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The Four Financial Systems to Ensure a Profitable and Predictable Agency Blog

The Four Financial Systems to Ensure a Profitable and Predictable Agency

You’ve worked hard on your financial plan, you understand what the targets are, what clients you want to work with and what services you’re going…

David Arden

The 3 Key Steps To Understanding Your Profit Blog

The 3 Key Steps To Understanding Your Profit

So you’ve got your top-level numbers sketched out. You know roughly what profit you’re aiming for in 3 years time, 1 years time and the…

Paul Barnes

The Importance of Surrounding Yourself With The Right Advisors Blog

The Importance of Surrounding Yourself With The Right Advisors

Being an agency owner can be a lonely role at times. You may have a dedicated team of senior managers and an army of junior…

Paul Barnes

Don’t Get Lost on the Road to Growth – Map Your Business’ Journey First Blog

Don’t Get Lost on the Road to Growth – Map Your Business’ Journey First

Picture the scene: you’re about to take the first step on an exciting new journey. You know roughly where you’re headed, but how you get…

Paul Barnes

The Four Key Benefits of Prioritising Cash In Your Agency Blog

The Four Key Benefits of Prioritising Cash In Your Agency

It’s safe to say that every agency owner that we speak to here at MAP has a revenue target for their business. They’ll have thought…

David Arden

A 3 Step Process To Understanding, Attracting & Retaining Your PERFECT Client Blog

A 3 Step Process To Understanding, Attracting & Retaining Your PERFECT Client

You’ve got a list of clients that you work with. You’ve most likely built your agency off the back of inbound leads and doing great…

Paul Barnes

4 Brilliant Steps To Understanding Your Agencies Goals Blog

4 Brilliant Steps To Understanding Your Agencies Goals

One of the first questions we’ll ask when we meet an agency owner is what the ultimate goal for the business is. Some are looking…

Paul Barnes

The 6 Components To Creating A Powerful Vision For Your Agency Blog

The 6 Components To Creating A Powerful Vision For Your Agency

Many people talk about building vision, and I am sure that there will be plenty of definitions for what it means, but what does vision…

Paul Barnes

How To Be Financially Prepared For That Big Client Leaving Blog

How To Be Financially Prepared For That Big Client Leaving

A key challenge in any agency is the sheer reliance on the clients that spend the most with you. It might be your biggest 1,…

Paul Barnes

How To Understand & Calculate Your Break-Even Point Blog

How To Understand & Calculate Your Break-Even Point

Wherever you are on your agency journey, there will be a time when you need to scale back and survive without eating into the retained…

Paul Barnes

What You Need to Know About P11D’s Blog

What You Need to Know About P11D’s

It is now that time of year again. New tax year, new forms, new returns that need submitting to HMRC. Some of these can be…

Sam Jedrzejewski

Why Most Agency Owners Are Under Constant Stress And The One Financial Device That Reduces It Blog

Why Most Agency Owners Are Under Constant Stress And The One Financial Device That Reduces It

One of the key challenges of growing an agency is the unpredictable nature of the revenue you generate. Because the work tends to be project…

Paul Barnes

Recruitment: Technical Fit Vs Culture Fit Blog

Recruitment: Technical Fit Vs Culture Fit

Running an accountancy practice, a big part of our recruitment activity involves bringing in people to fulfill various technical roles, but the expectation of an…

Amanda Wilcox

The Numbers Behind Your Revenue Pipeline – Existing & New Clients Blog

The Numbers Behind Your Revenue Pipeline – Existing & New Clients

In every agency, it’s important to have a running 90-day view of your revenue pipeline. Your revenue pipeline is everything in addition to already confirmed…

Paul Barnes

The 5 Key Features of The Best Revenue Forecasts Blog

The 5 Key Features of The Best Revenue Forecasts

At MAP, we’re on a mission to empower agencies to become the best they can be and to hit all their objectives. We believe that…

David Arden

Up Front Billing: A Key Digital Agency KPI Blog

Up Front Billing: A Key Digital Agency KPI

Retained work is the lifeblood of any agency. Monthly retainers might not be particularly exciting in terms of varied work but they help agency owners…

Paul Barnes

How To Plan For Your Survival Goal – There’s Light At The End Of The Tunnel! Blog

How To Plan For Your Survival Goal – There’s Light At The End Of The Tunnel!

Every business goes through peaks and troughs in its lifecycle, especially in the agency world when so many are reliant on project-based revenue. Combine that…

David Arden

Producing A Budget Is THE Most Important Thing You Can Do As A Business Owner… Blog

Producing A Budget Is THE Most Important Thing You Can Do As A Business Owner…

As a business owner producing a budget is one of, if not, the most important thing that you can do. It’s a chance to project…

Paul Bell

Choosing Your End Goal Blog

Choosing Your End Goal

If you work with any business consultant they are likely to emphasise the importance of knowing your exit strategy. The logic being that you build…

Paul Barnes

The 4 Cash Flow Tools Every Agency Needs To Have In Place Blog

The 4 Cash Flow Tools Every Agency Needs To Have In Place

Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, cash is reality. With 95% of costs in an agency being paid either straight away or exactly when they…

Paul Barnes