This Week's Agency Insights

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

What's Top of Mind

• ​How Top Agencies Stay Top of Mind - It’s not about more posts. It’s about smarter plays. These 6 examples show how agencies build awareness before the pipeline dries up.
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• ​Your Client Got Hit with Layoffs. Now What? - Most agencies absorb the extra work. But there's a different approach. This LinkedIn post from Miriam Bookey explains both why and how.

What We're Talking About

Tired of hearing “just post on LinkedIn” as the only marketing advice?

This week’s episode breaks the cycle of reactive, half-hearted agency marketing and gives you six examples that actually worked.

A 24-hour site challenge. Open-source tools. Annual recap microsites. Physical print mailers. Even an agency-built coffee shop.

We promise, none of it was magic.

Just consistency, creativity, and a long-term view.

👉 [Listen on Spotify] | [Listen on Apple]​
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Who We’re Partnering With

Hiring freezes? Not here.

The best operators aren’t sitting in your city waiting for you to post a job. They’re offshore, and ready to run circles around $80K+ local hires.

➡️ Book a call with JobRack (yes, they found us our best hire).​
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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 along with our New Outreach Message Kit, Biz Intake Guide and Agency Lead Tracker. 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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