I’m Peter Kang. I run agency businesses and love to write about the journey. I also write about investing, books that I’ve found helpful, and ways to live a good life. Check out my bio and my personal mission statement.
Blog Highlights
Below are some highlights from my blog.
Running an agency business:
- Agency Journey, my monthly series on running an agency
- Agency Business Lessons: Distilled and Oversimplified
- Agency Lead Sources and Going Deeper with Each
- Small Agency Owner Compensation
- Calculating Project Profits at a Creative Services Agency
- Exploring Client Concentration in an Agency Business
- The No Exit Approach to Agency Business
- Agency Survival: Handling Challenging Times for the Business
E-commerce:
- Common Opportunities in Growing E-commerce Businesses Vol. 1
- Common Opportunities in Growing E-commerce Businesses Vol. 2
- E-commerce for First-time Sellers: Start Small, Focus on Sales
- How (and Why) I Built an E-commerce Store in Under 8 Hours
Habits & Life Reflections:
- 2023: An Annual Review
- 2022: An Annual Review
- 2021: An Annual Review
- 2020: Habits That Stuck
- 2019: Habits That Stuck
- 2018: Habits That Stuck
- 2017: Habits That Stuck
- 2016: Habits That Stuck
- 2015: Habits That Stuck
- Operating Rules Vol. 1
- Operating Rules Vol. 2
- Operating Rules Vol. 3 (Diet Edition)
- Lessons from Atomic Habits by James Clear
Personal finance & investing:
- My Personal Finance Snapshot (November 2023)
- My Personal Finance Snapshot (August 2022)
- My Personal Finance Snapshot (June 2021)
- My Personal Finance Stack 2020: Coronavirus Crisis Edition
- My Personal Finance Stack 2019
- My Personal Finance Stack 2017
- My Personal Finance Stack 2015
- Stock Investing: A Look at My Portfolio
- Reviewing My 2020 Stock Investing Activity
Writings on The Fifth Discipline, one of my favorite books:
- Reflecting on The 11 Laws of The Fifth Discipline (from Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline)
- The Seven Learning Disabilities from The Fifth Discipline
- Systems Archetypes from The Fifth Discipline and How They Apply to a Digital Agency
- Personal Mastery from The Fifth Discipline
Lessons learned from reading books:
I keep track of books I’ve finished on my Reading List.
- Lessons from Pricing Creativity by Blair Enns
- Lessons from Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Lessons from Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
- Lessons from Orphan X and His Ten Commandments
- Lessons from The E-Myth Chief Financial Officer
- The Importance of Marketing to Existing Clients from Managing the Professional Service Firm
- Thoughts on “Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact” by Phil M. Jones
- Lessons from The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker: Know Thy Time
Writings on other sites:
- 50 Things Keeping You From Scaling Your Agency
- Ways to Deepen Client Relationships
- Sources of New Business Referral Leads for an Agency (8 Types Examined)
- Customer Journey No. 1: Allbirds – 2 Years & $885.21
- Customer Journey No. 2: The Same Wine Store for 12+ Years
- Customer Journey No. 3: How I Became a Spindrift Addict
- Tracking Ecommerce Performance with Key Metrics