“The whole CMO musical chairs thing is finally starting to fade.” A quote from an agency principal I spoke with recently. It came from a discussion point around finding the right person, the decision maker, when prospecting. In our conversation, he discussed the pain they’d experienced in prospecting the wrong contacts, and specifically CMO’s more […]
Agency new business is tough. This statement is a surprise to no one. But agency principals often forget this when dealing with everything else that goes on while running the show. Whether you have a team or a single new business director, take the time to inspire them. A piece appeared on Inc. titled Fire […]
I was in a recent kickoff with a new client in NYC and at one point during the meeting, the agency principal remarked that he used to be more concerned about the fact that his shop was no longer a hot, new shop. He said he came to peace with that fact when one of […]
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 […]
A client recently told our Owner, Mark, that there are realistically 1-2 weeks when a prospect will be receptive to, or have a need for, your agency. While anecdotal, it’s still an astute observation, and in our experience, true. So knowing that, new business can’t stop and start. Agency New Business Can’t Stop And Start […]
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 […]
“Put On That Damn Sales Hat” is an agency new business primer for marketing services firms, full of tips to ensure firms wear their “sales hat” with purpose and confidence. You can download it here. Our eBook is based on a blog series of the same name by RSW/US Owner/President Mark Sneider. In it, Mark […]
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 […]
Several articles caught my eye recently and both will be helpful to your new business strategy. First is CMOs: Social Media Key, But We Are Clueless. The title alone shows where opportunity lies for the right agency and there are some prime stats on big data and the inability of CMO’s to analyze it with […]
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 […]
