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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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 Presentation Skills You Need Right Now
Ideas for making better presentations.

 Design in a Vacuum
The importance of collaborative creative thinking.

 Nouveau Niche
Why agencies should consider workspace and office design as a contributing factor to producing great creative product.

 Agency Billings Forecast Planner
A form for conducting a regular ad agency billings forecast; includes steps in a billings review, and a sample forecast.

 Believe It or Not, Great Creative Must Be Sold Hard!
Tactics for how to hard-sell great creative to account executives, fellow creatives and clients.

 Can Your Smaller Agency Do Really Great Creative?
Mercury Advertising CEO Jeff Welch shares insights on doing national-level great creative at a smaller regional agency.

 Agency Creative Assessment
This is a self-administered test for determining if your agency culture is "creative-centric."

 What Drives the Best Big Agency Creative?
A look a three renowned creative agencies, and the visions that make them award-winners.

 Are You Dissin' Them, Man?
Provides a multi-step process for agencies to improve their efficiency in producing creative work.

 Visualize It, And It Will Come True
The importance of establishing advertising agency financial goals, and techniques for establishing a billings forecasting model.

 Presenting Creative: Five Tips to Help Bulletproof Your Presentation
Tips for successfully presenting creative to clients.

 Finding Inspiration
Several methods to jump-start creative thinking.

 Creative Evolution
Five steps to becoming a more agile, more creative agency in the cross-channel marketing era.



 Hiring Creative People
Allan Godshall discusses how to hire agency creative talent.

 Can a Smaller Agency Become Famous?
Tips for small advertising agency success through a commitment to great creative; includes shameless self-promotion, having a dedicated agency promotion person, and comments on working with agency search consultants.

 
 
 
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