This Week's Agency Insights

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

What's Top of Mind

There's a client on your roster right now that you know isn't a good fit. - The 7-factor framework for evaluating every client, and deciding who stays, who goes, and who's quietly costing you more than they pay.
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Every podcast episode, framework, and tool we publish - now in video format with Peter and Sei-Wook. Subscribe so you don't miss one.

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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.

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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.

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Dear founder...

Dear founder... Stop trying to hire one person to replace yourself. That's the takeaway from Episode 32. Peter and Sei-Wook walk through the five BD functions, the right sequence to delegate them, and how to go from bottleneck to architect. One of our most-watched episodes, for good reason. 📺 Watch on YouTube here. 🎧 Listen here. 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...

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Something's coming 👀

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A slightly different email this week

A slightly different newsletter this week. No episode breakdown, just two quick things we wanted to share. First: we're on YouTube. If you're more of a video person, we've been uploading all of our podcast episodes there. Same frameworks, same conversations, just easier to watch and follow. We're pushing toward 100 subscribers, and honestly, if you want to help us get there, a subscribe goes a long way. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube here. Second: would you come to a London meetup? We'll be in London...

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