A Step-by-Step Approach to Conducting Agency Quarterly Business Reviews That Strengthen the Work and Improve Collaboration
Download a print-friendly version here How to Swim Through Highly Effective Agency QBRs Without Drowning Anyone on the client or the agency side will remember their first QBR (Quarterly Business Review). Unless you are adequately prepared, it feels a bit like getting ready to jump in a pool without knowing how deep the water is […]
Top 10 Best Practices Successful Companies and Their Marketing Organizations are Putting Into Practice
Download a print-friendly version here Successful companies and their marketing organizations are putting into practice Articulate strategy to strengthen the company’s agency model Do you have the right agency strategy/model in place to support your marketing goals? Is the agency model and entire roster aligned to your organizational requirements? Is it structured to take you […]
Why I Ditched the Cannes Ad Fest and Headed West This Year
Featured on Forbes Magazine — Read the published Forbes article — Usually around this time of year, I would find myself on the Croisette at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Soaking up both sun and shortlists, attending a seminar or two, discussing where ad agencies get it all wrong and clients got it half right, […]
How the Winner of the Mobile Grand Prix Cannes Lions Signals the Supremacy of Content and the Slow Death of Traditional Advertising
Download a print-friendly version here This Piece of Cardboard Will Take You Halfway Around the World Advertising is dead, long live branded content! Advertising was king. A new monarch is now succeeding it to the marketing throne: branded content. For the history aficionados, the original phrase (“The King is Dead, Long Live the King!”) was […]
How Can Advertisers Successfully Overcome the Inherent Complexity of Today’s Marketing Operations and Streamline Partnership Efforts With Their Agencies?
Download a print-friendly version here Discover five effective ways to overcome your company’s Cost of Complexity (COC). Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That’s what Leonardo da Vinci believed, and I do too. However, marketing has never been more complex: advanced programmatic buying, social media engineering, behavioral targeting, attribution and purchase propensity models, mobile programming, complex […]