You're in the pitch. Do you have a plan to win it?

You’re in the pitch. Do you have a plan to win it?

We’re pleased to have Jody Sutter guest posting for us on the topic of the pitch. Do you have a plan to win it? Jody Sutter is a business development expert and the owner of The Sutter Company, a new business consultancy that advises small agencies on organizing and operationalizing their growth strategy.   She helps them generate revenue […]

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Two Secrets For Writing Engaging Agency New Business Content

Two Secrets For Writing Engaging Agency New Business Content

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Two Secrets For Writing Engaging Agency New Business Content  We recently had a client come to us as they plan an internal review of their agency communications, and they asked several salient questions across categories and disciplines relating to new business.  One of those was a question I wanted to share, because agencies ask some version of it often:  What blog post subjects seem to be […]

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Unique Positioning Without Supporting Content Is Wasted Positioning 

Unique Positioning Without Supporting Content Is Wasted Positioning 

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As we wrap up our content focus on our 2020 Agency New Business Report, I read a few articles recently that tie in nicely to a key stat I haven’t discussed yet.   63% of agencies stated their agency’s positioning is “somewhat unique” . . . and 23% indicated their positioning is “extremely unique”.  Interestingly, last year in […]

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COVID-19 Disrupted New Business Efforts But Small and Mid-Sized Agencies See Key Advantages Over Larger Firms

COVID-19 Disrupted New Business Efforts But Small and Mid-Sized Agencies See Key Advantages Over Larger Firms

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While COVID-19 initially disrupted new business efforts this year, small and mid-sized agencies see some key advantages over larger firms, as taken from our annual RSW 2020 Agency New Business Report: Perspective On The Agency New Business Environment, 2020 and Beyond. This is the 10th year of the survey and we present comparable data available […]

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RSW Agency New Business Website Series, Pt. 2: SEO, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Metadata

RSW Agency New Business Website Series, Pt. 2: SEO, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Metadata

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RSW Agency New Business Website Series, Pt. 2: SEO, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Metadata Welcome to the 2nd installment of our series around agency new business websites, and in this case, SEO. In our previous edition, we covered the thought processes and design adjustments that make all the difference […]

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Tough Love For Your Ad Agency Positioning

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Because I know you can handle it, get ready for some tough love for your ad agency positioning. A little background first: we’ve released our 2019 Agency New Business Report and one thing we know: agencies like to hear what their peers are doing to find new business success. Understandable, because you’re all so busy, […]

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There’s A Time and A Place For Storytelling in Agency New Business

There’s a time and a place for storytelling in agency new business, and it’s not in your initial outreach. You’ve probably read or heard a good deal about storytelling in sales in the past couple of years. Just google storytelling in sales or some version of that and you will see countless articles/blog posts. AS […]

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Cute Won’t Get You In The Door With A Prospect

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I tend to save the attempts I get from salespeople in their quest to try and get in the door with a prospect. In this case, our Director of Marketing Communications, Miguel, sent over a sales email he received. The subject line was Titanic!, and the first sentence was Hi Miguel, Pretty good ice breaker, […]

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Agency New Business Frustration: Selling The Invisible To Your Prospects

Agency New Business Frustration Reason #38: What do I mean by selling the invisible? The notion came, as many solid post topics do, from a conversation I had with an agency team on how the industry has changed, relative to new business. More specifically, one of the principals asked me how our world of new […]

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We’ve had little new business success where we didn’t have internal contacts

I attended a presentation from new business leaders at their respective agencies on new business success, and there was an interesting dichotomy between the individuals on stage and in the audience. The five on stage all worked at agencies that were part of major holding companies.  The audience, conversely, as shown by a show of […]

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