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How To Position An Advertising Agency – Part II

Peter · September 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to Part II of How To Position An Advertising Agency. Here is Part I. It’s a good place to start.

Positioning An Advertising / Digital / Design Agency Isn’t Easy…

I know, I’ve positioned and re-positioned my own agency and do this for my ad agency clients. Here’s what you are up against.

Most advertising and digital agencies do essentially the same things for a living. Once you’ve decided on advertising or digital or integrated or mobile you are up against many other advertising, digital, integrated and mobile agencies.

Most agencies fear not being able to offer all things to all clients.

Differentiation itself may not be all that it’s cracked up to be. “The general challenge for any brand in any market is that what is differentiating is often not motivating and what is motivating is not necessarily differentiating.” This from Michael Moszynski, CEO of London Advertising (more on London later.)

Clients have a very short attention span. They might not spend the time required to read your carefully crafted copy. In this case, being concise would help.

The Power Of A Powerful Advertising Agency Position

The History Of SEO From Hubspot

Peter · August 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment

My website, yes, this very one that you just may have found via a web search, thrives on SEO. Here is a sweet SlideShare overview of the history of SEO from the smart folks at Hubspot.

I could say more but you know that search is rather important for your (ad, digital, PR) agency’s visibility, socialness, PR, content plays, etc. To not get what’s going on in Penguin and Panda algorithm-land is a lost opportunity for free traffic.

http://www.slideshare.net/HubSpot/hub-spot-historyofseocoffeetips

Total Media Spending Going Up

Peter · August 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment

A good thing… marketing budgets are going up. Highlights:

TV remains king.

Digital growing by more than $5 billion per year.

Mobile expected to grow by $22.6 billion in next 4 years.

And, surprisingly, print holds steady.

Advertising Agencies: Follow The Money: Social, Mobile, Video

Peter · August 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment

From the land of “you know” this, comes a reinforcing eMarketer article and graphic showing you where the marketing / advertising budgets are going and you know what’s coming… I say follow the money.

Wow, so many opportunities for your agency to: build out social media, mobile and video expertise; so many opportunities to recalibrate your brand positioning and sales proposition. So, are you? I got to go WTF if you aren’t.