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Ad Agency New Business

We were a sponsor at the Mirren Business Development conference this week-a great ad agency new business conference this year, as in past years. I particularly enjoyed Barkley EVP Jeff Fromm’s (@JeffFromm) presentation, discussing how he realigned Barkley’s new business strategy after losing a major client a few years ago. I’m not doing his presentation justice, but he had several insights, one […]

Reflecting on the 2012 Mirren New Business Conference and a presentation from Bob Wiesner at Saatchi on agency new business prospecting. Bob’s presentation was titled Building Your Pipeline: Casting and Converting the Meeting and early in the presentation he asked the question, “Why Are You Prospecting?” And he went on to talk about a subject we’ve touched on here many […]

Survival

If you’re thinking about starting a digital-only Agency, you might want to think again as the growth potential might be somewhat limited long-term. So say Marketers in our latest 2011 “A Marketer’s Look Ahead at Agencies” survey. 67% of Marketers surveyed state that in order for digital shops to survive they will need to offer […]