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Why Prospects Don’t Tell You the Truth
What really happens when you ask a good prospect tough questions? A short time ago, I was training an agency on Spark (how to generate more leads and win more […]
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Ad Agencies: Use Chemistry To Win New Business
Creating good chemistry is an art. It doesn’t just “happen.” Many advertisers try to be objective, but “chemistry is probably 50% to 60% of the decision factor,” comments a retail […]
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Common Business Cycles: Find Your Agency
If new business is the heartbeat of an agency, then new business leads are the pulse. If your agency isn’t seeing a steady stream of prospects who are interested in […]
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New Business: The Winning Pitch
If you’re in the agency business, you quickly learn you have to be good at pitching, i.e. presenting for new business. If you’re going to really grow your firm, you […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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I’ll Win That New Business Pitch! Missing the Forest
We’ve found that most presidents of firms in the marketing communications industry don’t really understand new business. And they don’t like it. They solve this problem by spending their time […]