The Challenges of Jumping from a Creative Shop to a Digital One

Kristina Slade

What are you doing to prepare your agency for the digital revolution? Digital training is critical for the traditional small-to midsize advertising agencies. The strategic partnerships with digital shops have all gone by the wayside, mainly because digital agencies don’t need them any longer. To quote Aaron Reitkopf, North American CEO of digital agency Profero, […]

Engage Prospects In Twitter for Ad Agency New Business

How to engage Twitter with purpose and intention for agency new business. I currently have over 100,000 Twitter followers of my two Twitter accounts @MichaelGass and @FuelLines.  Twitter is the leading traffic generator to my blog Fuel Lines. Out of 30,000 + monthly page views, Twitter easily delivers more than half of my blog’s traffic. […]

16 Risks Small-to Mid-size Ad Agencies Can’t Afford to Take

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In a recent Advertising Age article Tim Williams writes, “… we’re at the nexus of the Great Recession and the Great Transformation of Marketing. In circumstances like these, a strategy of “just try harder” won’t take you very far.”Tim shares 15 things your agency can’t afford to risk during these current times of change.

Unconventional Times Call for Unconventional New Business Methods

I’ve built my new business consultancy to small-to mid-size advertising agencies primarily through my FUEL LINES blog. The blog helped me to be focused and differentiating that has been appealing to my target audience. I’ve steadily built traffic through SEO, good content, email newsletters, Twitter, PRWeb, Surveys, Polls, Facebook, LinkedIn, article marketing, white papers, etc. It has been a tremendous learning experience for me and has helped both personally and professionally.

What small advertising agencies should do during a recession

Bart Cleveland, AdAge’s Small Agency Diary provides some excellent advice for hard times. He shares that this recessionary period is the time for small agencies maximize their opportunities during lean times to gain ground in achieving their business goals