Marketing using Business Christmas Cards

Corporate greeting cards can be used in many ways to promote your business and to show appreciation to supportive clients; some traditional and some a bit more creative. However, there are some rules and tips you should keep in mind to get the best return on your investment of sending out a Business Christmas card: 1. […]

Cold email introduction – copy this campaign

Want to use cold emails as part of your customer acquisition?  We get dozens of approaches by digital media agencies usually picked up by our clients’ spam filters. Today we’re publishing one of the better ones as a crib for you to copy for your own use if you want to buy email lists and […]

Top 3 things for Writing a good brief for an agency pitch

‎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 […]

Writing a good brief for an agency pitch

Image via Wikipedia I am researching for a new blog post about how brands brief agencies when they want to run a pitch. Can you help me? Top 3 things for writing a good brief for an agency pitch Worst 3 things for writing a good brief for an agency pitch Add your answers to […]

Twitter competition ideas

There have been a few good quesitons around recently with Public Relations agencies in particular seeking ideas for competitions that can run on Twitter. Running a competition is a good way of building new followers for social media communication channels – it also helps for brand awareness.  A contest doesn’t need to be expensive, or […]

Writing an innovative pitch to a brand

Image via Wikipedia We are often asked about how to pitch a brand in order to win their busienss. Now a pitch is usually the end of a long process that starts with a chemistry meeting or a credentials presentation. Here is an example from Razorfish who pitched for the jewellery retailer, Tiffany’s business. This […]

Social Influence marketing – how it helps your biz dev

Razorfish, the global marketing agency, has released “Fluent” a report on social influence marketing.  There is a big buzz on influence and perception or sentiment analysis towards brands going on recently – and I think it is a small red herring; a phase the internet is going through.  Whether customers buy is the really important […]

Guest Post: How CRM Integrates Into Business Development Processes

Adeline Grosrenaud is  London blogger with a blog dedicated to CRM.  It may seem an out of date concept now that the social web is going mainstream, but I asked her to write about how CRM and biz dev proceseses can be mutually supportive. She has a helpful check list of  metrics that would be […]

How do I charge clients for doing social media work?

This question is a great one and was prompted by a reader enquiry (thanks Kate).  Many agencies seeking to integrate social channels into their campaigns want to know whether they can charge their clients for the work. Our view is that this should be a chargeable service that you can provide. First check a couple […]

Top 10 must-read Business Development Blogs

If you are in business development, it’s important to stay connected to the buzz in the marketplace.  One of the hard things is to find a single place to gather all your news sources.  Biz dev can be written about in marketing magazines,  books, industry magazines, online in blogs and forums.  It’s a disparate subject […]