Why ad agencies should learn about Springpad

Springpad re-imagines how sharing and discovery should work.

If you are a regular reader of Fuel Lines, you know that I am a big fan of Edward Boches, Chief Innovation Officer (formerly Chief Creative Officer and Chief Social Media Officer) at Mullen. Edward was among the few creatives to understand the importance of social media as an active practitioner. He has led his agency by example.

I’m honored to have Edward share a new social media platform through this guest post that will help your agency and your clients.… Continue reading

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Advertising Week: Resources for Daily Reports, Live Updates and Videos

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If you can’t attend Advertising Week here are some good resources to follow the events, capture insights and even participate in the dialogue through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google +.

Oct. 3 kicks off Advertising Week, New York’s premier annual gathering of marketing and communications leaders from around the world.

Begun in 2004, Advertising Week now draws over 70,000 people who will attend some 200 events featuring the industry’s best and brightest thought leaders. The panels, programs and parties during Advertising Week are divided among multiple locations.

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How McKinney achieved one of the best new-business records among advertising agencies

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Innovation and collaboration, two keys to ad agency new business.

McKinney is an independent advertising agency based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1969 by Charles “Chick” McKinney, the agency is now independently owned by a management team led by Brad Brinegar, CEO.  It has been recognized as one of the nine best agencies in the country by Advertising Age

In 2003, McKinney became one of the first agencies to pioneer connection planning, which determines the most innovative and creative ways of bringing brands and people together in mutually beneficial ways - ADWEEK

In that same year, McKinney hired a group of interactive experts and injected them into the agency’s existing disciplines.

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Mine Social Networks for Ad Agency New Business

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Data mining is an increasingly important tool for ad agency new business transforming data into rich business intelligence, giving your agency an informational advantage.

“The real money in social media might not reside in the ads that sit on Web sites like Facebook and Twitter, but in the data produced by users’ frantic friending and sharing.

Internet users are now spending 22 percent of their time in social media, and Internet activity leaves behind a trail of data: what people like, what they share, and who is connected to whom with similar tastes.

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10 Twitter Networking Tips for Ad Agency New Business

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Get more out of Twitter and generate inbound leads for your agency’s new business by creating a personal network of prospective clients.

I didn’t quite know what to do with Twitter in the beginning until I read an article from Angela Maiers, educator, author, blogger who now leads Maier Educational Services. Angela developed a simple Twitter Engagement Formula that provides purpose and direction for her participation. She calls it the 70-20-10 Formula. My formula for using Twitter has evolved differently from hers but it provided a great example on how to get started.

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If 2009 was the year to forget for the advertising industry, what’s next?

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2009 has become the year to forget for the advertising industry.

“If you look at 2009, we have not seen a convergence of so many issues and crises at the same time. It was the perfect storm,”says Maurice Levy, chief executive of Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s largest ad companies, with clients including General Motors, Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola.

It’s “the worst” the business has seen since Zenith began tracking ad spending 21 years ago and “likely the worst since World War II,” says Steve King, Zenith’s global CEO.

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The Changing Role of Ad Agency Rainmakers

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I read an interesting ADWEEK article regarding the “Changing Role of Rainmakers”. Suffice to say that with a major paradigm shift for how ad agency new business is acquired it also significantly impacts the role for those with the responsibility for business development.

Agency leaders say that the job has become more complex and therefore more difficult to cast. As a result, searches for new business talent takes longer.

“It’s just such a hard position to fill,” said Michael Zuna, New York managing director at Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi, whose new CMO, Benjamin Bittman, started last week.

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Survey: Key Insights into Agency New Business Trends

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Many ad agencies are desperate for new business but desperation can often turn an agency into its own “worst client.” New business activity will not necessarily equate to new business. Agencies must have a discipline and focus to generate new business in this economy. It’s not that hard. Just practice what you preach!

The Mirren New Business Conference back in April of this year, 158 advertising agencies participated in a survey about the current economic downturn along with their new business development practices.… Continue reading

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FUEL LINES’ Super Bowl “Advertising” Coverage

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The Super Bowl is not only the Super Bowl for football but also for the advertising industry. What’s the newest trend for this year? The incorporation of social media.

Preview Super Bowl Ads prior to the game: ADWEEK MEDIA SUPER BOWL XLIII

A  good variety of top articles, posts, tools and sites regarding Super Bowl advertising:

  1. Adweek: Super Bowl Ad Drive Leads to Brand Sites - Thirty percent of respondents to a recent survey of those who plan to watch the big game said Super Bowl commercials increase the likelihood they’ll visit an advertiser’s Web site, while more than one out of five said they’ll be tuning in “exclusively or predominantly” for the ads.

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ADBOWL: Ad Agencies Should be “Creative” Promoting Themselves

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You’ve probably heard of ADBOWL, but you may not know that the idea originated  at a midsize ad agency’s Super Bowl party in Albuquerque, NM. Ten years later, growing in size every year, the idea has paid great dividends to the agency generating national television, press coverage and positioning it as an industry leader.

On Super Bowl Sunday (February 1, 2009), viewers can visit www.ADBOWL.com and rate commercials on a scale between one and five.  Participants have the option of rating the ads online as they air or printing a ballot and rating all of the ads at the end of the game.… Continue reading

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