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Advertising Agency Business Development Is Hard Work

Peter · December 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment

If there is anything I’ve figured out in my ad career is that business development is hard work. But, working hard at business development works. Here is what I did yesterday and what it netted.

agency-graphic-300x160I woke up to see that a new guest post of mine was published on the website Business2Community. I wrote the post during the weekend. I chose to post on Business2Community because at a score of 82 it has high domain authority and this authority gets passed on to my own website when I include links in the guest post (read about domain authority and why you want it at MOZ.)

My post, “6 Critical Sales Mistakes Advertising Agencies Make” was targeted to  the advertising and small business communities. Because of a B2C business relationship, my post was also published on Yahoo! Small Business (just imagine the power of Yahoo!’s domain authority.)

In addition to Business2Community, I’ve guest posted on AdPulp, The Advertising Week Social Club and Agency Post (see some links below.) A new post on Talent Zoo is next. Now that I’ve developed some street cred, I’ll soon approach the ad biz website holy grails of ADWEEK and AdAge to see if I can write on ad agency business development for them. They both have very high domain authority and obviously high readership in the ad community.

After my post was published, I followed up with Tweets to my Followers, RT requests to some of my more Followed friends and direct requests to friends asking for article comments. I wanted to generate some Internet juice.

The Net?

I received a bunch of retweets, comments on the article that are slowly streaming in because Business2Community reviews the comments, a very good day for unique visitors (any day I get over 250 uniques to my narrowly focussed website is a good day) and these visitors hit the pages that were linked to within the guest post. According to Google Analytics most of these are new visitors. So far, today is tracking to be another good day for me to make new friends care of B2C.

The Real Net?

The reason for working hard at business development is that it delivers work.

I got 2 new leads from potential advertising agency clients. 2 is good. I close most active leads.

I’ll be writing more about guest posting since I am a believer. Oh, here are the links to some guest posts that show just how hard this stuff is.

AdPulp.

Advertising Week.

Agency Post.

Need help with your business development strategy and program? Need a kick in the butt? Give me a shout.

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Watching Google Trends: Responsive Web Design

Peter · November 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Just a quick look at the dramatic rise in searches for the phrase “responsive web design.” Clearly an indication of the need for quality mobile web experiences that support websites (and possibly a reason for the overuse of this term on advertising / digital agency blogs.)

Interesting to see how much higher search volume the word “web” gets than “website.”

Google Trends   Web Search interest  responsive website design  responsive web design   Worldwide  2004   present

 

 

2 New Levitan Guest Posts on Agency Post and Advertising Week

Peter · October 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment

I am keeping up my guest posting on authoritative advertising websites to get my thought-leadership out and build my website’s authority and page rank. Just in case you don’t know what these important SEO terms are, here are definitions:

Authority from Search Engine Land: Is your site an authority? Is it a widely recognized leader in its field, area, business or in some other way? That’s the goal. No one knows exactly how search engines calculate authority and, in fact, there are probably multiple “authority” signals. The type of links your site receives (lots of quality or ‘neighborhood’ links?) or social references (from respected accounts?) and engagement metrics (long clicks?) may all play a role in site authority.

Page Rank from Search Engine Land and Google: PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.”Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages’ relative importance.

This Week’s Guest Posts

On Advertising Week Social Club — “Advertising Account Executives On The Frontline”

Intro: “I think that advertising agencies have to think hard about how they deliver value. It is often more about intangibles than the actual “work.” A great deal of our value resides in the Account Executive role and the client relationship. We know this because poor “account service” is often listed as the primary reason that a client has decided to switch agencies.”

On Agency Post — “eatbigfish Challenges The Limits.” FYI: eatbigfish is the leading “challerger brand” advertising agency.

Intro: “Aside from the agency name, most advertising, digital, branding and strategic consultancy websites are interchangeable. However, eatbigfish’s isn’t. It’s a marketing and business development juggernaut. Shouldn’t that be the point? “

Does your Agency Guest Post?

No? Send me an email and lets schedule a conversation about how you can amp up your social media marketing program so you get  more incoming leads – I mean lots more. Believe me smart, dedicated advertising agency social media tied to intelligent, action-oriented SEO works… I’ve got advertising agency clients on three continents from my SEO programs.

 

How Digital & Mobile Should Your Advertising Agency Be?

Peter · October 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

And the answer? Mucho.

Check out the facts from eMarketer on adult media consumption habits. The dramatic double-digit shift from traditional to digital shouldn’t come as a surprise. But, its worth a hard look by agencies that are planning services and staff skills for the future.

(Mobile, anyone?)

eMarketer-Share-Media-Consumption-by-Medium-2010-2013-Aug2013

The Sweet “Why’s” of Online Video

Peter · October 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment

emarketer online video advertisingAccording to eMarketer, advertisers are using online video for awareness and branding. No surprise there. This is how “commercials” have been used for years.

Read on…

So, What Are The Sweet Why’s?

  1. The use of online brand video as “old-fashioned” TV commercials is why agencies that know how to write and produce TV commercials have a leg up on the young digital upstarts.
  2. The use of online brand video is why young upstart agencies need to begin to act like old-fashioned TV advertisers. I often hear newish digital agencies ask, “how do I do TV advertising?”

What goes around goes around.

OK, one more thing. Remember when the digital guys said that interruption advertising was dead. Well, guess what, it ain’t. Just try to watch a video on YouTube without a commercial interruption.

OK, OK. Sure things will change. And, yes the TV creative director generation will die off. But, it will be a slow death. Why? TV commercials WORK!

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