Handpicked Agency Resources
Here’s my (in progress) list of agency resources and tools that I have personally vetted. I hope by sharing them I will make your agency journey a little easier. Feel free to suggest things I may have missed! – Chris
Agency Books
Best Agency Communities
Agency Consultants
Agency Tools and Services
Best Agency Podcasts
Agency Articles
Agency Conferences
Your Agency Learning Journey
Going back 12 years to when I first started growing my agency there wasn’t a whole lot out there to learn from. You were lucky to find a blog post, book, or podcast that help small agency owners figure out how to grow and scale their agency. Fast forward to now and there is almost too much information. It’s hard to know who to listen to, and where to spend your precious time.
Hopefully the resources above will help some folks avoid some mistakes and make some good decisions with their agencies. I will continue to grow them as I come across things that I think are helpful.
I do wish I had better armed myself with some of the wisdom found in these agency resources back when I first started. But I will say, that “understanding” and “deeply knowing” are different things. It’s easy to read something and agree with it in theory, but fail to practice it in real life. Sometimes it takes learning the same thing over and over before you deeply know it. Sometimes you gotta hear it from 5 different experts and sometimes you gotta hear it from just one (and maybe that expert is a loved one, a partner, or employee).
Other times you just have to make the mistake and learn from that. Either way, it’s good to arm yourself with knowledge from smart people along your agency journey. There are a lot of people out there on the same journey as you. And that means there is a lot of support available.
One of those places to find support is the Grow Your Agency slack group. It’s free. So c’mon in and start learning and connecting.
Agency Conferences
This is a free online conference that was nice enough to invite me to speak. They have some great speakers. The woman who started this conference runs an agency in Singapore.
Owner Summit
I’ve heard great things about this conference from the agency owners I’ve interviewed. I have not attended Owner Summit but would like to.