This is Part 5 of a 17 chapter eBook, “Agency New Business: Put On That Damn Sales Hat,” which you can download at no cost here. The eBook covers everything from pre-prospecting preparation to working opportunities to close. The majority of the eBook focuses on elements that agencies either often overlook, are too busy to consider, or are […]
One particular challenge agencies face with getting new business-just getting the process started. Or I should say, getting the process started well. An agency cobbles together a list that’s been languishing in their database, puts together a general newsletter and sends it out to that entire database. They’ve just had a Spinal Tap moment. For […]
This is Part 4 of a 17 chapter eBook, “Agency New Business: Put On That Damn Sales Hat,” which you can download at no cost here. The eBook covers everything from pre-prospecting preparation to working opportunities to close. The majority of the eBook focuses on elements that agencies either often overlook, are too busy to consider, or are […]
This is Part 3 of a 17 chapter eBook, “Agency New Business: Put On That Damn Sales Hat,” which you can download at no cost here. The eBook covers everything from pre-prospecting preparation to working opportunities to close. The majority of the eBook focuses on elements that agencies either often overlook, are too busy to consider, or are […]
This is Part 2 of a 17 chapter eBook, “Agency New Business: Put On That Damn Sales Hat,” which you can download at no cost here. The eBook covers everything from pre-prospecting preparation to working opportunities to close. The majority of the eBook focuses on elements that agencies either often overlook, are too busy to consider, or are […]
This is Part 1 of a 17 chapter eBook, “Agency New Business: Put On That Damn Sales Hat,” which you can download at no cost here. The eBook covers everything from pre-prospecting preparation to working opportunities to close. The majority of the eBook focuses on elements that agencies either often overlook, are too busy to consider, […]
We got some insightful responses from my previous post on agency new business email techniques to avoid (Agency New Business: A Mediocre Prospecting Email Dismantled) so I had to take advantage of the below example as well. I actually really like getting these emails, fun stuff. It surprises me that a company would use tactics […]
Continuing with thoughts on our latest RSW/US survey, Changes in Social Digital Media (2009-2012)(download here), and one stat I find particularly strange in regards to agency social media usage. From the survey: Agencies are increasing their use of social media as a tool for agency new business prospecting with 87% of Agencies stating they use […]
I received a prospecting email recently from a company vying to get my attention. They did that, but for all the wrong reasons. Below is the email, and I’m going to give you 6 reasons why, as you’re out there prospecting for agency new business, you shouldn’t send an email like this: Hope all is well. If […]
I had this piece from the Harvard Business Review tucked away, titled “To Win Big, It Helps to Be a Little “Nuts” by Bill Taylor, co founder of Fast Company. In it, he describes: . . .the best-performing stock in the United States since the “Black Monday” crash of 1987? If you said Apple or Microsoft […]
