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PTO (With No Strings)

Second Wind
6/3/2025


We all need a little break now and then. That is why vacation time is such a popular employment benefit. Through the years, sick and personal days came to be ...

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Too Many Clients from the Dark Side? Try Aligning Agency-Client Values

Second Wind
1/27/2025

An agency principal lamented to me about her clients, saying, “It seems as if we’ve been in a great client drought for the past few years. Each of our ...

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Can Your Smaller Agency Do Really Great Creative?

Second Wind
1/16/2024

Jeff Welch, principal of Mercury Advertising in Bozeman, MT, tells us how his agency started very, very small (just Jeff and co-founder Jamie Hurd) and grew to 25+ employees largely ...

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How Smaller Agencies Attract Bigger Clients

Deborah Budd
8/8/2023

Small agencies and marketing firms have a fighting chance at winning big-name accounts. Smaller agencies are considered more agile, more innovative in thinking and execution, and possessed of skill sets ...

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How Real Are Your Agency Values?

Second Wind
5/24/2022

Culture can be a tough nut to crack. You can devote a long time to brand development, fully involving your employees and customers; carefully craft mission and vision statements; and ...

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Put the Employees First

Second Wind
2/22/2022

David Ogilvy once said that all his agency’s assets went down the elevator at 5:00 p.m. We don’t know about the elevator or the hour, but ...

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Today’s Marketing Success Means Failing Forward

Deborah Budd
2/15/2022

Like many trendy phrases, “failing forward” gets tossed around quite a bit in marketing and advertising blogs, trade mags and industry interviews. I’m seriously thinking of adding it to ...

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