It's Time for Agencies to Stop Giving it Away.

The Advertising Industry is a very interesting game. If you love ideas and innovation and change and craziness and stimulating people then it is a great field for you. But, it is also a crazy business that often gives away their creativity for free. Yet, in any city...

Should Marketers Conduct Their Own Agency Searches?

These are interesting and challenging times for Marketers.  I recently read in the Harvard Business Review that Marketing is Dead. The article cites that CEOs have lost all patience. In a study of 600 CEOs and decision makers by the London-based Fournaise Marketing...

Winning New Business is Easy. It Just Takes More Work.

Yes winning New Business is easy but it does take more work and that’s the catch because many agencies don’t or won’t work that hard. I have hunted for many agencies and have also conducted a number of reviews for companies like Jacuzzi and Jenny Craig. I really enjoy...

Peeling the Onion of Agency New Business.

I am lucky to have a unique perspective about New Business as I began my career working on New Business at major agencies in Canada and the U.S. I have also conducted agency reviews for a number of companies including Jenny Craig, Jacuzzi, and Raley’s Supermarkets. I...

How Advertising Agencies Can Get More New Business.

I think I have a unique perspective on New Business Development because I have walked both sides of the street. I have been a successful new business hunter and have conducted agency searches for companies such as Jenny Craig, Raley’s Supermarkets and  Jacuzzi North...

What New Business People Can Learn from Don Draper.

Everybody certainly knows Mad Men and its leading character Don Draper, Creative Director of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.  I was listening to an NPR story recently about the launch of the new season.  In an excerpt from the new episode somebody ask Don what account...

How Linkedin Can Help Your Agency Connect with Search Consultants.

I have worked for many great agencies in my career.  I have also conducted agency searches for clients like Jenny Craig, Raley’s Supermarkets, and Jacuzzi. I believe I have a perspective from both sides of the street. Want more New Business in 2012 for your...

The Best Network for a New Business Person to have is one that Saves you from Futility.

I have been a successful New Business Hunter for many agencies throughout North America.  I have also conducted agency searches for clients like Jenny Craig, Raley’s Supermarkets, and Jacuzzi. I have walked on both sides of the street. I have found that the best...

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