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agency positioning

Three Things You Need to Live Long and Prosper in Advertising

Second Wind
5/12/2026


There has been a lot of talk about the sweeping changes moving through the advertising and marketing space. It is all true. Few industries have been reshaped as fundamentally or ...

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Does Your Agency Have a Core Competency?

Second Wind
4/8/2026


To succeed in today's market, and perhaps even to survive it, a generalist advertising agency faces a harder path than ever before. This is not a comfortable thing to ...

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Get Thee Out of House

Second Wind
11/21/2025


Agencies today continue to face competition from other agencies and related firms. Agency owners and managers also continue to find themselves in the uncomfortable position of competing with their own ...

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The Expert Agency: Can Focusing on Core Competency Grow Your Agency?

Second Wind
11/6/2025


Many agency principals and new business strategists are now reconsidering agency specialization. In a diverse marketplace, identifying and leveraging agency strengths can help you grow your agency business. The pressure ...

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The Price Is Right?

Second Wind
1/20/2024

I work constantly with agencies that are smack in the middle of pricing issues. It seems that no matter what price they assign to a project, it is never low ...

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What Agency Culture Are You?

Deborah Budd
5/31/2022

We often talk about the agency brand, and a big part of brand is your agency culture. No, we don’t mean that green stuff growing on last week’s ...

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