You're Busy Building Assets For Clients. Let's Build a Business For You.
Build a Scalable, Sellable Agency
Because we have a guarantee, we only work with ambitious owners who want to build. Is that you?
All Your Work Is Building ... Nothing
You're riding on a rollercoaster of too much work and hunting for business, no predictability, and client demands impacting your personal life.
Worst of all? Even when revenue is good today, most agencies are unsellable. All that work isn't building you an asset you can sell.
Worst of all? Even when revenue is good today, most agencies are unsellable. All that work isn't building you an asset you can sell.
- Overworked
- Focused on today, not tomorrow
- Never able to get ahead
- Feast-or-famine billings
- Hitting a plateau
- Drained of energy
- Not building a business that can be sold
- ... And nobody to go to for help
We Fixed The Model So You Cashflow & Can Exit
Shed the notion that the value is in your labor. Discover the clarity and freedom of owning a business that's built on assets. Spend each day building value in a business that's a sellable asset. What does that look like?
- A steady flow of perfect-fit, less price-sensitive clients
- Replace pitches that go nowhere with a predictable selling system
- Move from doing lots of custom work to building your own platform
- Simplify your business
- Free you from the day-to-day operations and trying to scale revenue by hiring
- Build real enterprise value with real assets that cashflow today and can be sold for 400%+ more than traditional services businesses
- A clear roadmap to follow
- Be kept accountable to ensure you execute
Turn your business into an asset. Reap far higher profit and exit multiples than 96% of agencies
Three Stages of Growth
While every agency is unique, the steps to creating a valuable company are the same. Here's how we take agencies from trapped, to growth, to real enterprise value.
STABILIZE
Get Stability, Sales & Time Freedom
Get Stability, Sales & Time Freedom
Get off the feast-or-famine treadmill and free up time to work strategically
PRODUCTIZE
Increase leverage & Grow Easily
Increase leverage & Grow Easily
Productize your service offering as a first step towards creating an asset (not a job)
MAXIMIZE
Create Real Assets With Exit Value
Create Real Assets With Exit Value
Use your client base to finance development of real assets
The Agency Ascension Growth Model™
Evolve your business from painful & unsellable to an easy-to-manage enterprise with great exit opportunities. We'll help you get there based on real experience not only doing it ourselves, but deep expertise in the M&A process and how to create IP with exit value.
9 out of 10 agencies and consulting firms are unsellable. Let's make sure you're not one of them.
An Exit Isn't What You Think
The stats are clear: 90% of agencies are not sellable
What's worse: most exits are distressed exits with little (or no) payout - because the business becomes unsustainable, owner burnout, due to health reasons, or needing to support family.
What's worse: most exits are distressed exits with little (or no) payout - because the business becomes unsustainable, owner burnout, due to health reasons, or needing to support family.
When that time comes, there are two paths based on how you choose to build your business today:
Traditional Model
There is no exit. Turn off the lights and walk away empty-handed because you built a job, not a company
There is no exit. Turn off the lights and walk away empty-handed because you built a job, not a company
Asset-Based Model
Have the choice to sell the business for a payout or keep on cashflowing it - because you've built a business asset
Have the choice to sell the business for a payout or keep on cashflowing it - because you've built a business asset
Wealth & freedom comes from owning assets, not doing labor. You choose what to spend your time on.
Imagine Yourself This Time Next Year
You're already working hard, delivering for clients. That's not going to get easier.
Agency Ascension is for owners who have a bigger vision than just working for today.
Agency Ascension is for owners who have a bigger vision than just working for today.
- You've got time, energy and excitement about your business and personal life
- You're building a business asset that pays you today and has real exit value
- You have clarity about the best path forward for your business
- You have confidence being guided by mentors who have done what you want to do
- You're part of a community of like-minded business owners who think big
The question is whether you're going to take action now, or let next year be the same as last.
CEO Feedback: Working With Us
The CEO of Fluxe describes working with us on his strategic plan. Fluxe added 18% net new revenue in 24 days of execution, and is on track to 2x revenue in 12 months.
If you have the ambition, and want to be held accountable, we have the system.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much time do I need to devote to the process?
The first thing we'll do is free up 5-10 hours per week by fixing inefficiencies. You'll breathe a sigh of relief and get excited about growing again. We recommend that you dedicate at least 5 of those hours towards building asset value in your agency.
Will I have access to my coaches and mentors?
Absolutely. You'll have a whole team helping you. The Agency Ascension team will be connected to you every week and you will have multiple touchpoints (including private chats & calls) answering questions and advancing your projects.
I just want to grow my agency, is this a fit?
If you're ambitious, then yes. In the first few months of working together you'll have a completely new way of selling, easier client deployment, and more time for yourself.
We think that once you're free of services headaches you'll realize how much bigger your opportunities are, and go from there. It might be scaling a cash-flowing business, or building to sell.
We think that once you're free of services headaches you'll realize how much bigger your opportunities are, and go from there. It might be scaling a cash-flowing business, or building to sell.
Who will I be working with?
You'll have an entire team supporting you, including your own client concierge who will ensure you get the resources you need.
Depending on what your needs are, we'll connect you with specialists in positioning, marketing, operations, hiring, productization, development, finance and more.
Most important, we'll hold you accountable to making progress like nobody else has.
Depending on what your needs are, we'll connect you with specialists in positioning, marketing, operations, hiring, productization, development, finance and more.
Most important, we'll hold you accountable to making progress like nobody else has.
Am I big enough for Agency Ascension?
If you're a freelancer or solo agency owner with no employees, then our program isn't a fit. Once you have full time employees, then let's talk.
Our ideal agency owner client has top line revenues between $500k - $5M, but we have worked with smaller and larger organizations.
Our ideal agency owner client has top line revenues between $500k - $5M, but we have worked with smaller and larger organizations.
Do you have a guarantee?
Yes, we have a guarantee. This means two things: (1) we won't accept you as a client unless we believe we can get results for you, and (2) there's no risk to you to explore working together.
Click the "Get Started" button to see if we're a fit.
Click the "Get Started" button to see if we're a fit.
Experts in Agency Growth, Intellectual Property, M&A, and Technology on Your Team.
About Us
Agency Ascension was founded by serial entrepreneur, agency founder, investor and former IP attorney Raj Jha.
Raj has been at the intersection of services, technology, and IP law for over 20 years.
Raj has been at the intersection of services, technology, and IP law for over 20 years.
- 4x founder, including three services companies, scaled agency to exit
- Former Silicon Valley IP attorney who knows the difference between surface-level "service productization" that has little exit value, and real IP that creates massive enterprise value
- Over $2B in M&A transactions
- Degree in computer science and 3x tech executive turning services-based businesses into technology platforms (1x multiple to 12x+ multiple)
- Advised companies such as Facebook, Yahoo, Electronic Arts, and Polycom
- Has overseen the creation of over 753 strategic plans
Raj Jha
Founder & CEO
Agency Exit • $2B in M&A • IPO • Former IP Attorney • 3x Tech Executive
Raj created Agency Ascension to help owners turn agencies that are jobs into businesses with real value.
He also invests in those technologies, networks, and apps, helping owners scale their business faster.
He also invests in those technologies, networks, and apps, helping owners scale their business faster.
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