What you'll learn from this report:

​Key market trends

C-suite & Executive level insights

A breakdown of salaries across all our specialisms: HR, Marketing, Digital and Agency

Data on key metrics such as average notice periods and gender pay gap

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We now have a disproportionate number of younger and different-thinking people in our businesses. Call them snowflakes, if you will, but they have been brought up in different times with different values and ethics. Different from their bosses. Read more from Robert Craven.

You’re small and you’re special. Or you should be.

If you’re running an agency of fewer than fifteen people, it should be focused on doing one specialism smarter, faster and more proficient than your fragmented competitors. Read more from Janusz Stabik.

How profit and more productive personnel are sitting right under your nose! Read this article from Janusz and get systematising your agency!

The pandemic has taught every business is that people are very much our greatest asset. We should be looking after the people who are already in our business, with a personal development plan in place, tying their work goals into achieving their personal goals, and mapping out a career path.

Remember, no speed = inertia = death.

So, what are you going to do about it? Read 15 Ways to Work Faster from Robert Craven.

While it is a good idea to follow what you’re passionate about, it doesn’t mean

abandoning an opportunity just because it is not something you like. There are also

times that your passion could mislead you, so you must know where to draw the line for guaranteed success.

Trying to find a salesperson who is the perfect fit for your agency, can be a little like finding a needle in a haystack.

But, don’t be put off, we still have a solution to your woes - just keep reading.

Wondering how to make your digital agency more profitable, but not sure where to start? Check out these four starter areas from Janusz Stabik.

This simple example perfectly demonstrates how building relationships and checking in with your contacts to spark friendly and non-business related conversation is a great way to make sales calls, without making sales calls.

I am afraid that being given the knowledge is not enough. You need to be given the tools, and the assistance and support. That is why consultancy and mastermind-type interventions, although exponentially more expensive than the cheaper options, should deliver significantly better results.

Look in your diary and you’ll see two things: a) meetings that have been booked by the owner and b) meetings booked by other people.

Before you know it, your diary is full of other people’s priorities. Leaving you no time to do your job other than outside of working hours.

The number one challenge digital marketing agencies face when it comes to scaling their business is attracting and signing more, great quality clients. Read more from Janusz Stabik.

It takes discipline and in a busy environment personal and professional courage but let me tell you that progress will rely on the tortoises of the world. Read more from Michael Tipper

If you wish to prove that your agency is just a run-of-the-mill and unoriginal, vanilla-flavoured agency like most of the rest, then just keep on banging out those quickly-written and to be honest, shallow blog posts and videos.

In this article, we’ll unpack exactly what gross margins are (and are not), what a good gross margin looks like and how to fix your gross margins if they’re not up to scratch.

As digital agency founders and business owners, you’re understandably loyal and grateful to all of your clients - especially those who were brave enough to back you in the early days when you were just starting out.

Rarely do boards understand the basic levers that make a business work: marketing creates sales, operations deliver the product/service and delight the customer… creating financial performance that gets measured.

The best-kept secret of successfully growing an agency is simple – take massive action. Don’t take half-measures. Action and speed are everything. Without action nothing happens.

Just like growing your agency, building a great leadership team won’t happen overnight - so it’s never too early to start your search. Start connecting with leaders and managers who inspire and impress you now and keep them within your network.