There’s a great summary of the pro and anti arguments about the Belgian Agency strike over on e-consultancy’s site.
The comments are helpful including ones from client and agency side folk.
I particularly liked Neale Gilhooley’s comment
My career path has been 90% Agency and 10% Client, but the 10% has radically changed my views on how Agencies [...]
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I found this on a LinkedIn group called London Communicators.
How important is ‘likeability’ in winning new business?
Looks like a meet-up will follow to discuss it further.
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You've probably all read about Lowe and Pepperami parting company and the project being listed on ideabounty.com for all and sundry to pitch.
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Great opportunity or terrible waste of time?
The debate rages on but here's my ha'pennysworth. Go opensource. Publicise as if your survival depended on it.
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Nicky O'Malley from recruiter InHouse has sent me their white paper about brands rationalising agency relationships .
She thinks that an internal "business development culture" is important
She advocates building closer relationships with existing clients so they don't re-pitch their account
Senior teams in agencies do not generally have a new business background
Business development bonuses are mainly [...]
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Sean O'Halloran over on the Hoop blog has written a great post on how Design industry insiders can get involved in telling the Government (UK only so far, sorry!) how they thinkg Design and creative should be purchased.
UK Government wants your views on how design & innovation can be bought and put [...]
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An easy suggestion by Mark Earls from his blog about 'recycling briefs' to support a youth charity.
Of course it's easy to justify re-using stuff if it's for 'charidee' but why not just publish and share?
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I have returned from the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) conference in Austin, USA and, as last year, I attended some great sessions and met interesting people. This year I was also speaking at the conference.
With the recession beginning to affect agency businesses I sought out those sessions that might be useful learning and training [...]
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Sam and I first met when he worked out of a converted garage in London W14…. how times change! His new business is called Tradewind , Sam and I first met when he worked out of a converted garage in London W14…. how times change!
Tradewind helps clients improve digital marketing spend, proving value and strategic [...]
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I have just had a proposal rejected by an agency but I think it's such a good idea that I shouldn't let it go to waste.
Business development for a digital agency into part of the real estate industry. Can't say more here.
My proposition would cost an agency £20k and would need to start work immediately [...]
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Agencies in the UK don't use Web 2.0 for their own marketing. I started writing on this subject in 2007. Actually very instructive going back through my archive for references. Here are the main ones that I found. Read the research paper exec summary if you do nothing else…
Web adoption rates for agencies (March [...]
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