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Agency Partners is an advisory firm that helps digital agencies create more value for clients, team, and owners. With a clear view of where you’re going, your progress, opportunities, and threats, you can accelerate towards your goals.
Here are answers to some of the questions you may have about working with us.
Who is Agency Partners?
Agency Partners started as the advisory firm of Arlen Byrd (that’s me!). I’ve spent over 15 years in the digital agency space: as an owner, a vendor to agencies, and as a C-level exec in a 100-person agency. I understand first-hand many of the problems agency leaders encounter. And the practical challenges of limited time and energy available to work on your agency.
I've been joined by Piotr Delawski, a software architect, engineer, and designer with a decade in the agency world working with brands like Google, News Corp, and Rolling Stone. Piotr is focused now on building the software behind Agency Insight, to help agencies better assess and improve their profitability. With over 5 years working together prior to Agency Partners, we make an excellent team.
What work do you focus on?
We help agency leaders expose reality and act on it to build long-term organizational health and profitability.
This can include helping you look at your agency holistically to:
- Build clarity on where you want to go and how you plan to get there
- Surface important threats to your progress and the best opportunities to accelerate toward your goals
- Turn that insight into priorities and action
- Assess your progress and correct course as needed
As needs are uncovered and priorities set, we can support your action and share resources and introduce specialized agency advisors that may be helpful.
Who do you work with?
The firms we're best suited to help are digital agencies, digital product studios, and dev shops of about 10-100 people and at least $2 million in revenue.
What does an engagement look like?
Our core offering is Agency Insight – business intelligence as a service. Engagements can be tailored to your needs:
- Speed: how fast are you prepared to move?
- Scope: how much do you want us to take care of for you? Options: Done for you, done together, or done by you with our guidance.
- Proximity: how closely do you need us to work with your team? From inside/embedded to outside/advisory.
Engagements focus on one area of your agency at a time (e.g. delivery profit), informed by our overall Agency Health framework, and tailored to your goals, issues, and opportunities.
The best way to figure out how engaging us could look and whether that may be right for you is to contact us and have a brief conversation together.
What does it cost to engage you?
Agency Insight engagements typically run from $5,000 (BI leadership, embedded) to $1,200 (BI support, advisory) per month.
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