Your Personal Brand is Key for Ad Agency New Business

Your Personal Brand and Ad Agency New Business

Developing your personal brand is one of the best investments you can make for new business. Through my experience working with hundreds of advertising, digital, media and PR firms, I’ve discovered how important it is for the agency owner to be the face of their company. Given the rise of social media, their personal brand […]

Thought Leadership Study for Ad Agency New Business

Thought Leadership for Ad Agency New Business

Thought leadership influences prospects to help agencies win, retain and even grow client business. A recent study, by Edelman and LinkedIn, of 1,201 U.S. business decision makers, reveals that thought leadership is more powerful than marketers think. It not only helps attract new business, but strengthens relationships with existing clients. Definition: A thought leader is an […]

Content Marketing Benefits Ad Agency New Business

Michael Gass Ad Agency New Business

Agencies talk about the value of content marketing but few are doing it and even fewer do it well. I spoke recently, for the first time, at Content Marketing World Conference & Expo. There were over 4000 marketers from 50 different countries that participated. But, where were the ad agencies? They were noticeably absent from […]

Painless Positioning for Ad Agency New Business

Ad Agency Brand Leader

Positioning is the foundation for new business but most agencies are fearful of it. All they can think about are missed opportunities.  Without a differentiated position, agency new business is much harder than it needs to be. But, it doesn’t have to be so hard. There is an easier way to solve the pain in positioning […]

Ad Agencies: How to Lose the Fear of Positioning

Thought Leader Survey for Ad Agency New Business

Creating and maintaining agency new business is often harder than it should be because one key ingredient is often missing. I was recently included in RSW/US Thought Leader panel. Along with providing questions for their Thought Leader survey, each panelist provided Agency New Business advice and participated in an interview with RSW/US Owner and President, Mark […]

The Riches are in the Niches for Ad Agency New Business

Creating a niche for ad agency new business

A perfect platform for new business. For over ten years I’ve prescribed creating a niche blog for agency new business and have helped create over 200 personal blogs for agency principals. A personal blog can provide small to midsize agency owners with a perfect platform to create positioning of expertise and appeal to a very specific […]

Thought Leadership, Millennial Marketing and Ad Agency New Business

creating a niche for ad agency new business

How to humanize your agency, build a positioning of expertise and make a personal connection with your best prospects. This is a guest article written by Jeff Fromm. Jeff is an Executive Vice President at Barkley, which is among the largest independent advertising agencies in the U.S. and the largest employee-owned agency. He is the  founder […]

Jay Baer Demonstrates How to Write, Publish and Promote Your Book for New Business

Youtility for Ad Agency New Business

There are many valuable tips and helpful ideas that you can use from Jay Baer’s promotion of his new book, Youtility. I just finished reading Jay Baer’s book, Youtility: why SMART MARKETING is about HELP not HYPE. I highly recommend it. This is an excellent book for agency owners to better understand how to create helpful marketing […]