit pause on our usual content this week. Why? Our first-ever AgencyHabits Knowledge Share brought 27 agency leaders together.
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  🎥 Watch the full recording​
  📂 Grab the slides​
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  Inside, you’ll hear how they navigate time, team, and growth, plus:
  • The 4 high-leverage areas founders should actually spend time on
  • How to delegate without dropping quality
  • The hidden cost of urgency and over-involvement
  • Tools (and habits) that save time without killing your brain
  • How real founders are stepping back, scaling up, and staying sane

What We're Talking About

Profit ≠ Cash (And That’s a Problem)

Just because your agency shows a profit doesn’t mean you can make payroll. This week’s podcast breaks down how to fix your invoicing, terms, and reserves so your agency can actually breathe.

👉 [Listen on Spotify] | [Listen on Apple]​
💬 Liked it? Drop a review, it helps us reach more agency founders.

Who We’re Partnering With

Your next A-player isn’t on LinkedIn.

They’re in Eastern Europe or South Africa. Smart, direct, and unafraid to tell you when you’re wrong. (The kind of teammate you actually need.)

➡️ Chat with the team at JobRack to find yours.​
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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]

What We’ve Made

​The Business Development Collection is a curation of real, winning proposals and SOWs from Barrel Holdings agencies along with our New Outreach Message Kit, Biz Intake Guide and Agency Lead Tracker. 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!