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Agency Benchmarks for Assessing Fragility

Agency Benchmarks for Assessing Fragility

Benchmarks to Tell When an Agency's Running Hot It isn’t easy to tell when an agency’s running hot. It’s especially difficult when revgen’s covering everything up. We saw this in 2023. The revgen tide receded, and the bony wreckage of nasty agency metrics littered the...

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Stabilizing Digital Agencies With & Without Benchmarks

Stabilizing Digital Agencies With & Without Benchmarks

The easiest way to identify issues at an agency is benchmarking. It’s one of the first steps I take when building growth strategies because it tells me where to dig deeper. Here’s what I evaluate, some questions I ask, and some notes on implications: Revgen Revenue...

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PR Brief: Troubles With WordPress

PR Brief: Troubles With WordPress

TAKEAWAY The WordPress vs. WP Engine situation is influencing agency leaders to shift away from WordPress and WP Engine, but the overall impact on agencies is expected to be middling. It's essentially creating more work and risk for agencies that offer WordPress sites...

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Digital Agency Industry Research 2024

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...

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Bending, Not Breaking: The State of Digital Services 2024

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...

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The Factory – Consultancy Continuum

The Factory – Consultancy Continuum

 This post originally appeared in our newsletter. Sign up to get our latest research, insights, tools, and resources delivered straight to your inbox twice a month. Take our Factory-Consultancy Evaluation & Learn Where Your Agency Lands   Complexity 2.0: The...

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