As if rejection isn’t bad enough, this is the first of a two-part series on the topic. This Harvard Business Review article, 5 Reasons Good Deals Get Rejected, refers to situations outside the realm of the agency new business proposal specifically, but the reasons DO apply. The article does a great job describing the “why” […]
Archive for month: June, 2016
First, the technicality: it was a bridge keeper that Sir Lancelot faced in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Yet, this is a scene that has come to mind more than once over my career as I’ve worked on getting past gatekeepers. Granted I never met any who required me to provide the correct answer […]
And that’s OK. We’ve had agency principals tell us straight up: “I didn’t start this agency to be a salesperson-that’s why I’m hiring you guys.” And no, this post will not turn into an RSW commercial, but I’m speaking to you, agency principals-if you don’t have that new business chromosome, don’t run the new business […]
In our upcoming webinar on June 23, we will go into detail about the results of the Mirren-RSW/US 2016 Agency New Business Tools Survey. And while upcoming posts will also look more deeply into the results of the survey, it seems important to call out several important tools that respondents did not mention. They are […]