Fueling Ad Agency New Business
Helpful tips for small and mid-size agencies in leveraging social to generate thought leadership. The following is an interview conducted by Mark Sneider, president of RSW/US, for the Agency New Business Thought Leader Video Series. I discuss with Mark the reasons why ad agencies aren’t finding success using social media for new business. Agencies are still trying […]
This is a guide to highlight the best tips, practices and studies to help your agency succeed on Twitter. Ever since I learned that only 1% of internet participants actively create original content, I knew that I needed to be in this elite group of Twitter accounts whose content is being read and shared by others. […]
Within just the next three to five years, social media is anticipated to rise from the least likely method for CEOs to connect with their audiences to the second highest method, just behind face-to-face interactions. I was recently speaking to a sold out event for the Nashville AMA on the dramatic changes brought upon business […]
Content marketing provides a system to better understand and engage your prospects. I can intimately attest how difficult a consistent writing program can be. But, the reason that I’m such an advocate are the many benefits content marketing provides. It makes new business more focused and much easier than the interruptive type tactics of the past, […]
Social media, an empowered consumer have created a paradigm shift in the way new business is acquired. AMA Power Lunch: “Rethinking Your Approach To New Business” I hope you will join me for this Nashville AMA event. Thursday, April 3, 2014, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM (CDT), Nashville, TN
Business development has undergone a major change. New business has historically been a problem for agencies. Most small to midsize agencies have no positioning and no point of differentiation. They look and sound the same. They are often treated as vendors because they lack a positioning of expertise. Most don’t have a target audience thus, […]
Building an engaged online community should now be a core responsibility of business development. Inspiration for this article came from Duct Tape Marketing’s founder, John Jantsch, from his recent podcast interview with Jeffrey K. Rohrs, Vice President of Marketing Insights for ExactTarget, Jeffrey is also the author of AUDIENCE: Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans and Followers. […]
Are we who we pretend to be on social media? My wife and I were shopping at a local antique consignment shop over the weekend and came across this sign,“May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on Facebook.” I had to laugh and took this picture to share, where else […]
Social media is a primary force that is redefining the role of the men and women who oversee the world’s largest companies. Brands no longer ignore social media. The importance of social media on business has dramatically escalated. We have moved through the “hype phase of social media when businesses felt compelled to participate because […]
Michael Gass, Business Development Consultant | Speaker | Author of Fuel Lines
Fuel Lines provides new business resources for Advertising, Digital, Media and PR Agencies.
It has been rated among the top 100 marketing blogs in the world, according to Ad Age’s Power 150.
Since 2007, Michael has helped pioneer the use of social media, inbound and content marketing strategies specifically for agency new business.
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An essential component to your agency's new business program is a prospective client data base.
In my opinion one of the most accurate online database of marketing and advertising decision makers is Winmo. I highly recommend them.
I'm Michael Gass, I'm an author, speaker and a new business consultant to advertising, digital, media and PR agencies.
Since 2007, I have helped pioneer the use of social media, inbound and content marketing strategies specifically for agency new business.
Fuel Lines is my social media 'home-base. It has been ranked among the top 100 marketing blogs in the world, according to Advertising Age’s, The Power 150.
Learn more about me