In our recent survey on Ad Agency new business, principals of Agencies note they continue to struggle with finding and maintaining effective new business managers. 69% of all respondents in the survey stated they replaced (on one or more occasions) the new business manager they brought into the Agency to help them build business. The […]
A follow up to a comment on our post Don’t Know Enough About My Company. First, a quick set-up of that post to give you some perspective. The post was based off our then most-recent survey and the specific finding that “78% of senior marketing executives stated agencies don’t know enough about their company when […]
I received an email from a salesperson this week that was similar to many I receive: giant blocks of text, staring at me, unyielding, from my screen. I was immediately exhausted and the delete button became my savior. Interesting that Marketing Profs had an article last week discussing this very issue, titled Two Sure Ways to Make […]
Ad agency new business, you’re such a fickle mistress. As an agency principal and/or new business director, you’re given a great deal of advice, but one channel you rarely see mentioned as of late is direct mail, and more specifically, the envelope. The envelope gets no love, does it? It’s funny, we’ve actually heard […]
In previous posts we’ve discussed the fact that, however you might initially garner a prospect’s attention, at some point you’re going to have to actually talk to them, selling them in some fashion. Along those lines, a question posed several weeks ago on the Marketing Profs LinkedIn group page was titled “Please don’t read from a script.” […]
As a result of efforts to encourage more RSW/US employees to guest on our blog, we’re excited to have one of our List Development Managers, Jake Cripe, supply us with some thoughts on a topic that’s probably not discussed enough, ad agency new business lists. While our new business directors are at the forefront, the […]
There are three agency new business tactics we most often see agencies either run screaming from or embrace with the fervor of the recording industry to a dwindling business model. Marketing Prof’s recent post, “Three Ways to Improve Your Lead-Generation Efforts” succinctly provides the reasoning behind what to avoid or pursue. Agencies Often Run Screaming […]
We occasionally run into agencies that feel it necessary to be all-inclusive, running ad agency new business by committee – they don’t want to leave anyone out of the decision-making process. While this might be good for some business decisions related to the agency, it can be disastrous for new business. New business requires quick […]
From our ad agency new business Counsel on Closing webinar (view here), an assemblage of the best tweets sent during the webinar. Thanks to all who tweeted! -Main reason marketers look for new agencies= 44% not happy w/ strategy or thinking #RSWUS -78% Marketers say Agencies don’t know enough about them #RSWUS -Marketer Reasons for Saying Agencies are […]
RSW/US:VIEW FROM THE MARKETER’S EYE Continuing our View From the Marketer’s Eye series, this week’s marketer’s quote, in answer to the ad agency new business question, “What common mistakes do agencies make during their first meeting?” [Agencies] try to be all things, solve everything. What agency is possibly great at everything? It would be so […]
