Is your firm practicing the Confirmation Bias? That’s the question Tim Williams, Founder and Managing Director of Ignition Consulting Group, asked himself when considering agency responses to survey questions he provided for the recent RSW/US Thought Leader Survey. Over two-thirds of agencies believe their positioning is unique relative to other firms. However, when […]
Peter Caputa IV, Vice President of Sales at HubSpot, offers a truth that may hurt: “Most agencies aren’t doing a good job at Inbound; they only have their toes in the water,” comments Peter, as he considers the use of Inbound for agency new business. Ideally you’ve had the chance to see the 2016 […]
If you’ve had the opportunity to read the RSW/US 2016 Thought Leader Survey Report, perhaps the section featuring questions from Michael Gass has sparked some new ideas for you on inbound and social media strategies to support your agency new business program. The Founder of Fuel Lines Business Development, Michael is an industry expert on […]
Our Agency New Business Thought Leader panel just keeps giving! Hopefully, you’ve had the chance to see the 2016 RSW/US Thought Leader Report, and related material.* In addition to providing questions and advice for the survey, each of the six participating Thought Leaders generously shared time for a more in-depth interview around the area of […]
Our Agency New Business Thought Leader panel generated a wealth of insight. Hopefully, you’ve had the chance to see the 2016 RSW/US Thought Leader Report, and related blog posts*. In addition to providing questions and advice for the survey, each of the six participating Thought Leaders generously shared time for a more in-depth interview around […]
Not just nagging here: doing the homework on your prospects is crucial. Marketer feedback from the 2016 RSW/US New Year Outlook Survey brings up a recurring theme: marketers feeling like their agencies do not understand sufficiently their business, their industry or the challenges they face. Certainly, marketers want their current agency partners to be vested, […]
If in Real Estate, it’s all about location, location, location, in Agency New Business, it’s all about Position, Position, Position. The importance of a strong, differentiated agency position is a clear theme of our 2016 Thought Leader Survey Report. Tim Williams, one of our Thought Leader Panelists is the Founder and Managing Director of The […]
The importance of differentiated agency positioning comes through from yet another of the 2016 RSW/US Thought Leader Survey panelists, Peter Caputa IV. Peter is a Vice President of Sales at HubSpot, where he oversaw HubSpot’s global agency partner program from inception in 2009 to 40% of HubSpot’s new business and 2900 agency partners by the […]
Back in the day, analytics were something that agencies shied away from. Agencies didn’t like testing their creative work because they loved and lived and died by their creative. And marketers put very little pressure on their agency counterparts to prove out the value of what they were doing. This was even true at the […]
The quality of alignment between Agencies and their clients is a theme that resonates through the RSW/US 2016 New Year Outlook Survey. Based on “troubling trends” that respondents from both the agency and marketing side of the industry offered, the quality of their alignment seems to be suffering. Just one example of this appears in […]
