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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 LinkedIn mastermind, we’re discussing how to get your team out of their comfort zone.
How can employee profiles increase your brand’s visibility on LinkedIn? Where’s the line with social media? What can you ask staff to post and not post?
Have you had any experiences with this? Come along and share with the group!
Astra Newton was keen to offer something to the charity sector that her agency’s competitors couldn’t – by productising their PPC offering.
Over nine months, Astra and her team created a dedicated set of packages for charities that answer typical sector pain points – such as lack of transparency and expensive campaigns without results.
They’ve since won over £1m in free funding for charities with this approach, aiming to hit £2m by the end of April this year – and also drummed up a further 115 leads via this route, improving the agency’s culture and efficiency, and boosting team morale along the way.
Come along to hear more from Astra on how productisation brought renewed growth to Web Presence and what it means for the agency moving forward.
An exit plan is nothing unusual for an agency leader. But sometimes, stepping away from the business sooner than planned can be a good thing. This is what Mark Alford discovered just last year.
He’ll be telling us why it’s important to step back from your business, and about the positive impact it has had on his agency.
Are you concerned about client churn? How can you keep client turnover at a minimum?
We’ll be having an open discussion about this in our monthly client services mastermind.
Come along to vent your frustrations in a room that understands – and maybe even pick up some answers as to how you can solve this problem.
Where do you stand on over-servicing? Is it something you actively avoid, or is a strategic biz dev decision that makes sense for client retention?
Should over-servicing even be called that? Is it not just adding value?
We’re debating all of this and more in this hot potato chat – come along and share your thoughts and experiences.
Neurodiversity has existed for a long time, but the conversation around how it impacts your working day is fairly new to the table.
So, in this month’s HR & people mastermind, we’ll be talking about the realities of agency life from a neurodivergent perspective.
We’ll be joined by three panellists who each bring a wealth of knowledge and first-hand experience to this discussion: Sarah Brewster from Fresh Seed, and Tom Lanaway and Rachel Perry from Connective3.
There are several hoops to jump through when you’re going through the M&A process – and making sure your agency is ready for the process is half the job.
While this may sound like a mountain to climb, Milestone Advisory has developed a tool to make this easier for agencies to ensure they are on the right track.
Making sure your agency is ready for sale not only gets the agency into tip-top condition – but could also dramatically improve your multiple.
Come along to this month’s M&A Surgery and find out from Milestone’s Simon Latarche exactly how you can make your business as ready for sale as possible – and be sure to bring your questions!
Cash flow forecasting is vital for growth. You need to know how much money is in the bank so you know when – and how much – you can invest in your business.
But it’s hard to do all that in a spreadsheet. And it’s especially hard to think of creative growth solutions without having a clear picture of the financials.
Colin Hewitt will be joining our monthly CFO surgery to give a whistle stop tour of how you can use Float‘s forecasting tool to help map out growth plans and prioritise what investments you should be making next.
Come along to find out how your agency could benefit from forecasting this way and get your questions answered by the expert.
Winning new biz can feel like a slog sometimes.
But Simon Douglass has been able to streamline his usual new biz process using AI, and he’ll be sharing his journey so far – from outreach to presentations to client docs – in this month’s marketing and new biz mastermind.
Come along and hear more from Simon about how he’s using AI to win new biz, and how you could use it more effectively too.
AI is everywhere these days – and it looks as though it’s here to stay. But how can agencies really harness its power?
Chris Branch, founder and marketing director at Seedily, has become an AI expert over the last 12 months, and uses it for anything and everything in his business. Since harnessing the potential of AI, Seedily is now seeing 100x ROI, forecasting 1000x by the end of 2023.
If you’re wondering how you can harness the power of AI for your agency, come along and hear more from Chris on what it can do for you and your team – and why it’s not something to be feared.
No agency leader plans to be in their business forever – but trying to find the right person to take your place is no walk in the park. In this session, we hear from a panel of agency leaders who have found – or are trying to find – the future leader(s) of their businesses.
We’ll be joined by Jackie Blaker, managing director at Maxx Design; Simon Bollon, founder and director at Boutique; and Liz Walker, commercial director at Distinctly.
Come along to discover what you should be looking for in your future leaders – and hear new perspectives from our panellists who have been there and done it.
New business feels especially hard right now.
Finding a balance between servicing your existing clients and finding new ones is tough. But what if you could combine the two?
In this session, Katy Howell, MD of Immediate Future, shares how her agency repurposes client content and case studies to win new business – with a little help from automation.
People are always striving to make themselves indispensable – but Louise Palmer, a director at Wildfire, has done the exact opposite, after being told she’d need a transplant.
Spending three months away from the business, she came back to find they were more self-sufficient, and while they were pleased to have her back, no longer needed her approval.
Come along and hear how making herself indispensable empowered Louise’s team, and how it’s invigorated them for the future of the business.
Everyone is asking the same question right now: why are clients just so slow?
We’re joined in this month’s client services mastermind by Claire Jules-Saffu, head of paid media at Curated Digital. She recently returned to agency life after almost a decade working for Tesco, so she knows a thing or two about how big clients tick.
Do you find it frustrating when you can’t get a straight answer? Why are clients so slow to make decisions and give feedback?
We’ll be talking to Claire about all of this and more, and trying to make sense of all your client conundrums.
A lot of our members are taking the reins right now – but it’s a tricky cross to bear. How can you fill your founder’s shoes and assert yourself as a leader, in your own way? How are you adapting to the challenges that come with leadership?
If this resonates, come along to our new leaders’ hangout. This is a space for you to chat about your wins and worries in a safe space with others going through it too.
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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