One of the tenets of my business development system is the understanding that your advertising agency will get fired by virtually every one of your project work and AOR clients. This means that you better be out there finding your next set of clients because your current clients will sooner or later walk out […]
Category Archives: Smart Agencies
3 Thoughts On Advertising
Actually 4 Thoughts On Advertising Here are some thoughts on advertising driven by four recent reads. What If There Was No Advertising? Imagine a world where all advertising was erased from the environment. That means no more escalator, or bathroom stall ads; no more behavioral retargeting; movies and tv shows without commercials (oh, that’s Netflix); […]
Nootropics, Brain Food For Advertising
Nootropics And Advertising UPDATE: I originally wrote this 18 months ago and promised an update. I did not receive enough benefit – as in, making me enough of a smarter boy to merit ingesting the nootropics and the cost. It would have been nice to tell you that I became Bradley Cooper. Back to the […]
What’s Your Smart Guest Blog Pitch?
I’ve done a fair amount of guest blogging on advertising and marketing industry websites to drive my awareness within the advertising agency market. Based on this experience, I strongly recommend the guest blog opportunity to my agency clients and give them both strategic and tactical methods to amplify their messaging on OPW – other people’s […]
Would You Buy Your Advertising Agency?
If You Put Your Advertising Agency Up For Sale… Would You Buy It? I could turn the important question, “Would you buy your advertising agency?” into a long blog post. But, good news, I won’t. I’ll get to the point. I just finished listening to Kara Swisher interview Khosla Ventures’ partner Keith Rabois – On The Future […]