Brent Hodgins gave an insight-filled presentation at the Mirren Conference this week titled Getting the Most Out of Your New Business Director. Of the myriad takeaways was a focus on setting expectations for your new business director, as well as setting expectations for yourself, around your new business director. In particular, Brent pointed out the […]
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 […]
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 […]
For the majority of our agency new business programs at RSW/US, we use some form of mailer to kick off each monthly prospecting wave. Those mailers, as you might expect, vary wildly in their design, but across the board they’re all designed for marketers who have very little time (which is all of them)-so they […]
When we’re building a prospecting list, the pharmaceutical and biotech sector can present unique challenges. A bit of perspective: in 2012, the pharmaceutical industry spent 27 billion on drug promotion. One can easily imagine that number will grow as our world population ages. So what are the challenges building a pharmaceutical prospecting list for our agency clients? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
