Tips for Tracking and Measuring Marketing Results
Marketing campaigns take a lot of work. From scoping and strategizing to executing and reporting, even small campaigns can involve multiple moving pieces and lots of planning. With so much work involved it’s important to understand if those efforts have [...]
How to Use Emotional Theory to Create a Cultlike Brand Following
The content that leaves the strongest impact doesn’t detail a product’s every bell and whistle. Instead, it makes us feel something: happy, relieved, sad, angry, scared, etc. In this piece I recently contributed to SpinSucks.com I discuss how to use emotional theory [...]
Should Your Agency Offer Programmatic Advertising Services? Here are Key Reasons Why
If you’ve found this article, you probably already know that programmatic advertising is growing—fast. In a few short years, the share of digital ads run programmatically has skyrocketed from zero to 85%, and it continues to climb year over year, [...]
When was the last time you sent flowers?
I read a statistic once about the frequency of floral deliveries in relation to the length of the relationship and as you might imagine, the longer the relationship had been around, the less often flowers got sent. It was an [...]
What Broken Promises Do Inside Agencies
Right now, many agencies struggle with the same serious problem. This issue can drag down profitability, lower employee engagement, and harm the reputation of the offending company, and in many cases, the biggest offenders are agency leaders. Unfortunately for clients [...]
What’s new at your agency?
Like it or not, our clients expect us to be ahead of the curve. They’re counting on us to keep learning and evolving our services to keep up with the constant motion that our industry (and culture) is experiencing. How [...]
Ready or Not, It’s Time to Create a Vaccine Policy for Your Agency
This is a topic you have to handle with care. People's views on vaccines can vary as well as their unique healthcare situations. In this piece I recently contributed to Mediapost.com I discuss how to create a vaccine policy for [...]
Advertising’s Hybrid Future: Why Outsourcing Is Here to Stay
The pandemic wasn't the first time agency owners and advertising leaders "rented" talent. The 2008 recession forced many businesses to outsource advertising work. In this piece I recently contributed to MediaPost.com I discuss how by leveraging the abilities of outsourced [...]
HR in a Post-Pandemic World: Where Are We Headed?
COVID-19 forced HR professionals to adapt to a new business landscape. Now that we're entering a post-pandemic world, HR must evolve again. In this piece I recently contributed to TalentCulture.com I discuss the new responsibilities of HR to revisit their [...]
When Was Your Last Public Speaking Opportunity? Here’s How to Brush Up on Your Skills.
They say that the only thing we fear more than public speaking is death -- but the process doesn't have to be that stress-inducing. In this piece I recently contributed to Entrepreneur.com I discuss how you can strategically approach landing [...]
