Did you notice last week that we shared the full details of the brands seeking agencies? Thank you for reading. Agencies Stanton Crenshaw Communications, healthcare PR, New York, USA Yellow Door Creative Marketing, shopper marketing, Mary Portas, London UK Magnetic North, digital agency, Manchester UK Campagne, creative advertising, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Schawk, brand point management, [...]








Paul Foley runs Noodle Coaching.  He gave this talk to the London Communicators and Engagement Group last month.  We were so impressed we asked him to write some expert articles for us.  The first one publishes on Monday. Enjoy.








I am a fan of email auto responders that send a pre-determined email reply out from your address.  They can be very helpful for new business development as an information tool for prospective customers. As ever, there are good and bad examples of automatic emails.  Here are four examples we have received recently that can [...]








Did I mention how much I love writing this post each week.  as a business development specialist, getting my sleeves rolled up and finding new leads for our business is pure pleasure.  How is your lead generation going? Agencies RedBee media, specialist agency for TV broadcasters, London UK Euro RSCG, advertising agency in Havas network, [...]








‎We did a quick survey yesterday among brand managers to answer the question “What are the top three things you need to do to write a good brief for an agency pitch?” Move the sales needle, Information integration, Content marketing (Josh Stailey) What’s the problem, why is there a problem and media neutral so the [...]








Kath Pay from The Email Academy continues her expert series about email marketing. She will publish another 2 articles over the next few weeks. 8 influencing factors for achieving conversion in email marketing The most basic aim of sending an email is to get the recipient to open the email and action it in some [...]








The weekly list of subscribers keeps on growing and we thank you, readers, for your continued support. We try to give you high value new business leads for marketing agencies. This week a strong showing from trade show suppliers and agencies – Unisfair, George P Johnson and Star Exhibits. A special mention for NY American [...]








The Daily Beast summarised a great experiment for a new Facebook joiner by testing various ways of getting his content seen by other FB users. Facebook’s 10 biggest secrets Tom Weber set up a great experiment and used his connections to test theories about how the FB algorithm works.  Here are the findings… Facebook’s bias [...]








If you are selling services or selling to other businesses, B2B, then showing off your expertise is a great way of getting new prospects to consider buying from you. While running a website check for a client website’s marketing effectiveness, we noticed a great offering by Hubspot. A weekly webinar. So why host a webinar? [...]








We get pitched from time to time by companies who want CreativeAgencySecrets to write about their product. Please continue to pitch us.  We love it – as long as it’s relevant and aligned with the subjects we write about. Mark McLeod Hendrikson has written a fabulous post from the point of view of both a [...]