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In this week's AgencyHabits Podcast, Peter and Sei-Wook break down ICP in detail: five dimensions most agencies never define. Why? Because the uncomfortable truth is: every bad client you've ever had came through your sales process. Nobody snuck in overnight. You made a deliberate choice to bring them on, usually because they had money and needed something done. That felt good enough. A real ICP helps you avoid those poor-fit clients. It also shortens sales cycles, improves delivery, and...
This Week's Agency Insights Every week, we share content to help you run your agency business. What's Top of Mind Our fourth AgencyHabits Knowledge Share brought together agency founders, operators, and consultants for a conversation that sounds simple on the surface, but goes deeper than most agencies ever bother to go: your ecosystem. Not your positioning. Not your service offering. The actual world where your name comes up. 🎥 Watch the full recording📂 Grab the slides✍️ Dale Bertrand's...
In this week’s AgencyHabits Podcast, Peter and Sei-Wook break down one of the hardest transitions in an agency: scaling business development beyond the founder. The core insight: business development isn’t one function. It’s five. Most founders don’t realize this because they’ve been doing all five themselves. That’s why hiring “a salesperson” usually fails. They break it down into five functions: Marketing & awareness: Content, events, PR. Everything that makes your agency top-of-mind when a...