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Agency Ownership

The founder's side of it: money, risk, focus, burnout, and the identity questions nobody warns you about when you start an agency.

Agency Ownership

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This Is The Matrix - And You Are Neo

Aug 18, 2026

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7 min read

This Is The Matrix - And You Are Neo

Don’t let Agent Smith drown you in admin hell...

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Ownership

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Functions, Fables & WTF (Wow, That's Fantastic)

Aug 11, 2026

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5 min read

Functions, Fables & WTF (Wow, That's Fantastic)

Functional movement, function medicine, functional management?

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Ownership

Are We American Heroes?

Jul 3, 2026

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6 min read

Are We American Heroes?

What a Georgian woman and a Jamaican man taught me about what it means to be an American.

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Ownership

+2

Founders - Get It Out of Your Head

May 15, 2026

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8 min read

Founders - Get It Out of Your Head

An entrepreneur's mind is an incredible place full of amazing potential, but if you don't learn how to get stuff out of your head, your business is never going to grow.

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Ownership

+2

The Speed of Problems Is Sucky

May 5, 2026

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6 min read

The Speed of Problems Is Sucky

My ADHD hates this email - it makes me crazy

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Positioning Insights

+3

Be Weird - Not Unbuyable

Apr 24, 2026

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6 min read

Be Weird - Not Unbuyable

It's hard to assign a budget line item to "What do you do again?"

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Ownership

+2

CEO or CE-No?

Apr 21, 2026

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5 min read

CEO or CE-No?

Abdicate isn’t a fancy tropical fruit - it is an agency killer.

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

DemandOS

+4

You Ain't A Businessman...

Feb 13, 2026

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16 min read

You Ain't A Businessman...

You Are A Business, Man

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Ownership

+3

Known Unknowns & Unknown Unknowns

Feb 3, 2026

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12 min read

Known Unknowns & Unknown Unknowns

Peter Ducker was only half right...

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Ownership

+3

2026 Agency Reality Check

Jan 30, 2026

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13 min read

2026 Agency Reality Check

Maybe it isn't ALL bad. There might even be some good stuff, too.

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Vibes, Vision & Values

+4

Focus on Focus

Jan 23, 2026

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10 min read

Focus on Focus

Complexity is the enemy

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Finance

+7

Why Do Annual Plans Always Suck?

Jan 9, 2026

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12 min read

Why Do Annual Plans Always Suck?

It's cuz you aren't doing them the way your agency needs...

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Vibes, Vision & Values

+3

It’s January. Do You Know Where Your Focus Ought to Be?

Jan 2, 2026

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16 min read

It’s January. Do You Know Where Your Focus Ought to Be?

Because it’s probably not where you might imagine....

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Vibes, Vision & Values

+2

WTF With All The Sales Talk?

Dec 5, 2025

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11 min read

WTF With All The Sales Talk?

This is all a big plan to get you to see "the big plan"

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Positioning Insights

+3

What Do Marketers Need From Agencies?

Nov 14, 2025

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10 min read

What Do Marketers Need From Agencies?

Please read this if you want to grow your agency...

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Ownership

+3

How Many Problems Have You Got?

Nov 11, 2025

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10 min read

How Many Problems Have You Got?

I got 99 problems & a plan ain't one

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Positioning Insights

+13

Boo! 100 Things for the 100th Issue

Oct 31, 2025

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17 min read

Boo! 100 Things for the 100th Issue

This has happened fast - and I am happy you are here!

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Positioning Insights

+6

You Don't F*cking Work For Them

Oct 24, 2025

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13 min read

You Don't F*cking Work For Them

Seriously, you don't. You work with them

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Vibes, Vision & Values

+2

We Are Back...Yay!?!

Oct 17, 2025

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12 min read

We Are Back...Yay!?!

S#!t happens - its the bounceback that matters...

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Ownership

+3

It's Q4 Peeps - What's The Word?

Oct 3, 2025

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10 min read

It's Q4 Peeps - What's The Word?

For lots of agencies, this is make or break time...

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Positioning Insights

+7

Vibes Vision & Value/s - They Can't Wait

Sep 19, 2025

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11 min read

Vibes Vision & Value/s - They Can't Wait

This isn't just theory - this is how powerful agencies do it IRL

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Ownership

+2

The Chaos Conundrum

Sep 16, 2025

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12 min read

The Chaos Conundrum

What to measure when the world is volatile.

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Positioning Insights

+5

Vibes, Vision & Values Activate Better Buyers

Sep 2, 2025

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15 min read

Vibes, Vision & Values Activate Better Buyers

It's not your "homerun" offer or your FOMO discount

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Content Marketing

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Tim vs AI: The Final Content Showdown

Aug 26, 2025

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22 min read

Tim vs AI: The Final Content Showdown

A little Man vs Machine → fighting for the soul of the internet & of all humanity. Probably.

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy

Agency Positioning Insights

+3

Content & Closing – WTF Is Next

Aug 12, 2025

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11 min read

Content & Closing – WTF Is Next

Forget TOFU/MOFU/BOFU

Tim Kilroy
Tim Kilroy
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