Most agency owners have never been business owners before. They were a great designer/developer/marketer and they saw the opportunity of leveraging their skills by setting…
Paul BarnesMay 5, 2019
Outgrowing your finance function is a normal part of the growth of a business. When you start out, you make do with an accountancy firm…
Paul BarnesApril 17, 2019
There seems to be a perception from speaking to business owners that to productise means to remove the innovation and value that you deliver to…
Paul BarnesMarch 19, 2019
Everyone is talking about dashboards. It seems to be the latest buzzword for agencies but although the idea of having live, relevant information in your…
Paul BarnesMarch 12, 2019
Making money in business is not rocket science. If you have more of it coming in than you have going out then you’ll generate cash.…
Paul BarnesJanuary 28, 2019
How many times have you found yourself using that line? I hear it all the time from agency owners, and sometimes it's true. But often,…
Paul BarnesSeptember 25, 2018
Running a business is hard. Growing a business is even harder and if like the majority of agencies, you have struggled to scale retainer income,…
Paul BarnesSeptember 11, 2018
Having worked with agencies for some years now, I have seen a wide-ranging approach to data and KPI’s from tracking nothing to data overload. Data…
Paul BarnesAugust 29, 2018
I have yet to meet an agency that doesn’t want to provide the maximum value it can to its clients. Most of us set up…
Paul BarnesAugust 23, 2018
