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Ad Agencies on Target by Blogging for New Business

For a small or midsize ad agencies client diversity isn’t a strength its a weakness. 

Most ad agencies are target-less. Just ask, they wont be able to adequately define who is their target audience. They want to be everything to everybody. That is why they are viewed as generalist instead of specialist. A generalist is going to make less money, be confined primarily to business acquired because of location, personal chemistry and networks. They are forced to take on accounts they don’t want and do work they don’t want to do.… Continue reading

Ad Agency Guide to Successful Blogging for New Business

I’ve stated before that social media provides some excellent tools for ad agency new business. An agency blog is the central platform to developing a new business program using social media to generate leads. Someone passed on the following resource and I thought it would be a great resource for your agency blog.

The blog post, “The Pocket-sized Guide to Blogging,” is a help for small-to midsize ad agencies that know just enough about blogging to be dangerous!… Continue reading

Social Media Isn’t Working for Ad Agency New Business

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If your agency’s social media participation isn’t developing new business leads, it’s important to know WHY. 

From my experience, most agencies finally got on board with social media in 2010. They created their agency’s blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram accounts and jumped in.

70% of marketers report that social media marketing delivers poor or average return on investment.

Many agencies thought that by merely having a social media presence, it would give them social media credibility.… Continue reading

50 Tips for Ad Agency New Business

Tips for Ad Agency New Business

New business helps for Advertising, Digital, Media and PR Agencies.

Since 2007, I’ve conducted over 350 new business workshops for agencies in North and South America and Europe. No matter what country, I find there are many common problems when it comes to business development that makes it harder than it needs to be.

I’ve put together collection of 50 quick tips that I hope will help make your new business easier. Note: Each tip has a link to additional relevant resources.Continue reading

How to Fuel Ad Agency New Business With Content Marketing

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Why is content such a valuable strategy to help ad agencies drum up new business?

I thought I would share a recent interview conducted by content marketer, Andy Baldacci. Andy hosts Hubstaff’s Agency Advantage Podcast where he helps agency owners grow their business.

If you’re skeptical of the value of content marketing for your agency or are worried that it will take too long to get results, this is the episode for you.

Click Here for a full written transcript and to listen to: Fueling Agency New Business With Content

Here are some interview excerpts on the importance of content marketing:

“The average Fortune 500 company has 17 agency relationships.… Continue reading

Improve Ad Agency New business Leads with Authority Marketing

Authority Marketing for Ad Agency New Business

Leverage SEO and expert positioning!

Based on Google patents and documents, which explicitly state that Google prefers experts and authorities. John McDougall, the author of Web Marketing On All Cylinders and The Big Dog Authority Marketing Checklist, will show you how positioning your agency and team members as thought leaders is critical to digital marketing success.

One of the best tools for new business is leads from your website and blog but the days of easy SEO are over.… Continue reading

Ad Agencies: How to Seduce Prospects Without Giving Your Work Away for Free

Jami Oetting ad agency new business

How to create a predictable pipeline of leads through inbound marketing.

You want to attract new clients from outside of your current sphere of influence, spend less time on unqualified prospects, avoid client reviews, and build a predictable pipeline of targeted accounts. And you can accomplish everything on this wish list with blogging. But there’s one problem: Writing quality content and connecting this with lead generation isn’t easy. It’s time-consuming. It takes takes time to show returns.Continue reading

Marketing Your Ad Agency Should Be A Priority for New Business

Douglas Burdett ad agency new business

Prospective clients shouldn’t hire a marketing agency that can’t market themselves.

I wanted to share some excerpts of an interview conducted by Jami Oetting, content strategist for Agency Post, an online publication for agency professionals. The subject of the interview is Douglas Burdett, former artillery officer, Madison Avenue ad man, stand-up comedian and the principal of Artillery, a small agency in Norfolk, Virginia. Douglas provides a good example of how agency promotion has evolved. The primary battle for new business has moved online. Continue reading

Jami Oetting

Jami Oetting speaker Fuel Lines New Business Conference

Jami will be speaking on Thursday, October 8 at 10:00 AM.

Session Title and Description:

How to Seduce Prospects Without Giving Your Work Away for Free

You want to attract new clients from outside of your current sphere of influence, spend less time on unqualified prospects, avoid client reviews, and build a predictable pipeline of targeted accounts.

And you can accomplish everything on this wish list with blogging. But there’s one problem: Writing quality content and connecting this with lead generation isn’t easy.… Continue reading

Workshop: A New Approach for New Business – Chicago

Ad Agency New Business Workshop Chicago

The Primary Battle for New Business Has Moved Online. 

This is a one-day regional workshop, co-sponsored by Fuel Lines Business Development and The List will be held on Friday, July 24, 2015, in Chicago, Illinois.

This workshop is designed to help agencies “jump-start” an inbound new business program within 30 days. A step-by-step process that’s been developed having worked with over 200+ advertising, digital, media and PR agencies.

New business has been a problem historically for agencies.Continue reading