4 exit strategies for marketing agency owners
I’m not a big ‘exit strategy’ kind of guy. I prefer to build a cool business that’s going to last, and keep at it. Hence my 16-year stint (thus far) at Portent. But there’s always someone asking me what my strategy is for getting out. So, here you go—created by the Portent-ites—4 exit strategies for marketing agency owners:
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Print it, hang it, make underwear out of it if you like. Just keep the copyright statement in place.
Previously…
- Follow me on Twitter
- Sorry, but your charts are ugly
- Buy the Fat Free Guide to Google Analytics – an e-book by yours truly
- Lessons in Twitter community building from Kevin Hillstrom
- The best marketing ‘trick’? Cultural memory.
- 6 rules for CEOs
- 11 internet marketing skills you must always be learning
- You can now buy Conversation Marketing, the book, in digital format.

Portent's Founder & CEO
Ian Lurie is founder and CEO of Portent Inc., an internet marketing agency that has provided internet marketing, including PPC, SEO, social and analytics services, since 1995. more >


The worst they would ever do is they would put you for a couple of months into a white-collar, minimum-security resort. You should be so lucky.
@Emma But that means no one would be able to call me, or e-mail me, or demand…
Wait a minute.
(Ian scampers off to start embezzling)
Classic, Ian! I especially like the part about the guy who considers himself an expert after setting up a website (probably on blogger).
Might I suggest: One day stop showing up for work, and it is weeks before anyone notices.