Podcast Evaluating and Managing Marketing Agency Partners
Featured on MarTech Podcast Listen to Benjamin Shapiro’s interview with guest Bruno Gralpois, Co-Founder and Principal of Agency Mania Solutions, where he discusses the best way to evaluate and manage your existing agency relationships, along with the frequency at which an evaluation should occur. You’ll learn the three vital aspects to agency performance, and how […]
How Brands Prioritize Getting Better Work and More Value From Their Agencies at Every Stage of Their Fiscal Calendar
The Ultimate Payoff: Investing in your agency relationships is a payoff, not a tradeoff. Advertising has evolved into a complex, multi-faceted discipline requiring skills borrowed from business strategy, finance, information technology, human resources, and almost every other corporate function. So, it’s no surprise that the list of activities on marketers’ desks increasingly runs long and […]
Transactional Relationships Are Out
Featured on ANA Maestros — Read the published ANA article — We’ve heard it before: Don’t treat your agencies as mere vendors, unless, of course, a commodity is what you are seeking. But the label “vendors” shouldn’t be such a dirty word. In principle, “vendors” are delivering services that have reasonable commercial value and getting […]
Agency Mania Solutions Leads AdForum Worldwide Summit Workshop
Bruno Gralpois and AdForum’s Elizabeth Marks lead discussion on the evolution of agency search and best practices with top search consultants from around the world. SEATTLE (PRWEB) – April 9, 2019 – Agency Mania Solutions’ Co-Founder, Bruno Gralpois, and AdForum’s Global President, Elizabeth Marks, will moderate a workshop on finding the right agency partner at […]
Adopting Smarter Ways to Conduct Agency Reviews and New Business Pitches
Ending the Traditional Pitch Mania: I’ve seen it all, it seems. I’ll bet you have, too. The endless RFPs. The RFPs from hell. The poorly run ones. The ones filled with regrets and disappointments on both sides. If you are an advertiser, you’ve probably run many agency reviews in your career, hoping to find the […]
The Demise of Decades-Long Agency-and-Client Relationships
Featured on AdExchanger: “Data-Driven Thinking“ is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. As the saying goes, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. When advertisers consider a review of their agency partners, they must really believe that a change […]
CMOs Highlight Extremely Frustrating Problems as Reason for Ending a Relationship
The Breakup Letter: Studies show more than 85 percent of American adults have experienced a breakup at least once in their lifetime. Nothing like uncertainty – as we are now experiencing with the health crisis – to yield greater tension and doubts in our personal and professional lives. Nothing like heightened budget pressure and higher […]
Common Mistakes Agencies Make With Their Clients and What to do About It
How to Drive your Client Mad By Bruno Gralpois Author/Speaker, Thought-provocateur, Client/Agency Guru, Entrepreneur, Innovator Download a print-friendly version here In How to Drive Your Agency Crazy, I shared 20 ways brand advertisers drive their agencies crazy, and in the process, sabotage their own efforts. Experienced advertisers know better; they know how to turn these […]
Five Realistic Ways to Earn Trust in Client/Agency Relationships
Trust Me (no, really!) By Bruno Gralpois Author/Speaker, Thought-provocateur, Client/Agency Guru, Entrepreneur, Innovator Download a print-friendly version here Trust me (if I may ask) when I say that “transparency” has been the key word of choice in 2017. The issue of trust in client/agency relationships is so deep that it even led the newly elected […]
Will You Conduct an Agency Review this Year?
Download a print-friendly version here Industry data confirms a significant increase in roster changes and competitive reviews. Is the trend likely to continue in the years ahead? What are the implications for brand advertisers and their agencies? A recent article by the Wall Street Journal quoted data from research firm Advertiser Perceptions that 58% of […]
How Madison Avenue Got the Flu, and What Brand Advertisers Should do About It
Download a print-friendly version here How Madison Avenue got the flu, and what brand advertisers should do about it. The world of Madison Avenue is sick of being sick, literally. It all started with a fever a decade ago, fueled by disruptive media fragmentation, AdTech and digital innovation, the unstoppable rise of procurement in client/agency […]
How to Handle the Heat of Agency Transitions
— Read the published article on ANA — — Read the published article on Adforum — How to conduct an effective, smooth and expedient agency transition…without getting burned in the process. Last year was terribly “hot” in advertising, and if you are wondering, I am not referring to global warming or the steamy agency work […]
