Propulsion: Exploring the "next practices" of successful marketing communication firms

What is your value proposition?

May 13, 2013 | Author: Tim Williams

What is your value proposition?

If you’re like a lot of business executives, you may be concerned that you haven’t adequately defined your “mission” or “vision.”  These often feel like buzzwords, and that offsite planning sessions that seek to define them often end in a bland statements that reflect more compromise than...

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Agency new business as “pull” instead of “push”

May 6, 2013 | Author: Tim Williams

From every corner of the world, agency executives are reporting the same trends in new business.  It’s more challenging than ever to get the attention of a promising new business prospect.  All of the factors that make it more difficult to get a consumer’s attention come into play in trying to...

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Turning your agency into a destination

October 12, 2012 | Author: Tim Williams

Would a prospective client travel 1,000 miles to do business with your firm?  That’s one of the litmus tests of a strong agency positioning strategy.  Unless you’re satisfied attracting local business from the local market (and some agencies are), you should devote some thought to how you can...

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Better pipers get to call the tune

October 1, 2012 | Author: Ignition

Guest post by David Wethey

Anyone observing the agency/client relationship over the past few years (especially long-term residents of the global jungle like me) would have to be struck by three phenomena – none of them particularly encouraging:

  1. The balance of the relationship has become...

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You give 110% for new business pitches;  now devote at least 1% to thinking about how to get paid

July 2, 2012 | Author: Tim Williams

casgNo activity within an advertising agency gets as much time, attention, and energy as the new business pitch.  Countless times I’ve heard agency professionals confess that “We’re at our best when we’re developing new business presentations” and “Our best creative work is usually for new business...

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