Brad Jakeman, the President of Pepsi’s Global Beverage Group, had a pretty tough message to send to the 2,700 attendees at this year’s ANA Masters of Marketing Conference: Stop Calling It Advertising! Jakeman, in an impassioned speech given on Thursday at the event, suggested that agencies have not kept pace with the changes that have […]
Our recent webinar, Frustration Breeds Opportunity – Tensions between Agencies and Marketers, describes dynamics that increase the challenges for new business development. Just a couple among them are: 1. Marketers tend to be consolidating agencies 2. A majority of agencies express intent to be increasingly aggressive in new business activity. 2015 is almost a […]
Alright, that’s not entirely true, but it is one of the four takeaways Sean Carton came away with from our ad agency new business survey (Client’s Look Ahead at Agencies) in his ClickZ article, Clients: The Mysterious Creature. Sean does a nice job filtering out key findings from our survey in his article, Clients: The […]
In our latest survey on First Meetings and Closing Effectiveness (download survey) there is a great divide that is unearthed between what Agencies say they are giving Marketers during first meetings and what Marketers say they are getting. At the end of the day, at the end of the meeting, you want your Marketing prospect […]
