How Does Your Creative Team Stack Up?
A new report about in-house creative teams reveals some interesting statistics on how agencies work and live in the new world of technology and accessibility.
Where Should Content Marketers Turn When Hiring New Resources?
Before growing your team, understand the pros and cons of working with freelancers, contractors, consultants, agencies, and internal hires.
How to Score the Best Clients For Your Agency
Is a potential client playing the field or looking for love? Clients’ answers to these agency questions can help you know the difference.
How Not to Win Any Marketing Awards Ever
Lately, I’ve been asked to judge quite a few marketing awards competitions. Mostly digital awards, but some traditional/offline categories, too. The specific awards and contests don’t matter, because the affliction I see is universal. It is that most marketing awards entry write-ups are absolutely terrible. Look, I get it. Convince & Convert is the fifth […]
23 Social and Digital Services Agencies Should be Selling
I love this quote from Paul Roetzer, author of The Marketing Agency Blueprint (which I highly recommend): Hybrid agencies will come to rule the marketing world. These emerging leaders are tech savvy, offer integrated services, hire and retain versatile talent, and profit from diversified revenue streams. They thrive on change, and continually apply shifts and […]
10 Key Points in the New Client Pre-Nuptial Agreement
Guest post by Lori R Taylor, founder of REV Media Marketing llc, is a 20 year marketing veteran, dedicated to direct response metrics and firmly believes “if popularity is vanity then sales are sanity – it’s up to you to decide how crazy you can afford to be.” Remember that first meeting between the prospective new […]
The 7 New Roles Agencies Must Play to Survive Real-Time Business
Change is all around us, in many shapes and guises. Yet the nucleus of most of the shifts that have us feeling like we’re in a transformational maelstrom is speed. Everything happens faster now. Awareness can be captured more quickly than ever before. Sales can be closed instantly online. Customer service issues can be resolved […]
Digital and Dollars – Successfully Adding Online Marketing to Your Agency Services
I recently returned from my first-ever trip to beautiful Asheville, North Carolina. I was there speaking at the Counselor’s Academy PRSA annual conference. (Counselor’s Academy is the section of PRSA for owner’s of small and medium independent agencies). One of the highlights of my trip was conducting a breakout session with my good friend and […]
6 Critical Services Agencies Must Provide to Stay Relevant in Social Media
Is there a future for agencies in a social media world? Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside, a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and […]
Agencies Don’t Turn Your Back on Digital Marketing
Ah yes. Digital marketing. Once a great champion. Now a broken-down has-been, struggling to remain relevant in a changing world. Like Joe Namath, but with a keyboard. So goes the story in many agencies today. In their zeal to jump aboard the social media express, agencies are neglecting to shore up the other corners of […]