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...

Are Marketers Still Stewards of the Brand?

I started working in the Advertising Business in the New Normal.  When I was a puppy and worked on my first account, McDonald’s, I was told that it was basically a privilege and to act and work accordingly. You were basically challenged to rise to the occasion. The...

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...

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