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Project Intake Form Best Practices + Examples

Project Intake Process: Best Practices + Form Examples

Many agencies and consultants work on a task-based basis. They give their clients the freedom to request new tasks that need to be completed. To make this process easier, a project intake form should be used.

Updated Jul 30, 2025

Examples of Productized Services That Simply Work

13 Examples of Productized Services That Simply Work

The best path to scale an existing business is to productize it, or at least partially. But how can you niche down and be successful? Here are 13 productized services that simply work.

Updated Jul 30, 2025

How People Search for Agencies Around the World

How People Search for Agencies Around the World (Maps)

The typical advice we offer productized agencies is to streamline processes. Finding efficiencies reduces costs, but it also tends to improve service quality and, by extension, client retention.

Updated Sep 23, 2024

How to Sell Recurring & Best Practices for Success

How to Sell Recurring & Best Practices for Success

If you’re looking to offer recurring services, read on to find how to set them up (including reducing the risk of churn).

Updated Jun 3, 2025

Signs of Bad Clients & How To Deal With Them

5 Signs of Bad Clients & How To Deal With Them

Clients are generally the lifeline of any business. It should come as no surprise that a significant source of stress for any business owner are bad clients.

Updated May 13, 2025

How Niching Down Can Boost Growth & Retention

How to Narrow Down Your Niche and Why It Can Boost Growth

Countless agencies are struggling to find their purpose in a sea of competitors. Those who decide to niche down have most likely discovered their business strengths, and are focusing their energy on those services.

Updated Jan 13, 2025

Agency Client Retention

Agency Client Retention Strategies: 5 Ways to Reduce Your Churn Rate

Service businesses overwhelmingly report spending more on new client acquisition than retention. Yet most of them say return on investment would be better with the opposite.

Updated Feb 7, 2025

Value-Based Pricing Strategies to Boost Growth

Value-based Pricing Strategies to Boost Growth

Value based pricing is one of the more difficult strategies to pull off. To be successful, you need to do market research, check competitors, and understand your customers.

Updated Apr 23, 2025

Framework: Targeted Email Marketing for Agencies

If you aren’t sending regular emails to your leads and clients, you should get started now. Here’s a simple yet effective email marketing setup that you can put to work in just a few hours and expand as your business grows.

Chris Willow

Updated Aug 14, 2025

Customer Retention Strategies for Small Business Owners & Agencies

Customer Retention Strategies for Agencies

Small business & agency owners benefit from keeping clients around for as long as they can. Here are a few customer retention strategies you can implement today.

Updated Feb 5, 2025

client portal pricing

Client Portal Pricing: The True Cost of Building Your Own Portal

Ever tried building a client portal for your agency? If so, you know just how challenging it can be to bring all of those tools together, and how expensive maintenance can become.

Chris Willow

Updated May 13, 2025

Signs of Micromanagement: How to Stop Being a Micromanaging Boss

For agency owners, being a micromanager seems like a natural response to someone making mistakes. But in the 21st century, isn’t this something we, as entrepreneurs, should avoid? Modern tools such as SPP make micromanagement a strategy of the past.

Chris Willow

Updated Feb 18, 2025

reseller affiliate program

Reseller vs. Affiliate Programs: Differences and How to Make Use of Them

Service Provider Pro provides powerful tools for bringing on partners to promote and whitelabel your productized services. With this in mind, I’ll explain some of the specifics regarding our affiliate module and a brief overview of the reseller module.

Updated May 13, 2025

how to productize a service

The Full Guide on How to Productize a Service

Regardless of how long you’ve been in business, productizing your services comes with a plethora of benefits. Here’s how to productize a service–a full guide to get you started.

Updated Jul 31, 2025

Guide To Managing Client Expectations

Your Guide To Managing Client Expectations

Clients’ expectations don’t always match what your agency is offering. It’s essential to start your working relationship on the right foot. In the long-term, you’ll find this will decrease your stress levels while maintaining your clients’ satisfaction.

Updated May 13, 2025

Tips For Writing Great Service Industry Sales Copy

17 Tips For Writing Great Service Industry Sales Copy

Getting traffic but no sales? You need to optimize your sales copy, in other words–the story you tell about your service. Here are a few hands-on tips.

Chris Willow

Updated Oct 21, 2025

branding for marketing agencies

Practical Branding for Agency Owners Struggling With Differentiation

The market grows more price sensitive and loyalty is nowhere to be found. The need to differentiate your company as a unique brand has skyrocketed.

Chris Willow

Updated Dec 29, 2023

how to sell an agency

How to Sell your Agency: Tips From Former Agency Owners

We’re going in-depth about making the decision to sell your agency, including steps to take if you want to get the highest possible price for yours.

Chris Willow

Updated Aug 22, 2025

how to onboard freelancers to your agency

How to Onboard Freelancers & Independent Contractors

Many agencies leverage the flexibility of working with freelancers. To ensure that everything goes smoothly, agency owners should set up an onboarding process for their freelance talent.

Updated Feb 5, 2025

how to scale an agency

How to Scale an Agency in 10 Simple Steps

Service-based businesses are not that straightforward. There are multiple layers of execution, systems, and components involved in their operation.

Updated Jul 9, 2025

Productize

Productize: The Concept of Creating a Scalable Service Business

The term productize is a relatively new one that not every company is aware of. Let’s look at the productization meaning and how service-based businesses can make use of it.

Chris Willow

Updated Jul 29, 2025

best B2B client experience

Strategies to Enhance The B2B Client Experiencec

You know B2B clients require special attention, but how do you go above and beyond in order to deliver the best client experience. Read on to find out.

Updated Jun 23, 2025

Productized Service Software

How We’ve Built a Productized Service Software

If you’re using a standard project management app, an online form builder, or even Google Docs to manage your business, you know how none of these tools were really made for selling productized services.

Chris Willow

Updated Sep 17, 2024

digital marketing agency growth

7 Ways to Grow a Digital Marketing Agency

Once your agency digital marketing is up and running, you want to grow it. But which growth strategies are worth to try out? Read on to find out.

Updated Sep 18, 2024

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