An article in Ad Age titled Why More CMOs Are Wanted as Board Directors started with this paragraph: Boards of directors at the country’s largest companies are in dire need of digital and mobile expertise, consumer insights and diversity — and they’re looking to top marketers to fill those gaps. So these Boards are looking for […]
Some agencies have deficiencies in media planning and buying. Some have deficiencies in PR. Others have deficiencies in programmatic buying. All of these things that can be supplemented with outside resources/strategic partnerships that can allow an agency to overcome a marketing agency deficiency like one of these mentioned above when examined by a potential client. […]
Our first of two agency new business infographics, with data taken from our 2014 RSW/US Agency-Marketer Business Report is available to download now. Get it here.
With the release of our 2014 Agency-Marketer New Business Report, one of the more pronounced takeaways is the decreased tenure of the agency new business director (less than 2 years on average.) What’s behind it? In 2012, 53% of agencies in our survey said their new business director (NBD) was somewhat/very successful. In our current […]
We recently sent out a tweet from our post Is Your Ad Agency Web Site Working For Or Against You-5 Key Guidelines : After the tweet, Derek Walker, owner of the agency brown and browner, and I had a conversation via Twitter on agency sites and I wanted to share a few of those tweets. […]
When you’re swimming in it! Heard this before, right? But are you practicing it? I’m breaking the evergreen content rule here, but now is the time when current clients are (ideally) keeping you and your team very busy. Remember what’s on the horizon: Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and then the December holidays. Some of those […]
The Center for Creative Leadership posted this piece: Image Busters: Eight Common Leader Mistakes, and it brought to mind a question: How many of the “leadership mistakes” mentioned in the post might be unintentionally undermining the great talents that agencies possess? So in that spirit-here are the mistakes/traits from the original post, and then underneath […]
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 […]
Over the past month, as I’ve talked to agency principals, I decided to make note of the reasons they gave for not keeping up with new business to that point (hence why they were now talking to me and considering our new business services). Here are several, all real, and all bad, reasons given to […]
Establishing strategic agency partnerships can be a great thing… If they’re done and presented in the right way. I’ve seen plenty of RFIs where it looks like the partner is really just an add-on to “check the box” of having the chops in the digital space, or social space….or whatever might be lacking from an […]
