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Stay inspired as part of a friendly community of independent agencies. For leaders and their teams.
Inspiration for your whole team
Keep everybody in your agency engaged. With Agency Hackers, your entire team get to collaborate with their counterparts at other friendly agencies.
Agency leadership
We run regular sessions to help agency founders, owners and leaders set a course and stick to it – topics include M&A, proposition development, leadership, culture and more.
Senior leadership
You also keep your senior leadership team engaged – with content and community to help busy teams succeed, stay sane and keep their energy levels high.
Rising stars
Much of our events and content helps your rising stars in your agency meet and collaborate with other people in different agencies. Keep them engaged and give them a chance to have their say.
Upcoming Virtual Events
In this month’s CEO Summit, we’re discussing whether you’re hiring the right people.
As an agency leader, it’s important to build and maintain a good team, something that has been particularly difficult post-Covid. But rushing to recruit could lead to a number of problems, like red flags being missed, hiring criteria not being up to scratch, and – most importantly – hiring the wrong people.
We’ll be discussing all this and more. Bring along your pains and problems and get advice from others in your shoes.
Roland Gurney offers agency leaders a ‘teardown’ service.
He goes through their agency’s website page by page, and tries to understand what they’re about. He then tells them candidly exactly what it is they’re getting completely wrong when it comes to their positioning.
Roland will be taking you through all the things he’s noticed as part of his ‘teardown’ service, and what you should be avoiding if you really want to nail your positioning.
At this month’s Client Services Mastermind, we’re talking about Google Analytics 4 (GA4).
- Have you migrated to GA4 yet?
- What’s new and how does it all work?
- What issues (if any) have you experienced with GA4?
Come along to discuss all things Google Analytics and get advice from others on this topic. If you’re clued up on this already, please lend your expertise!
As budgets are being squeezed, why not use this time to better understand the staff you’ve already got?
Léon Milns, co-founder and director of digital recruitment agency We Are Adam, reckons right now is the time to focus on retaining your very best people, making sure they’re motivated and engaged with their work.
Come along to hear Léon dive into today’s recruitment must-haves, and learn how you can further nurture the talent you’ve already found.
At this month’s HR & People Mastermind, we’re talking about team wellbeing.
- How are you managing an influx of negative news?
- Do you have wellbeing processes in place for YOUR role as HR?
- Does your CEO really know what’s going on with their employees?
We’ll discuss how to manage an influx of negative news, and how to make your boss really understand what’s going on with their employees.
Marketing for your own business isn’t always prioritised as highly as it should be.
But could this lead to you missing out on opportunities that could otherwise grow your agency? One way to avoid falling into this trap is to treat your own agency as if it’s a client.
We’ll be having a candid discussion about how you might be failing your brand, and what processes you can build into your agency to make sure internal work stops being neglected.
At this month’s Operations Mastermind, we’re talking about tools that make your job easier.
This month, we’re talking about team accountability.
- Does your team have an accountability problem?
- Do they own up to their mistakes?
- Does everyone know what they (and everyone else) are responsible for?
- How can you create a culture that encourages this behaviour? What changes need to be made from the top?
Come along to discuss all this and more – and get advice from others in your position.
In the past two years or so, Louise Towler, managing director of Indigo Tree, has been able to propel her agency into new pastures by taking advantage of local grants and enterprise schemes.
“In the last 12 months, we’ve had about £60k’s worth of business from clients, just from me passing on information about grants they could apply for.”
Come along to hear Louise dive deep into the grants she’s obtained for her agency, how she won them, and the impact it’s had on her business. As always, don’t forget to bring along some questions!
At this month’s CFO Surgery, we’re talking about forecasting.
How does YOUR agency balance demand and resource? What tools do you use to do this?
We’ll be taking a ‘show and tell’ approach to this session, so come along to share your thoughts and experiences, and hear how others in your shoes are managing the same challenges.
At this month’s Marketing Mastermind, we’re talking about securing speaking opportunities.
What can you do to get your name on the speaker list? And how do you show value without sounding too sales-y?
Come along to discuss all this and more – and get advice from others in your position. If you’re clued up on this already, please lend your expertise!
Being able to profile your market and identify the key decision makers within your chosen field is a much more pragmatic approach to new biz and ROI – and it can also help you develop a longer-term, more effective sales strategy too.
“If you’re just building your client list off of random referrals, it’s much more difficult to create messaging that works, and then to develop a sales effort to go with that,” says Nate Burke, founder and CEO of Diginius.
Nate will be talking you through how you can map out your market and identify the right people in the right seats, and how it can have an immediate impact on your results.
In this month’s CEO Summit, we’re talking about burning bridges.
When is it the right time to let an employee or a client go? And who’s the right person for that conversation?
We’ll be discussing all this and more at our next founders-only meeting, so bring along your pain and problems to get advice from others in your shoes.
At this month’s Client Services Mastermind, we’re talking about running a meeting.
How can you prevent meetings from running off track? When is it worth an in person visit? Who do you bring along with you?
We’ll be taking a ‘show and tell’ approach to this session, so come along to share your thoughts and experiences, and hear how others in your shoes are managing the same challenges.
While agency leaders have probably lost count of the tricky tête-à-têtes they’ve had to have with clients and employees, are the rest of your team prepared and confident to take them on too? Or will they be stumbling over their words, struggling to get their point across?
Kirsty Hulse, founder and facilitator at Roar Training, will be guiding you through how to deal with difficult conversations and how you can encourage your team to prepare and feel confident in these situations.
If you want to empower your team and equip them with the right tools to turn uncomfortable conversations into constructive ones, this is the perfect session.
At this month’s HR & People Mastermind, we’re talking about keeping staff engaged.
How can you avoid cases of ‘quiet quitting’? And what can you do to build a strong culture in a hybrid team?
Make sure to join this month’s session to discuss all this and more, and help others in need of some advice.
Live Events
Inspiring live events for ambitious agencies
- Jump back in! Reconnect with the Agency Hackers community at our famous in-person events.
- Share stories and get inspired by rubbing shoulders with other mature, friendly agency leaders.
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