With thousands of companies to choose from, and so little time to choose them, your agency needs to define who qualifies to be a prospect or client. Not every company ...
Who Says A Prospect Is A Prospect?
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The process of gaining new business is tough. In our seminars, we stress the need for being relentless about prospecting. It almost always takes more than one call to get ...
Incentives For Everyone Who Delivers New Business
Every agency knows the importance of a sustained new business effort. Most agencies assign that responsibility to a handful of people and leave everyone else out of the equation. That ...
7 Tips for Spotting Prospects Who Are Just Window-shopping
Tire-kickers, time-wasters, window-shoppers. Call them what you will. They are the bane of the small and mid-sized agency, eating up time and resources that would be better spent on serious ...
How to Nail Your First New Business Meeting
It is working. The weeks of calls, outreach, and relationship building are paying off. A potential client wants to meet.
What do you do?
Who attends
The ideal situation is ...
read moreTen New Business Actions You Should Be Taking NOW
In today’s fast-paced, competitive environment, clients aren’t just looking for agencies—they’re looking for strategic partners who can deliver results and help them stay ahead. That means ...
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 moreLet Me Google That… Know Your Prospect Before You Meet
When I was fresh out of college, I did something that haunts me to this day. Before you make assumptions, let me just stop you and say, no, I did ...
read moreThe Joy of New Business Comes from Within
Most agencies build prospect lists around rational criteria. Budget size, industry fit, geographic proximity, financial stability. All of those filters are necessary. The one that almost never appears on the ...









