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title: The Life Cycle of Agencies by Upsourced
description: The Life Cycle of Agencies helps agency owners grow their business and understand what problems, needs, and solutions they'll face during each stage.
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# [The Life Cycle of Agencies by Upsourced](https://blog.upsourcedaccounting.com/the-life-cycle-of-agencies)

 Written by [Ryan Watson](https://blog.upsourcedaccounting.com/author/ryan-watson) | Jul 11, 2023, 5:18:32 PM

Upsourced introduces [The Life Cycle of Agencies](https://blog.upsourcedaccounting.com/hubfs/The%20Life%20Cycle%20of%20Agencies%20by%20Upsourced%20(1).pdf).

The Life Cycle of Agencies is a framework that we've developed to help think about the maturation of an agency over its lifetime. It helps agency owners identify the common problems, needs, and solutions they could face at each stage of their life cycle and what to focus on to bring them to the next phase.

The four stages are:

1. [Create Mode: $0 - $1M ](https://blog.upsourcedaccounting.com/create-mode)
2. [Build Mode: $1M - $3M](https://blog.upsourcedaccounting.com/build-mode)
3. [Grow Mode: $3M - $10M](https://blog.upsourcedaccounting.com/grow-mode)
4. [Scale Mode: $10M+](https://blog.upsourcedaccounting.com/scale-mode)

Click each stage to be directed to the corresponding video. Please feel free to [contact us](https://upsourcedaccounting.com/contact-us/) with any questions.

<https://blog.upsourcedaccounting.com/hubfs/The%20Life%20Cycle%20of%20Agencies%20by%20Upsourced%20(1).pdf>

 

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