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The Advertising Age article, The Ad Agency of the Future Is Coming. Are You Ready?, is one that you may have seen.  If you haven’t, set aside some time to read it. As industry leaders from Procter & Gamble, Wunderman, PepsiCo, Omincom and others describe their views of the “Ad Agency of the Future”… how […]

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 […]

Agency New Business

This is Part 12 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, […]

cliff notes pattern

From our ad agency new business Counsel on Closing webinar (view here), an assemblage of the best tweets sent during  the webinar. Thanks to all who tweeted! -Main reason marketers look for new agencies= 44% not happy w/ strategy or thinking #RSWUS -78% Marketers say Agencies don’t know enough about them #RSWUS -Marketer Reasons for Saying Agencies are […]