There are times when your site is offline, being updated or upgraded.  A holding page helps out by telling visitors that you’re temporarily away and when to expect access to your company website again. There are good an bad examples – here’s  a good one. One question, what does Csquared actually do? Challenge: Can you [...]








All the names listed under brands seeking agencies can be purchased by subscription from our sister website Brands Seeking Agencies.com Agencies Serious PR, corporate and brand reputation, Northern Ireland, UK DDB, the most integrated communications group in New Zealand Howell Penny, retail brand specialists, Berkhampstead, UK Marcus Evans, live business, entertainment and sport event management, [...]








Need your first marketing job – come and learn with us how to do internet marketing for our B2B and B2C clients. CreativeAgencySecrets provides marketing services for brands and businesses. We do the day-to-day marketing and communications for clients whose industries include sport, hospitality, professional services, internet, computing Working with us you will learn how [...]








Exciting new leads for marketing agencies from a movie rental service, UK supermarket and European auction site… if you want to pitch for new business. All the names listed can be purchased by subscription from our sister website Brands Seeking Agencies.com Agencies Jenobi, public relations and marketing communications, Houston, TX, USA ICrossing, online brand and [...]








Sometimes it’s nice to be on the receiving end of some in-bound agency marketing.  There’s a nice branding agency we have been following based in Birmingham, UK.  They sent us a little slide deck. It had some background slides about the company and some case studies of client work.  All very nicely presented. BUT There [...]








Need a little mental stimulation during the Easter break?  We’ve just the thing for you.  We are running a guest post series by Feedblitz founder Phil Hollows. Phil writes about the essentials of building a mailing list around your blog.  If you have been following our content marketing discussions, you’ll know that any brand that [...]








We love SEOMoz the website from the masters of SEO. They’ve got an awesome Pro SEO conference running in Boston MA during May 16-17th on “Deep Dive” for SEO. We badly want to be there – but are not able to attend. Is there anyone who’s going and would consider allowing us to subsidize their [...]








Do you want to know the real reasons why brands choose to meet marketing agencies? Getting the first meeting for your credentials presentation or a ‘chemistry’ session is often stated as being the hardest part of the business development sales pipeline.  Many agencies have told me that if only I could get them in front [...]








This week we were blown away by a direct visit from Ron Arad Design -  I well remember his steel sofa design – thanks guys.  Plus some great brands who may be wanting to hire marketing services firms and advertising agencies. All the names listed can be purchased by subscription from our sister website Brands [...]








So here’s my case study from today -  yes this just happened to us. Situation: Met a prospect – verified; decision maker with a budget. The conversation got stalled “we’re busy” and I wanted to push for a second meeting with a hope of getting a pilot project identified. How to overcome the stale mate: [...]