How Marketing Talent, Technology and Strategy Gaps Present Invaluable Opportunities for Agency Growth “The marketing services industry is in a state of flux. As CMOs navigate the marketing talent gap, they are increasingly seeking performance-driven agency partners that are immersed in marketing technology and staffed with digital-savvy professionals. SMBs need partners that can deliver fully integrated solutions and in essence function as outsourced inbound marketing teams. Large enterprises … [Read more...]
A Perfect Platform for Ad Agency New Business
For over eight 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 target audience. It’s like a fishing expedition. You fish for a specific fish with a particular bait, you fish away from the boat (the agency’s website) so you don’t scare off the fish. Recently, … [Read more...]
Workshop: A New Approach for New Business – San Diego
The Primary Battle for New Business Has Moved Online. This is a one-day regional workshop, co-sponsored by Fuel Lines Business Development, The List and The Brand Establishment, will be held on Friday, May 1, 2015, in San Diego, California. This workshop is designed to help agencies “jump-start” an inbound new business program within 30 days. A step-by-step process that's been developed having worked with over 200+ advertising, digital, media and PR agencies. New business has been a … [Read more...]
4A’s New Business Webinar
How to Use Social Media to Attract New Business Gaining new business has always been a challenge for agencies – and now, with the paradigm shift in business development, it’s become tougher than ever. In a previous new-business CMO study, 80% of decision makers said that they had found their vendors, not the other way around. Interruptive type tactics, such as cold calling and email blasts, have become ineffective; it’s now more important to be found, rather than to chase new … [Read more...]
Study: The Top Reasons CMOs Hire Ad Agencies
This data will help you think through how you want to position yourself with prospects and what kinds of clients are the best fit for your agency model. This is a guest post written by Drew McLellan. He's a friend of mine who heads up the Agency Management Institute (AMI), an association of small to medium sized agencies that has been helping owners grow their agencies since the mid 90s. This past summer AMI partnered with research firm Audience Audit and Luth Research to conduct an original … [Read more...]
Content Marketing: Ad agencies should resist the urge to be self-promotional
Content marketing is the fuel for an inbound marketing strategy for new business, if done the right way. It is now one of the most effective tactics to attract prospective clients, build their trust and gain a positioning of expertise. According to a research report by DemandGen, from a B2B buyer survey, 82% of surveyed senior executives said that content was a significant driver in their buying decisions. With the rise of content marketing, agencies have jumped on-board creating articles, … [Read more...]
The Best Time to Post, Pin and Tweet for Ad Agency New Business
Timing is critical when it comes to engaging with your social media audience. To increase the Click-Through-Rate of your article links and boot your website traffic, you need to be posting and tweeting at the best times. Figuring out the best times to post, you'll need to consider such as the time zones where your best prospects reside. For instance, I've developed an international following for my blog Fuel Lines. I was able to do it by researching the prime social media times within the … [Read more...]
The Science of Great Tweets for Ad Agency New Business
This is a guide to highlight the best tips, practices and studies to help your agency succeed on Twitter. Ever since I learned that only 1% of internet participants actively create original content, I knew that I needed to be in this elite group of Twitter accounts whose content is being read and shared by others. I've been actively creating content since 2007, a year after Twitter was founded. I write articles about tips, tactics and trends for advertising, digital, media and Public … [Read more...]
How to Build a Powerful Presentation Deck for Ad Agency New Business
Give your presentations LIFE rather than SUCKING THE LIFE out of your audience. I've been speaking publically for more than three decades. Last year, I spoke at conferences, seminars and workshops in over 43 different cities. I'm still a student who continually wants to improve. Presentations are very time consuming and require a lot of hard work. I want mine to be memorable and make a difference. Following a presentation that I made to the Nashville American Marketing Association, I've … [Read more...]
How to Write A Blog Post for Ad Agency New Business
A framework for writing meaningful, properly constructed and search engine optimized posts will allow you to write faster and more effectively. I've known of Michael and his work in helping creative firms improve lead generation through social media for a few years now (I finally met him earlier this year) but recently I started to get reports from agency principals who had worked with him. I was surprised to learn that the impact Michael was having on their businesses was not in their use of … [Read more...]