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Digital Agency Industry Research 2024
We’ve updated our Digital Agency Industry Report with the latest data on digital shops. This is our primer piece for getting everyone up to speed on the digital agency world. It's been helpful to everyone from the smallest digital shops to the largest agency holding...
Bending, Not Breaking: The State of Digital Services 2024
Agency leaders who participated in the survey already got their copy, but you can grab yours today! For the first time, we’re making these reports available outside of the Promethean-Bureau-Parallax client network. We could tell 2023 was tough while we were in it, but...
Digital Agency Salary Survey
A study examining how digital agency employees and leaders are compensated.
Artificial Intelligence is Disrupting Digital Agencies
Early indications show AI has a 15-25% productivity boost for production-level employees. If this holds true for agency-wide gains, it could result in an 81% increase in net income for those shops that successfully implement it.
Trust Your Experts
Remove a major growing pain by building trust and realizing that not all opinions are equal.
The Factory – Consultancy Continuum
This post originally appeared in our newsletter on September 13th, 2022. Sign up to get our latest research, insights, tools, and resources delivered straight to your inbox twice a month. Factory-Consultancy Evaluation Complexity 2.0: The Factory – Consultancy...
Agency Roles, Goals & Structure
Getting the right people in the right seats allows owners and partners to focus their energy on more strategic questions vs. putting out that day’s fire. That additional strategic bandwidth can make all the difference when the market gets choppy.
Financial Metrics for Marketing Agencies
Monitoring the right metrics can make growing a digital agency significantly easier. By regularly monitoring them, and asking the right questions, they can reveal where you should focus your team.
How to Promote a Digital Marketing Agency
Like the cobbler’s children with no shoes or the photographer without family pictures, it’s easy for digital agency owners to overlook their own promotion. Agency owners are experts at elevating their customers’ brands, products, and services and designing growth...
How to Master Qualifying Customers
Customer lead qualification is the process companies follow to predict whether captured leads are interested in their services. Qualifying customers through a well-honed points system can improve lead quality, save resources, and glean better clients. Before You...