Reflecting on the 2012 Mirren New Business Conference and a presentation from Bob Wiesner at Saatchi on agency new business prospecting. Bob’s presentation was titled Building Your Pipeline: Casting and Converting the Meeting and early in the presentation he asked the question, “Why Are You Prospecting?” And he went on to talk about a subject we’ve touched on here many […]
I admire our New Business Directors. It is one of the toughest jobs on the planet. Persistent, yet polite. Skin as tough as steel. Smart, creative, strategic. Able to wear their Agencies on their sleeves and sell ethereal agency offerings with enthusiasm and zeal. Focus On The Close It was about 3-4 years ago […]
What’s the role of your Director of Business Development, or for those of you who handle new business, what is your role? Is it seeking out the right prospects-building awareness and opening doors, or is it that, plus finishing and closing those opportunities? There are strong arguments for and against both. I lean toward the […]
Mark (our owner) sent me a Craigslist lead generation job posting recently thinking it might spark some thoughts on a post. Indeed it did. A West Coast agency was looking for an intern to work on new business and the job description included making “minimum 100 calls a day.” Time for the scalpel-we’re going to […]
When I started RSW/US, I believed that in order for us to succeed long-term in the world of agency new business, we needed to base our existence on the principles of Leo Burnett – and always recognize that we needed to continuously think about how to add value to our agency new business efforts beyond […]
What’s the agency new business email subject line Kimberly-Clark responded to? We’ve Got The Goods That’s it-that’s the subject line. Not particularly explosive is it? But it doesn’t always have to be. You know about the importance of subject lines, you read about them, but how often do you think about them? How often do you change […]
The three ingredients for ad agency new business success? Awareness, Consistency and Persistence. But prior to implementing these ingredients, you need to have your positioning tightly scripted. Not a literal script, mind you, but a concise overview that conveys who you are, what you do and why a potential client should work with you. So […]
Bringing in advertising agency new business has never been more interesting. New technologies continually add layers of convenience and effectiveness while also adding layers of time many of you don’t have in learning and implementing those technologies. With these new technologies also comes an attitude from many agencies that traditional prospecting is dead, doesn’t work. Depending on their definition […]
Ad agencies are cautious because they don’t want to be pigeonholed as too broad (full service) or too specific (digital) and so instead use fluffy words that don’t convey what they functionally do. Take agency sites (or collateral) for example, here are some random blurbs taken from real agency sites: -Deep strategic insights -Focusing on the power […]
Take a look at your average ad agency web site today-2002 comes to mind. If you are engaged in finding new business for your agency in any form-where do you drive them to find out more about you? In almost every case, it’s to your site, or landing page, microsite, etc. (And BTW, you’d better […]
