💡Resources
Welcome to your creative operator toolkit!
On this page, you’ll find playbooks, tools, templates, and short videos. All drawn from my real-world work with agencies. These resources are designed to help you make better decisions, lead with more clarity, and untangle the operational mess that slows creative businesses down.
Some are free. Some are exclusive to paid subscribers.
All are built to be useful, not just interesting.
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🛠Agency Tools
Target Audience Calculator
A quick, but powerful spreadsheet calculator tool that I build to help clients work out potential issues with lead generation and their growth campaign planning. Use it for your own agency review too. Downlaod copy of the spreadsheet and watch the 2 training videos that’ll guide you through the process. (Paid Subscribers only)
Get the Target Audience Calculator here
🧠Agency Guides
The Creative Operator’s Guide to Business Development This is a weekly serialised set of posts that I’m building out into a full resource for you. Check the page links for active chapters.
A Creative-First Guide to 16 Business Frameworks that actually make sense for agencies like yours.
📚 Agency Playbooks
Packed full of useful insights and actionable steps. Click the links below.
Selling Strategy Over Services - Most agencies are competing on execution. Here’s a structured approach to positioning your agency as a strategic partner.
The Fast-Cash Game Plan - How Creative Operators bounce back when cashflow stalls.
The Base Camp Framework For Winning Big Clients - A smarter way to help your agency manage risk, track investment, and assess whether or not to continue pursuing a large client opportunity.
👥 Agency Communities
There are a number of great supporting groups and organisations to help creative operators. I’ll keep adding them below. These are ones that I know the founders of personally, or have delivered my training and resources to their members.
BD Matters - Adam Grey has worked within agency business development for many, many years. He’s built a supportive community packed with training resources for people who need to strengthen their business development skills. His mantra? Selling isn’t dirty, it’s human! → Click here for more details.
Agency Collective - Peter Czapp has been running Agency Collective for many years. And you’ll likely know about the annual BenchMark reports through their sister business WOW. They run an online community for independent agencies. Running events, online training and other support functions for agencies looking to grow. Mix of smaller and large agencies through their tiered memberships.
→ Click here for more details.Agency Hackers - If you’re a £1Million+ turnover agency, then you might already have heard about Ian Harris and his work building Agency Hackers. They run in-person events and membership aimed at helping you grow your agency with other founders and leaders. → Click here for more details.
Grow Your Digital Agency - More commonly known as GYDA this is a online community and members group run by the mighty Robert Craven. A world respected figure in the business of building and running agencies. This offers virtual meetings, state of the industry updates and more, for any aspiring agency founder and leader. → Click here for more details.
With all communities of online groups, it’s worth checking out what others say and looking for any first-time offers. Depending on your size and shape and team requirements one might suit more than the others. Some offer free membership for limited time periods so you can try them on for size. And many offer email newsletters which are always worth a follow to get the latest info and a feel for their tone and voice.
📹 Video Resources
Coming soon!
🔗 Useful Links*
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