Oct 30, 2011 | Account Executive, Account Management, Advertising Agencies, Agency Review Consultant, Agency Reviews, Agency Searches, Career, Consulting, Digital Agencies, Finding a Job, Fired, Hank Blank, Holidays, HR, Interactive Agencies, Job Hunting, Job Search, Jobs, Marketing, Networking, New Business, New Business Development, Personal Branding, Public Relations, Purpose Driven Networking, Small and Smart Agencies, Social Media, Social Networking, Transition, Working |
What Makes a Great AE Part Four. Recently I posted a number of blogs called What Makes a Great AE Today, What Makes a Great Account Executive: Part Two and what makes a Great AE Part Three. I have talked about values of being a self starter, intuitive, not being an...
Oct 24, 2011 | Account Executive, Account Management, Advertising Agencies, Agency Review Consultant, Agency Reviews, Agency Searches, Career, Digital Agencies, Finding a Job, Hank Blank, HR, Interactive Agencies, Job Hunting, Job Search, Marketing, Networking, New Business, New Business Development, Personal Branding, Public Relations, Small and Smart Agencies, Social Media, Social Networking, Working |
Recently I posted a blog called What Makes a Great AE Today? which offered some thoughts on the qualities of a successful AE today. The advertising world has changed dramatically. Some change has been inflicted upon AE’s such as less training, more multi tasking,...
Oct 23, 2011 | Account Executive, Account Management, Advertising Agencies, Agency Review Consultant, Agency Searches, Career, Digital Agencies, Finding a Job, Hank Blank, HR, Interactive Agencies, Job Hunting, Job Search, Jobs, Marketing, Networking, New Business, Personal Branding, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networking, Transition, Working |
When I started out in my advertising career, I had the benefit of going through extensive training programs. At JWT, we were all trained on the T-Plan. You could virtually talk to anybody in any office around the world, and expect to communicate in a common language....
Oct 11, 2011 | Advertising Agencies, Agency Review Consultant, Career, Consulting, Digital Agencies, Finding a Job, Fired, Hank Blank, HR, Interactive Agencies, Job Hunting, Job Search, Jobs, Marketing, Networking, New Business, New Business Development, Personal Branding, Public Relations, Purpose Driven Networking, Social Media, Social Networking, Transition, Working |
In my last blog I wrote that one of the first things I learned in developing a consulting career was that it is not your knowledge that is key to success but how your market yourself and your knowledge. On my journey somebody once told me that the speakers that make...
Aug 29, 2011 | Advertising Agencies, Agency Review Consultant, Agency Reviews, Agency Searches, Digital Agencies, Hank Blank, Interactive Agencies, Marketing, New Business, New Business Development, Public Relations, Small and Smart Agencies, Social Media, Social Networking |
Last week I posted a blog called Things That I Have Learned as an Agency Review Consultant. Just some perspectives from the reviews that I have been involved with that I thought could help both agencies and clients. I have conducted the Jenny Craig, Villeroy &...
Aug 21, 2011 | Advertising Agencies, Agency Review Consultant, Agency Reviews, Agency Searches, Digital Agencies, Hank Blank, Interactive Agencies, Networking, New Business, New Business Development, Public Relations, Small and Smart Agencies, Small Smart Agencies, Transition |
I have conducted the Jenny Craig, Villeroy & Boch, and Raley’s Supermarkets agency reviews and many others. I began my career developing successful New Business programs for agencies. I love doing agency reviews because I have seen it from both sides of the...
Aug 4, 2011 | Advertising Agencies, Agency Review Consultant, Agency Reviews, Agency Searches, Digital Agencies, Hank Blank, Interactive Agencies, Job Search, Jobs, Marketing, Networking, New Business, New Business Development, Personal Branding, Public Relations, Small and Smart Agencies, Small Smart Agencies, Social Networking, Transition |
1. Make your cases shorter and start with the results. Put the good stuff at the begining of your presentation. 2. If you were rushed at the end of your presentation and didn’t present some juicy morsels, you didn’t rehearse enough. 3. Every agency in the world has...
Jul 31, 2011 | Advertising Agencies, Agency Review Consultant, Agency Reviews, Agency Searches, Career, Digital Agencies, Hank Blank, Interactive Agencies, Marketing, Networking, New Business, New Business Development, Personal Branding, Public Relations, Small and Smart Agencies, Small Smart Agencies, Social Media, Transition |
1. New Business is about winning new clients. It has nothing to do with advertising. 2. PowerPoint presentations neuter you. 3. Leave the agency posse at home. Fewer is formidable. 4. Blow up your new business template. Solutions aren’t cookie cutter. 5. New business...
Jul 27, 2011 | Advertising Agencies, Agency Review Consultant, Agency Reviews, Agency Searches, Career, Digital Agencies, Finding a Job, Hank Blank, Interactive Agencies, Job Search, Jobs, Marketing, Networking, New Business, New Business Development, Personal Branding, Public Relations, Purpose Driven Networking, Small and Smart Agencies, Small Smart Agencies, Social Media, Social Networking, Transition |
Let me ask you a simple question. Are you going to keep your current job for the rest of your life? Well, I don’t think so and neither do you. So how do you market yourself as a creative person? Your reel? How many new TV commercials have you produced in the last...
Jul 24, 2011 | Agency Review Consultant, Agency Reviews, Career, Finding a Job, Hank Blank, Job Search, Jobs, Networking, New Business, New Business Development, Personal Branding, Public Relations, Purpose Driven Networking, Social Media, Social Networking, Transition |
I blog and speak on networking often. I have also spent years networking as my primary way of building my business. I thought I would add something new to the mix and provide a recently shot short video on the Power of Networking. It is overview of what I have...