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We’re excited to have Jim Barbagallo guest post on a topic near and dear to us, The Agency-Client Relationship. Read on for 10 key agency-client relationship questions that will help you check your Agency-Client pulse. Quick note about Jim-he’s the CEO of Pilot Communications Group, an integrated communications agency providing content-centered, business-aligned public relations, public […]

Our 7-17-14 Agency New Business Tools 2014 Webinar is available to view here now, with our accompanying deck on SlideShare here. In the “RSW/US-Mirren 2014 New Business Tools Webinar,” RSW/US Director of Business Development Lee McKnight Jr. digs into report results and provides comparisons, perspective and insight into nine new business tool categories agencies are […]

Agency new business is tough. This statement is a surprise to no one. But agency principals often forget this when dealing with everything else that goes on while running the show. Whether you have a team or a single new business director, take the time to inspire them. A piece appeared on Inc. titled Fire […]

I was in a recent kickoff with a new client in NYC and at one point during the meeting, the agency principal remarked that he used to be more concerned about the fact that his shop was no longer a hot, new shop. He said he came to peace with that fact when one of […]

Long agency review lists might sound like a great thing to many marketers… But in reality, they have just the opposite effect:  they harm review processes. My desire when shopping is to want to look at as many options as possible before making a decision. I know that in the end, there is a diminishing […]

new business

One thing we know agencies have a hard time doing is making time for a consistent new business process. Clients must, after all, come first-which means the agency typically comes last. With that in mind, I traded emails with an agency principal recently who, to be up front, didn’t need our help. She very kindly […]

Time

It’s rare that I’ll take someone else’s entire post and drop it into our own blog, but this post from Jill Konrath is so spot on, I’m doing just that. (Actually not her entire post, to be fair.) Agencies often lead first meetings, first emails, first calls with unimportant filler. When you’re reaching out to […]

“Put On That Damn Sales Hat” is an agency new business primer for marketing services firms, full of tips to ensure firms wear their “sales hat” with purpose and confidence.   You can download it here. Our eBook is based on a blog series of the same name by RSW/US Owner/President Mark Sneider. In it, Mark […]

Agency Web Site

I’ve seen some agencies that do amazing digital work for their clients, but let their own web sites languish. And this can be a devastating mistake. Although social media has stolen the spotlight over the past few years, the frequently repeated assertion that web sites are dead could not be further from the truth. Businesses […]

Agency New Business Questions

10 Agency New Business Questions for Mark O’Toole from HB Agency in Newton, MA.” HB is an integrated marketing communication agency, working primarily in clean-tech, medical-tech, and high-tech. HB defines integrated marketing as delivering the right story to the right people at the right time with the right media to advance a business goal. From […]