Hire Us
The Creative Agency Secrets team works to our Biz Dev Methodology.
Most of our work is of three types:
- Regular monthly engagements
- Workshops and training
- Short projects
A workshop lasts for a day and we charge £3,000 to to customise, scope, deliver and give you feedback. We run workshops on “Writing a business development plan”; “Using social media for biz dev”, “Sales training” and “Biz dev skills for client-facing (non biz-dev) teams”.
A regular engagement lasts at least 6 months and is designed to kick-start your biz dev and get the process working internally and deliverables filling your pipeline with new prospects. We charge between £600 and £3,000 per month. The price depends on the seniority of consultant(s) working with you and the size of your firm. We charge less for small companies and startups.
Project work is costed individually. Projects might include running a campaign to the creative agencies on our database, getting us to introduce you to investors, suppliers or collaborators (our “little black book” is extensive because our biz dev people are Gladwell-style “Connectors”) a mentoring session for your personal work, or picking our brains. Mostly, this is priced in day rates from £350 – £1,500 per man day depending on the skills required.
We deliver work in two ways:
- Face to face
- Remote consulting
Remote consulting enables clients in different parts of the world and timezones to work with the Creative Agency Secrets team. Here’s how it works: we require you to buy one half day (4 hours) of time, paying in advance. You brief us by email; we set up a Skype conference call and the work continues using these tools. Timesheets are kept to keep track of elapsed time. And the ‘day rate’ is reduced to between £1,000 and £500 per day to reflect remote access and the fact that you will be doing most of the activation work. We are happy to charge in local currency equivalents.
Pitch Us for the Blog
We like writing about new products, technologies and services that can affect any B2B marketing and sales. Receiving pitches and tips via email is great as long as they are related to the things we write about
- how to win new business
- marketing agencies’ biz dev
- campaigns for new business
- spotting opportunities for new business
- relationship-building tools
- social media tools for B2B.
Sometimes we write about software and web tool for new business. We also include individuals and businesses who help marketing agencies find new customers (I call them business development services).
We like to write about new web apps for B2B situations, especially if they help you get your business found online (e.g. aggregation sites, feeds, new groups or meet-ups).
There is a series of interviews called “Shout!”. These are with agency staff and are about new clients they have won and how they won them. If you want to be interviewed for a Shout! then send us an email saying why we should interview you and what you’d like to talk about.
Guest bloggers are also welcome. Please suggest a subject that you think will interest our audience.
Our preference is to get everything in the first email – all the information we need to write about you. If we have to chase images and assets from you, then there’s less chance it’ll get published.
If you want to interview us, please ask. Again, we like to know what you are writing about and for whom or which sites. The ones we are most interested in are those where we can talk about both the biz dev methodology and new ways of executing it online and offline.
