When business owners are brainstorming new ways to grow their revenue, they first jump to their prospective new client list. Prospective clients who become new clients of yours are great for building revenue, but I argue to look at your current clients instead. Most of your new revenue should come from your existing clients, approximately [...]
Remember the “good old days” right after the recession when incredibly talented employees were easy to find, quick to hire and grateful to have a steady paycheck? The upside to that story is that in 2020 the economy is stronger, the job market is much more stable and everyone is making more money. The downside [...]
Public speaking is something many people fear — even visionary CEOs. Tesla’s Elon Musk, for example, has publicly chastised himself for his lackluster performances. Even if you’re not Musk-level famous, public speaking is an essential skill. It could be argued that every time you speak, you’re doing so to influence opinion, inspire action or stir [...]
In our owner peer group meetings, one of the things we always do is share a recommended app, tool or book. It’s a really easy way to discover some new ideas and tools for getting better without lots of trial and error. One must-read book has surfaced to the top over and over again and [...]
I repeatedly hear other agency owners lament their inability to find that mythical salesperson who can sell to prospects so owners don’t have to. My response is always the same: Are you sure that person isn’t already inside your agency? From my experience, successful salespeople have typically grown up in the agency (or at least [...]
We’re all blogging, writing newsletters, trying to speak at conferences, etc. We’ve got content coming out of our ears but content does not equal thought leadership. If you and 1,000 other agencies all blogged about the new Pantone color of the year — that’s content, not thought leadership. No one is going to pay you [...]
Writing proposals–whether responding to RFPs or pitching new services to existing clients–is a responsibility that most agency execs would rather avoid. Some agencies, especially larger ones, outsource the task to professional writers or even have a proposal specialist on staff. They’ve realized that it’s inefficient to ask highly paid executives to perform a task that’s [...]
One of the more interesting takeaways from the research we have done over the years is the juxtaposition between two beliefs that our clients have about account executives. The first was that about a third of the respondents felt that AEs were too pushy when it came to sales and that was off-putting. But that [...]
Over the past few years, LinkedIn has emerged as the go-to social network for anyone operating in the B2B space. If you are an agency, then your clients are certainly active on LinkedIn. But where do you start? The first step is your profile optimization. At my company, Lead Cookie, we have run over 300+ [...]
Remember the good old days when we could just share the monthly Google Analytics with a client and they were wowed by our prowess? Sadly, those days are gone. One of the biggest challenges facing most agencies is how to help our clients understand the numbers and what they mean. They’re no longer content to [...]
