Ad Agency New Business Purgatory: So Why Didn’t You Get That Meeting?

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Of all the different facets of agency new business, it’s interesting that one particular is often ignored: the reasons why, after an initially good, or great conversation, you didn’t get that initial face-to-face meeting, and end up in new business purgatory. Ask yourself what the percentage of your new business activity falls into this category-how […]

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Ad Agency New Business: Talk About the Passion

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Get ready for a very unscientific post, but an important one for your new business program nevertheless. I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at length, both on the phone and in person this week, with 2 of our agency clients. As Business Development Director at RSW/US, I talk to agency principals just about every working day, […]

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Don’t Let “Meetings” Be The Sole Focus of Your Ad Agency New Business Effort

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An excellent article from Blair Enn’s Win Without Pitching site called Meeting Madness contains several thoughtful insights on agency new business meetings, incentives and quality of meetings generally. As Blair points out midway through his article, some agency new business meetings just shouldn’t happen at all.  He goes on to say: The second lesson from my […]

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Ad Agency New Business: Blogging Basics You Shouldn’t Miss

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I occasionally like to get back to blogging basics and this post does just that.  Michael Gass, on his Fuel Lines blog, mentioned in his post 10 Tips for Writing for the Web for Ad Agency New Businesss a social media study by King Fish Media, HubSpot and Junta42, pointing out this stat: “Businesses (agencies) that […]

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Ad Agencies: Focus On That 2nd Date To Close New Business

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I was talking to an agency principal today about our services and asked about the challenges they’d faced in the past bringing in new business. She gave me an example of a very capable salesperson they hired who did a great job of opening doors.  The problem was that was it-a door opened and then […]

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The Ad Agency New Business Mercy Meeting = Do Not Want

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“Every opportunity is a meeting.” It is not true (at least not in regards to a quality meeting) but some ad agency new business salespeople treat every “yes” as a winner.  For many reasons, that’s a mistake. Why? 1)You’re overpromising-to yourself and/or to your employer-it will bite you 2)You’re not qualifying properly, if that’s your […]

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Let’s Talk About Ad Agency New Business Stats Baby

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A few quick stats related to agency new business from around the web, and internally here at RSW/US,  you might find interesting. First, a big-picture stat that, quite frankly, is not really apropos of the post’s theme but interesting nonetheless: What percent of American internet users use Twitter?  Answer: 8%. (Per  Pew Research Center’s Internet & […]

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How To Get Your Team Involved And Vested In Agency New Business

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Getting your agency employees on the new business bandwagon can greatly enhance your chances of success in obtaining new clients.  But I don’t have to tell you, it’s easier said than done; especially for mid-size and smaller agencies, as time is at a premium and taking care of clients invariably (and understandably) comes first.   […]

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What’s Better For Your Ad Agency: “Good” People or Talented People?

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The answer of course is both, but let me explain. Last week I read a fascinating interview with Herbie Herbert, the manager of Journey from their inception until the late eighties or so.  I didn’t read it so much because I like Journey (although I do, I’ll admit it) but because of the background machinations of […]

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What’s “Worth” More Budgeting Dollars: Lead Nurturing vs. Lead Generation-Part 2

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We’re excited to present the second part Jude Fischer’s guest post, What’s “Worth” More Budgeting Dollars: Lead Nurturing vs. Lead Generation.  Jude further discusses budgeting, and the results other companies are realizing through their lead nurturing efforts. Studies by Gartner, Forrester and a host of others indicate that anywhere between 70% and 95% of the […]

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