A Guide to Agency Management in 2020
Featured on ANA Marketing Maestros — Read the ANA’s published article — 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 deep. Too […]
How to Keep Employees at the Top of Their Game
Four ways the marketing industry can overcome its growing talent shortage. Download a print-friendly version here By: Bruno Gralpois, Author/Speaker, Thought-provocateur, Client/Agency Guru, Entrepreneur, Innovator If marketing had a TV show like NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” what would it look like? In lieu of singers, entertainers, dancers, magicians, and comedians, we would […]
How Voice Required New Skills and Agency Competencies, and What Brand Advertisers Are Doing to Take Advantage of Those
How voice required new skills and agency competencies, and what brand advertisers are doing to take advantage of those By: Bruno Gralpois Author/Speaker, Thought-provocateur, Client/Agency Guru, Entrepreneur, Innovator Download a print-friendly version here If you have Amazon Echo (aka Alexa), Google Home or Apple’s HomePod at home, go ahead and ask them: […]
Your Agency Fees Are Burning Too Fast. Now What?
How brand advertisers can make effective use of retainer fees without getting burned.
Ready to Jump? How to Swim Through Effective BRs Without Drowning
How to Swim Through Highly Effective Agency QBRs Without Drowning. A step-by-step approach to conducting Agency Quarterly Business Reviews that strengthen the work and improve collaboration.
Make the Logo Bigger!
20 effective ways brand advertisers can master the art form of providing thoughtful, productive feedback to their agency partners during creative reviews.
Working Your Non-Working Too Hard
Evolving how marketing executives think about managing their marketing budgets and driving fiscal accountability. Brought to you by Bruno Gralpois of Agency Mania Solutions.
Less is More, More is Less
How brand advertisers can simplify roster management without significantly shrinking the number of agencies they work with. Brought to you by Bruno Gralpois of Agency Mania Solutions.
How Brand Advertisers Can Simplify Roster Management Without Significantly Shrinking the Number of Agencies They Work With
Download a print-friendly version here Less is More. More or Less. The world of marketing has become incredibly complex. Advertisers are building new muscles to deliver ever-more integrated consumer experiences, requiring them to assemble a broad set of specialty skills and agency competencies. However, as CMOs face greater complexity, many of them have chosen to […]
4 Ways Brand Advertisers Can Implement the Right Agency Model and Unlock the Transformational Value of Their Agency Partnerships
Blind Men and the Elephant: Download a print-friendly version here “It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind.” In his infamous poem “The Blind Men and the Elephant,” 19th century American poet John […]