Too many marketing services firms treat their inbound strategy for new business like Kevin Costner in the movie Field of Dreams: “build it and they will come,” but it won’t work that way. In this brief video, Lee McKnight, Director of Business Development for RSW/US, describes four key big-picture components of an effective inbound strategy […]

With agency new business, you KNOW how much effort can go into getting a prospect to commit to an initial meeting. Once that meeting is scheduled though, the work is not over. Accordingly, as we collaborate with our clients here at RSW/US, our support continues on long after getting the meeting on everyone’s calendars. Each […]

A recent note from one of our clients shows how contagious satisfaction can be. It also reinforced key points from an earlier post celebrating client feedback. First, the note. (For client confidentiality, the prospect company name has been changed.) “Mark, I hope all is well.  We just had a go-to-meeting with Acme Insurance.  The CMO […]

When An Agency Employee Doesn’t Embrace Your Culture

(This is part 2 of Ed Burgoyne’s post Do Your Values Inform Your Agency Culture?) When you are busy and stressed, I know it requires an extra effort to be in the moment and focus on being the leader the organization needs, and the leader you would like to be. This is why it helps […]

Culture in an ad agency is unique to the place and the personalities of the people running the shop. There is the outward agency persona, and then there is the inward “true” cultural persona of the agency that we all work within. Agencies are a business and the established distinctive culture of the place is […]

It’s been five years since we started RSW/AgencySearch and we’ve amassed our own “Top 10 List” of tips from the front line of pitching, RFI responding, and general review “etiquette” that can help agencies better their chances of winning when in a review. Here we go: #10 – Don’t overstate your experience.  Because you’ll be […]