In case you didn’t see it, Coca Cola got rid of voicemail at their Atlanta Headquarters: Office voice mail at the world’s largest soft-drink maker was shut down “to simplify the way we work and increase productivity,” according to an internal memo from Chief Information Officer Ed Steinike. The change went into effect this month, […]
Here’s the scenario: You got the meeting with an ideal prospect. You have a conversation where you unearth that the company is going in a specific direction and needs services you can provide. So your team comes together to construct initial thinking and direction, incorporating ways you’ve helped past and current clients. The day comes, […]
The majority of new business is stop and start for agencies and inevitably the pipeline become non-existent. You know that’s bad but you’re so busy with client work and referrals are coming in. Both those things will change, or at the very least become inconsistent. There’s another piece to the puzzle you can’t ignore: You’ve […]
Your average CMO or VP of Marketing gets a lot of contact from agencies wanting to work with them. If you asked one of those CMOs or VPs of Marketing to name one of those agencies, 9 times out of 10 they couldn’t do it. Because in their eyes, your agency is a commodity. In […]
How did you acquire your latest client? For a good majority of small- and mid-size agencies, getting on the search consultancy radar is tough; however, findings from the latest RSW/US new business report show that 78% of marketers surveyed managed searches on their own. That’s good news for agencies, but it means you have to […]
In this video interview, RSW/US Owner and President Mark Sneider taps into his 25 years of experience working with agencies and marketers—and working in agencies and as a marketer—to discuss why marketer-agency relationships fail. He shares survey data gathered from our most recent new business survey report to explain what marketers (and agencies) can do […]
The search for an effective new business director is one tough position to fill at marketing services firms. (No Sh*t Lee.) Yes, it’s hard because finding an individual who can sell agency services well is simply a difficult task. (It’s also hard to keep them: What’s the Most Dangerous Job at an Agency?) But what […]
Check out this awesome presentation (How Agencies Are Selling & What Clients Are Looking For) by Tom Hudson and Megan Coffey at Springbox in Austin, TX! It’s based on our latest report, the 2014 RSW/US Agency-Marketer New Business Report. A little bit about Springbox: Springbox takes the guesswork out of digital. Our proprietary DataLayer process extracts quantifiable […]
An article in Ad Age titled Why More CMOs Are Wanted as Board Directors started with this paragraph: Boards of directors at the country’s largest companies are in dire need of digital and mobile expertise, consumer insights and diversity — and they’re looking to top marketers to fill those gaps. So these Boards are looking for […]
With the release of our 2014 Agency-Marketer New Business Report, one of the more pronounced takeaways is the decreased tenure of the agency new business director (less than 2 years on average.) What’s behind it? In 2012, 53% of agencies in our survey said their new business director (NBD) was somewhat/very successful. In our current […]
