10 Reasons to Use Video for Ad Agency New Business

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Video can become one of the most effective new business tools in your tool box.

Video allows you to easily tell your agency’s story in a more compelling way than you are able to do through print. You also can use video to create a video blog or post, conduct training, share client testimonials or conduct interviews that attracts the interest of your prospective client audience.

According to Forrester Research, adding video to your agency’s website makes your site SIX times more likely to convert a “browser” into a paying customer.

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Green Marketing and Social Media Creates New Business for Phoenix Ad Agency

It’s always helpful to hear how agencies have used social media to create new business opportunities, a point of differentiation and a positioning of expertise.

Park&CO is a full-service advertising agency in Phoenix, Arizona. They were your typical small to mid-size agency and no real difference from most of their competitors. There was no perception among their prospective client audience of having any expertise. But, their use of social media, over the past three years has rapidly changed their business and has impacted new business.… Continue reading

Social Media 101 Explained by Fishing Analogy

Open the door for ad agency new business by leading discussions in social media.

Park Howell, president of Park&Co, a full service agency that specializes in environmental marketing, came up with a great way to illustrate the need for their prospective clients to participate in social media using this SlideShare presentation he and members of his agency created.

“If the wharf is your business, and the pier is your website, then the fishing trawler is your blog.

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10 Blogging Tips for Ad Agency CEOs

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The tips below are going to differ considerably from other recommendations in the blogosphere. But please be reminded that they are intended primarily for agency principals of small-to midsize ad agencies and given entirely from a new business perspective. Agency principals have to “get” social media. You can only “get” it by being a participant.

A personal blog will provide you with a direction, focus and professional enrichment unlike anything you have ever experienced before.… Continue reading

14 Advertising Agency Blogs, Vote for Your Favorite for December

 

 

It’s time for you to vote for your favorite agency blog for the month of December. 14 ad agency blogs have been submitted to FUEL LINES. The winner will be featured on FUEL LINES throughout the month of January.

 

These are the 14 agency blogs submitted for the month of December:

A Ride Uptown, Mascola/Group, New Haven, CT

BINGenuity, Bing Design, Yellow Springs, OH

Blip, Martino Flynn agency, Rochester, NY

Bolin Digital Blog, Bolin Marketing, Minneapolis, MN

Brand Tracks, Locomotion Creative, Nashville, TN

Brunner Digital Blog, Brunner Digital, Pittsburg, PA 

Contact Media Blog, Contact Media, Tampa, FL

Creating A Deeper Shade of Green Marketing, Park&Co Phoenix, AZ

Del Padre Digital Blog, East Longmeadow, MA

Design Buzz, Design Matters Creative Group, Lake Forest, CA

Fluid Studio’s Big Idea Blog, Bountiful, UT

Karasma Media blog, Harlem, NY

She-conomy, Holland + Holland, Birmingham, AL

SPURspectives, Spur Communications, Overland Park, KS

 

 

 

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Michael Gass, agency new business consultant, primarily to small and mid-size advertising agencies, utilizing both traditional and new media tools.

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10 Advertising Agencies Blogs, Vote for Your Favorite for November


It’s time for you to vote for your favorite agency blog for the month of November. 10 ad agency blogs have been submitted to FUEL LINES. The winner will be featured on FUEL LINES throughout the month of December.

These are the 10 agency blogs submitted for the month of November:

A Ride Uptown, Mascola/Group, New Haven, CT

BINGenuity, Bing Design, Yellow Springs, OH

Blip, Martino Flynn agency, Rochester, NY

Bolin Digital Blog, Bolin Marketing, Minneapolis, MN

Brunner Digital Blog, Brunner Digital, Pittsburg, PA 

Contact Media Blog, Contact Media, Tampa, FL

Design Buzz, Design Matters Creative Group, Lake Forest, CA

Orange Element Insights, Orange Element, Baltimore, MD

Park&Co Blog, Park&Co Phoenix, AZ

SPURspectives, Spur Communications, Overland Park, KS

 

Vote Now for Your Favorite

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10 Advertising Agencies Blogs, Vote for Your Favorite for October

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 It’s time for you to vote for your favorite agency blog for the month of October. 10 ad agency blogs have been submitted to FUEL LINES. The winner will be featured on FUEL LINES throughout the month of November.

The winning blog for the month of September was Off Madison Ave

Here are the 10 agency blogs submitted for the month of October:

 

 

 

AIR Marketing blog, AIR Marketing
Phoenix, AZ

 

Boxing Clever blog, Boxing Clever advertising agency
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Vote for Your Favorite Agency Blog

Vote for your favorite agency blog for the month of September:

 

 Submit Agency Blog for October

 

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Michael Gass, agency new business consultant, primarily to small and mid-size advertising agencies, utilizing both traditional and new media tools.

 

 

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Ad Agency Blog Award – September

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Don’t forget to submit ad agency blogs that are doing it right. We’ll post the best of the best. Our readers can vote their selection and voting will commence next week. FUEL LINES will feature a winning blog every month.

Blogs submitted thus far:

 

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Michael Gass, agency new business consultant, primarily to small and mid-size advertising agencies, utilizing both traditional and new media tools.

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How One Ad Agency is Engaging Social Networks

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Phoenix, Arizona agency Park&Co recently asked their staff to produce their own short film (under 60 seconds) for a YouTube Film Festival. The films were premiered in a gala event (beer and fruit platter) on September 3 at the agency. Yesterday they posted all entries on their YouTube Channel.  The person or production team that receives the most views of their extremely short film in 30 days will win $1,000.

So they’re not only producers, but now online promoters using every form of social media to drive traffic to their views, and ultimately traffic to Park&Co.… Continue reading