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Ad Agency CEO’s — How To Build A Smart Phone App: 30 Tutorials

Peter · April 6, 2013 ·

An idea… all ad agency CEO’s should learn how to place a Google Ad, Facebook Ad and build a smart phone app. It’s time for them to step up to understanding the digital world before it eats them.

Whether you’re building an iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Facebook or cross-platform app, this superb selection of tutorials will help you on your way…

Read more from the source: creativebloq.com

How Is Job Growth In Advertising Vs. Mobile Development?

Peter · April 5, 2013 · 2 Comments

Here is a multi-year chart on advertising jobs from Indeed‘s charting tool (its an instructive playful tool)…

” Indeed is the #1 job site worldwide, with over 100 million unique visitors per month. Indeed is available in more than 50 countries and 26 languages, covering 94% of global GDP.”

I’d say the advertising chart tells an “interesting” story. But to add some deeper perspective, take a look at the next chart on mobile job growth…

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“”HTML5” is the #1 job trend – the fastest growing keyword found in online job postings – ahead of “MongoDB” in second place and “iOS” in third place.”

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AdAge to hold ‘Small Agency Conference’ in Portland

Peter · April 3, 2013 ·

Portland Oregon… Advertising Age, Creativity And Small Agencies Are Coming To Town In July

Advertising Age magazine and its on-line cousin, Creativity, will present their Small Agency Conference & Awards July 24-25 in Portland. This will be the fifth time the two publications have sponsored the conference and awards, directed at agencies in …

Read more from the source: Oregonian

Summly, Nick D’Aloisio, Bloomberg, Charlie Rose and Yahoo! (And Advertising)

Peter · March 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment

The press take on Nick D’Aloisio and his sale of the news app Summly to Yahoo! for a reported $30,000,000 made big news because he is 17. He has much more going for him than just his age.

Watch this really inspiring interview with Nick on Charlie Rose. One of Nick’s main points is that he built Summly, which has been pulled off the iTunes store while its moved into Yahoo! land, as a tool to summerize the news (and soon more) for the small screen. Nick zeroed in on the insight that people under 25 are mobile-phone centric. They use their phones as their first screen, not the second and he built Summly for his kinsmen.  The idea of phone-as-first-screen is a wonderful disrupter.

And, yes, there is more Nick… Here he is on Bloomberg. This interview is a bit more entertainment oriented.

While you are here, go here to see what I do.

Ad Agencies, Please Watch This Video On Brand Positioning

Peter · March 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Here is the point on agency positioning I make in my white paper “The 22 Most Valuable Lessons I learned While Running An Advertising Agency“:

Create an ad agency brand positioning that differentiates your agency from your competition.

Right, you’ve heard this one before. More importantly, have a true brand positioning – it’s really a sales proposition — that actively attracts and stimulates interest from the right new clients. This is the important part:

Just trying to find yet another new way to say “digital” or “full-service” agency isn’t good enough – and it’s really difficult to find a new way to say the same old, and generally non-competitive thing.

Instead, it might be time to think through some agency of the future scenarios and new business models that will more effectively get you to that truly distinctive and compelling sales proposition.

It’s a rather important point. But, the crazy bit is that virtually every advertising agency knows this but can’t actually squeak out a truly distinctive positioning. I couldn’t make this point any better than this funny / scary video abut the agency Schlock & Ho. I seem to stumble upon once year but can’t figure out who did it. Do you know?

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Hello: Agency CEO’s or wannabe CEO’s take me up on my Corleone Offer if you want to grow your agency.

 

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