Are agencies and consultants really worth it for businesses?

If agencies and consultants weren’t worth it, the model wouldn’t exist in the first place.

🧑‍🏫 DevriX turned 14 last month, and we’ve helped over a hundred SMEs launch, scale, optimize, and automate platforms and systems in different stages of their growth cycles.

Many were in collaboration with in-house teams or other agencies.

Tech firms have hired us as their marketing partner and marketing teams hired us as a tech vendor.

👉 Realizing that limited resources and focus are better spent elsewhere – or solving a problem with a well-equipped team is easier than hiring 8 people for a job – is the premise of delegation and elevation.

We’ve hired agencies in-house as well for core services we don’t offer in-house, and work with Key Opinion Leaders as consultants to infuse the latest industry trends and pain points valid right now. It’s only natural.

🥷 And I participate in several agency groups and accelerators (and have quarterly 1:1s with agency leaders) to keep refining our services and value props, and apply this know-how to our portfolio of clients.

Chris Walker dropped this value bombed in his latest post (linked below) that clearly sums up why discarding this option is an omission.

Yes – just like hiring or finding a job is a hit-or-miss, so is signing up for a vendor or onboarding an agency. The root of all evil is in expectation setting and forgetting that business is conducted between people (executives, VPs, account managers), not companies. 📶

Working with the right agency or consultant can easily revamp your entire roadmap in the next 6 months.

Chris Walker on working with agencies

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Mario Peshev is a 5x CEO and operator, founder of DevriX and Growth Shuttle, global value creation advisor, angel investor, and author of “MBA Disrupted.”

His original background in engineering rode the wave of IT entrepreneurship in the last 25 years, from product and service entrepreneurship through acquiring and selling businesses, to investing in global startups like beehiiv, doola, the Stacked Marketer, Alcatraz, SeedBlink.

Peshev spent over 10,000 hours in consulting and training contracts for mid-market and enterprise organizations like VMware, SAP, Software AG, CERN, Saudi Aramco since 2006. His books and guides are referenced in over 50 universities in North America, Europe, and Asia.


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