Should you use a marketing consultant or a marketing agency to help meet your project deadlines and stay on budget? Read this post to find out which is right for you!
In this presentation we will explore 4 ways to overcome your workflow challenges:
1. Rethink Creative Workflow
2. Find Efficiency Leaks
3. Create Workflows that Work
4. Show ROI
This document provides a guide for staffing suppliers to transition from transactional providers to strategic partners. It recommends that suppliers conduct research on their customers, which include both the end client and any third-party staffing companies. Suppliers should find an advocate within these companies and ask how they can add value. The guide also suggests suppliers clearly communicate their unique value proposition and capabilities. It advises suppliers to focus on consistently meeting customer needs and being proactive, flexible partners to strengthen relationships over time.
Marketing organizations are constantly challenged to keep all the pieces of their brand glued together. From traditional advertising, online, direct, and the next generation of social media, brands have never been at greater risk of becoming fragmented and diluted.
This brief presenation is an high-level review of how to ensure your Creative Services Department is a good postion to support your brand.
This document provides guidance on effectively briefing communications agencies. It emphasizes that briefing agencies is important and requires the same level of professionalism as other business activities. A good brief leads to better work, saves time and money, and makes agency remuneration fairer. The principles of an effective brief are to be clear about what is needed from the agency, provide all critical information for the agency to complete the task, and inspire or motivate the agency to do their best work. A key part of any brief is a clear description of the objectives for the work being briefed.
Have we let advertising agencies become dinosaurs? Marketers are looking for effective business solutions, speed and low cost. While many agencies are still enamored by growth in size, stature and heft.
Here are some thoughts on how agencies can close this gap.
E book workfront manage client expectationsWorkfront
The expert emphasizes the importance of developing empathy and understanding for clients through open dialogue and relationship building. Early meetings to exchange information about each other's businesses and personally get to know each other set the tone for a cooperative project. Understanding the client's purpose and priorities, including engaging with naysayers, allows problems to be resolved prior to launch and ensures the implementation focuses on what matters most to the client.
The document provides a template for developing a Point of View (POV) that can serve as an intellectual foundation for thought leadership content and activities. Developing an effective POV requires identifying a specific customer challenge, offering a new approach to addressing it that provides benefits over current solutions, and providing proof points from customer examples and experts demonstrating the approach's ability to deliver results. The template guides the user through outlining key elements like the industry problem, audience objectives, limitations of current approaches, description of the new approach and its benefits, and critical success factors for implementation.
How LinkedIn built a Community of Half a BillionAatif Awan
Traction Conference 2017 - Since its 2003 inception, LinkedIn has transformed from a networking hub to a beacon of economic opportunity for more than 500 million global members. Vice President of Growth at LinkedIn, Aatif Awan, will explore vital contributors to its growth at milestones throughout LinkedIn’s history, from product innovations and team structure to international expansion. Sharing key lessons learned through this journey, Awan will discuss LinkedIn’s alignment of growth strategy to company vision rather than metrics, and the impact this approach has had on attracting, retaining and servicing its more than half billion members.
In this presentation we will explore 4 ways to overcome your workflow challenges:
1. Rethink Creative Workflow
2. Find Efficiency Leaks
3. Create Workflows that Work
4. Show ROI
This document provides a guide for staffing suppliers to transition from transactional providers to strategic partners. It recommends that suppliers conduct research on their customers, which include both the end client and any third-party staffing companies. Suppliers should find an advocate within these companies and ask how they can add value. The guide also suggests suppliers clearly communicate their unique value proposition and capabilities. It advises suppliers to focus on consistently meeting customer needs and being proactive, flexible partners to strengthen relationships over time.
Marketing organizations are constantly challenged to keep all the pieces of their brand glued together. From traditional advertising, online, direct, and the next generation of social media, brands have never been at greater risk of becoming fragmented and diluted.
This brief presenation is an high-level review of how to ensure your Creative Services Department is a good postion to support your brand.
This document provides guidance on effectively briefing communications agencies. It emphasizes that briefing agencies is important and requires the same level of professionalism as other business activities. A good brief leads to better work, saves time and money, and makes agency remuneration fairer. The principles of an effective brief are to be clear about what is needed from the agency, provide all critical information for the agency to complete the task, and inspire or motivate the agency to do their best work. A key part of any brief is a clear description of the objectives for the work being briefed.
Have we let advertising agencies become dinosaurs? Marketers are looking for effective business solutions, speed and low cost. While many agencies are still enamored by growth in size, stature and heft.
Here are some thoughts on how agencies can close this gap.
E book workfront manage client expectationsWorkfront
The expert emphasizes the importance of developing empathy and understanding for clients through open dialogue and relationship building. Early meetings to exchange information about each other's businesses and personally get to know each other set the tone for a cooperative project. Understanding the client's purpose and priorities, including engaging with naysayers, allows problems to be resolved prior to launch and ensures the implementation focuses on what matters most to the client.
The document provides a template for developing a Point of View (POV) that can serve as an intellectual foundation for thought leadership content and activities. Developing an effective POV requires identifying a specific customer challenge, offering a new approach to addressing it that provides benefits over current solutions, and providing proof points from customer examples and experts demonstrating the approach's ability to deliver results. The template guides the user through outlining key elements like the industry problem, audience objectives, limitations of current approaches, description of the new approach and its benefits, and critical success factors for implementation.
How LinkedIn built a Community of Half a BillionAatif Awan
Traction Conference 2017 - Since its 2003 inception, LinkedIn has transformed from a networking hub to a beacon of economic opportunity for more than 500 million global members. Vice President of Growth at LinkedIn, Aatif Awan, will explore vital contributors to its growth at milestones throughout LinkedIn’s history, from product innovations and team structure to international expansion. Sharing key lessons learned through this journey, Awan will discuss LinkedIn’s alignment of growth strategy to company vision rather than metrics, and the impact this approach has had on attracting, retaining and servicing its more than half billion members.
Deloitte is one of the "Big Four" global accounting and consulting firms, with over 220,000 professionals providing audit, consulting, tax, and advisory services in more than 150 countries. It has a long history dating back to 1845 and is the largest private professional services network in the world. Deloitte focuses on creating value for clients through industry-leading services in areas like consulting, audit, tax, and risk management. Its vision is to be the standard of excellence through high quality work, inclusion, collaboration, and opportunity.
How to grow your marketing agency in tough times - GuideKahootz
This guide will help you seize understand client’s demands on agencies and avenues to:
• Maximise Client Revenues
• Improve Client Retention
• Grow Your Agency
• Create an Agile Working Environment
• Improve Your Internal Processes
To recruit drivers, lead nurturing should play a large role in your advertising strategy. It allows you to promote your trucking company to driver candidates by giving them useful and relevant content, without "interrupting" them. Lead nurturing is the key forming comfortable relationships with driver prospects, and moving them through the funnel.
This document outlines emerging roles in recruiting that provide opportunities for career growth beyond traditional recruiting roles. It describes several new roles including Director of Recruiting Strategy who ensures recruiting maintains a competitive advantage; Director of Recruiting Programs and Program Managers who strategize and oversee recruiting initiatives; and Talent Acquisition/Marketing Manager who shapes employer brand perceptions. These roles demonstrate recruiting is becoming more strategic, technology-centric, and brand-focused.
#IPASocialWorks Social Media Measurement GuidesThe_IPA
The IPA, The Marketing Society and MRS have launched a cross-industry initiative called #IPASocialWorks to identify best practices in social media effectiveness and measurement. It provides case studies from various companies that have passed peer review and guides on measuring social media. The collaboration aims to help marketers submit case studies and learn from each other on evaluating social media.
4 Steps to Improve the Performance of your Indirect Sales NetworkFriedrich P
4 steps to improve the performance of your indirect sales channel: planning, measuring progress, collaborate and get commitment, put it into practice (Business Relationship Management = BRM)
The In Flow Communication Skills Accelerator Dominic Colenso
Discover how our unique communication skills accelerator programme can help your business increase productivity, engagement and profit.
www.inflow.global
The document discusses several key trends in HR technology in 2014.
1. The relationship between clients and vendors is becoming more important as cloud-based solutions require more frequent updates and support. Close collaboration allows clients to better utilize their software investments.
2. Devices are diversifying but the specific device does not matter as much as the ability to access information anywhere at any time. HR systems need to be accessible across all devices and screen sizes through mobile optimization and cloud access.
3. Effective management of relationships with technology vendors and outsourcing partners is important for HR to fully leverage new technologies and get maximum value from investments. Regular communication and clear expectations are essential.
A consultants guide to building lasting client relationshipsRCP Consulting
The document provides guidance to consultants on building lasting client relationships. It discusses four stages of the client relationship: creating the relationship before an engagement begins through thought leadership and personal connections; aligning the relationship by setting clear expectations on scope, communication, and deliverables; maintaining the relationship through meeting or exceeding promises during the engagement; and strengthening the relationship after the engagement through referrals. The key is to demonstrate expertise, build trust, exceed expectations to deliver more than promised, and provide excellent service throughout.
This document appears to be a summer internship report submitted by Saransh Poddar to the School of Management at Gautam Buddha University. It includes declarations by the student and supervisor, an acknowledgement section thanking those who supported the project, and an executive summary outlining the report. The report will examine lead management and demand segmentation activities at Housing.com, identify some issues, and provide recommendations to enhance effectiveness. It will also discuss the overall internship experience at Housing.com.
This document discusses strategies for winning new major accounts and dispels common myths about the sales process. Some key points made include:
- Developing major accounts requires different tactics than a standard sales process and involves multiple stakeholders with different roles and budgets.
- Involving subject matter experts later in the process, after project parameters are defined, is most effective. Networks alone may not provide access to target industries or companies.
- To win as a preferred vendor, you need to engage stakeholders in each business unit and role (budget owner, influencer, implementer) before defining a specific solution. Each sees the "elephant" differently and represents a go/no-go point.
M&A Communications: Better Strategy. Better Actions. Better Outcomes.Trefoil Group
The document summarizes a presentation about improving communications strategies for mergers and acquisitions. It discusses challenges with many M&A deals not meeting expectations and the importance of communications. Key points emphasized are connecting emotionally with all audiences by making messages quick, relevant and memorable. The presentation also provides strategies for often communicating honestly, telling your own story, and being prepared with plans and narratives. A case study example demonstrates how good communications can help navigate difficult situations like bankruptcy.
Employee engagement meetings are powerful experiences.
Done well, corporate meetings can have a transformative effect on an organization, unifying employees and elevating the company’s goals and objectives.
However, meetings that don’t live up to their potential can be damaging, with a negative effect on morale, a failure to deliver key messages, and provide little in the way of ROI.
At Jack Morton, we’ve been elevating corporate meetings and engagements for over 75 years, and we’re sharing our thoughts on four principles that are proven to deliver extraordinary results for our clients.
Read our POV, and make your meetings extraordinary.
1. Marketing management combines the fields of marketing and management. Marketing involves understanding customer needs and delivering value through products and services, while management involves achieving organizational goals through planning, organizing, and controlling resources.
2. Marketing management is a business process used to manage marketing activities across different levels of organizations, both for-profit and non-profit. Decisions are based on knowledge of marketing functions and managerial techniques.
3. Marketing management is both a science and an art. As a science, it follows general principles to guide decision making. As an art, it requires creatively handling each situation effectively.
Leo Miller argues that customer intent metrics are the most important for marketers to focus on. Intent metrics track people moving through the different stages of the purchase path, from awareness to consideration to purchase. Tracking these ratios with a path-to-purchase analysis shows the connection between marketing activities and business performance. Steve Bernstein agrees the metrics that matter most are those that align with business goals. At StubHub these include total ticket sales and revenue. Jacob Varghese notes different metrics serve different purposes so marketers need to consider their specific business objectives.
You need it. You know you do. Audience research is a vital part of any project, but it’s often the first thing to be cut. “We know our audiences well enough,” they say. “We know what they want.” But is that true?
No! Of course not! If we knew what audiences wanted, we’d have an excess of donations, volunteers, newsletter subscribers, and report readers, and we wouldn’t be having conversations about how to get audiences to act or increase awareness.
During this session, you’ll learn about:
Our favorite lean audience research methods and why they’re awesome
- How to convince your boss that audience research is necessary
- How to conduct audience research when you have zero resources
- By the end, you’ll have what you need to do some quick and dirty audience research and convince others that it’s necessary!
Presented by: Courtney Clark, Kristina Bjoran, Valerie Miller
Building a new model for agencies and consultancies (en & cn) kevin lee 2011Kevin Lee
If you’re finding yourself in the insight economy, and feel the pains of the industry, start your reinvention by first asking, What’s your specific community of connection? How do you immerse to capture the right, relevant insights and build to provide a unique, value-added professional service?
Delivering an exceptional customer experience (CX) through personalized omni-channel communications has never been more important to drive revenue, build customer loyalty, and sustain a competitive advantage ,deliver critical business communications that are highly personalized and interactive —and drive profitable customer engagement. Super brands like Amazon, Google and Apple have skyrocketed customer expectations. Customers of today prefer relevant and personalized communications in real-time, through the channel of their choosing.
For More Details: http://www.edc.ae/services/customer-communication-management/
The document provides guidance on best practices for briefing marketing communications agencies. It emphasizes that briefing agencies effectively is important for getting good work and achieving business goals. A well-written brief leads to better work, saves time and money, and makes agency remuneration fairer. The key principles of an effective brief are to be clear about the objectives, provide critical information needed to complete the task, and inspire the agency to do their best work. The briefing should follow a format that covers background, the brief itself, and implementation details. An important part is a clear communication objective and understanding what is important to the specific agency being briefed.
The communication and training resource book is actually over 700 pages. I’d like to eventually make it all available online. The book preview is 106 pages and illustrates the use of web-based technology for engaging real-time measures, contribution, and delegated results. The book showcases EmployeeTalk Technology in the process, and examples dialogs and concepts in the application of methods, techniques, and tools. I focus on development in over forty core competencies that can help anyone wanting to grow with their organization. One of the main focuses is on follow-through actions, exercises, and other book readings to help performance growth.
Deloitte is one of the "Big Four" global accounting and consulting firms, with over 220,000 professionals providing audit, consulting, tax, and advisory services in more than 150 countries. It has a long history dating back to 1845 and is the largest private professional services network in the world. Deloitte focuses on creating value for clients through industry-leading services in areas like consulting, audit, tax, and risk management. Its vision is to be the standard of excellence through high quality work, inclusion, collaboration, and opportunity.
How to grow your marketing agency in tough times - GuideKahootz
This guide will help you seize understand client’s demands on agencies and avenues to:
• Maximise Client Revenues
• Improve Client Retention
• Grow Your Agency
• Create an Agile Working Environment
• Improve Your Internal Processes
To recruit drivers, lead nurturing should play a large role in your advertising strategy. It allows you to promote your trucking company to driver candidates by giving them useful and relevant content, without "interrupting" them. Lead nurturing is the key forming comfortable relationships with driver prospects, and moving them through the funnel.
This document outlines emerging roles in recruiting that provide opportunities for career growth beyond traditional recruiting roles. It describes several new roles including Director of Recruiting Strategy who ensures recruiting maintains a competitive advantage; Director of Recruiting Programs and Program Managers who strategize and oversee recruiting initiatives; and Talent Acquisition/Marketing Manager who shapes employer brand perceptions. These roles demonstrate recruiting is becoming more strategic, technology-centric, and brand-focused.
#IPASocialWorks Social Media Measurement GuidesThe_IPA
The IPA, The Marketing Society and MRS have launched a cross-industry initiative called #IPASocialWorks to identify best practices in social media effectiveness and measurement. It provides case studies from various companies that have passed peer review and guides on measuring social media. The collaboration aims to help marketers submit case studies and learn from each other on evaluating social media.
4 Steps to Improve the Performance of your Indirect Sales NetworkFriedrich P
4 steps to improve the performance of your indirect sales channel: planning, measuring progress, collaborate and get commitment, put it into practice (Business Relationship Management = BRM)
The In Flow Communication Skills Accelerator Dominic Colenso
Discover how our unique communication skills accelerator programme can help your business increase productivity, engagement and profit.
www.inflow.global
The document discusses several key trends in HR technology in 2014.
1. The relationship between clients and vendors is becoming more important as cloud-based solutions require more frequent updates and support. Close collaboration allows clients to better utilize their software investments.
2. Devices are diversifying but the specific device does not matter as much as the ability to access information anywhere at any time. HR systems need to be accessible across all devices and screen sizes through mobile optimization and cloud access.
3. Effective management of relationships with technology vendors and outsourcing partners is important for HR to fully leverage new technologies and get maximum value from investments. Regular communication and clear expectations are essential.
A consultants guide to building lasting client relationshipsRCP Consulting
The document provides guidance to consultants on building lasting client relationships. It discusses four stages of the client relationship: creating the relationship before an engagement begins through thought leadership and personal connections; aligning the relationship by setting clear expectations on scope, communication, and deliverables; maintaining the relationship through meeting or exceeding promises during the engagement; and strengthening the relationship after the engagement through referrals. The key is to demonstrate expertise, build trust, exceed expectations to deliver more than promised, and provide excellent service throughout.
This document appears to be a summer internship report submitted by Saransh Poddar to the School of Management at Gautam Buddha University. It includes declarations by the student and supervisor, an acknowledgement section thanking those who supported the project, and an executive summary outlining the report. The report will examine lead management and demand segmentation activities at Housing.com, identify some issues, and provide recommendations to enhance effectiveness. It will also discuss the overall internship experience at Housing.com.
This document discusses strategies for winning new major accounts and dispels common myths about the sales process. Some key points made include:
- Developing major accounts requires different tactics than a standard sales process and involves multiple stakeholders with different roles and budgets.
- Involving subject matter experts later in the process, after project parameters are defined, is most effective. Networks alone may not provide access to target industries or companies.
- To win as a preferred vendor, you need to engage stakeholders in each business unit and role (budget owner, influencer, implementer) before defining a specific solution. Each sees the "elephant" differently and represents a go/no-go point.
M&A Communications: Better Strategy. Better Actions. Better Outcomes.Trefoil Group
The document summarizes a presentation about improving communications strategies for mergers and acquisitions. It discusses challenges with many M&A deals not meeting expectations and the importance of communications. Key points emphasized are connecting emotionally with all audiences by making messages quick, relevant and memorable. The presentation also provides strategies for often communicating honestly, telling your own story, and being prepared with plans and narratives. A case study example demonstrates how good communications can help navigate difficult situations like bankruptcy.
Employee engagement meetings are powerful experiences.
Done well, corporate meetings can have a transformative effect on an organization, unifying employees and elevating the company’s goals and objectives.
However, meetings that don’t live up to their potential can be damaging, with a negative effect on morale, a failure to deliver key messages, and provide little in the way of ROI.
At Jack Morton, we’ve been elevating corporate meetings and engagements for over 75 years, and we’re sharing our thoughts on four principles that are proven to deliver extraordinary results for our clients.
Read our POV, and make your meetings extraordinary.
1. Marketing management combines the fields of marketing and management. Marketing involves understanding customer needs and delivering value through products and services, while management involves achieving organizational goals through planning, organizing, and controlling resources.
2. Marketing management is a business process used to manage marketing activities across different levels of organizations, both for-profit and non-profit. Decisions are based on knowledge of marketing functions and managerial techniques.
3. Marketing management is both a science and an art. As a science, it follows general principles to guide decision making. As an art, it requires creatively handling each situation effectively.
Leo Miller argues that customer intent metrics are the most important for marketers to focus on. Intent metrics track people moving through the different stages of the purchase path, from awareness to consideration to purchase. Tracking these ratios with a path-to-purchase analysis shows the connection between marketing activities and business performance. Steve Bernstein agrees the metrics that matter most are those that align with business goals. At StubHub these include total ticket sales and revenue. Jacob Varghese notes different metrics serve different purposes so marketers need to consider their specific business objectives.
You need it. You know you do. Audience research is a vital part of any project, but it’s often the first thing to be cut. “We know our audiences well enough,” they say. “We know what they want.” But is that true?
No! Of course not! If we knew what audiences wanted, we’d have an excess of donations, volunteers, newsletter subscribers, and report readers, and we wouldn’t be having conversations about how to get audiences to act or increase awareness.
During this session, you’ll learn about:
Our favorite lean audience research methods and why they’re awesome
- How to convince your boss that audience research is necessary
- How to conduct audience research when you have zero resources
- By the end, you’ll have what you need to do some quick and dirty audience research and convince others that it’s necessary!
Presented by: Courtney Clark, Kristina Bjoran, Valerie Miller
Building a new model for agencies and consultancies (en & cn) kevin lee 2011Kevin Lee
If you’re finding yourself in the insight economy, and feel the pains of the industry, start your reinvention by first asking, What’s your specific community of connection? How do you immerse to capture the right, relevant insights and build to provide a unique, value-added professional service?
Delivering an exceptional customer experience (CX) through personalized omni-channel communications has never been more important to drive revenue, build customer loyalty, and sustain a competitive advantage ,deliver critical business communications that are highly personalized and interactive —and drive profitable customer engagement. Super brands like Amazon, Google and Apple have skyrocketed customer expectations. Customers of today prefer relevant and personalized communications in real-time, through the channel of their choosing.
For More Details: http://www.edc.ae/services/customer-communication-management/
The document provides guidance on best practices for briefing marketing communications agencies. It emphasizes that briefing agencies effectively is important for getting good work and achieving business goals. A well-written brief leads to better work, saves time and money, and makes agency remuneration fairer. The key principles of an effective brief are to be clear about the objectives, provide critical information needed to complete the task, and inspire the agency to do their best work. The briefing should follow a format that covers background, the brief itself, and implementation details. An important part is a clear communication objective and understanding what is important to the specific agency being briefed.
The communication and training resource book is actually over 700 pages. I’d like to eventually make it all available online. The book preview is 106 pages and illustrates the use of web-based technology for engaging real-time measures, contribution, and delegated results. The book showcases EmployeeTalk Technology in the process, and examples dialogs and concepts in the application of methods, techniques, and tools. I focus on development in over forty core competencies that can help anyone wanting to grow with their organization. One of the main focuses is on follow-through actions, exercises, and other book readings to help performance growth.
The document discusses mapping a client's journey with a professional services firm to better understand their needs and improve the client experience. It recommends five steps: 1) Form a cross-functional team, 2) Analyze current client insights, 3) Map the ideal future client journey, 4) Prioritize and implement changes, and 5) Continually refine based on metrics. Mapping the client journey provides a framework to intentionally create the experience clients will expect and differentiate the firm through behaviors, actions and propositions.
Why do enterprises care about collaborationOrangescrum
The document discusses why enterprise collaboration is important. It notes that companies want to be close to customers, which requires remote teams and collaboration. Collaboration allows for great customer service through enabling customer success. It further discusses how enterprises can enable collaboration through digital transformation and technology tools. It emphasizes adopting the right strategy such as explaining benefits to teams, choosing the right tools to meet needs, and gaining support from management and sponsors. When done correctly, collaboration provides benefits like aligning teams, autonomy, transparency, and maintaining competitiveness.
Shravan Shetty , Career Coach Interviews Daksha Ballal .
Daksha Ballal is an Operations professional with 7+ years of success in crafting engagement programs in the areas of employee engagement, campus engagement and customer/community engagement.
Working with clients in sectors like IT, BFSI, Manufacturing, Media, Pharma, FMCG & Government etc to build and execute high growth and high engagement programs through effective use of content and technology across India, Middle East and North America.
His portfolio of clients include companies like IBM, Dell, Microsoft, ACC, Times Group, CNN-IBN, Reliance, Bajaj, Mahindra, Tata Motors, Johnson & Johnson, Ministry of Environment & Forests, CII etc.
He typically interacts with CHRO's, L&D Managers, University Relation Specialists, Talent Acquisition Heads, CMO's, Brand Managers, Corporate Communication Officers, Channel Partner Heads across sectors.
He has helped his company win multiple awards like "Futurism in Talent Management" by People Matters, "Bizlabs" by Aditya Birla Goup, "GENNEXT Hub" by Reliance etc.
1) The document discusses how advertising agencies can learn from management consulting firms by focusing more on corporate strategy rather than just communications. It provides examples of how consultants engage with clients on a higher level by framing problems properly and using fact-based analytical approaches.
2) It outlines nine "tricks of the trade" used by consultants like conducting audits to build trust with clients, collaborating with clients in strategic development, and structuring engagements to create future opportunities.
3) It also discusses how McKinsey built a strong brand through its culture of client focus, challenging employees, and respect for analytical rigor, as well as through relationship management.
This document outlines an eight-step guide for small companies to develop consistent and effective marketing communications. The steps include: 1) understanding market context and company capabilities, 2) defining specific objectives, 3) determining an appropriate strategy, 4) developing powerful key messages, 5) creating valuable supporting content, 6) ensuring consistent presentation, 7) planning implementation, and 8) reviewing results and lessons learned. Following this process helps small marketing teams overcome complexity and generate compelling communications within their resource constraints.
How to Select the Right Digital Marketing Agency to Support In-House Teams Femi Deji Olajiga
The document provides advice on selecting a digital marketing agency to support in-house teams. It discusses researching agencies and freelancers, evaluating their services, structure, experience, and fees. Key questions to ask include what services are needed, agency experience in relevant industries, staff experience levels, and ensuring fees are linked to measurable results. Hiring an agency does not necessarily save costs compared to developing in-house skills, and a freelancer may provide a more flexible alternative.
The document provides templates for digital marketing job descriptions, including an Analytics or Digital Insights Manager role. It describes the typical responsibilities of an Analytics Manager, such as implementing visitor tracking across platforms, developing business reports and dashboards to measure marketing performance, presenting insights and recommendations, overseeing web analytics systems, and defining an analytics strategy. The template also covers alternative job titles, required qualifications and average salaries for various digital marketing roles.
Why Is Outsourcing Digital Marketing Better Than In-House?Outsource SEO
When you opt to outsource, whether it's for an ad campaign, content creation, social media management, or SEO Outsourcing, you get experts in the area.
Every organisation will use a different mix of in-house resources and outside agencies. depending on the variables we looked at (Ex- In-house social media initiatives are more successful, and they can outsource SEO work to take control of Google and increase organic traffic).
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Presented at the Digital Workplace Conference Australia, held in Melbourne AU on August 15th and 16th, 2018. This presentation outlines the evolution that has happened in marketing, and the components that are necessary for successful brand building and digital marketing.
Creating an effective content marketing strategy requires identifying your core messaging and target personas, mapping your message to each persona, organizing content by distribution method, incorporating different voices (corporate, subject matter expert, personal), keeping content topical and relevant to current events, and most importantly, being authentic in your messaging. The goal of content marketing is to establish yourself as a trusted subject matter expert by providing valuable, educational content to your target audience.
This document outlines a blueprint for a networked organization. It discusses operating processes, managing and learning functions, and leading and engaging stakeholders. The blueprint describes integrating operations through software, planning and organizing resources, generating business ideas through training, and defining a compelling vision to attract and motivate talent. A networked organizational blueprint helps standardize processes, facilitate information sharing, and guide strategic decision making for future business growth.
Rebranding: A 4 Step Plan for B2B MarketersTodd Ebert
Your brand has huge strategic importance for improving your competitive position, engaging more prospects and ultimately winning more customers. So that’s why I wrote this ebook, “Rebranding: A 4-Step Plan for B2B Marketers”. In the book, I lay out detailed how-to’s for pulling off every part of a rebranding from aligning your leadership around the brand to launching it internally and externally. You’ll discover examples of what my team and I did to make MultiView’s rebranding successful at every stage. I’ve also included a scorecard for selecting your digital agency and a checklist for making sure you have all your bases covered. I hope you find the content helpful and if you have any questions, please DM me on Twitter @ToddEbert. I’d be happy to share my experience having done this several times.
1) Effective campaign execution requires clarity, collaboration, and communication. Marketing teams must have a clear understanding of campaign goals, audiences, and objectives.
2) Collaboration is important from the early strategy phase by incorporating diverse viewpoints. This helps balance best practices with innovation and prevents disruptions.
3) Consistent communication is needed internally with stakeholders and externally by setting expectations and providing regular updates. This helps ensure alignment and flawless execution.
Employer Branding - 10 tips to avoid the bear trapsSAS
The document provides 10 tips for avoiding pitfalls in the employer branding process. It recommends building a diverse project team, spending time on research and messaging before implementation, allowing creatives freedom within the research guidelines, and thinking about how the employer brand will be applied throughout the employee journey and integrated into various HR and communications functions long-term. The goal is an authentic brand that reflects organizational culture and achieves strategic goals through consistent application.
The document discusses how political issues can derail ERP/CRM projects. It describes a project where an executive gained control and resisted external project management, stalling decisions and communicating individually to undermine the approach. Key signs of such "political wrangling" are resistance to recommendations, gridlock through confusion, circumventing open discussions, passing blame, and taking credit despite problems.
The Ultimate Buyer's Guide to Employee Advocacy SolutionsGeorge Kobakov
This document provides guidance for enterprises on implementing an employee advocacy program. It addresses common concerns that may arise when presenting the idea to executives, marketing, HR, legal, and IT. For each stakeholder group, it outlines 2-3 typical objections and recommends responses. It also provides a suggested overall timeline for setting up an employee advocacy strategy and conducting an internal audit. The document aims to help navigate the procurement process and develop an effective social business strategy.
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SOC 2 is a set of criteria developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) to help assess the controls and systems a company has in place for handling customer data.
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The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise stimulates the production of endorphins in the brain which elevate mood and reduce stress levels.
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Marketing Agency vs. Marketing Consultant: Which is Better for Project Managers?
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May 14, 2021
Marketing Agency vs. Marketing Consultant: Which is
Better for Project Managers?
process.st/marketing-agency-vs-marketing-consultant
Oliver Peterson
May 14, 2021
Jaron Soh is Co-founder and COO at Traktion, the platform that makes hiring for growth
simpler, agile, and more profitable for businesses.
According to a recent survey by The Digital Project Manager, the two biggest project
management challenges of 2020 can be neatly summarised as people problems and project
problems.
If that sounds a little vague, let’s get specific. 27% of those surveyed experienced challenges
with their project stakeholders (i.e. people), while 24% encountered challenges with budgets
and deadlines (you guessed it, project).
Thinking about this within the context of a marketing project, it’s easy to get distracted by
those project-related concerns, wondering: “How do I deliver this on time and on budget?”
Well, here’s the thing… In my experience, you’re asking yourself the wrong question.
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When it comes to marketing, don’t focus solely on the “how”; make sure you look at the
“who”, too.
There’s a people problem to overcome. Ask who you should use to help deliver your
marketing project on time and on budget; a solo marketing consultant, or a full-blown
marketing agency? To answer that, you need to understand how they differ from one another,
and the scenarios in which to use them.
In this Process Street post, we help you do just that. Here we explore:
Ready? Let’s dive in.
Agency vs. consultant: Spot the difference (pros & cons)
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While it’s true that there’s some overlap between marketing agencies and solo marketing
consultants, you can broadly distinguish them in the following way:
The best consultants are usually T-shaped. That is, they’re a marketing generalist with a deep
focus on a particular area of expertise, such as branding, SEO, PPC, social media, etc.
The pros of working with a consultant are that they’re flexible, up-to-speed with
trends, have good brand awareness, and excel in devising effective high-level strategies.
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The cons are that they’re not always able (or willing) to execute strategy, while it can
be difficult to vet experience and expertise.
An agency, on the other hand, is a company of marketing experts able to work to scale across
a range of channels.
Working with an agency gives you access to a broader set of skills and technical
expertise, underpinned by KPI-driven workflows and processes.
However, agencies can be more expensive than consultants; they aren’t always focused
on strategy, and they aren’t as agile.
The major differences, therefore, are:
Budget 💵: Agencies have more billable hours, and are typically more expensive.
Time 🕒: Consultants only have so much of it, while agencies can delegate more easily.
Expertise : Specialist for consultants, but tends to be broader for agencies.
Reliability 👍: Agencies have the processes to absorb staff absences, but a consultant
is a single point of failure.
In some cases, the line between consultant and agency is blurred – and this has become more
common as freelance and remote work emerges as the norm and teams get more agile.
One such content marketing specialist in my network, Matt Goolding from KYO, actually
takes a hybrid approach in this consultant versus agency dichotomy.
“I try to give clients the best of both worlds,” Matt says. “As the main point of contact, I offer
consultancy and strategy, but I also have a team in the background that can deliver agency-type
services. For example, scaling up content production quicker than if I was alone working with
the in-house team.”
According to Matt, this is a challenge because it’s two distinct modes of thought, and you
have to balance very different sets of processes:
“Project managers do like having someone on hand, rather than going through an account
manager. But, naturally, this means you need to wear many hats at the same time – the creative
one, the strategic one, the operational one, and the commercial one.”
What businesses think about agencies vs. consultants
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It’s easy to pontificate about whether agencies are better than consultants, or vice versa – but
it’s better to gather real qualitative insights from businesses who have worked with both
providers and can attest to the pros and cons.
With this in mind, I spoke to four experienced professionals who have managed marketing
projects to see what they think about the agency vs. consultant question.
⭐1. Michael Lorenzos ⭐
Michael Lorenzos is Paid Acquisition Manager at Bleach London. He’s had experience in
partnering with consultants and agencies as an in-house manager – but also worked within
an agency himself.
According to Michael:
“There are clear benefits and drawbacks to each option, and it very much depends what type of
business you are, and what type of marketing project is in play.”
And he says, “generally, the benefits of working with a consultant are that you pay for less
overheads, you’re dealing directly with that person, and they’re not delegating tasks to juniors.
They tend to be quite nimble and adaptable – it’s like having an extra team member on hand.”
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That said, according to Michael, agencies also add value in terms of processes, structure,
playbooks, and their knowledge extracted from other large-budget clients. He says:
“But sometimes they’re rigid in structure and set on doing things their way, so you don’t have
as much visibility as with a consultant.”
⭐2. Marcus Franck ⭐
Marcus Franck, co-founder at Vallon reflects a similar view. As a serial entrepreneur, he
often relies on agencies and consultants to support his internal team in specialist areas such
as PPC, SEO, and content marketing. As a person with ambitious growth targets, Marcus
needs to have full confidence that an outsourced supplier will handle a job with quality,
timeliness, and budget in mind at all times.
“Messaging is more important than people think, especially when marketing campaigns are
competing with such a high volume of noise,” he says. “Consultants tend to be more
interactive, meaning they get the tone and build deeper knowledge about your niche that
agencies simply don’t have the time to do.”
And Marcus sees the nimbleness of consultants as a benefit, just like Michael does:
“If you work with a consultant instead of an agency, you reduce the number of complex third
parties involved, and you can go straight to market rather than waiting for the processes of an
agency to get into gear,” he says.
Another issue that Marcus has noticed is that sometimes the scope of work can get lost
between the initial sales or onboarding calls and the team who are executing on the account.
“A good agency will be alert to this danger, and makes sure everybody’s completely aligned,”
he says. “But I’ve heard founders and managers in my network complain that they’ve been
promised the world only to be let down later.”
⭐3. Rebecca Hughes ⭐
Rebecca Hughes, Content Manager at e-commerce platform Artisan & Fox, echoes similar
concerns in working with agencies.
“We’ve worked with some agencies where the quality of work lapses quickly over time. This
happens when people are reassigned and then things get lost in the mix,“ she says. “We finally
settled on a good agency where the execution has been stable and professional, but that took us
many months and numerous tries to find.”
⭐4. Alex Quail ⭐
Finally, I also spoke to Alex Quail, Group Digital Manager at NoteMachine. He has previously
worked as a consultant and as a strategist at a digital agency, and during his time as in-house
digital marketer he has managed projects in partnership with both types of provider. In his
view, agencies offer a lot of benefits.
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“Working with an agency invites a broader range of specialisms, perspectives, and insights that
can have a range of benefits for marketing campaign activity,” Alex says. “And agencies often
have access to suites of advanced tooling that may not be commercially viable otherwise.”
He also mentions that the larger agencies typically have direct relationships with advertising
platforms and networks such as Google and Facebook, which allows their clients to benefit
from the latest features and developments – as well as having a route to direct consultation.
When we look at these three distinct businesses, we see that the perception of agency versus
consultant is similar across the board.
Consultants are agile, integrated into the team, and responsive. At the same time, agencies
bring a wealth of knowledge and experience – and a crack team to execute projects. This is
supported by access to tools and networks that would otherwise be out of reach for many
businesses.
Marketing agency vs. marketing consultant: When to use one or the
other?
What are the use cases for choosing a marketing consultant over a marketing agency (or vice
versa)? Well, generally speaking, it comes down to your needs.
The need for an agency suggests that you don’t have the full internal capabilities to
implement a marketing project. Meanwhile, the need for a consultant suggests that you may
have some sort of marketing structure or system in place to execute, but you require the
guidance of an expert on strategy and optimisation. Even then, depending on your
circumstances, this can be incredibly nuanced.
Here are some examples of when you might choose one over the other:
1. Early stage startups finding their feet 🌱
For companies in the early stages of growth — not yet funded and still trying to pinpoint
product-market fit — bringing a consultant on board can be a masterstroke. Your needs
aren’t really focused on execution, because there’s less strategy to execute.
Therefore, a strategic consultant can help you determine how to position your brand, who
your target audience is, and how to get your product/service in front of them.
2. Scale-ups with short-term marketing goals 📈
For growing companies (in the short-term) there may be a strategy in place, devised by the
CMO or head of marketing. However, the marketing infrastructure could still be lacking,
meaning that in order to execute the strategy, the business requires outside help.
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Here, you can go one of two ways:
Hire an agency to handle the implementation of the strategy in full, across
all channels. This is an attractive option as agencies have teams and processes in place
to scale alongside the needs of your business.
Hire consultants with domain expertise. This is helpful as consultants can fine-
tune your strategy during the implementation stage — but remember that there are
only so many hours in a day. The demands of your business could quickly outpace the
output of an individual.
3. Established businesses with long-term marketing goals 🌳
For larger businesses with an established internal marketing structure, bringing in an
agency to support ongoing marketing activities makes a lot of sense. Effective execution
relies on stability, and with processes, systems, and a conveyor belt of talent, an agency can
provide this in abundance.
An agency is also a safer bet than a consultant for this type of work, as you’re minimizing the
risk of putting so much responsibility onto the shoulders of a single person. The moment a
consultant takes a vacation, or falls ill, everything can grind to a halt. See the bus factor for
more on that!
(But wait!) Some common misconceptions worth noting
On the face of it, the stage at which the business is at should dictate whether or not you opt
for a consultant or an agency, right?
Well, it’s not always so simple.
You might think a consultant will provide you with their undivided attention, but they can
have multiple clients and projects all pulling them in several different directions at the same
time.
And you might think that the only way to scale is with an agency. But not all agencies are
created equal, and many consultants have their own network of trusted freelancers and
experts to deliver results quickly and effectively.
The bottom line: Which is better for project managers?
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Source
In short, it depends.
And as a project manager, you’re probably all-too-familiar with that answer. After all, it’s
your job to consider every conceivable outcome of a scenario and plan accordingly. We’re
guessing you’ve uttered it more times than you care to admit.
“What happens if we do this?”
“Well, it depends.”
As with most projects, the choice of agency vs. consultant is contingent on the needs and
circumstances of the task at hand: the growth stage of the business; the project scope, goals,
and deadlines, and, crucially, the available budget.
When it’s your priority to deliver work on time and on budget, choosing to work with one
over the other will vary on a case by case basis. It could even mean using both for the
same project. Ultimately, it’s up to you to choose the right people (or person) to help you get
your project over the line.
Who that is, well, it depends…