Consistency and time are two of the biggest enemies agencies face when it comes to new business, on top of that-your prospects are insanely busy. And now you’re thinking, ‘Thanks for the revelation Lee, yeah and so are we.” Well, that’s true, you are busy. But what we consistently find is a new business effort […]
I was originally led to the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) site in a discussion with an agency principal and I would recommend it as reading that will help boost your agency new business content efforts, and one post specifically, The 7 Business Goals of Content Marketing: Inbound Marketing Isn’t Enough. The first half of the post delves […]
A post in the Harvard Business Review (How the Rift Between Sales and Marketing Undermines Reps) has several effective tips relative to new business, and specifically, for the purpose of this post, agency collateral, often the bane of agency new business. What does the messaging look like, how long or short, is it worth doing at […]
There are several reasons agencies comes to us to handle their new business program: time/clients always coming first, can’t find a good salesperson internally who gets it and no new business structure or strategy-to name a few. There’s another as well-that agency client who accounts for a large, sometimes very large, percentage of your overall […]
Rather than the traditional post, I’m going to throw out a few agency new business tips of extreme importance in rapid-fire form. A few may even border on rants, but it’s done out of love-it truly is. Let’s get to it: Agency New Business Tip 1: Keep things simple for your prospects. A prospect signing up […]
Ad Agency social media-has it been beaten to death yet? Why aren’t you using it, should you be using it-we’ve covered this ground. But it is ground worth covering. And it would seem agencies are, in fact, embracing social media, but based on stats from our survey, for all the wrong reasons. Are You Posting About Kittens? […]
One of my favorite bands, R.E.M., broke up in September 2011. What does that have to do with the new business letter? Read on. It is widely argued that perhaps it should have happened when original drummer Bill Berry left in 1997. (I am, sadly, inclined to agree.) Nevertheless, they left a great legacy, with […]
Was meeting with a prospect here at RSW/US the other week and as we talked about the potential of a relationship together, he said that he’s been in relationships before with his own clients where they hired him (the dog) and then proceeded to do their own barking….and talked about how he did not want […]
The diversion of thought between Marketers and Agencies in what Marketers want from an agency new business first meeting and what they actually get is a topic we look at ongoing here at RSW/US. Our owner, Mark, conducted a webinar “Counsel on Closing” and he tackled the subject. An Agency may feel they have an […]
If you’re a small to mid-sized agency, the reality is the partners are handling new business or you have one, maybe 2 internal sales people. You may have come across this stat on our blog before, but the average tenure of an agency new business person is 18 months. Not very long in the scheme […]
