This is Part 1 of a 17 chapter eBook, “Agency New Business: Put On That Damn Sales Hat,” which you can download at no cost here. The eBook covers everything from pre-prospecting preparation to working opportunities to close. The majority of the eBook focuses on elements that agencies either often overlook, are too busy to consider, […]
We got some insightful responses from my previous post on agency new business email techniques to avoid (Agency New Business: A Mediocre Prospecting Email Dismantled) so I had to take advantage of the below example as well. I actually really like getting these emails, fun stuff. It surprises me that a company would use tactics […]
Continuing with thoughts on our latest RSW/US survey, Changes in Social Digital Media (2009-2012)(download here), and one stat I find particularly strange in regards to agency social media usage. From the survey: Agencies are increasing their use of social media as a tool for agency new business prospecting with 87% of Agencies stating they use […]
I received a prospecting email recently from a company vying to get my attention. They did that, but for all the wrong reasons. Below is the email, and I’m going to give you 6 reasons why, as you’re out there prospecting for agency new business, you shouldn’t send an email like this: Hope all is well. If […]
I had this piece from the Harvard Business Review tucked away, titled “To Win Big, It Helps to Be a Little “Nuts” by Bill Taylor, co founder of Fast Company. In it, he describes: . . .the best-performing stock in the United States since the “Black Monday” crash of 1987? If you said Apple or Microsoft […]
Last year we attended and were a sponsor at WOMMA’s WOMM-U, the school of Word of Mouth Marketing and social studies. There were many takeaways from the several days we spent in Chicago, one being that Facebook scares me on a personal level and may take over the world, but I digress. In all seriousness, we […]
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 […]
I admire our New Business Directors. It is one of the toughest jobs on the planet. Persistent, yet polite. Skin as tough as steel. Smart, creative, strategic. Able to wear their Agencies on their sleeves and sell ethereal agency offerings with enthusiasm and zeal. Focus On The Close It was about 3-4 years ago […]
What’s the role of your Director of Business Development, or for those of you who handle new business, what is your role? Is it seeking out the right prospects-building awareness and opening doors, or is it that, plus finishing and closing those opportunities? There are strong arguments for and against both. I lean toward the […]
Mark (our owner) sent me a Craigslist lead generation job posting recently thinking it might spark some thoughts on a post. Indeed it did. A West Coast agency was looking for an intern to work on new business and the job description included making “minimum 100 calls a day.” Time for the scalpel-we’re going to […]
