Love Your Niche
There are a lot of reasons to choose a specific niche for your agency, but one trumps all the others. Do you love it?
Building your 2023 budget
Hopefully by now you've done some 2023 planning and have built a budget for the year. But how did you designate where those dollars should come from?
Incentivizing daily time tracking with Drew McLellan
Time tracking is one of the most overlooked resources in an agency’s day-to-day operations. Without it, you’re missing out on valuable data about where you need more training, more staff, or even if you’re charging enough for your services. That’s why I’m talking today about incentivizing daily time tracking with your employees. […]
The ultimate guide for investing in star employee retention with Drew McLellan
For 2021 and 2022, we’ve been in a job seeker’s market where potential employees have more power to make demands. But now, this period is cooling off as we head into a recession. This means you should be able to find good talent for less money and with fewer demands. […]
Timesheet Refreshers
Timesheets (although we hate them) are a foundational tool for running a profitable agency. And yet, we set up our employees for failure in terms of doing them accurately. Here's how to help them get it right.
Your Final Bow
In our succession work we find that agency owners who are ready to exit their agency actually have no idea how they want to exit. This is too important of a moment for your team, your clients, your family and for you to let it be decided by chance or in haste. Now is the time to begin thinking about it.
Weathering an economic storm with recession planning with Drew McLellan
We’ve all been hearing it: a storm is coming. Or maybe it’s not. Depending on who you ask, we don’t know what our economic future holds. But one thing is for sure, if you stay prepared with recession planning, regardless of what the economy is doing, you can hold strong against those unexpected changes much more easily. […]
Track It All
Timesheets. There may be nothing hated more in our world. Many agencies and agency owners look for a way to avoid doing them or doing them with some sort of shortcut built in. Sadly, they're missing the point. Timesheets are one of the cornerstone data points for your agency. If you do it right.
Thinking toward the future in your succession planning strategy with Drew McLellan
When you’re running an agency, you know you will not have it forever. While your goal could be to sell it eventually, you must consider retirement, career pivots, or plain old ownership fatigue as part of your succession planning strategy. […]
Coach Up or Coach Out
When it's been so brutal to hire team members, it's tempting to tolerate mediocre performances but the price you pay is going to be way more than you're willing to endure.
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