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Too Many Clients from the Dark Side? Try Aligning Agency-Client Values
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 ...
read moreCan Your Smaller Agency Do Really Great Creative?
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 ...
read moreHow Smaller Agencies Attract Bigger Clients
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 ...
read moreHow Real Are Your Agency Values?
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 ...
read morePut the Employees First
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 ...
read moreToday’s Marketing Success Means Failing Forward
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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