• Bypass the RFP, go directly to the finals.

    How One Ad Agency Used the Tour to Bypass the RFP Phase

    We were already in this nice 30-person agency conducting a new business training session, setting up a Spark. The session was going great, when over lunch the president asked me […]

     
  • Good luck with new business!

    A New Business Quiz

    Ad Agencies, PR, design, and digital firms, creative hot shops and more must become experts at finding prospects and winning new business. The competition has never been greater. Firms of all […]

     
  • A New Business Fable

    A New Business Fable

    Once upon a time, there was a nice advertising agency in an important city far, far away. The agency had four key partners named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. The […]

     
  • Rule 5. Never brag at the new business meeting.

    Overselling Is a Fatal New Business Disease

    A new business win the bag – I was so proud, and couldn’t wait to share the news. I had been following up on a good prospect, a large regional hospital […]