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Blog about Business Analytics, KPIs and product updates

While your client KPIs might be on track, many agencies end up neglecting their own numbers. Here, 29 experts share the KPIs their agency tracks most.

List your agency in these marketing directories and reach qualified prospects that are serious about hiring an agency.

Can’t provide a full agency service because you specialize in one area only? Consider an agency partnership—here’s how it can help.

We asked experts: when’s the right time to move from DIY marketing and sales to hiring a dedicated person to market and sell your agency services?

Wondering how many clients should you have to optimize your profit margins? Databox surveyed 45 agencies to identify the sweet spot.

Wondering if niching down is the right move for your agency? We’ve interviewed 87 businesses to identify the current state of the market and show you the best path forward.

What’s the best marketing software for your agency? We asked dozens of agencies to share their “must-have” tools.

From hiring too quickly to poor cash flow management, here are some of the biggest growth mistakes startups make (and how to avoid them).

Learn how experienced marketing and business development agencies calculate and maximize their client profitability.

Here are 10 different ways to deal with difficult clients in 10 different ways according to agencies who have been down in the trenches.

There is no one-size-fits-all agency business model. 20 agency owners share the pros and cons of their pricing models.

Figuring out how to maximize profits for your agency? We asked 26 professionals about their strategies for managing their revenue streams.

In this post, 40+ experts running agencies share their secrets for improving operational efficiency including visualizing your work, developing SOPs & more.

We polled 35 marketers to find the best marketing design software for creating assets for presentations and campaigns. Here are the 20 tools they recommend.

Who’s the best SEO agency? We’ve compiled a list of 43 great ones we’d recommend as well as the services they offer and the results they generate.

Here’s a list of 16 white-label marketing software that marketing agencies recommend most, including marketing automation, reporting, and more.

How do you generate consistent client results with Google and Facebook Ads? We asked nearly 70 agencies to share their top tips.

Design templates in Databox, complete with the data sources, metrics, and visualizations that you need, and save them to your account so that they can be used for any client in just one click.

Smartbug Media, HubSpot’s top agency partner, shares how Databox has helped its team shift valuable hours away from manual reporting.

Leaders from more than 30 marketing agencies share their favorite account manager interview questions to ask (and their favorite answers to receive).

Agency pros share their experiences and insights for running client reporting meetings that are productive and actionable.

We asked a few dozen agencies to share their most painful client experiences, and more importantly, the advice they’d give to other agencies to avoid them.

Here’s How James Robert Lay, founder of the Digital Growth Institute, Went From Near Divorce to 4 Kids, a Balanced Life, and a Thriving Business

Hear how Charles McKay rolled out processes that allow his agency’s account managers to double their productivity and provides clients with greater visibility into their businesses.

Keith Moehring shares how his agency has used automated dashboards to set and hit marketing goals for clients.

Here’s how Kenny Lange uses automated reporting to help his clients understand their digital marketing strategies and set reasonable expectations for his agency.

We interviewed Tyler Pigott, CEO from Lone Fir Creative, to learn how his agency has opened their 4th revenue stream: coaching services around digital marketing.

Here’s how Andi Graham from Big Sea stopped wasting time manually assembling client reports and began tracking data in real-time and billing time for higher-value work.

Learn how Grou creates their client presentations in 2 days, rather than 2 weeks. Also, see how they use our Goals and Client Performance tools over the course of the month.

Sean Henri’s 6-person agency was spending way too much time building error-prone client reports. Here’s what happened once they started using Databox.

Tabitha Young shares how she has used reporting templates, annotations, and live dashboards to cut their report-building time by 66%.

Ismail Aly has leveraged real-time performance data as a key differentiator in the market. Hear how his agency, IDS, leverages the power of Databox to improve client relationships and save hours on reporting every month.

Learn how Bluleadz uses weekly meetings to focus on the most important client KPIs, make adjustments in real-time, and improve ROI for their clients.

Here is how Charles Drengberg built a simple client communication hub in WordPress that allows clients to check the status of their marketing at any time.

Marcus Sheridan of IMPACT shares the 7 ways that content can distinguish your brand from all your competitors.

Amanda Nielsen shared the framework that New Breed Marketing uses to choose the correct marketing metrics for their clients.

Karl Sakas shared some tips on managing the sales process that he has learned after working with hundreds of agencies.

From managing timelines to setting expectations around the results themselves, here’s how the best marketing agencies manage client expectations.

Whether it’s asking for discounts, a mismatch of services, or unrealistic expectations–here are all the reasons why agencies turn down new business.

Databox & Tettra polled dozens of agency professionals to learn how top marketing agencies recruit, hire, and onboard new employees.

Leadfreak’s founder on how they handled client reporting prior to Databox, how they set (and hit) goals, and how Databox has allowed them to be more data-driven as an agency–all at no cost.

Here are the digital marketing agencies that have made the biggest commitment toward becoming more goal-focused and data-driven.

Here’s how digital agencies are using interactive content to distinguish their service offerings as inbound and content marketing have become saturated.

Don’t Get Screwed When Hiring a Developer or Buying a HubSpot CMS Template

Here’s how to use Databox and HubSpot’s New Lifecycle Stage API to report your full marketing funnel results.

Some of our top agencies shared the characteristics of client relationships that lead to their best work. Learn how to make your agency more effective.

HubSpot surveyed over 1,000 agencies to uncover the most common priorities among agencies.

If your agency spends all day shuffling data and organizing communication, you will never have time to do great work for your clients or grow the agency.

Here’s why you should work with a digital marketing agency on implementing HubSpot at your company.

Based on interviews and performance data from thousands of agencies over the last 10 years, I’ve discovered how, what and when the most profitable agencies sell.

Advancify, a small agency based in Bellingham, Washington, uses Databox to simplify the story behind their work and make data-driven marketing decisions.

We ran a webinar with Ceros to show how interactive content generates more leads than traditional lead capture tools.

I attended HubSpot Agency Sales Bootcamp. Here are the major takeaways from the 12 agency leaders in attendance.

Depending on your budget and skill level, choose between one of these 3 ways to build a professional and easily-maintainable website on the HubSpot CMS.

Jeff Coon from Stream Creative shares how his agency wins the trust of clients before they even hire them, and then keeps building trust throughout the entire engagement.

Eric Pratt from Revenue River shares why agency owners are not as data-driven as they say they are (and how to fix that).

Karl Sakas has worked with hundreds of agencies across 30 countries to solve a set of common challenges with unique solutions. Hear what he’s learned and how he’s helping.

How professional services firms can align their fees to the value they provide.

Big Sea is leading with goals, not inbound deliverables. Here’s how they do it and why it’s working.

Charles McKay from Synx avoided the process of creating marketing reports for years until he could ensure that his efforts actually benefitted clients.