We’re talking briefly about the results from our latest agency new business survey, and specifically on a series of questions from the team at Adweek, exploring What Ad Agency criteria matters most to marketers when reviewing agencies. Transcript: Marketers: Ad Agency Ranking Criteria Lee McKnight, Director of Business Development for RSW/US, a full service, [...]
When talking content marketing, a new agency client can instantly win me over with just two little words: Editorial calendar. Obviously, there are practical reasons. As I plan out content production schedules for these agencies’ value-added email campaigns, it helps to know now what content will be ready for me in three months. So yes, I’ve been [...]
Lee McKnight, Director of Business Development for RSW/US, talks briefly on the results from the Agency New Business 2013 RSW/US Agency-Marketer Business Report. In this video we focus on the impact of digital agencies in 2013 and a question we’ve posed over the past several years: what, if any, threat digital firms pose to full [...]
When I was approached to write a post for the “ANB” Blog, I knew I would focus on the topic of agency new business list building and cleaning. That is, after all, what I do. I started thinking about what angle I would take and it suddenly occurred to me: beer. Don’t worry, my logic [...]
We’re focusing today on agency specialization-a hot topic and an important one. Video Transcript: I’m Lee McKnight, Director of Business Development for RSW/US, we’re a new business We are a full service, outsourced business development group that works solely with Agencies win new business by finding qualified leads, setting meetings on our agency clients’ behalf, [...]
In our recent 2013 Agency-Marketer Business Survey, we assessed agency selection criteria. We wanted to find out how important different variables were in their decision making process when selecting a new agency. We asked agencies the same question – relative to what they thought marketers were using and what they thought they SHOULD be using. [...]
One feature I particularly like about our surveys are the open-ended comments we include from marketers, and in our most recent report, we included 4 pages of comments from Marketers, all of which highlighted the ever fickle Marketer-Agency relationship. in the survey, Adweek provided us with the following question: What amount of an agency’s business must be focused [...]
I have to admit, I was somewhat surprised when I read our latest National survey among marketers: 2013 RSW/US Agency-Marketer National survey. We always knew that agency specialization was important. We see it every day when we represent our clients. The tighter we can be when we reach out on their behalf by either shouting [...]
In a recent conversation with an agency principal, she was discussing the difficulty in finding better new business techniques to break through to prospects, which undoubtedly, is a large part of the new business challenge. Part of our service at RSW/US is doing just that, but if you’re handling agency new business in-house, A [...]
The last two searches we’ve managed on the RSW/AgencySearch side of our business (one for Mercy Health in Michigan and the other for Legrand) – while different in a good number of respects, were very similar in terms of their new business outcome. These guys know their stuff! In both cases, the marketers stated that [...]
