Guest post by Peter Gerritsen, President, Taan Worldwide, one of the world’s oldest and most successful networks of carefully selected independent advertising & communications agencies. I was taught early on in the business to do my best to keep clients separate. Treat each like they are the only one. Over the years, I’ve come believe the […]
Putting case studies on your agency’s web site is a sound strategy for agency new business—and can give prospects an immediate sense of what you can deliver. However, agencies often place these on a dynamic slider that has a generic page designation, usually something like: agencyname.com/case-studies. Placing all of your work online in this way […]
We tell this to clients all the time—Ditch The Pitch. Here are 5 essential ad agency new business strategies on how to fill the gap when it’s time to go without the pre-prepared script: 1. Think Input before Output Listen and let prospect’s words and actions reveal what they care about. This can be the guide […]
You have a stable of clients, some you love, some, let’s face it-are a pain in the ass. (Gotta’ love them.) Cumulatively they pay the bills, but you need bigger clients. You need those two or three that will do more than just pay the bills. Fast forward to 6 months later: you’ve been pursuing […]
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 […]
In our recently released survey report, 2014 RSW/US Ad Agency New Business New Year Outlook Report, 76% of Agency principals said their Agency blogs with a reasonable amount of frequency. While our experience working with agencies would dictate that number to be closer to 20%, I’ll put aside any doubts and first say this is […]
A new business director at an agency asked me this week if we had any posts on qualifying prospects. And while we touch on the subject often, short answer was, interestingly, no. It is a particularly important agency new business question, and one you should define within your own firm. You might be surprised to […]
In a recent Ad Age post, the CCO of DDB Worldwide, Amir Kassaei, laid out three ways to fix what he called the “flawed agency model.” The first fix he posits: ‘Recognize we’re not in the ad business.” Without getting off track as to how this relates to ad agency new business, one vital point […]
In this post, we put forth 10 agency new business questions for Joe Saracino from the Erwin Penland agency in Greenville, South Carolina. Helping create success for the people they touch, Erwin Penland is one of the largest full-service advertising agencies based in the South. With offices in Greenville, S.C., New York and Detroit, the […]
A paraphrased quote from an agency principal in a recent conversation: “We’re writing good content-our prospects aren’t reading it.” A verified case of “Build it and they will not come.” Unless you are a “name” agency, decision makers are not flocking to your content, that’s true. (And if you’re a “name” agency, you could argue […]
